Amber-JCS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Pricing and Plans
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User Reviews

Overview

Amber-JCS

5.0

(4)

Pricing

Starting at £10.00 per month

About Amber-JCS

UK Job Costing software for SME Surveyors and consulting engineers.

The Core modules are timesheets, expenses, purchases, invoicing and reporting.

Enter your timesheets and expenses against a job and job task (E.g. Job '1001' for Job Task 'Drawings'). At say the month-end, generate a draft sales invoice for that job. All new timesheets are tagged to the new draft invoice. Overwrite the calculated fee (based on hours x fee rates) with a fixed fee as required, allocate the next invoice number to seal the invoice, and send the invoice. The sending of the invoice is just a few clicks, where an Outlook email pops up with a template message and a pdf invoice attachment, ready for you to click the Outlook Send.

The final part of the core system is reporting. The job and staff reports give you visibility into the job financials of the business, at the press of a button. This gives you the tools to improve job pricing and staff performance .

There are other modules which can be incorporated over time. These include quotes, email filing, document management and contact management.

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Amber-JCS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: £10.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

£10.00

per user, per month

No plan information available

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Amber-JCS Features

Popular features found in Time Tracking
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Automatic Time Capture
Billable & Non-Billable Hours
Clock In/Out
Employee Database
Employee Scheduling
Overtime Calculation
Project Time Tracking
Real-Time Updates
Task Management
Third-Party Integrations
More features of Amber-JCS
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting
Accounting Integration
Approval Process Control
Approval Workflow
Billable Items Tracking
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Calendar Management
Contact Database
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
CRM
Customizable Invoices
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Document Storage
Email Management
Employee Management
Expense Tracking
Financial Management
Forecasting
Hourly Billing
Invoice Creation
Invoice History
Invoice Management
Invoice Processing
Job Management
Job Tracking
Leave Tracking
Multiple Billing Rates
Offline Time Tracking
Online Invoicing
Online Time Tracking
Overrun Reporting
Percent-Complete Tracking
Project Billing
Projections
Project Management
Project Tracking
Purchase Order Management
Quotes/Estimates
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reimbursement Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Allocation & Planning
Summary Reports
Task Scheduling
Time & Expense Tracking
Timer
Timesheet Management
Time Tracking
Time Tracking by Client
Time Tracking by Project
Vacation/Leave Tracking

Amber-JCS User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.0

Have you used Amber-JCS and would like to share your experience with others?

Sarah J.

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

PFA Consulting Ltd - Review on Amber-JCS

For us, the ease of invoicing and reporting has made our job costing procedures work more efficiently and transparently.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Louise S.

Building Materials

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Brilliant product

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Jo S.

Management Consulting

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Amber-JCS's review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

easy to use once you get used to it; very reasonably priced

Cons:

not great front end - quit difficult to navigate round.

Melanie A.

Construction

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Time recording and invoicing made easy

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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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