Knowledge Base

Yes — you can now add Budget Used (Time), Budget Used (Financial), Budget Capacity (Time), Budget Capacity (Financial), and Budget Used % as columns. They all work with sorting, summary rows, charts, formula fields, and Advanced Reporting.

Budget Capacity Used reflects all the time consumed against the active budget, regardless of the date range you've set on the report. Logged Time, on the other hand, only counts time logged within that report's date range. The budget's type — billable, non-billable, or logged — also affects which time gets counted.

There's no dedicated burndown widget yet, but you can build your own using formula fields — comparing budget capacity used % against a formula that tracks the project timeline, and showing different messages depending on how far apart they are (for example, a 10% or 20% gap). A native burndown option for dashboards is something we're exploring.

Yes — build a project Custom Report and add the Budget Capacity (Time) and Estimated Time columns. You can also add a formula field to calculate the difference and flag projects that are over or under budget.

Yes. Carryover details are shown in a popover on the budget insights view, and forecasted revenue for retainer and fixed fee projects accounts for future budgets by default.

On retainer and fixed fee budgets, revenue comes from the budget fee itself, not from individual users' logged time — the project generates the revenue, not the person. For the full picture, look at project-level profitability, which includes the budget fee as revenue.

This is most often caused by overlapping active budgets. The Profitability Report counts time per budget, so if two budgets overlap, the same time logs can be counted more than once. The Time Report ignores budgets entirely and counts each time log only once. Check your project for overlapping budget periods if the numbers don't match.

The full fixed fee is currently counted as revenue in every reporting period the budget overlaps, even by a single day — so a $24K budget spanning 9 months would show $24K in revenue in each quarter it touches. To get an accurate profit figure, set your report's date range to cover the entire budget duration. We're considering changing this so revenue is only counted in the period the budget starts.

Not currently — the Profitability Report has a fixed set of columns. You can recreate most of its data using a project Custom Report, which does support custom fields, though you'll lose the expand-row and grouping features that come with the Profitability Report.

Not yet — this is something we're looking to add to both the Profitability Report and Custom Reports. The main design challenge is deciding which target to show when a project has more than one budget within the reporting period.

For time & materials budgets based on billable time, non-billable time is excluded from the cost calculation entirely — costs are calculated as billable hours × cost rate, plus expenses. This is expected behavior for this type of budget.

Once a budget's end date passes, the report reverts to "no budget" calculations — revenue drops to $0 while costs continue accumulating from logged time and cost rates, which shows up as negative profit. To avoid this, extend the budget's dates to cover the full period of work, or set your report's date range to match the budget's duration.