Job costing.
Tracking the true cost of a job, including labor, materials, and overhead, to understand its real profit.
What is job costing?
Job costing is the practice of adding up everything a job actually costs, labor, materials, and a share of overhead, so you know what you really made on it. It is how you tell a profitable job type from a busy one that barely breaks even.
Why it matters for home service businesses
Without job costing, owners chase revenue and wonder why the bank account does not grow. With it, you learn which work to sell more of and which to price higher or drop. It turns gut feel into numbers.
How Lakehouse handles it
Lakehouse ties costs and invoices to each job so your margins are visible. See the price book.
See how Lakehouse puts this to work for your shop.
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Related terms.
Field service software
Software that helps a service business schedule jobs, manage customers, quote, invoice, collect payment, and communicate, all in one place.
A2P registration
The one-time process that lets a business reliably send text messages to customers over standard phone numbers.
Work order
A record of a specific job to be done, including the customer, the task, the assigned tech, and the status.
See it on your own jobs.
Book a working session with the Lakehouse team. Bring a real job, a real estimate, and a real question about running your business. We will show you how Lakehouse handles it.