Configure Settings: Budget
Objective
To configure advanced settings for the project's Budget tool.
Background
Users with the appropriate permissions can configure a variety of advanced settings for the project's Budget tool.
Things to Consider
- Required User Permissions:
- 'Admin' level permissions on the project's Budget tool.
- Additional Information:
- There are additional configuration steps for the budget in the Company Admin tool. See Set Up a New Budget View.
Prerequisites
- Add the Budget tool to the project. See Add and Remove Project Tools
Steps
Set the Budget Settings
- Navigate to the project's Budget tool.
- Click Configure Settings
. - Click Budget Settings.
- (Optional) Enable the following options as wanted:
- Allow Budget Modifications Which Modify Grand Total. Place a checkmark in this box to perform addition/subtraction to increase/decrease totals when creating budget modifications. See Create a Budget Modification.
- Autocalculate Forecast to Complete by Default. Place a checkmark in this box to automatically calculate the forecast to complete. Important! This setting only applies to new items. It does NOT retroactively calculate forecast to complete on existing budget items. See Use the 'Forecast to Complete' Feature.
- Enable Advanced Forecasting. Place a checkmark in this box to enable the cash flow forecasting feature. This action enables the Forecasting tab in the project's Budget tool and allows users to assign forecasting views created in the Company level Admin tool. See About the Procore Standard Forecasting View and Set Up a New Forecasting View.
- Click Update.
Set User Permissions for the Budget Tool
Instead of the steps below, Procore recommends that you set user access permissions to your project tools using a permission template. See Manage Permission Templates.
- Navigate to the project's Budget tool.
- Click Configure Settings .
- Click Permissions Table.
- Under User Permissions for Budget, set the user's access permission level by clicking the icon in the column so a GREEN checkmark appears.
The color-coded icons in the user permissions area denotes the user's access permission level to the tool. To learn more, see What are the default permission levels in Procore?
Icon Color Definition 
GREEN The user has been granted this access permission level to the tool. 
RED The user has NOT been granted this access permission to the tool. 
GREY The user is either (1) a Procore Administrator or, (2) has been granted access permission to the Procore tools on this project using a permission template (see What is a permission template?). To change the user's access permission level, follow the steps in Manage Permission Templates.