When Excel Breaks, Jolted Replaces It

Yes. Jolted can import your historical job data, customer lists, and cost information from Excel. Most shops get their history loaded in the first week. This preserves your ability to reference past jobs for quoting and customer profitability analysis.

Export any data from Jolted to Excel with one click. Use spreadsheets for one-off analysis while Jolted handles ongoing data capture. You're not locked out of Excel—you just don't depend on it for daily operations anymore.

Workers clock into jobs using tablets, phones, or barcode scanners on the shop floor. It takes seconds, requires no spreadsheet skills, and data flows directly into job costs. No more end-of-week timesheet transcription.

Actually easier. Workers tap or scan to log time—no cells or formulas. Managers see dashboards instead of building pivot tables. Most teams are fully productive within a few days. The learning curve is much shorter than mastering Excel for manufacturing tracking.

Export everything anytime. Your data is yours—we provide full export in standard formats (CSV, Excel). You're never held hostage. But most shops find that once they have real-time job costing, going back to spreadsheets feels impossible.

You could spend 100+ hours building an elaborate Excel system. Then someone leaves and takes the knowledge with them. Or a formula breaks and no one knows how to fix it. Jolted gives you the same functionality without the maintenance burden, plus shop floor access that spreadsheets simply can't provide.

Most shops don't calculate this. Add up: hours spent on data entry, time building reports, cost of stale data (jobs that went over budget without warning), and quoting errors from unreliable historical data. It's typically $50K-100K+ per year for a mid-sized shop—far more than Jolted costs.