Method Budget 0.7.0

Method Budget 0.7.0

Incentive programs are complete, with what-ifs and a printed report by location. You can
keep your own rate tables and lay out your own bids, and the start window organizes
budgets into projects.

Incentive programs, all the way

• Minimum spends, broker's fees and shared caps. A program can require a minimum
  qualified spend, take a flat broker's fee off after its cap and discount, and share a cap
  with other programs. Set them in Budget Setup's Credits tab.
• What if these lines were shot somewhere else. The Credits tab's What if… panel moves
  a category's, an account's or chosen lines to another location on a copy and shows every
  program's estimate before and after, the difference, and the net total. Apply it as one
  undo step, or leave it.
• An incentives report by location. A new report section lists each location's spend,
  the programs counting it and every program's terms, with totals that match the topsheet's
  credits. It prints, makes a PDF, and appears as an Incentives table in spreadsheet
  (.xlsx) and CSV exports of a budget with credits.
• Estimates show their figures. A program you haven't applied shows its row figures,
  marked as an estimate.

Rate tables you keep

• Your own tables of rates. Budget Setup's Rate Tables tab keeps classifications with a
  rate per unit, dates in effect and notes. Import one from your own spreadsheet by
  mapping its columns.
• Fill a line's rate from a table. Fill Rate from Table… on a line writes the rate once
  and remembers where it came from; Explain says so. When the table changes, Update rate
  is offered, and no figure changes on its own.
• No rates come with the app. Every table is one you make or import.

Bids laid out your way

• A bid layout in a report preset. Name your own header fields, make sections that take
  accounts by category, by account or by a range of account numbers, and add running
  subtotals and markups (a percent of chosen sections or a flat amount). The Bid section
  prints it in the preview and the PDF.
• Every account counts once. An account no section takes is printed under Unassigned,
  so the bid always adds up to the budget's net total plus its markups.
• One plain example layout comes with the app to start from.

The start window, finished

• Projects. Folders down the left of the start window hold a project's budgets,
  sub-budgets, copies, setup packs and schedule files. Add Folder… adds one, and New
  Budget can make a project folder for the new budget.
• Thumbnails. Each budget shows a small bar for each category's total.
• Duplicate, and a sub-budget from a row. Duplicate saves a copy beside the file. New
  Sub-Budget from This Category or Account makes a smaller budget from a topsheet row,
  with the same totals.
• Link a schedule when you start. New Budget's Link a Schedule… fills the shoot days
  and the dates from a schedule's days file.
• Sorting, and who was in. Sort by last opened, name, last changed or net total.
  Shared budgets show who was in them lately.

Fixed

• Very long formulas. A formula as long as the app allows, thousands of terms, is
  worked out without running short of memory on any computer.
• Safer connections for updates. The libraries that check secure connections are
  updated for recently published advisories.

Good to know

• The app is getting ready for other languages. Most of its words now come from one
  table. English is still the only language.
• Windows and Linux builds are included but not yet tested by hand.