Know before a job goes wrong
Bring your labour, subcontractor and material costs into the right project and job. ActualCost shows the budget position and real result while work is still happening — so estimation mistakes become lessons, not a repeating pattern.
What ActualCost tracks
Follow a project from its first estimate through daily costs and staged billings. ActualCost keeps each important value connected to the work that created it.
Organise every cost and billing under the correct project and job.
Record regular and overtime hours using each team member’s rate.
Assign supplier costs and invoice references directly to the work.
Track outside work separately within the complete job cost.
Keep original labour, material and subcontractor budgets visible.
Combine recorded labour, materials and subcontractors.
Compare billed value with actual cost to see real profit.
Review costs by period, project, job and cost type.
Built from real contracting work
“Which jobs earn money, and which jobs lose it?”
ActualCost grew from its founder’s work in a separate, long-established contracting company with employees, active projects and plenty of work—but no clear way to see which individual jobs created the result.
The first internal system connected labour, materials, subcontractors and additional work to the jobs that created them. It became a practical way to improve estimates, retain changes that might otherwise be forgotten, and understand real costs while work was still happening.
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