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title: JOB COSTING - Add New Job Entry (Transaction)
description: Add a new Job Entry / Transaction
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# JOB COSTING - Add New Job Entry (Transaction)

## Add a new Job Entry / Transaction

### ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-12-43-34-PM.png?width=49&height=74&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-12-43-34-PM.png)

Add a Job Entry in one of 6 ways: 

 1.   **Job Costing** module

- - access 
          - Job List - ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-14-42-09-PM.png) **Job Entry**

               ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jun-05-2023-06-52-35-1725-AM.png?width=612&height=216&name=image-png-Jun-05-2023-06-52-35-1725-AM.png)

- - - Job Details - **Entries** tab \> ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-06-42-PM.png) **Job Entry**

              **![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-15-96-PM.png?width=569&height=293&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-15-96-PM.png)**

- - click into the first grid line and type in or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-32-33-PM.png) browse for the **Job Account** you want to post this Entry to

              ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-42-89-PM.png?width=581&height=207&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-15-42-89-PM.png)

- - enter **Hours** / **Income** / **Expense** / **Memo**
    - click into subsequent blank grid lines to create an additional lines in the entry
    - **![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-06-52-PM.png) Post**

 2.   **Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable**

- - **![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-35-78-PM.png) New** transaction
    - click on the **Job** tab

        ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-44-41-PM.png?width=361&height=309&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-44-41-PM.png)               

        ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-56-09-PM.png?width=417&height=198&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-16-56-09-PM.png)

- - click into the first grid line and type in or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-09-50-PM.png) browse for the **Job Account** you want to post this Entry to
    - option to enter **Hours** / **Income** / **Expense** / **Memo**
    - click into subsequent blank grid lines to create additional lines in the entry
    - **![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-16-99-PM.png?width=30&height=26&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-16-99-PM.png) Post** or**![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-22-10-PM.png?width=30&height=26&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-22-10-PM.png)  Post and Review GL**  
          - User Settings for this selection - Edit \> User Settings \> Purchases 
                  - ![CheckBoxCheckedBlue](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png?width=16&height=16&name=CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png) **Modify GL Transaction**
                  - **Modify Transactions by Default:** 
                            - ![CheckBoxCheckedBlue](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png?width=16&height=16&name=CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png) ![PostReviewPost](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PostReviewPost.png?width=177&height=72&name=PostReviewPost.png)
                            - ![CheckBoxUnchecked-1](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CheckBoxUnchecked-1.png?width=16&height=16&name=CheckBoxUnchecked-1.png) ![PostPostReview](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PostPostReview.png?width=189&height=61&name=PostPostReview.png)

 3.   Sales **Order / Purchase Order** - assign the order revenue / expense to Job Costing in one           of 2 ways:

- - **a)**  track the expense / revenue for each line to a different Job Account

          ![SalesOrderJobAccount](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/SalesOrderJobAccount.png?width=563&height=443&name=SalesOrderJobAccount.png)

- - - open the order you want to enter the Job Costing allocation for
          - scroll the Order Details section to the right until you see the column **Job Account**
          - type in or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-38-98-PM.png) **Browse** for the desired Job Account
          - repeat this process for each line
    - **b)**  track the entire order to one Job Account

![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-51-65-PM.png?width=586&height=254&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-17-51-65-PM.png)    

- - open the order you want enter the Job Costing allocation for
    - ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-01-43-PM.png) scroll to the **Job** tab
    - type in or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-08-21-PM.png) browse for the desired **Job Account**

4.   Payroll **Timecard Batch**

- - in the pay line at the right end select **Job Account** with option to enter a **Comment**

        **![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-18-52-PM.png?width=633&height=264&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-18-52-PM.png)**

 

 5.   **General Ledger Transaction**

- - in the **GL Transaction** scroll over to the **Job Account** column on the line you wish to allocate to a Job Account![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-26-34-PM.png)
    - type in or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-18-33-54-PM.png) **Browse** for the desired Job Account to allocate the Debit / Credit from that line

6.   Import **Job Entry**

**![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-32-31-PM.png?width=426&height=377&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-32-31-PM.png)**

- - **Access** - Tools \> Import

           ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-02-73-PM.png?width=166&height=118&name=image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-02-73-PM.png)  
          ![JobCostingEntryImport](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JobCostingEntryImport.png?width=379&height=312&name=JobCostingEntryImport.png)

- - option to ![ImportOpenConfig](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ImportOpenConfig.png?width=27&height=25&name=ImportOpenConfig.png) open a previously saved import configuration (mapping) or continue as follows:
    - select the .xlsx or .csv file location **Source** using the **Browse Files** if this is a new import or **Browse Folders** button if this is a previously saved Import
    - accept or change **Date Format**
    - select from the **Import Type** list - **Job Entry**
    - map fields: 
          - select the field under **Import File Field Value** - ie: **Job No**
          - select the **Spire Field Name** that is the same - ie: **Job No**
          - click the **Match** button
          - continue to Match all fields you want to import into Spire (matched items will transfer down to lower section, where you can then select the field and **Unmatch** if desired)
    - option to select a **Destination** folder to move the successfully imported spreadsheet to
    - option to select a **Failure** folder to move the unsuccessfully imported spreadsheet to
    - identify if your spreadsheet ![CheckBoxCheckedBlue](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png?width=16&height=16&name=CheckBoxCheckedBlue.png) **Has Header Row**
    - click on ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-52-19-PM.png) **Save config** or ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-19-56-91-PM.png) **Save config as** to save the Source, Import Ty\[e, Field Mapping, Destination and Failure folders
    - click on ![](https://cs.geminilogic.com/hubfs/image-png-Sep-05-2022-04-20-03-29-PM.png) **Import** to finish and review the newly imported records

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