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As soon as Paul A. Nickle Inc. found that Sage Timberline Office was able to cut the amount of time it took for payroll by more than half, the electrical contractor knew Sage Timberline Office's accounting was what it was looking for.

"I can do a complete payroll for 80 employees in about two hours, which is about the same amount of time it was taking me to do payroll in the old system — but for only 15 to 20 employees," says Debbie Dignan, corporate secretary-treasurer.

Speeding up payroll
Dignan also appreciates the ability to do a single entry rather than multiple ones when an employee does different tasks on certified jobs. "Now I can put the employee in, put the job number in and then break it out over the different days of the week so that it'll print out on the certified payroll report. It's basically like one entry for me," she says.

Dignan explains that Sage Timberline Office's Job Cost software forced the company to be more organized in its record keeping, which has had its benefits. "In the past, electrical work was electrical work, but now we actually use cost codes for the job costing system," Dignan says.

The software helps them to be more organized about the type of work that's being done in the field and how it's being entered into the computer. And it's made a difference, she says.

"Now the project managers have a better handle on how the project is going," she says.

Support for smooth implementation
Dignan says she has recommended Sage Timberline Office accounting software to other specialty contractors, particularly those looking for good job cost software. Most of those contractors had been doing their job costing manually, and Dignan says Sage Timberline Office can make a world of difference.

"Everything is streamlined when you go from a manual system to Sage Timberline Office," she says. "At the very least, it cuts the work load in half."

Dignan says she was also impressed with the amount of help her company got in getting the software set up and configured to work specifically for them.

"It wasn't simply, 'Here it is, you figure it out and make it work.' It was several weeks of having someone here helping us set up everything from job cost to payroll. They were also here to make sure when we started using it that everything was going fine," Dignan says.

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