openproject/help/user-guide/budgets.md

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Budgets

You can create and manage a project budget in OpenProject to keep track of your available and spent costs in a project.

You can add planned unit costs as well as labor costs for the project.

Then, you will assign work packages to a budgets. If you logg time or costs to this work package the costs will booked to this budget and show the percentage spent for a project budget.

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Create a project budget	How to set up a project budget in OpenProject?

Create a project budget

In order to create a budget in your project, the Budgets module needs to be activated in the project settings.

To create your first budget in OpenProject, click the green + Budget button on the top right of the page.