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Excel Breaks at 20 Jobs Per Week

Your job costing spreadsheet worked when you were smaller. Now it's a bottleneck. Jolted gives you the same flexibility with automatic data capture and real-time visibility.

80%

Less Manual Entry

0

Formulas to Break

1-Click

Reporting

THE SPREADSHEET CEILING

Signs You've Outgrown Excel

Spreadsheet Problems

Spreadsheets require manual entry—which means data is always stale or missing

Version control is a nightmare. Which file is current?

Formulas break. Someone accidentally deletes a row. Data disappears.

Reporting requires hours of pivot table wrestling every month

No mobile access. Workers can't update from the floor.

Scaling past 20 jobs/week makes the spreadsheet unmanageable

Jolted Solutions

Data flows automatically from shop floor—labor, materials, progress

Single source of truth. Everyone sees the same current data.

No formulas to break. Calculations are built-in and reliable.

Reports generate automatically. Click to view, click to export.

Mobile and tablet interfaces for shop floor data capture

Scales to thousands of jobs without slowdown or complexity

COMPARISON

Excel vs. Jolted for Job Costing

Same flexibility, none of the headaches

Feature
Excel
⚡ Jolted
Automatic labor tracking
Real-time cost updates
Multi-user access
Mobile data entry
Automatic backups
Built-in job cost reports
WIP inventory tracking
Custom fields & flexibility
No formulas to break
Scales past 20 jobs/week

Included

Partial/Add-on

Not Available

WHY SWITCH

Everything Excel Does, Without the Manual Work

Keep the flexibility you need, lose the data entry you hate

Automatic Data Capture

Labor hours flow from time clock. Materials log at issue. No more typing numbers into cells at the end of the week.

Multi-User, Real-Time

Everyone sees the same data. No more emailing spreadsheets or wondering who has the latest version.

Built-In Dashboards

Job profitability, WIP value, and cost trends are calculated automatically. Stop building pivot tables.

Data Security & Backups

Your data lives in the cloud with automatic backups. No more "the file got corrupted" disasters.

Familiar Flexibility

Add custom fields, notes, and tracking without a developer. Configure to match how you actually work.

Export When Needed

Still need data in Excel sometimes? Export any report or job list with one click. Best of both worlds.

FAQ

Switching from Excel FAQ

Our Excel tracking has worked for years. Why change?

If it's truly working, don't change. But most shops find that Excel "working" means someone spending hours on data entry and reporting. When that person is on vacation, everything stops. Jolted automates the tedious parts while keeping the flexibility you like about spreadsheets.

Yes. We help you import historical job data so you don't lose visibility into past costs. Most shops get their history loaded in the first week of onboarding.

Export any data from Jolted to Excel with one click. Use spreadsheets for one-off analysis while Jolted handles the ongoing data capture and standard reporting. You're not locked out of Excel—you just don't depend on it anymore.

Most shops run Jolted parallel to their spreadsheets for 2-4 weeks, then fully switch over. You'll know when the spreadsheet becomes redundant—people stop updating it because Jolted data is better.

The interface is simpler than Excel. Workers click or scan to log time—no spreadsheet skills needed. Managers see dashboards instead of building pivot tables. Most teams are comfortable within a few days.

Export everything. Your data is yours. We provide full export capability in standard formats (CSV, Excel) so you're never held hostage.

Ready to Stop Wrestling with Spreadsheets?

Your time is worth more than manual data entry. See what automatic job costing looks like.

Keep your flexibility, lose the manual work

Import existing job history from Excel

Export anytime—your data is yours

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