For job shops and machine shops running JobBOSS² or E2
JobBOSS² is aimed squarely at job shops and make-to-order manufacturers: quoting, orders, job costing, scheduling, material, inventory, quality and shop data collection in one place. The gap is usually practical. The job data is there, and people still chase status, rebuild the meeting report in Excel, or key the same thing into a second system.
We do not replace JobBOSS². ECI states it has a public API, and that is the route we use.
The gap
These are the ones we get called about, in roughly this order.
Three groups, three views, one job. Somebody exports job or material data every day to build the spreadsheet the production meeting actually runs on, and that export is the only place the three views meet.
A daily export is load-bearing
A planner clicks through job status, due dates and shipments to answer one question for one customer, several times a day. None of it is hard. All of it is time.
Answering "where is my order" is a manual job
Nonconformance data and machine output live outside JobBOSS² and never make it into what managers look at. QuickBooks, CAD/CAM or an MES has an integration that needs work, and duplicate entry fills the gap.
The data exists and the decision is made without it
What we do
Focused work, sized for a shop. The best JobBOSS² extensions are narrow on purpose.
Due dates, current operation, load, late jobs and material risk in one focused view, refreshing on its own.
In practice
A morning production dashboard that replaces the Excel report somebody assembles by hand before the meeting. Same numbers, nobody’s hour.
Estimate, actual and historical job information combined into reporting built around how your shop actually prices work.
In practice
A quoting analysis tool that compares the assumptions in the estimate against real job history, so the estimator finds out which kinds of work are quietly losing money.
JobBOSS² connected to the outside applications that keep causing duplicate entry, through the public API or an appropriate exchange path.
In practice
An API integration that removes duplicate order or material entry between JobBOSS² and another system, with the failure cases handled rather than left to whoever notices.
Approved job and shipment status exposed to the people who need it, without handing customers or office staff unnecessary ERP access.
In practice
A customer-status page reading approved job, due-date and shipment information, scoped to that customer, so the planner stops being a lookup service.
The older reports, extracts and custom processes mapped before anyone replaces or rebuilds them, so useful workflows survive and workarounds do not.
In practice
Moving off older E2 or JobBOSS processes, we list what each report and extract feeds and who relies on it, then carry forward the ones that earn it. The map is yours regardless.
Not sure which of these matters most for your company? That is what the first call is for.
Under the hood
ECI states JobBOSS² has a public API and supports integration through APIs or flat files. Access and endpoints get confirmed for your environment before design starts.
30 minutes
to walk your shop’s systems before anyone proposes a build
0
direct table writes, integrations go through the supported API
Your accounts
are where everything we build is deployed and owned
Questions
ECI states that JobBOSS² has a public API and can support custom integrations. Access and endpoint availability should be confirmed for your specific environment before design starts, and that is the first thing we check.
No. JobBOSS² is positioned for job shops and machine shops, and third-party install-base data skews heavily toward smaller U.S. manufacturers. The work is sized accordingly. A dashboard that kills a daily export is a real result at twenty people.
Yes. The first step is identifying the exact product and version, and then the reports, integrations and workflows that depend on it. Older environments usually have more undocumented dependencies, not fewer.
Not automatically, and we would rather you did not buy one you do not need. A small reporting database helps when several sources must be combined. For a bounded problem, a narrow API integration or a single report is often the whole answer.
No. It stays the system of record. We build the reporting, status tools and integrations around it.
It is a good time for the mapping specifically. Knowing which reports, extracts and custom processes exist, and who depends on each, is what keeps a migration from silently dropping something the shop relies on.
Let's talk
Thirty minutes. You show us how JobBOSS² is set up and what people rebuild by hand every morning. We tell you straight what we would automate first, and what it would take.
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