Hello again and thanks for your response,
I am able to see labor costs (regardless if Class is turned on or off because it seems to show labor accounts on the P&L by Class), however I still can't see labor costs per job, and that's still my goal. My guess is that I would need to enter a payment for each employee (making the journal entry route impossible because you can't tie anything to a job there), and separate the payments per job instead of a straight total. And each line - each job - would have a class tied to it if that's necessary. I'll explain why this is a problem.
As an example, we have about 20 active jobs at any given time. Direct labor for those jobs need to show up on job reports (as it's CoGS just like job materials). We have an employee who assists in the shop but also oversees jobs in progress. He works on about 5 different projects/jobs a day. One weekly timecard looks like the screenshot, and that's only half of it. Tsheets generates about 14 lines a week for the 5 employees that work Direct Labor.
I see that your response does say that payroll checks need to be broken down - I assumed this just meant gross wages and tax allocation. Our 3rd party does that, but it wouldn't break things down per job - just by direct labor, indirect labor, holiday, etc.
So if I were to need labor costs to show up on a job report, my guess is I would need to manually enter paychecks per employee, separate hours/pay per job, enter each job on separate lines, and go about it that way. That's a ton of work. Probably a total of 85 lines of broken down labor per week. Not to mention tax allocations, the payment to the 3rd party, and the record of them paying taxes for us.
Furthermore, I was planning on having the shop employees select a Class when they switch between jobs - so one job would have a class for creating shop drawings, cutting materials, assembly, counter tops, installing, etc so that we can improve our estimating process. If I were to do that, I might have to break it down even more on the payment entry window so that the job report can differentiate how much time/money was spent on each step of the fabrication process. If that happens, if I have more than just one class set up, that increases my 14 lines of entry per employee to at least 25 per employee.
1, I hope I'm going about this wrong, but I assume the payment process needs to be tied to jobs for it to show up on job reports. 2, thanks again for your help. 3, would the payroll feature do this automatically and which tiers would? 4, if that's the case how on earth is it fair for those of us who are outsourcing payroll having to double pay for this process to work?
Thanks!
