Jobs and Scheduling covers the job itself, status, technicians, time. This guide covers what a job costs: materials actually used, materials still being procured, other expenses like permits and subcontractor bills, and the profit-and-loss card that rolls all of it up against what the job invoiced. Every widget below is the real Conduit screen, driven by a simulated Sullivan Electric account so every control actually works.
Materials used
Log a material as soon as it goes into the job, by typing it in or picking it straight from your pricebook so the name, unit, and cost fill in automatically. Every logged material feeds the job’s material cost total and the profit-and-loss card below.
- Log a material from free text.
- Log a material from the pricebook catalog instead.
- Remove a logged material.
Materials Used: log a material by name and cost, or pick one from the pricebook catalog; remove a material and the job's total cost updates immediately.
Material requirements
Before a material has actually been used, log it as a requirement so procurement has a plan: what’s needed, an estimated cost, a supplier, and a status that moves through Needed → Ordered → In Transit → Delivered → On Site as it works its way to the job site. Requirements only show on jobs that are still active; a completed job stops asking.
- Add a material requirement.
- Move a requirement to its next procurement status.
Material Requirements: log what a job will need before it's used, with cost, supplier, and a Needed → Ordered → In Transit → Delivered → On Site procurement pipeline.
Job expenses
Anything that isn’t a material used on the job, a permit, a subcontractor bill, fuel, equipment rental, gets logged here by category. Picking Subcontractor switches the vendor field to suggest your connected subs instead of retail vendors.
- Categorize an expense as Subcontractor.
- Log the expense.
Job Expenses: log a cost by category (materials, subcontractor, equipment, permit, fuel, rental, travel, other), with vendor/subcontractor name suggestions drawn from your history.
Profit and loss
Owners and admins see a per-job Profit & Loss card: invoiced revenue and what’s actually been collected, total cost split across labor, materials, and expenses, and the resulting gross profit and margin. Everyone else, including the assigned technician, doesn’t see this card at all.
- See the profit and loss breakdown for a completed job.
Job Financials / Profit & Loss card: invoiced and collected revenue, labor/materials/expense cost breakdown, gross profit, and margin percent, owner and admin only.
That’s every cost a job can carry. For what happens once the job is done and gets invoiced, see Job → Invoice → Payment.