JobBOSS² – Bewertungsseite 7

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This software (web based) is very nice to use. Love that when you login out of the office that you have fast speed and accurate information.

Nachteile

We updated to the Web based software about a year ago so still learning the ins and outs of differences.

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Easy to use and understand. It can be a detail as you like. Sometimes you just need something quick.

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There is a yearly cost to be on maintenance for every seat and if it is linked to accounting software like quickbooks

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I like how easy it is to use. Most of the features are easy to use and understand.

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I don't like that I have to go through some extra clicks when I have to change something in order.

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For the most part, the program is easy to use. Very straight forward

Nachteile

If you want to make changes to the format of your printouts, it will cost you. For example, just to add a small note on the bottom right for controlled documents, you can't just edit the template yourself.

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Crystal reporting in JobBOSS is a huge time and money saver. They are very helpful to determine delivery schedules, and review On-Time delivery at the end of each month. We use dozens of reports that we have customized which help plan, schedule, and review.

Nachteile

The data on existing reports when exported to excel are difficult to manipulate. Therefore, modifying the reports has helped us, but you need to have someone with decent knowledge of Crystal to help with it.

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The product was easy to learn and is easy to use, and is pretty straight forward. Has some features that are good for our type of business.

Nachteile

The least thing we like about this software is the high cost for annual updates and support, it just seems to be way too high.

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The ease of use is what I like the most. We were able to install and "run" with this program. We did NOT need a lot of extra reports or functions - the system already had what we needed and wanted built into it.

Nachteile

Just a couple of the quirks (tab vs enter on some screens). I do not like that the inventory issued to jobs does not deduct the GL balance. That is a manual entry that I do at the end of the month.

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I like the ability to export reports into excel to keep track of yearly sales by customer as well as keeping track of yearly inventory use.

Nachteile

Shoptech requires you to pay the yearly maintenance fee in order to receive updates to the system.

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The web based version is fantastic and a great leap forward from the original version. Always being updated and improved. Any concerns are addressed right away. Recommend for all small businesses.

Nachteile

everything least liked has been improved

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The ease of user friendly format. The programs is used shop wide, beginning with the estimating and quoting through to invoicing. We use the Vendor, Shop Control and Quality modules as well. As our company has grown we effectively use all modules of the E2 Shop System

Nachteile

Some slight issues with the scheduling but that is due to the nature of our business not an issue with the software.

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From quotations to closing out orders, E2 does it all.

Nachteile

When doing it all, each subroutine open a new window. Example: home screen->estimating->part->documents. On the plus side, navigating the system is a breeze, just feels clunky every now and then.

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They over sell their conferences and label them as training but it is really a sales pitch for more money.

Nachteile

The modules are stitched together as though it was developed one piece at a time. Bad support. They give very little help but offer lots of work around with obvious issues. Each update claims to fix old bugs but only half fixes and then creates more.

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You can run it completely job based.
No need for sales orders if that's your preference

Nachteile

Shop Boss and Group Entry can freeze up at times and may take a while to open

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Accessibility on multiple devices is important for us aside from the ability to manage each our jobs.

Nachteile

We haven't started using the scheduling feature yet and we may avoid it because it seems a little clunky.

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it is fairly intuitive to use and works well within a manufacturing company

Nachteile

Upgrades are almost always require repeated help installing. They rarely are straight forward and several calls are needed to customer support to complete installations. There also seems to be several levels of customer support with few people actually in possession of all the need information to complete.

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At this point there are no pro's due to the fact that we have owned this software for 3 years and it is still not up and live.

Nachteile

We are not a job shop ( we again were lied to)and we were never told that it could not hold the data for our large assemblies and allow them all to show up on the page.

Vorteile

Ease of use and customer support

Nachteile

Not keeping up with other software(s), more of a sales company now rather than being on the cutting edge.

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I like it's ease of use, customization options, and excellent support.

Nachteile

There are not many issues I have come across other than the constant logging off of workstations.

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The ability to have production data and metrics in one system. Seeing this real time data is critical to making decisions for the company.

Nachteile

Difficult for users to create custom reports. Needs to have better method to store data, for example, all quote data files from the customer

Vorteile

The fact that the software is almost designed specifically for a fabrication, manufacturing shop is it's greatest attribute for our organization.

Nachteile

Because it is a canned software package, there are a few minor things that are missed for our organization specifically. However that by no means minimizes it's benefits to our organization.

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Shop Tech support has been very helpful at times when it was needed and we love how easy E2 is to learn and use. When I started my job 2 years ago I was offered to attend an off site overnight training but decided to learn the software myself and it was quite easy to do. I have actually taught other users things that they never knew how to do and they had been using it for 10+ years. E2 is the largest reason that our shop has become 100% efficient with on time delivery, and being in the aerospace manufacturing industry we all know how important that it! The HOT SPOTS tool & LOADING SUMMARY are used daily.................

Nachteile

We have a small ongoing hiccup with the machine capacity module vs. scheduling of jobs and have been unable to overcome this struggle with Shoptech support, although we have all tried on a few occasions to do so. As a team I believe that we will eventually figure it out. Other than that, there is not much negative that we can provide.

Vorteile

He has assisted with our migration to the new version of the software. He has been great to work with and very helpful, explaining everything.

Nachteile

none that i have found. A few bugs and similar issues but they are always resolved quickly.

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The easy user interface and fresh look of it.

Nachteile

Not being able to select and copy part descriptions from lightning bolt, this would make it much more helpful.

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I like how it is easy to use. Many long term employees love its ease of use.

Nachteile

The interface is a bit outdated. It could be remastered to look a little cleaner.

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User friendly, and making correction or adding information a very easy task.

Nachteile

On the accounting side, the bank reconciliation report should also give checks that have not cleared. This may aid in the process.

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The many many features that tie your entire shop together from RFQ, to work order and invoice and everything in between. Order, track and locate your raw material inventory and finished products.

Nachteile

You need a pretty solid understanding of the software and software systems and computers as a whole to really understand and use all of the many features. But the basics are very easy and user friendly.

Vorteile

We like that is easy to learn and use. We like the ability of tracking orders and the POs related to the jobs and many other helpful features such as traveler routers, creating certs and NCRs.

Nachteile

There are some reports that are not available and the Visual Scheduling can get a little bit confusing.

Vorteile

Easy to use, multi-functional, inexpensive for small companies

Nachteile

Some of the forms could use more flexibility in customizing to meet individual look

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Makes it much easier & quicker to quote customers & track history of raw materials as well as finished product.

Nachteile

Does not prorate cost of freight over cost of incoming parts. This can be quite substantial at times and if not taken into consideration may result in selling the items out at less than its total cost.

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Everything can be tied together for easy traceability.
Good reporting and costing.

Nachteile

Customer support can get costly...
Need either IT or Customer Support when glitches occur

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Everything is at your fingertips! Order history, shipments, Vendor PO's, receiving etc. PLUS, there is many different ways to look items up (part #, description, PO#, date etc).

Nachteile

There is a limited number of report options.

Vorteile

The ease of use and training material makes anyone a proffesional.

Nachteile

No cons so far! I could easily see how someone could find issues with the software, but only without investing the time and mind power to learning the software. Since the training is provided (and extensive), I see no reason to not get educated before using it, and to start reaping all of the potential benefits!

Vorteile

Who knew E2 could be such a great investment. It’s easier than other software in its class but not so easy that anything is over simplified.

Nachteile

Everything has its flaws and they are fixing them all the time.

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There are many sources of measurement with in this product for our daily, weekly, monthly and yearly measurables. Once you learn your way around JobBoss it is fairly simple to use.

Nachteile

There are some little glitchy type issues. If you don't do some things exact there are issues. For some issues the help information provided isn't always clear or enough for me.

Vorteile

Extremely easy to use. Every function you need to keep your business going.

Nachteile

After things have posted, you can't make changes until you un-post then re-post.

Vorteile

Customer service, both software and particularly technical support, has always been good. Shoptech listens to their customers "wishes" and continually strives to improve their products as well as to provide adequate training opportunities.

Nachteile

Many of the reports are unwieldy and include too much info that is not useful. We purchased crystal report writer to customize some of the reports and that has helped.

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QuickBooks integration

Nachteile

Doesn't update on the fly, you have to close out and open back up for update to apply.

Vorteile

E2 is an integral part of our operations at EBI. We recently upgraded to the web version and it's even better than the desktop version which helped us grow for 17 years.

Nachteile

It can be a bit complicated to customize reports.

Vorteile

The product is inexpensive. I think that the client front end is user-friendly, and the packed in data collection components are robust. The simplicity of the product makes the maintenance costs lower and the data accessibility (outside of the client) higher. Their online knowledge base, user forums, and simple training videos provide a great deal of information on the product and how to use and maintain it.

Nachteile

The product appears to have severe legacy issues in terms of database design, which leads to what should should be unnecessary calls to support in order to clear up "dirty data" issues.

The web support and phone support calls are fielded by different groups of technicians, and the phone support group seems to have a thing for hours-long employee meetings that take down the support line. In the end, the support issues don't matter too much since the answer is usually something along the lines of "that's interesting", or "yeah, we know about that".

More aggravating though, the application has a habit of crashing for reasons unknown (though somewhat less-so than older versions).

I'm not directly familiar with the inner workings of it, but I've been told on more than one occasion that the accounting portions are quite lacking.

Vorteile

The best thing that E@ helped us with was Quoting. We get most quotes out in 24 hrs. This use to take 10-14 days

We win 75% of quotes that are returned in 24 hours

Our backlog increases 10 Times!

Our sales/Shipments are up 150%

The job travelers help confusion on shop floor.

Nachteile

I need to get up to speed on scheduling. It seems a little awkward when I try to schedule a large order. There should be a way you can reschedule after the order is entered without having to do each item individually

Vorteile

ease of use, user friendly. Won't need a server anymore

Nachteile

everything is good. I think when we use it more, there will be something. and will let you guys know

Vorteile

It's easy to use and play around with. It also has some cool tricks

Nachteile

Sometimes E2 is not your friend and doesn't always do what you need it to do but I can handle that.

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E2 Shoptech works well for our business and customer service is great. We have had some programming (for some special needs) done by E2 technicians that makes it even better.

Nachteile

I would have to get very nit-picky to find a complaint. When searching for part numbers under routing/estimating and inventory items, I wish you could pick a combination of fields at the same time to help narrow down the search.

Vorteile

E2 is a great help in managing my manufacturing process and controlling flow on the shop floor

Nachteile

Sometimes it is hard to follow the screens when we have multiple monitors

Vorteile

straight forward interface. Did not take me very long to learn how to navigate through the software

Nachteile

additional users is a little pricey. maybe if there was a way to kick users that have been idle for a while.

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Ease of use. Cost analysis if all is in works good. Good for job following.

Nachteile

Like all, garbage in garbage out. Keeps records that are no longer valid. Scheduling is always an issue since it's so dynamic.

Vorteile

We transitioned to E2 from a previous manufacturing software a year ago and I have never been happier. This software is so user friendly and very easy to learn. I love the way it integrates with QuickBooks for our financials. It is also extremely helpful that you can quickly email any report, invoices, quotes, etc. out to customers and vendors. The customer service and support teams are also very helpful and wonderful to work with. I get answers to my questions quickly and any issues I have had come up have been resolved right away.

Nachteile

I haven't been able to use the Quote function as it is meant to be used quite yet but that is more because I haven't had the time to explore it like I would like to than anything to do with the product.

Vorteile

Ease of Use. Seamless flow form start to Finish- Quoting-Orders-Billing

Nachteile

No Spell check. Losing what you entered in the description section if you have the change the part entry, in the Quoting Module.

Vorteile

Ability to do everything we need in one software.

Nachteile

Downtime occassionally. Site will crash. Ease of use for some people.