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Budget

The project budget: categories (e.g. Above the Line, Cast, PROPS, Wardrobe, Locations), line items with estimated/actual/paid amounts, optional fringe, and sync with breakdown (items, characters, locations). You can pull from breakdown so budget lines are created from your tagged elements and cast, then edit amounts and export. Production → Budget.
  1. Open Production → Budget. The first time you open it (or when the budget is empty), the app may run Pull from breakdown automatically to create lines from items, characters, and locations.
  2. Use Pull from breakdown again after adding breakdown content in another tab if you want new elements to appear as lines without refreshing the page.
  3. Add or edit categories via Manage categories (e.g. add all categories from the full template). Add manual lines with Add line per category.
  4. Edit line items: description, unit, quantity, rate, estimated, fringe, actual, paid. For cast lines linked to characters, you can use Use DOOD days when a schedule exists so work days come from the schedule.
  5. Use Fringe types in the sidebar to define fringe (e.g. payroll taxes); assign them to lines so fringe is computed. Use Export for CSV, PDF, Topsheet, or Fringe report.
Item boards can have a Cost card that syncs with the budget: edit on the board or on the budget line and both update. Unlink a line from its source if you want to keep the line but stop syncing. Exclude categories or lines from totals and exports with the include/exclude toggles.