1. [Home](https://www.g2.com/) 2. ... 3. [Accounting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/accounting) 4. [WiseCost Discussions](https://www.g2.com/products/wisecost/discuss) [ ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/large_detail/large_detail_058455aac1f6de3909a93e63d396aaa5/wisecost.png "Product Avatar Image") ](/products/wisecost/reviews) [ WiseCost ](/products/wisecost/reviews) (4)4.9/5 WiseCost is DCAA compliance software for small government contractors who run their books in QuickBooks® Online. It gives you the timekeeping, labor distribution, and job costing a DCAA auditor expects: daily time entry, timesheet approval, an immutable audit trail, and cost-pool allocation, and works with QuickBooks Online, so you get audit-ready without an enterprise ERP, a data migration, or spreadsheets. The problem WiseCost solves QuickBooks Online handles the money well, but it was never built for government contracting: no DCAA-compliant timekeeping, no approval workflow, no audit trail for time entries, and no way to distribute labor across cost pools and post the result as a traceable journal entry. The usual workarounds: spreadsheets, or a $30K–$100K ERP like Deltek or Unanet, either don't survive an audit or don't fit a 2–60 person team. WiseCost closes that gap. How it works - Time tracking: Employees log hours daily by project, task, and cost category from any device, by timer or manual entry. - Approval workflow: Employees submit timesheets; managers approve or return them. Every action is timestamped and attributed. - Labor distribution\_ A guided wizard turns approved hours into dollars across direct and indirect cost pools (Fringe, Overhead, G&A), with penny-precise rounding that ties each employee's distribution exactly to payroll. -Journal-entry posting: The distribution posts as a journal entry in QuickBooks Online, fully traceable. Reopen a period and WiseCost creates an automatic reversal, the original is never deleted. - Immutable audit trail: Every entry, edit, approval, rejection, and posting is preserved with its original author and timestamp, exactly what auditors request in a floor check or incurred cost audit. Built for the SF-1408 review WiseCost maps directly to the timekeeping and labor-distribution criteria of the SF-1408 pre-award accounting system review: daily timekeeping by employee and project, employee certification, manager approval, an immutable audit trail, labor distribution to direct and indirect cost pools, and journal-entry posting to QuickBooks with full traceability. Whether you already hold T&M or cost-type contracts or you're getting audit-ready before your first award, Pre-DCAA mode lets you demonstrate cost-accounting maturity from day one. For CPA firms and advisors CPAs advising GovCon clients get a multi-tenant, white-labeled dashboard to onboard and manage every client from one place. An affordable alternative to Deltek and Unanet No migration, installs in hours, and starts at $149/month (5 users included, plus $15 per additional user). You keep QuickBooks. You keep your data. You get compliant. Who it's for Small and mid-size U.S. government contractors (2–60 employees) on QuickBooks Online with T&M, cost-plus, or mixed contracts, or firms bidding on federal prime or subcontracts that need compliant timekeeping before their first award. Key capabilities DCAA-compliant timekeeping · Daily time entry by project and task · Manager approval workflow · Labor distribution to direct and indirect cost pools · Penny-precise rounding tied to payroll · Automatic journal-entry posting to QuickBooks Online · Immutable audit trail · Job costing by contract · Timekeeping and labor records ready for DCAA floor checks and incurred cost audits · Multi-tenant CPA dashboard · SF-1408 support · Pre-DCAA readiness mode · QuickBooks Online integration (OAuth) · Mobile / PWA access · Affordable pricing from $149/month. Show More When users leave WiseCost reviews, G2 also collects common questions about the day-to-day use of WiseCost. 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