budget4cast

Helps owner's reps, developers and facility managers plan, track and forecast construction project budgets with real-time budget-to-actual data and shareable reports.

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Overview

Plan budget codes and a work breakdown structure, track contracts, change orders and invoices against budget lines, forecast uncommitted costs automatically, and share dynamic reports and dashboards with stakeholders. Cash flow management is included from the Standard plan and funding source tracking from the Premium plan. The app focuses on construction budget management rather than acting as an all-in-one suite.
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Product

Demo Url
budget4cast.com/contact
Documentation
budget4cast.com/help
License Model
Proprietary
Solution Kind
Application

Who it is for

Industries
  • Education
Organization Types
  • Business
  • Nonprofit
  • Education
Roles
  • Project manager
  • Program manager
Use Cases
  • Cost forecasting
  • Project billing and financial tracking
  • Report generation
User Count Range
Unit
users
Basis
Unlimited users included in every subscription

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  • Built for construction project budget management rather than as an all-in-one project suite.

Features

Forecasting

Forecast committed, uncommitted, potential and changed costs by budget line

Auto Forecast creates an uncommitted placeholder and updates it as other costs change

More details & conditions: Forecasting

Forecasted cashflows, projected over/under, estimated cost at completion and contingency remaining

Categories: Budgeting

Financial Analysis

Compare budget, forecast and actual amounts per budget line

Earned value with projected over/under and estimated cost at completion

More details & conditions: Financial Analysis

Contingency use log and reallocation log

Customizable reports and KPI dashboard

Categories: Budgeting

Cash Management

Actual cost cashflow tracking (all plans)

Spend schedule per sub-budget line item with Linear and S-Curve profiles (Standard and above)

More details & conditions: Cash Management

Cash flow reports of forecast vs actuals per budget group and overall (Standard and above)

Categories: Budgeting

Project Planning

Customize budget codes and work breakdown structure

Define cash flow spend schedules per budget code (Standard and above)

Categories: Project Portfolio Management

Multiple Projects

Combine multiple projects into programs with drill-down to individual project reports

Categories: Project Portfolio Management

Project Tracking

Compare actual costs with forecast and budget amounts

Track earned value with projected over/under and estimated cost at completion

Categories: Project Portfolio Management

Project Management

Budget-centered project setup with customizable budget codes and work breakdown structure

Invite stakeholders as edit or view-only users

More details & conditions: Project Management

Link data and attach documents

Categories: Construction Management

Multiple Projects

Combine individual projects into programs

Aggregated program-level summary reporting with drill-down to individual projects

Categories: Construction Management

Budget Tracking

Budget codes with committed and uncommitted costs

Actual costs tied to commitments, changes or budget lines

More details & conditions: Budget Tracking

Reallocations with audit trail of when, why and who

Contingency use log and earned value

Categories: Construction Management

Change Order Management

Track requested and approved change orders

Include potential changes in forecast costs

More details & conditions: Change Order Management

Link changes with commitments and actual costs

Categories: Construction Management

Workflow details

Measurement
  • Name
    Actual vs forecast vs budget
    Description
    Actual costs are compared with forecast and budget amounts; earned value shows projected over/under and estimated cost at completion.

Categories: Project Portfolio Management

Granularity
  • Name
    Project and program roll-up
    Description
    Budget lines roll up through budget groups to a project, and projects combine into programs with aggregated summary reporting and drill-down to individual projects.

Categories: Project Portfolio Management

Change Orders
Yes

Categories: Construction Management

Cost Tracking
  • Budget
  • Actual costs
  • Earned value

Categories: Construction Management

Costs
  • Costs
  • Invoices

Categories: Construction Management

Pricing

Common pricing conditions

Applies to: Basic · Premium · Standard

Guest charging rules
  • Invited users do not pay: each project needs one administrator to initialize and pay, and all other users, including additional administrators, can edit or view at no cost.

Basic

Billed monthly

Trial Available
Yes
Trial Card Required
No
Trial Days
30
Trial is free
Yes

Plan details & limits

Business Model
  • Subscription
Limits
  • Users and data

    Unlimited

Premium

Billed monthly

Plan details & limits

Business Model
  • Subscription
Limits
  • Users and data

    Unlimited

Standard

Billed monthly

Plan details & limits

Business Model
  • Subscription
Limits
  • Users and data

    Unlimited

Technical details

Deployment

Client Channels
  • Browser
Delivery Models
  • Cloud (SaaS)

Implementation

Delivery Mode
  • Self service
  • Vendor

Data

Export Formats
  • CSV
  • Excel workbook

Customization

Supported Scopes
  • Reports
  • Dashboards

Security

Access Models
  • Role based
Audit Events
  • Record changes

Support

Channels
  • Knowledge base
Training Formats
  • Documentation
  • Video

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