You can create a budget in multiple ways:

You have the option to either create a budget from scratch or choose from Template, simplifying the process. The list of pre-made templates includes all the budget proposals that you created under the "Templates" brand.

When creating a new budget proposal, you need to insert Brand and Project name. The project name will be temporary, and you can edit it later if needed when creating a project from this proposal (+project button). If you start from project details, this info will be prefilled.

If you want to create new Template budget, simply use brand "Templates". If it doesn't exist yet, you need to go to Clients and Brands section to create a new one.

How to create new brand?

If you haven't created any rate cards yet, you can easily use the blue button "Edit Positions" to insert required positions and hourly rates. These positions inserted in the budget will be used for assigning tasks and tracking time.

In advance, you can define rate cards for each brand in Allfred, whether contracted rates or rate cards tailored for different project types. You can easily adjust these hourly rates either at the brand level or within the Quotes section under the Hourly rates and commissions tab. Learn more here.

The budget is divided into three main parts that creative agencies commonly encounter:

Under each part (budget item), you can list specific activities needed to deliver the service, whether it's your agency work or external costs. Organizing your budget this way gives you a clear overview of all expenses or planned internal work.

Allfred uses know-how sharing of your entire agency, offering suggestions from previous projects. You can edit pre-filled sections as needed.

You can provide a detailed description for each item to ensure your client understands what they're getting.

We price items that are part of our work in two ways:

If you want to offer your client a discount, use the "Enable discount" button and enter an absolute or relative discount.

For external costs, such as using an external graphic designer or video production, we use the external production section.

The buy price represents the agency's cost, while the price represents the amount charged to the client. The client only sees the Price item, so there's no need to worry about them seeing your actual agency costs.

Even with external costs, you can apply discounts, commissions, or set quantities by using the "Enable quantity" button. Discounts can be applied in the same way as for internal hours. You can also include fees for purchasing external items in the budget. If you have a contracted fee set at the brand level, Allfred will automatically fill it in the budget. However, you can still edit it.

The Media budget section works in a similar way, where you can list the costs of boosting or purchasing media, such as a PR article, OOH etc.

You can also apply discounts to the entire budget sections, duplicate whole sections or repeat them.

Creating detailed, tailored budgets is essential for managing long-term or recurring projects. Allfred allows you to select the type and frequency of repetition for individual budget items, providing greater flexibility and more precise control over your project’s financial scope.

This feature is particularly beneficial for those who are budgeting all-year activities into one project.

When you need to create 12 similar budget items, each differing by the name of the month (e.g., “Social media January,” “Social media February,” etc.), with our new feature, simply select the “Months” type of repetition in the budget, choose the starting month (you can start with July in the middle of the year), and then determine the number of repetitions.

Allfred will then organize all the budget items in the Project Overview logically and chronologically. You can also choose the ‘Numbers’ type of repetitions.

Need to provide a budget in a foreign currency for a client? After completing the budget, simply select the desired exchange rate in the upper right corner. You have two options:

Then check the box "Recalculate current prices to new currency." Press Apply and you're done.

In the SUM TOTAL row, you can see a summary of all items and each part of the budget. Here, you can also apply an absolute or relative discount, agency fees or change VAT.

The Agency Summary row in Allfred's budgeting tool provides a quick overview of your project's expected gross income. This feature helps you create budgets more effectively and plan your estimated profits more accurately.

How It Works

The Agency Summary row is automatically populated based on the information you input into the budget. It shows the expected gross income for the project, calculated as follows:

Once your budget is ready, you can save it as a draft or final version. The final version can be downloaded and shared, or assigned to a project. You can mark budget as approved internally or by the client.

Your created budget proposals are saved in the Quotes section -> Budgets, where you have an overview of all budgets, templates, and project-synced budgets and Proposals.

Once the client has approved your proposal and you are ready to begin the new campaign, simply create a new project under the associated brand. Allfred will automatically assignes the approved cost estimation with the project.

To create a budget for an existing project, the process is the same except that you start from the Project dashboard, select the desired project, and then go to the Budgets subsection. After saving the budget, it will automatically appear in the listing, and you only need to assign it to the project by clicking on the "Assign to project" box.