Budget against actuals, continuously
Phases carry hour and money budgets, booked time and expenses count against them immediately. You see overruns as they happen, not only in the post-calculation.
Project controlling that calculates all the way into the books.
Projects in ewws are no silo: phases, hours, expenses and services run continuously against the budget, billing knows fixed price, milestones and advances, and revenue recognition posts cleanly into the general ledger. You see whether a mandate carries while you can still react.
Why ewws
What project controlling inside the ERP does better
Most project tools stop at time tracking. In ewws, projects run on the same platform as invoicing, accounting and payroll: every hour, every expense and every invoice belongs to the project, without exports and without an Excel bridge.
Project plan with critical path
Phases with dependencies as a plan: the critical path is highlighted, schedule conflicts are flagged, and rescheduling adjusts the plan directly.
All billing models
Time and material, fixed price, milestones and advances, chosen per project. Advances stay profit-neutral until the work is realised.
Revenue recognition into the ledger
Work in progress is accrued at cost or by percentage of completion and posted provisionally, including a provision for onerous contracts. The books are right even mid-project.
Honest forecasting
The estimate at completion uses a deliberately manual percentage of completion, not wishful maths derived from hours. Where a figure is not reliable, ewws says so openly.
No silo
Time tracking, expenses, service orders, invoicing and accounting share the same data. Project figures and financial figures cannot drift apart.
Features
From timesheet to a project statement you can trust
Everything service companies, agencies and project-driven SMEs need day to day, on the same platform as the rest of ewws.
Time tracking with activity types
Capture hours on the desktop or on the iPhone, per phase and activity type. Each activity type can carry its own billing rate that flows straight into the invoice.
Expenses with rebilling
Project expenses are captured, approved and rebilled to the customer on request, each expense exactly once. The project margin stays clean.
Invoicing from the project
Approved hours and expenses become the invoice, time and material or according to plan. Double billing is technically impossible.
Profitability per project
Revenue, cost and margin per project, weighted by activity types. You see which mandates carry and which cost you money.
Capacity and utilisation
Planned project work against the team's actual capacity, per person and period. Overload shows up before it hurts the project.
Portfolio across all projects
Profitability and forecast across the whole project portfolio, aggregated honestly. What is not reliable is disclosed instead of glossed over.
Controlling depth
Figures your auditor can trust
Project controlling in ewws is accounting-grade controlling: the valuation logic follows the Swiss Code of Obligations, not the project manager's wish list.
WIP and percentage of completion
Work in progress at cost or by percentage of completion, posted provisionally and reversed cleanly the next day. Onerous contracts are provisioned, not hidden.
Earned value and estimate at completion
Earned value, cost performance index and the estimate at completion per project. The percentage of completion is assessed manually on purpose, so the forecast actually means something.
Plan with dependencies
Finish-to-start dependencies between phases, critical path in calendar days and flagged schedule conflicts. The server keeps the plan consistent.
For whom
Service companies and fiduciaries
Wherever hours are the product, project controlling decides the margin.
Services
Agency, engineering office, IT services
Projects with phases, budget and dedicated rates per activity type. Hours and expenses flow in from mobile, the invoice comes out of the project, and the margin sits right next to it.
Fiduciary
Mandates under control
Mandates as projects with budget and actuals, clean revenue recognition at closing and a portfolio view across all mandates. Figures that stand up to an audit.
In use by SMEs across Switzerland, from Lucerne via Zurich and Berne to Geneva, Lausanne and Ticino, in German, French and Italian.
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Service, production, warehouse and finance at a glance: projects are part of the same platform.
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Which edition includes projects and controlling, transparent from CHF 39 per month.
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Project controlling native on the Mac, mobile time tracking on the iPhone, one data set everywhere.
View Mac ERP →Projects that calculate instead of just documenting.
See which edition covers projects and controlling, or discuss your setup directly with us.