Make individual corrections
Review materials together and update the values that need attention, without preparing a workbook for every small change.
NEPTUNE SOLUTIONS · FOR JOBBOSS
Material Cost & Price Manager
Maintain material costs and selling prices with a clear workflow.
Update existing JobBOSS material records in one practical workspace. Make individual corrections directly, or prepare a group of changes in Excel and import them with validation. Choose Standard for cost and price maintenance, or With Material Preferences for additional master data and custom fields.
Training guide: PDF · 10 pages. Webinar: GoTo Webinar registration asks for your name and email address.
THE BUSINESS CASE
Keep material information
ready for daily work.
Purchasing, estimating, sales and finance depend on maintained material information. Material Cost & Price Manager brings standard, average and last cost, selling price and reorder settings into a focused workspace for reviewing and updating existing JobBOSS materials.
Use the grid for a few corrections. For a broader revision, export the relevant materials through the supplied JobBOSS reports, prepare the values in Excel and use the matching import profile. Historical Material Costing gives the team a separate way to review recorded cost and price changes afterward.
PRACTICAL CAPABILITIES
Fit the task to the workflow.
Coordinate larger updates
Use Excel for supplier revisions, periodic selling-price changes or a selected product family, with a defined export and import workflow.
Keep the wider record consistent
Choose With Material Preferences to maintain supported material defaults and custom fields alongside the costing and pricing work.
STANDARD OR WITH MATERIAL PREFERENCES
Choose the edition for your material data.
Both editions support material costing and pricing maintenance. With Material Preferences adds the fields and reports used to maintain more of the existing material master.
| Capability | Standard | With Material Preferences |
|---|---|---|
| Standard, average and last cost; selling price | Included | Included |
| Reorder point and reorder quantity | Included | Included |
| Material recost export and spreadsheet import | Included | Included |
| Customer part pricing and quantity price breaks | Included | Included |
| Historical Material Costing report | Included | Included |
| Material preferences and related export/import | — | Included |
| Material custom fields and related export/import | — | Included |
Material preference examples include class, primary vendor, GL account, make/buy and pick/buy settings, revision, drawing, lead days and status. Available screens and reports follow the installed edition and configuration.
Start with Standard
Keep material costs, selling prices, reorder values and related pricing current.
Add Material Preferences
Bring material defaults and supported custom fields into the same maintenance process.
GENERAL USAGE
A practical maintenance cycle.
Use direct edits for a few records, or the Excel workflow for a coordinated update. The training guide contains the illustrated working steps.
- 01
Select the materials and prepare the change
Filter the utility for a small correction, or run the matching Neptune report in JobBOSS and export using Excel Data Only. Keep the expected columns and material identifiers, and remove rows outside the intended update.
- 02
Apply through the matching workflow
Complete each edited grid row to save a direct change. For a workbook, select the corresponding Spreadsheet Import profile, check the mapping and resolve any validation messages.
- 03
Refresh, verify and keep a record
Refresh the affected records and compare representative values in JobBOSS with the intended update. Use Historical Material Costing when reviewing cost or price changes, and keep the completed workbook for reference.
LEARN THE TOOL · KEEP THE REFERENCE
Training and downloads, together.
Share the overview with your team, keep the guide beside your next update, and return to the recorded demonstration when you need a refresher.
PDF · 3 pages · 455 KB · November 2026
Product overview
Understand the business uses, compare Standard and With Material Preferences, and see how direct edits and Excel maintenance fit together.
PDF · 10 pages · 481 KB · November 2026
Illustrated training guide
Follow the working steps for direct edits, JobBOSS report exports, workbook preparation, imports, preferences, pricing history and troubleshooting.
RECORDED WEBINAR
See the tool in use.
Watch the Material Cost & Price Manager demonstration alongside the training guide, then work through the process for your own maintenance task.
Watch the recorded webinar
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A QUICK WORKING REFERENCE
Common questions.
How do I save a direct edit?
Press Enter or move to another material row to complete the edit. Tab within the same row does not save. If only one row is shown, use Refresh and respond to the save prompt. Refresh the material in JobBOSS when checking the result.
Where do I export a spreadsheet?
Use the supplied reports under JobBOSS User Defined reports and choose Excel Data Only. Select the report for the values you intend to maintain, such as Material Recost Export or Material Customer Part Export. The main utility grid does not have an Export button.
Can I add calculations or filter the workbook?
Keep the expected import columns and identifiers in place; put helper columns at the far right. Remove rows you do not intend to import. Hidden rows and Excel filters do not reliably exclude records from processing. The training guide includes a worked selling-price example.
Which import profile should I choose?
Choose the Spreadsheet Import profile that matches the export and fields being maintained. For a supplied report layout, keep its standard column mapping. If the utility cannot read the file, save and close the workbook and try a local folder accessible to the Windows session running the tool.
Will this change existing orders or work in progress?
Ordinary material edits do not reprice existing open orders or recost jobs or work in progress. Linked template prices have separate update controls. Reorder point and reorder quantity changes do not change on-hand inventory.
Can I create materials or change units of measure?
This utility maintains supported values on existing materials. Creating or deleting materials and changing units of measure use separate workflows. Both editions work with existing raw stock and finished goods.
How do I see changes made by another user?
Refresh the utility to load current values. Refresh or reopen the affected JobBOSS record separately when verifying the update there.
Where can I review pricing history?
Use Historical Material Costing to review recorded changes over a date range. That history is retained even when writing a change note to the material record is turned off. The history report is a review tool, not an automatic Undo command.
Need help with your configuration? Contact Neptune with your installed edition and version, JobBOSS version, the task and any exact error message. For an import question, include the selected profile and one material that illustrates the issue. Sales@NeptuneNetworking.com
IS THIS THE RIGHT TOOL?
A good fit for
Purchasing, estimating, sales, finance and material administrators who maintain existing JobBOSS material costs, selling prices and related master data.
Talk through your use caseWhat we’ll review together
- The fields and pricing records your team needs to maintain.
- Standard or With Material Preferences, and the reports available in your installation.
- Your direct-edit and Excel update process, with a small first training example.
We’ll confirm the applicable version, configuration and installation scope for your JobBOSS environment.
START WITH YOUR WORKFLOW
Keep the right values ready for the next job.
Tell us which material information you maintain and how your team handles it today. Your inquiry will already identify Material Cost & Price Manager.