easyJOB

easyJOB is an agency-focused ERP from Because Software AG, headquartered in Vienna with further offices in Germany and Switzerland. The product positions itself explicitly as an ERP for advertising, marketing and project-driven businesses and combines CRM, project and job management, controlling, invoicing, time recording and resource planning in one integrated platform. With more than 850 installations and prominent customers such as VOK DAMS, dentsu Aegis and Porsche Holding, easyJOB is one of the leading agency systems in the DACH region. Unlike generic ERP, the data model maps agency-specific concepts — job, budget overview, third-party cost management, customer cost estimate, collective invoice — directly, rather than retrofitting them through workarounds in a standard product.

Functional scope

In job and project management, easyJOB covers the full agency workflow from enquiry through briefing, calculation, customer cost estimate, production, third-party costs and timesheets to final invoicing. Jobs are organised into budgets and customers; templates allow standard print, web, video or event jobs to be set up quickly. The controlling module provides plan-versus-actual comparisons, budget overviews, margin analysis as well as forecast and liquidity views. Time and effort recording is delivered through desktop, web and mobile interfaces with hours tied directly to jobs, phases and activities. Graphical planning boards support resource and capacity planning across employees, freelancers and external partners. A CRM and groupware component covers contacts, activities, appointments and email archiving. On the commercial side, easyJOB provides invoicing including collective, partial and recurring invoices, third-party-cost management and accounting preparation with interfaces to DATEV and BMD. An HR module and integrations with Jira, awork, Personio and a REST-API round out the tool landscape.

Target audience and industries

easyJOB addresses agencies from roughly 15 staff up to agency groups with several hundred users. Typical customers are advertising agencies, digital agencies, event agencies, PR and communications consultancies, media planners and project-driven boutiques. Internal marketing departments of large groups also use easyJOB to model agency-style processes and recharge internal services. Independent reviews (Agentursoftware-Guide, trusted.de) highlight that easyJOB suits agencies with high job volume, many third-party costs and clearly structured budgets. For boutique agencies below ten staff the solution is often over-scoped.

Technology and deployment

easyJOB is operated as a cloud solution or as an on-premise installation. The architecture is multi-tenant so that agency groups with several legally separate entities can share a single platform without violating data-protection requirements. Hosting is in European data centres and the solution is GDPR-compliant. Technically easyJOB sits on a relational database with web, desktop and mobile clients. The open REST-API supports customer-specific extensions and connections to toolchains like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Asana, monday or specialised media-planning tools. Updates ship on a regular cadence; in cloud operation rollouts are largely automated.

Strengths and limitations

The core strengths of easyJOB are the deep agency-specific data model, the mature time and resource planning, and the long track record with prominent DACH agency references. The combination of jobs, budgets, third-party costs and timesheets in a single system avoids the typical fragmentation of separate project, time and invoicing tools. Limitations are the relatively narrow focus on advertising and marketing agencies — production-driven businesses outside the creative-services context need a different ERP — and a UI that is functional rather than ultra-modern. For small boutique agencies the platform is over-scoped; for very large international agency holdings the multi-entity consolidation depth may be insufficient and would typically be paired with a separate finance backbone.

Pricing and licensing

Because Software does not publish list prices for easyJOB. Licensing is project-specific and depends on user count, deployment model (cloud or on-premise) and selected modules. Subscription pricing is standard in the cloud variant; classical perpetual licensing with maintenance is also available on-premise. Implementation, data migration and training are charged separately. A serious TCO view for a 50-user agency typically lands in the mid-five-figure to low-six-figure euro range per year, depending on module scope and customisation.

Related Topics

• ERP for services
• Project ERP
• ERP implementation

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