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# Amber-JCS

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> Amber-JCS is a UK job costing system which covers timesheets, expenses, purchases and invoicing. It has been designed for small and medium-sized surveyors and consulting engineers.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 4 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Amber-JCS

Benefits include:-
  Visibility on job profit, leading to a deeper understanding of the job financials of your business. See job profit by job, by task or by staff.
  Better pricing on future jobs, by understanding profit on past jobs
  Streamlining, leading to simplicity, significant time-savings and data accuracy. Spreadsheet solutions work but can become increasingly cumbersome over time. with much double-entry of the same information. A database solution such as Amber-JCS has a great many advantages over spreadsheets. 
  Better cost control, with quick information enabling early corrective action
  Central contact database, for clients. suppliers and other contacts. You and your team can quickly and easily see what contacts were related to which jobs

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 4 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Ambersoft Systems
- **Location**: Bristol, UK
- **Founded**: 1992

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: GBP 10.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Monthly Subscription, covering license and support.
One-off Indefinite License is an alternative option.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom

## Features

- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Approval Process Control
- Approval Workflow
- Billable & Non-Billable Hours
- Billable Items Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- CRM
- Calendar Management
- Contact Database
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customisable Invoices
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Email Management
- Employee Database

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Phone Support

## Category

- [Billing and Invoicing Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/240/billing-invoicing/software)

## Related Categories

- [Billing and Invoicing Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/240/billing-invoicing/software)
- [Time Tracking Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/571/time-tracking/software)
- [Time and Expense Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/264/time-tracking-expense/software)
- [Professional Services Automation Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/331/professional-services-automation/software)
- [Job Costing Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/1243/job-costing/software)

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3. [Cyanic Job Book](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/160215/cyanic-job-book) — 5.0/5 (1 reviews)
4. [BQE CORE Suite](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/90351/bqe-software) — 4.5/5 (783 reviews)
5. [Scoro](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/108497/scoro) — 4.5/5 (262 reviews)

## Reviews

### "PFA Consulting Ltd - Review on Amber-JCS" — 5.0/5

> **Sarah** | *11 September 2018* | Civil Engineering | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This  job costing software was a massive improvement on what we were using before.  It  allows time sheets to be input directly by staff which gives us up to date information on costings.  We have better transparency of  our figures and the  vast number of reports available  enables us to analyse our figures very easily and accurately.  It works with Sage perfectly.
> 
> **Cons**: You have to remember that it is an Access database and it will only do what you generate it to do.  Previously we used an accounting package so it took some getting use to.
> 
> For us, the ease of invoicing and reporting  has made our job costing procedures work more efficiently and transparently.

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### "Brilliant product" — 5.0/5

> **Louise** | *18 September 2018* | Building Materials | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Saves a lot of  time
no need for lots of paper for time sheets or jobs
easy to find job cards and lots of information regarding that specific job
easy to use, all our staff are using it.
Brilliant for recording hours and over time
> 
> **Cons**: nothing really, we have found it all very beneficial to the business.
> 
> There is still probably features we don't use as yet, but overall it has saved a lot of time in collating hours staff spend on each job, the system gathers this for you, so it saves time when wages are being done.
we have also moved away from paper job cards and use Amber - JCS which is brilliant and very easy to use.
Jobs can be easily searched for and all the information regarding that job found easily on the system.
The Support we receive is fantastic.

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### "Amber-JCS's review" — 5.0/5

> **Jo** | *5 September 2018* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: easy to use once you get used to it; very reasonably priced
> 
> **Cons**: not great front end  - quit difficult to navigate round.

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### "Time recording and invoicing made easy" — 5.0/5

> **Melanie** | *7 September 2018* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Time recording is extremely easy to do and easy for new staff to pick up.
Invoicing is able to cover certain periods and you are able to add sub contractors invoices easily.
> 
> **Cons**: Creating credit notes is confusing and not an easy task to get your head around.
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> As a Surveying firm, Amber-JCS is the perfect software for us, it enables us to record time and invoice our clients in a precise and expedient manner.

## Links

- [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2047797/amber-jcs)

## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
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| en-AE | <https://www.getapp.ae/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-AU | <https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-CA | <https://www.getapp.ca/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-GB | <https://www.getapp.co.uk/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-IE | <https://www.getapp.ie/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.getapp.co.nz/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
| en-SG | <https://www.getapp.sg/software/2047797/amber-jcs> |
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