Translation jobs are the heart of the SDL Trados Business Manager. After all, it was designed to provide project management and invoicing features, which are closely connected.

If translation project is just a 'shell' for jobs, each actual work should be recorded in jobs, which may belong or may not belong to a project. In terms of accounting, it's a transaction which describes actions, which should be done by our company (or by us), and amounts, which should be paid by a customer to our company (to us) after successful completion of this work.

Main characteristics of a translation job is that it can be created for a single language pair.

When a job is created, it is necessary to 'describe' it as fully as possible. In SDL Trados Business Manager, this description includes the following data: job status, date, deadline, client, client contact, currency, work field (specialization), purchase order information, project name and description, responsible person, instructions, main project (which aggregates a number of jobs), language direction and the list of tasks and receivables. List of tasks, in its turn, describes ALL actions you perform during this job. For example, translation, proofreading, alignment and other tasks. Every task is described by numbers, expressed in different units, which totally give final job amount. So, each task has the following attributes in SDL Trados Business Manager: work type (for example, 'Translation'), fuzzy type (for example, 'No match' or 'Repetitions'), quantity, rate (price) and amount. Optionally, it's possible to provide discounts for future invoicing. When needed, Receivables feature allows to split description of work and amounts.

Additionally, you can create the following entities over any job: translation assignments (to record job outsourcing), outgoing and incoming invoices and additional expenses.

See nested articles to read detailed information about viewing list of jobs, creating and editing jobs, and other features available for this entity. Also, check Project finishing article, which describes a process how to finish a project and deliver it to a client. Same concepts apply to jobs as well.