Every finished job on Jobs now says what it made, right on the list, so you can see the ones that cost you without opening each one. It's the same figure as the money at the top of the job.
Only people who can see job costs get it. Your engineers never see what a job made.
What the list says
Under a finished job's status you'll see one of these:
- £600 · 60%: what's left after materials and wages, and what that is out of what the job earned.
- £840 · materials only: what's left after materials. The wages aren't in, so there's no percentage yet. A margin without the wages would be wrong.
- Costs not in: the job earned money but nothing's been put against it. Tap it and the job opens with its Cost form ready. If the job really used nothing, like a callout, tap No parts used and it gets its margin.
When a figure ends · quote, nothing's been invoiced yet, so it's worked out from the quote they accepted.
Every figure is before overheads, like the van, insurance and your phone. It's what the job itself made.
If a job can't show its percentage because somebody on it has no pay set, the job says who, with a link to set it.
Nothing shows on a job that isn't finished, or one with nothing invoiced or quoted.
The colours
- Green: at or over your minimum margin. Unless you've set your own, that's 40%: 40p of every pound you charge.
- Amber: under your minimum.
- Red: the job lost money.
Setting your minimum margin
Go to Settings → Money → Your margin and type the least you want to keep from a job, as a percentage. Leave it blank to use Mucka's 40%.
It's a margin, not a markup: the share of the price you keep, not what you add on top of your costs. A job that costs you £6,000 at a 40% margin is priced at £10,000, and you keep £4,000. A 40% markup would only get you to £8,400.
The words are always there, so you never have to go by the colour alone.
Losing money, and lowest margin first
On a computer, press Filters:
- Money → Losing money shows only the jobs that lost money.
- Sort → Lowest margin puts the worst at the top, then the jobs with materials only, then the ones with no costs in.
On a phone, tap the filter button. Losing money appears as a chip once a job on the list has lost money, and the sort chip goes round to Lowest margin.
Both move the list to All jobs, because most finished work is behind this week.
Getting the wages in
Most jobs show materials only because Mucka doesn't know what the engineer was paid. Any of these fixes it:
- If they're paid a percentage of each job, set their share once and every job they do has its wages in.
- If they're on a wage or salary, put in what they cost a year or an hour and each job is charged their time on it.
- If it's your own job and you don't pay yourself a wage, choose Owner, no wage on jobs on your own page in Settings, Team.
- If a subcontractor did the job, put their bill on it as a cost and choose A subcontractor. That counts as the labour.
- If they log hours, Timesheets puts the hours against the job.
If your business is VAT registered, Mucka works from the invoice before VAT, because the VAT isn't yours.