Add manual revenue or a manual labor entry to a job
Use manual revenue and manual labor entries to fold work that didn't go through an Essential invoice, or labor that wasn't clocked, into a job's cost rollup — so the Job Costing card and reports reflect the full picture.
Before you start: Job Costing must be turned on for your business and your role needs the job-costing manage permission. See Turn on Job Costing and set cost rates.
Add or edit manual revenue
Manual revenue is for work invoiced outside Essential — billed by email or paper, for example — that you still want counted toward the job's margin. It's added on top of any linked invoices, not a replacement for them.
Open the job and expand the Revenue column on the Job Costing card.
Click + Add revenue (or Edit manual revenue if an amount is already set).
Enter the amount and save. Leaving the field empty clears it back to zero; an invalid amount is rejected with an inline error instead.
Add a manual labor entry
Manual labor entries cover work a clocked timecard entry won't capture. Find the Labor section below the totals, click Add Labor, and choose one of three entry types:
Hours × rate — pick a technician and enter hours and a dollar rate; costed the same way as clocked time.
Flat total — a label and a single dollar amount, with no hours or rate.
Amount + note — a dollar amount with a free-text note explaining it (for example, "Helper – unexpected").
Save to add the entry. Any manual entry can be edited or removed from the Labor list with its delete icon.
What happens after
Manual revenue and manual labor entries feed directly into the job's margin on the Job Costing card and into the job costing reports. Labor entries with a technician attached also roll up into that technician's numbers on the Technician profitability report.
Where to find it: Open a job from Scheduling > Jobs; use Revenue and the Labor section on the Job Costing card.
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