When Excel stops being enough for job cost
Excel is fine when jobs are simple and stable. It gets painful when POs split across lines, receipts do not match invoices, labor rolls in late, and someone asks what the job looks like today.
LiteLedger gives you a job file that updates as work happens. Purchase orders, receiving, and time stay linked to the job so you are not manually reconciling three sources every Friday.
Same discipline, less rebuild
You still think in quoted, committed, and actual. LiteLedger just keeps those numbers where the work lives instead of in a fragile workbook that only one person understands.
This is job costing software for shops. It is not an ERP and it is not magic. It is a cleaner place to track job cost when spreadsheets start to creak.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
- PO totals copied manually
- Labor entered later
- Job status unclear
- PO costs tied to jobs
- Time rolls into actual cost
- Quoted vs actual stays visible
The goal is not more data entry. The goal is less digging.