Job costing: what a job actually made
How to see the real profit on a roofing job — enter Materials, Crew pay and Other on the job and RidgeSync shows Sale, Job cost, Profit and Margin as you type.
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Find the card
Open the job — “Job costs & profit” is in the right-hand rail. It is admin only: a member does not see the card at all, and the save is blocked on the server too.
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Enter the three costs
“Materials,” “Crew pay” and “Other / debit” are the only three boxes. Under them, “Crew paid” lets you pick which crew the pay goes to, so it counts toward that crew’s 1099.
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Read the numbers
“Sale” is the job’s Value. “Job cost” is Materials + Crew pay + Other. “Profit” is Sale minus Job cost — emerald if positive, red if negative. “Margin” is that as a percentage. Click “Save costs” and it flips to “Saved ✓.”
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Where the numbers come from
Crew pay fills itself once payments exist: recording a payment on the Crews page against this job sets Crew pay to the sum of that job’s payments. Send a receipt photo to the assistant and say which job, and the amount it reads is added to Materials.
- Split a job across more than one crew and the “Crew pay” box is greyed out — it reads “Split across <n> crews — edit the payments below.” so a save cannot quietly collapse the split.
- These job costs are what Financials subtracts as “Job costs (materials + crew + other)” to get Gross job profit. Overheads and monthly bills come off after that.
Still stuck? Ask the Ask RidgeSync assistant in the bottom-right, or email our support team.