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User Forum > Future Plans - Task and Job costs?

I have been looking at the combination of basecamp and harvest and then a software called clients and profits. The 2 things I see that liquidplanner is missing... unless I didn't see it is:

1- many of the features that harvest has with setting costs based on a task type or based on who is doing the work

2- clients and profits has a very generalized interface and the best ideation of a software I have seen, and it includes the estimate and proposal process in its work flow. Will liquid do this?

October 27, 2009 | Registered Commenterdylan wood

Hi Dylan,

We are heading in that direction. You can actually load both bill rates and pay rates today based on clients, projects, activities and people. This is a feature called rate sheets which we quietly released as a step forward on our finance related initiatives.

More here: Rate Sheets

Looking farther out we will be able to do forward projections of cost (ranged of course because we save the activity with the task). You'll see reports that tell you things like you spent $5K with $5.5K - $8.5K to go. We'll also have budget alerts (like promise dates) that warn you if your budget is at risk.

October 28, 2009 | Registered CommenterCharles Seybold

Will you also have line item functionality?
Like we track paper and vendor costs some thing like...

Quantity | Description | Total Cost
28 8 1/2 x 11 Sheets Color $28.50

Is that going to be a possibility?

December 4, 2009 | Registered CommenterSean Bailey

That is one of the requirements that captured in our Budget Controls spec. The exact method is not designed yet so we'd be happy to have people post thoughts on it.

December 4, 2009 | Registered CommenterCharles Seybold

Any word on an ETA for the additional cost features?

August 26, 2010 | Registered CommenterMichael Mills

Hi Michael,

Financial features are still high on our priority list, however we have moved two objectives in front of that. In a next couple of weeks (mid-September 2010) we will be releasing LP version 2.6 which features our high-scale grid technology. In short, this will benefit larger workspaces (e.g. we benchmarked over 10x performance improvement in a fully expanded plan of 10,000 items). Early next year, we will release LP 3.0, a major release focused on simplicity and ease of use. Our current thinking is that finance features will be a fast follower to that.

August 26, 2010 | Registered CommenterCharles Seybold

Will the rate sheets always have to be manually entered into your spreadsheet or will we be able to link them, say via an API or direct export/import, directly from where our rate information is stored, in our case Quickbooks?

September 30, 2010 | Registered CommenterBryan deSilva

Hi Bryan,
We're planning on adding some more automation down to the road. It's likely that it will be available via the API.

September 30, 2010 | Registered CommenterAdam