Budgets

The 'Unit' Field

The unit field can be set as hour, day, or piece. Learn how each of those affect the budgets in Productive.

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What Is a budget?

A budget is where your financials are stored. It's made of services, estimates, expenses, time entries and actual profit vs. estimated.

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Creating a New Budget

Create a new budget for each of your projects. You can have multiple budgets on every project. Add services to the budget once it's created.

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Managing a Budget

You can edit, duplicate, deliver or delete a budget at any time. Change the name or responsible person for a budget here too.

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Move a Budget

Learn how to move a budget to a different project

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Budget Editor (revamped)

Create a budget and keep track of the revenue and profitability for each of your projects from our revamped edition of the budget editor.

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Recurring Budgets

Use recurring budgets to manage retainer projects or maintenance projects. Recurring budgets are created automatically. Used for retainers.

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Budget Charts

Difference between the three charts on budgets. Revenue vs profitability and invoicing.

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Forecasting & Profitability Charts on Budgets

Learn how to read profitability and forecasting charts in Productive

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Budget Date

What is a budget date and what is it used for?

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Time Tracking and Expense Tracking Options

Enable or disable the time tracking and expense tracking option for services in your budget.

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Expense Entry and Approval

How to add expenses, ask for reimbursement and check the status

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Time Warnings on Budgets

Create time warnings when the tracked hours on a budget reach a certain threshold.

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Editing Expenses and Adding Markups

Expense markups help you with billable and non-billable expenses. Add a markup to an expense and it will be factored in automatically.

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Rate Cards

Set up your default service rate card. You can also set up a different rate card for each client if you work on different rates.

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Create a Custom Rate Card

Learn how to create a rate card for a client

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Fixed Discounts

Fixed discounts and how to handle them. How to apply amount discount and make sure reports are accurate.

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Time Entries in a Budget

Create reports, edit and move time entries in a Budget.

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Time Approval in Budgets

Time approvals are used to monitor billable time entries before they are sent to the client. Approve time to junior team members easily.

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Time Estimates on Budgets

Learn how to use time estimates on Budgets

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Line Item Discounts

Add a discount to each line item in your sales deals, budgets and invoices.

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Open Hours

Open hours are where your team tracks time when there's no services on a budget yet. Use open hours to track and later reassign time entries

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