MRPLight already knows which material a job took and how long it was worked on at each station. Cost is those two numbers multiplied out.
Each job takes the material its product's recipe lists, at the cost of the last delivery. The job record shows every line and the total.
Working time is the time between Start and Done at each station. Multiply by your shop's hourly rate and you have labor cost, with no clock-in screen and no paper travelers to add up.
Product pages show material cost per unit and the recent jobs that made it. When a job ran long you see which station it was, which is usually the part of the quote that was wrong.
It is as good as the scans. A job left in progress overnight will show more time than it took. For most shops it is far closer than the estimate they quote from today.
No. It does not invoice or keep books. It tells you what jobs cost to make, which is the number accounting software usually lacks.
More: job shop tracking, simple mrp, raw material inventory, or pricing.
The demo shop has eleven weeks of jobs, scans and material in it. Nothing to install and no form to fill in.