Budget, committed and forecast
Budget line items hold budget, committed and forecast amounts and are typed as original, variation, provisional sum or PC sum. Variance is reported as the revised contract less the estimate at completion.
Cost engineers and quantity surveyors
TaskRox for cost engineers
Track budget, commitments, variations and claims beside the delivery records that drive them, with a BOQ editor and spreadsheets inside the project.
Common problems for cost engineers
- The BOQ is a large spreadsheet that several people edit at the same time.
- Budget against actual means pulling figures from several systems by hand.
- Cost reports take a full day to compile.
- Variation and claim evidence is hard to find when it is needed.
How TaskRox supports this work
Each item below describes a shipped feature and links to its documentation.
BOQ editor with Excel import
The BOQ uses a spreadsheet-style grid editor and accepts an Excel import, so an existing bill can be brought across.
Commitments, variations, claims and retention
Subcontract, purchase-order and letter-of-intent commitments are allocated to cost codes. Head-contract variations and claims, subcontract claims and retention are managed with linked supporting documents.
Spreadsheets inside the project
The Spreadsheet module provides in-app workbooks with formulas, named ranges and range protection, imports and exports .xlsx and CSV, and syncs with the BOQ in both directions.
Expense claims
Employee and field expense claims carry receipts, project, cost-code and budget links and an approval workflow, and export to CSV or XLSX.
Modules most used in this role
Listed in order of relevance. Every paid plan includes every module; each link opens the public manual page.
Budget, BOQ, commitments, variations, claims and retention.
Workbooks with formulas, .xlsx and CSV, and BOQ sync.
Expense claims with approvals and CSV or XLSX export.
Packages for market sounding, tender and negotiation before award.
Variation and claim evidence under revision control.
Labour and plant entries from daily shift reports.
Register summaries and CSV export.
Pricing
Every paid plan includes the Budget, BOQ, Spreadsheet and Expense modules with the rest of the platform.
- Pro
- $50 AUD / user / month + GST
- Enterprise
- $100 AUD / user / month + GST
- Viewer seats
- Free
- Trial
- 14 days, no credit card
Owner, Admin and Member seats are billable. Both paid plans include all 32 project modules. Annual prepay saves 20%. Full pricing and seat calculator
Switching from another tool?
If cost tracking lives in spreadsheets or a larger construction platform today, these comparisons set out the differences.
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