The Progress tab shows you a summary of the project's estimated progress, contract values (cost and sell), expenditure, invoiced claims, and variations. It's designed to help you track costs against a contract value.

There are three different views that allow you to drill down and track costs against each stage, tracking center (if configured) or line item types (Labour, Material and Expenses). You can also choose to manage and invoice progress claims based on task actuals, or a percentage of the contract value.

Progress views

There are three types of progress views which calculate values based on:

Project Overall - approved contract (quote) and variation total (ex. GST). Contract Only - approved contract (quote) total (ex. GST). Variations Only - approved variations total (ex. GST). Default view You can set a default view for each project. See Edit a Project - Progress Settings.

Include No Stage

By default, AroFlo doesn't include values in items not linked to a specific stage. If you want to include these, select Include No Stage from the dropdown. Default view You can set a default view for each project. See Edit a Project - Progress Settings.   See Progress breakdown for information for non-staged items.

Summary columns

Progress

Column Label	Calculation value	Description
Total Est. Complete (% of Contract only)	(Total Stage Costs/ Total Stage Projected Costs to Complete) * 100 Total Stage Projected Costs to Complete = A sum of all Stage Projected Costs to Complete Stage Projected Costs to Complete = Stage Cost + Projected Cost Remaining Projected Cost Remaining = (Stage Cost/Stage Est. Completion) – Stage Cost	Use the open fields within this column to manually enter an estimate of the physical work completed per stage. How is Total Est. Complete calculated? The Total Est. Complete percentage for the project is a weighted average of the estimated completion for each stage. To record estimated progress for a stage, there needs to be at least one Task linked to that stage. You also need to view and manage the project using % of Contract Value. Tasks are used to record project costs. Without a Task for the stage, no progress can be made.

 

 

Quote

Column Label	Calculation value	Description
Est Cost Ex		The cost (ex. GST) to your business at the time of the approved quote, based on figures in your approved quote.
Est Markup Ex		The combination of markups at the time of the approved quote, based on figures in your approved quote. This is an aggregation of quote line item markups. There may be differences between this value and the quote profit, such as using quote line items with a sell value and a zero cost value.
Est Value Ex	Est Value Ex = Est Cost Ex + Est Markup Ex	The quoted value that was approved by your client.

 

 

Job

Column Label	Calculation value	Description
Job Cost		The actual job costs recorded to date. These costs are based on labor, materials and expenses recorded in Tasks linked to this Project.

 

 

Claims

Column Label	Calculation value	Description
Claimed Ex		The amount (ex. GST) you have claimed to date based on previous invoices.
Claims Remaining Ex	Claims Remaining Ex = Est Value Ex - Claimed Ex	How much you can still claim (ex. GST). This is based on the approved contract value minus any amounts you have already claimed to date.
Value Claimable Ex		The suggested amount to claim on your next Invoice. This is calculated based on job costs to date or the estimated completion minus previous claims. The suggestion can be changed when creating an invoice.
Projected Cost Remaining (% of Contract only)	Projected Cost Remaining = (Job Cost ÷ Est Complete) - Job Cost	An estimate of the remaining job costs you may incur, based on the current job costs and the progress made. Example You have job costs of $750, and you estimate the project is 75% complete. So the projected cost to complete the work is $250.
Estimated Cost Remaining (Task Actual only)	Estimated Cost Remaining = Est Cost Ex - Job Cost	An estimate of what you can still afford to spend before it impacts on your estimated profits. This is your contract (quote) cost minus current job costs. Example You have job costs of $750. Your estimated contract cost was $800. With markups, your client signed off on a contract value of $1200. The estimated costs you have remaining is $50. After that, your margins will be reduced.

 

 

Progress breakdown

You can drill down further by selecting to view project values for each by stage, tracking center or line item types. Default view You can set a default view for each project. See Edit a Project - Progress Settings.

Stage

View the progress breakdown grouped into stages.

A non-staged section will also display. This is for quotes and variations linked to the project, rather than a specific stage within it.

You can always add, remove or close stages using the Edit Project button in the header.

 

Stage breakdown

When viewing a project based on stages, for each stage, you can also use View By... to further break it down into Tracking Centres or Line Item Types.

 

 

 

Progress calculation methods

Depending on how you manage projects, the Progress tab features two additional views that are used for calculating progress claims. Default view You can set a default view for each project. See Edit a Project - Progress Settings.

% of Contract

This view lets you enter a percentage for calculating a progress claim invoice. It provides more flexibility and is designed for invoicing claims based on a percentage of the approved contract.

Using this view, the Est. Complete % becomes an editable field. You can use this to update the percentage of progress you wish to claim for.

A claim percentage can be set for each stage, each Tracking Center, or the project as a whole.

Example

In the example above, it is estimated the stage is 10% complete. The Claim Amount has been adjusted to be 10%. With a Contract Value of $4,630.00, this results in a proposed claim amount of $463.00.

 

 

 

Task Actuals

This view uses the job costs incurred as a basis to calculate a suggested claim amount for the next invoice. It is designed to enable you to charge for job costs incurred since the last Invoice (regardless of progress on the project).

 

 

 

Cost over-runs

Any cost over-runs on your project will be highlighted with a different text colour on the Progress tab. You will see this if:

• actual job costs exceed the quoted amount for the stage or overall project
• the number of hours booked for a stage exceed those quoted.

The highlight on over-runs will be visible whether you are viewing your Progress tab by Stage, Tracking Center (if used), or Item Type.

Project Over/Under Billings report

If using the % of Contract option, above, you can also use the Project Over/Under Billings standard report. 

This report uses the Project amount (Project Estimate Total field) and the completion percentage to work out how much of the project has been earned and then takes this away from how much has already been invoiced to give you a Project Value Claimable (Project work in progress value). If you have claimed for over what your project is worth, you will have a negative Project Value Claimable amount.

 

 

Create a claim

Once you have chosen to manage the project by Task Actuals or by % of Contract, you can create a progress claim directly from this screen. To learn more, see Progress Claims.