Budget & job profit

Know what a job is making while it’s still running

The accepted estimate becomes the budget, and you track committed, actual and projected cost against it.

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Committed, actual, projected

Each job’s budget starts from the accepted estimate. As the job moves you see what is committed, what has actually been spent and where it is projected to finish — and the margin per job that leaves.

When a line goes over budget, it’s flagged, so you find out during the job rather than after it.

Labor counted properly

Crew hours are costed at a burden rate, so labor shows up in the job’s numbers at what it really costs you. JMJ Build tracks labor cost per job; it isn’t payroll.

FAQ

Budget & job profit questions, answered

The details contractors ask about first.

Where does the budget come from?

From the accepted estimate. You don’t re-key it.

How is labor cost calculated?

Crew hours times the burden rate you set.

Does JMJ Build run payroll?

No. It tracks labor cost per job so you can see margin. It isn’t payroll.

Are the profit numbers a guarantee?

No. Projected cost and margin are estimates built from what has been entered for the job so far.

Pricing

Free for quotes and invoices. JMJ Build for the whole job.

JMJ Build Free covers quotes and invoices. JMJ Build adds jobs, scheduling, estimates, budgets, purchasing and payables. JMJ Billings runs your receivables.

JMJ Build Free

$0 free plan

Quotes and invoices, free — with generous usage for a small operation.

  • Quotes
  • Invoices
  • Generous usage
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JMJ Build

$89 /month

Job management for renovation contractors and the trades — schedule, estimates, budgets, purchasing, payables and invoicing in one place.

  • Jobs and a master schedule for every crew
  • Estimates from a price book that remembers your prices
  • Budgets with live profit and margin per job
  • Purchase orders and change orders approved by link
  • Bills, receipts, AP aging and 1099 totals
  • Invoices from the budget, paid through your own Stripe or Square
  • Year-end export pack for your accountant
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or $890/year — the annual plan starts with a 30-day free trial.

JMJ Billings

$179 /month

Managed accounts receivable: follow-up on every unpaid invoice, in your name, from your own domain.

  • JMJ Build Free (quotes and invoices) included
  • Lyakon CRM — leads, funnel and outreach — included
  • The full 9-stage automated AR cadence, sent from your own domain
  • AI reply triage, disputes paused automatically
  • Documented handoff to a licensed collections partner
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or $1,790/year — the annual plan starts with a 30-day free trial.

Need both? JMJ Billings and JMJ Build run on one account with one payer — Billings includes Build Free, and full JMJ Build is added as its own subscription.

JMJ Build

Run the whole job from one place.

Schedule, estimates, budgets, purchasing, payables and invoicing for renovation contractors and the trades. Quotes and invoices are free on JMJ Build Free.

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