About Budget Changes on Owner Invoices
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Overview
When managing a prime contract on a Procore project, Prime Contract Change Orders (PCCOs) are typically used to adjust the scope of work, manage changes in costs, and for other modifications to the contract conditions. However, not all financial adjustments require the use of a PCCO.
On many prominent contract types, most notably Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) contracts, a General Contractor often controls the project's contingency or allowance funds and only needs to inform the project's Owner as to how those funds are used. For this scenario, the use of those funds can be reflected on an owner invoice using the features for 'Budget Changes on Owner Invoices.'
These features let the user select which budget changes to add to the most recent owner invoice on a prime contract. The invoice is updated to group budget change line items, so users can quickly find and update the lines with billable amounts.
Budget Changes - Owner Invoicing Demo
Prerequisites
- An administrator must enable the Invoicing tool. See Add and Remove Project Tools.
- The user must be viewing the modernized owner invoice experience. See Project Financials: Modernized Owner Invoice Experience.
- A user must create a prime contract. See Create Prime Contracts.
- A user must create an owner invoice for the prime contract. See Create Owner Invoices.
Limitations
Please be aware of the following limitations:
- Approved budget changes can only be added to the most recent owner invoice on a prime contract.
Details
Key features include the ability to:
- Configure ‘Budget Changes’ settings in the 'Budget Settings' page of the project's Budget tool
- Add a new 'Budget Changes Value' column and 'Budget Changes' group on the owner invoice Schedule of Values
- Create a new budget change and select the prime contract so it can be added to the owner invoice once the change is approved
- Respond to the notification banner on the most recent owner invoice's Schedule of Values by clicking Review & Add
- Review the approved changes and select the changes to add to the most recent owner invoice
- View and edit the added changes on the most recent owner invoice
Configure the 'Budget Changes' settings in the 'Budget Settings' page of the project's Budget tool
To add approved budget changes to the most recent owner invoice, an administrator must configure the 'Budget Changes' settings in the 'Budget Settings' page of the Project level Budget tool. See Configure Settings: Budget:
- Allow Budget Changes to be Billed on Owner Invoices. Adds the 'Budget Changes Value' column to the schedule of values on owner invoices, adds the 'Add to Owner Invoice' check box and 'Prime Contract' drop-down list to the 'Add Budget Changes' window, and enables the budget changes notification banner to appear at the top of the most recent owner invoice's Schedule of Values' after a change is approved. See Approve Budget Changes.
Note
Once approved, only Net Zero Budget Changes are eligible for adding to owner invoices.
Example
Below are the new 'Budget Change' configuration options in the 'Budget Settings' page of the Budget tool.
Add a new 'Budget Changes Value' column and 'Budget Changes' group on the owner invoice Schedule of Values
After an administrator configures the 'Budget Changes' settings, the 'Budget Change Value' column appears in the project's owner invoices when you expand the 'Value' column group. This column can be turned ON/OFF in the 'Configure Columns' area under 'Value' on the Table Settings panel of an invoice's Schedule of Values. By default, the column is turned ON, but the 'Value' column is collapsed. To see it, expand the 'Value' column. A 'Budget Changes' group is also available in the Select Groups to Display drop-down list.
Example
Below is an example of the 'Budget Changes Value' column and 'Budget Changes' group on an owner invoice.
Create a new budget change and select the prime contract so it can be added to the owner invoice once the change is approved
After an administrator configures the 'Budget Changes' settings, a new 'Add to Owner Invoice' check box and 'Prime Contract' drop-down list on the 'General Information' card in the Create New Budget Change form. Marking the 'Add to Owner Invoice' check box lets Procore know to add the budget change to an owner invoice after approval. Users must also select a prime contract so Procore can display the notification banner to alert users to review and add the approved changes to an owner invoice.
Example
Below is the 'Create New Budget Change' page in the project's Budget tool, with the 'Add to Owner Invoice' check box and 'Prime Contract' drop-down list.
Respond to the notification banner on the most recent owner invoice's Schedule of Values by clicking Review & Add
When a user edits the most recent owner invoice for a prime contract, a notification banner appears at the top of the Schedule of Values on the prime contract's owner invoices when newly approved budget changes are available to add to an existing owner invoice. Users can only click the Review & Add button on the most recent invoice. For all older invoices, the notification banner appears to alert the user of newly approved changes, but the Review & Add button is disabled by default. You can only review & add changes on the most recent invoice.
Example
Below is an example of the notification banner and the Review & Add button that displays on the selected prime contract's owner invoices. The Review & Add button is only active on the most recent invoice.
Below is an example of the Review & Add button when its disabled. Hover your mouse cursor over the button to see a tooltip.
Review the approved changes and select the changes to add to the most recent owner invoice
After clicking the Review & Add button on the most recent invoice, the 'Review & Add Approved Changes' window appears. Users can mark the checkboxes that correspond to the budget change to add. If there are multiple budget changes or change orders, all approved changes are listed. After selecting the changes to add, click Add. A green banner appears to confirm the addition(s).
Note
If you create a new owner invoice after approving budget changes, all approved changes are automatically reflected on the invoice. You only need to add approved changes to the most recent, existing owner invoice.Example
Below is the 'Review & Add Approved Changes' window. It lists all newly approved budget changes and change orders. You can use the owner invoice's bulk billing features when editing the most recent owner invoice.
View and edit the added changes on the most recent owner invoice
Once you've added the budget change(s), they appear in the 'Budget Changes' group in the Schedule of Values. Users can bill against the budget codes that were adjusted by the budget change by editing the line item directly or using the bulk billing features. To learn more, see Edit Owner Invoices.
Example
Below is an example of a budget change after it's been added to an owner invoice's Schedule of Values.
View a tooltip for details about the 'Scheduled Value' calculation for the owner invoice's Schedule of Values
After an administrator configures the 'Budget Changes' settings, hover your mouse cursor over the information icon on the 'Scheduled Value' column on the invoice's Schedule of Values. A tooltip that explains how the 'Scheduled Value' calculation is updated when your team is adding budget changes to owner invoices.
Example
Below is an example of the 'Scheduled Value' tooltip on the Schedule of Values of an owner invoice.
Common Questions
Common Questions
Do we have to opt-in to the modernized owner invoice experience?
Yes. To add approved budget changes to an owner invoice, users must opt-in to the modernized owner invoice experience. The ability to add approved changes to owner invoices is only compatible with the modernized experience. If you opt-out of the modernized experience, you will not be able to add budget changes to owner invoices. In addition, the budget change columns are not available with the legacy experience.
To learn more about the modernized experience, see Project Financials: Modernized Owner Invoice Experience.
More
To learn more about adding budget changes to owner invoices, see the links below:
- Updated Owner Invoice APIs will be available on developers.procore.com.
- Budget change data is available in Owner Invoice and Owner Invoice Line Item reports. To learn how to create reports, see Project Reports.
- You can use the group row billing features on Budget Changes with Owner Invoices. See About Group Row Billing on Owner Invoices.