How to create a project?

Projects in Allfred are the fundamental building blocks that structure and track your agency's work. In project detail you can effortlessly navigate through budgeted work and expenses, monitor the progress and status of individual tasks, track spent hours, and keep an eye on invoicing.

Go to Projects section (left bar)
+ New project
Enter the Project name
Choose the Project type:
- Fixed-price: can include monthly retainers, when clients pay fixed amount each month, or projects with define scope
- Time and materials: when the agency charges clients based on the actual time and expenses spent on the project
Input the start and expected end dates of your project. This allows Allfred to accurately include the project in reports generated within a selected time range. Allfred will only include projects with start and end dates falling within that specific time range.
Choose the project category: you can manage project categories directly while creating projects. By creating custom project categories, you can tag projects with relevant labels such as 'internal marketing', 'overhead', and more, allowing for enhanced tracking and reporting
Select the billing category: If you are creating a project that will not be billed and you do not anticipate any revenue from it, mark it as "Non-Billable". This label is appropriate for internal projects (e.g. for tracking internal work or overhead), non-profit projects, or tenders.
In the Note section, you can add internal notes for your team, whether it's a note for finance managers, account managers, or anything else that needs to be kept in mind.
Pick the Brand under which you want to create a new project. If the brand is not on the list you can easily create a new one directly in this step
Set the Contact person on the client side. (This contact will be used for the project invoicing and will also be available to other project managers during handovers.) Setting the contact person is not required in this step.
Select the Team to which the project belongs. At the team level, you can easily plan internal capacities or monitor the financial results and profitability of individual projects. User access is restricted to their own team's data.
Set the Project Manager (the main PM who will be responsible for budgets, preparing invoicing documents, assigning expenses, monitoring project reports, and adjusting time tracking and tasks created by other team members)
Set Other project managers (other PMs involved in the project with same permissions as main PM)
Click on “Create project”

After creating the project, you will see the dates, contacts, project managers, and any notes you've added in the overview. If you notice any mistakes, you can easily fix them by using the Edit Details button.

Even if your newly created project doesn't have data yet, Allfred offers complete freedom without any limits. You can start working on the project immediately, making tasks, monitoring time, and effectively organizing your team's capacities. Just utilize the pre-made "not-budgeted" item, where you can create the tasks, track hours or plan capacities.

Assigning budget

Allfred will let you know if a project doesn't have a budget assigned to it. Assigning a budget is really important because it helps keep track of hours, expenses, invoices, and costs. You can create a budget easily either in the Budgets section or by clicking on the warning button directly.

How to delete Not-budgeted budget item?

Once the budget is assigned, the "not-budgeted" item will be marked as "deleted". If there are no hours tracked in this budget item, it will disappear right after assigning a budget to project.