How I do mine is I went into the settings in A/P and clicked invoice settings then distribution settings and checked the box to allow for units and unit costs to be allowed under the subcontractor category, then when I am entering in their invoices I can put in the "units" or hours plus the unit cost.  Then to pull reports on those costs in JC go to reports-unit control then condition it to the job you want to see and it will pull up per cost code what your Labor and your Subcontractor costs were for each, even shows original estimated amounts "units" and dollars, the actual and the difference you can see just how much you were over/under. 

What version of Sage 100 Contractor?  That sounds like another program.  We don't have settings in AP that will allow for units.    But after the AP invoice is posted, you can drill into the job cost records and add the hours as if it were an employee.  If it then requires an employee, you can set up a fake employee called temp labor.

Char,

Will Sage 300 allow for the solution you talked about regarding showing hours/wages for Temp labor?

Thank you,

I dont know for 300. This is the 100 group

Good morning.  Our office is having the same issues.  We pull total labor ours in order to get an accurate production rate in the field.  The only solution is to use the 6-2 Job Cost screen.  Here is how we do it.

1. Post the payable in screen 4-2
2. Open the 6-3 Job Cost Screen and scroll to the last entry.  This should be the payable entry you just made.
3. Look in the bottom half of this screen.  There is a tab called "employee/vendor/equipment".
4. Enter the Hours associated with the temp. labor.
5. Now re-run your labor reports.  The hours will be there.

It's a work around, but there is no place in the payables 4-2 entry screen to get this data where it belongs.  If you have several invoices you have entered in the passed that need the hours entered, the best way to handle it is to open the 6-2 screen.  Search by transaction number and then add the hours that need entered.

I hope this helps.