Protect Your Profit With Our Job Costing Software

Job costing is the practice of tracking a project's actual costs against the original estimate, by phase, trade, or cost code, so you know your real financial position while the work is happening—not after it closes.

Most job costing tools are a standalone financial module. Houzz Pro connects estimating, budgets, cost codes, selections, purchase orders, labor, expenses, invoicing, and accounting into one live financial workflow, so every transaction updates the same live budget automatically.

Yes. Fixed Price builders can track profitability by phase and catch overruns before closeout; Cost Plus builders can invoice from actual costs or percentage complete with open-book transparency—both run through the same live budget without separate workflows.

Yes. Every purchase order, time entry, expense, and change order maps automatically to the right cost code in your live budget, so you can standardize cost tracking and compare performance across projects.

While still the industry standard in project accounting, QuickBooks only reports financials after the fact. Houzz Pro shows you where margins stand as work is happening. That's the real difference in using dedicated software for job costing vs. QuickBooks alone: one consolidates and reports past data, while the other helps you track, predict, and adjust costs across project phases.

No—Houzz Pro is built to stay aligned with your bookkeeper or accountant, not replace them. Job costing gives you real-time project-level financial visibility; your accounting system handles the books.

Houzz Pro Job Costing features are available starting from $199/month on the Pro plan. At no additional cost, Pro also includes:

• 3D Floor Plans
• Selections
• Product Clipper & Library
• Mood Boards
• CRM
• Estimates & Proposals
• Invoices
• Online Payments
• Takeoffs
• Bid Management
• Change Orders
• Budget Management
• Contracts
• Project Schedule
• Daily Logs
• Gusto Integration (Beta)