Sage 100 Contractor Review: Features & Pricing 2023

This feature is integrated with all of Sage 100 Contractor’s modules, so it’s easy for you to organize and track your job cost information. The software generates detailed cost reports, including job status, job cost journals, job cost summaries, labor totals, labor journals, and billing summaries.

Job Costing Module (Source: Practical Software YouTube Channel)

Simple Invoicing in Sage 100 Contractor (Source: Practical Software YouTube Channel)

Simple invoicing is one way to create an invoice in Sage 100 Contractor. You can add items in the invoice, quantity, discount dates, discount rate, status, and tax status. Another way would be AIA (American Institute of Architects) billing for progress billings. Sage 100 Contractor can generate an AIA-compliant invoice if it’s required. Otherwise, you can print standard invoices.

Generic Progress Billing (Source: Practical Software YouTube Channel)

The A/P module of Sage 100 Contractor shows everything about the payables. If you click the arrow up button beside the Order Number, Sage 100 Contractor will show the purchase order (PO) detail pertaining to the payable entry. Furthermore, if you want to know what costs are affected by job, go to Costs and click Job Costs or Equipment Costs. Sage 100 Contractor will show you the cost code, cost type, and amount.

Sage helps you keep an eye on your inventory, whether for a central warehouse or different locations and service trucks. It also helps you organize nonstock and serialized items for bin numbers and multiple locations and vendors. You can allocate inventory to jobs and see the inventory trail as well.

The Report Writer Wizard provides the tools you need to design customized reports in any fields that are tracked in the system. You can modify some of the existing reports available in the system or create entirely new reports based on your needs.

To access the Report Writer Wizard, go to Review & Reporting (drop-down 13) under the My Menu tab and then click on Report Writer:

Sage 100 Contractor’s Report Writer wizard

This add-on allows you to maximize your productive hours using in-depth analytics on equipment, such as cost, maintenance, and revenue records. It provides the data you need to allocate equipment costs directly to jobs, service your equipment at the right cycles, and optimize equipment return on investment (ROI).

Equipment Module (Source: Practical Software YouTube Channel)

Sage 100 Contractor makes it easy to manage your budget and complete bids. It enables you to export budgets, estimates, subcontracts, and POs—saving you more time and reducing the chance of data entry errors. You may also include budgeted hours in your estimates and copy a budget directly from Excel.

Creating and Viewing Estimates

The Job Estimates module allows you to see all details about the job. You can see the part number, description of the part, unit of measurement, such as by piece, box, or direct labor hours, and the quantity needed. Sage 100 Contractor will compute the cost automatically and apply overhead rates and profit rates. If you’re going to outsource some materials or labor, you can add the vendor and expense account. Furthermore, you can classify the cost as material and labor.

Sage 100 Contractor can also filter data by selecting the vendor that offers the lowest cost for the material or labor needed. This feature can help you minimize the cost and increase the overall profit of the project. Once you’ve selected the vendors, you can generate a budget.

Sage 100 Contractor generates subcontractor and supplier notices automatically that alert them when work should be done. It also creates call sheets with schedules, phone numbers, dates, and work descriptions, and it sends project documents to your customers and subcontractors automatically at your set dates and times.

Scheduling Work Based on the Budget

After you create a budget, Sage 100 Contractor will create a Gantt chart automatically based on the items in the budget. Task details are also brought forward from the budget, alongside the standard time per task. Since Sage 100 Contractor creates the Gantt chart based on standard time, you can adjust the bars if a certain task needs to be extended due to unforeseen delays or downtime. Sage 100 Contractor can also show critical path and float time, which can be useful in project evaluation and review.

This is a companion app for Sage 100 Contractor. It helps officers in the field receive updates from the back office and vice versa, and users can also view change orders and incidents. Back office personnel can use the app to send dispatch orders to employees in the field, while employees can see dispatch orders under Assignments. Even though the app can relay information to and from the back office, it lacks communication channels where employees can directly message each other.

Sage Service Operations App

Sage 100 Contractor generates nearly 1,200 reports and 100 form designs. It creates reports on accounting, general ledger, accounts receivable (A/R) and accounts payable (A/P), payroll, project management, inventory, estimating, and more. Accounting reports include income statements, balance sheet reports, cash flow statements, and chart of accounts.