Project budgets and margin goals, and more

Project budgets

A project can now carry a fixed budget for its whole life and the margin it was quoted to make, and Clocktopus reports how far through both the work has gone. A 30% margin goal on a $12,000 budget means delivery has to cost less than $8,400, and the form shows that cost ceiling as you type.

The Budgets report (Reports → Budgets) has a card per project: how much of the budget is used, the margin against its goal, and a plain-English reading of where the project stands. The thinnest margin comes first.
On the dashboard and the projects list. A budget widget and a percentage chip surface trouble without opening a report.
Health follows the margin, not the spend. A project is on track at or above its goal, below goal while it's still profitable, and has no margin once cost has eaten the budget.
Amounts are for owners and admins. Members see the percentage, the margin and the status, never the amounts.
A budget covers the project's whole life, so its consumption ignores a report's date range. Every hour ever logged counts, each at the rate in effect on the day it was worked.

Read why we think a project should get one budget, and end when it runs out, in Give every project a budget. Rates and project budgets covers job roles, dated rates, project overrides, budgets and margin goals, including why over budget and out of profit are different lines.

Fixes & improvements

Work that runs past midnight is tracked against the right day.
Clocking in or out, editing a clock signal, or deleting a session refreshes the reports built from those hours instead of showing a stale figure.
A project with hours that couldn't be priced no longer reads "On track". Its figures are a floor, and the status says so.
The Budgets report says when projects are left out of its Consumed total.
The cost-ceiling hint uses your organisation's currency rather than always dollars.
Budget amounts are hidden from members in the projects list too, not just on the report.
A budget too large to store fails validation instead of failing the save.
Clocking in no longer waits on budget totals.
Reports stays reachable from the sidebar when it's collapsed to icons.
Budget progress bars are named after their project for screen readers.