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title: "Progress Page: Live Budget Tracking & Actuals in Ontraccr"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/progress-page-live-budget-tracking-actuals-in-ontraccr"
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last_updated: "2025-08-22T18:20:12.950Z"
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# Progress Page: Live Budget Tracking & Actuals in Ontraccr

## 🧾 **Progress Page: Live Budget Tracking & Actuals in Ontraccr**

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### 📘 **Overview**

The **Progress Page** in Ontraccr is your real-time command center for job costing. It compares your **budgeted values** (from Step 5) to the **actual costs** being recorded from field activity — including labor time, materials, and equipment usage.

This page is where you monitor whether your project is staying on track financially, across every cost code and category.

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### **📊 What You’ll See on the Progress Page**

Each cost code appears in a line-item table grouped under:

-   **Labor**
-   **Material**
-   **Overhead**
-   **Equipment**

For each cost code, Ontraccr displays:

| Column | Description |
| --- | --- |
| **Estimated Cost** | From your budget |
| **Estimated Hours** | Only for Labor or Overhead |
| **Actual Cost** | Pulled from time entries, materials, or equipment logs |
| **Actual Hours** | For time-tracked cost codes |
| **Remaining Cost** | Budgeted − Actual |
| **Remaining Hours** | Budgeted − Actual |
| **% Complete** | Actual ÷ Estimated (cost or hours) |

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### **🕒 How Actuals Are Calculated**

-   **Labor** → from time entries (with cost code match + overrides)
-   **Material** → from material usage forms (with cost codes)
-   **Equipment** → from equipment logs (with code + rate)
-   **Overhead** → from time entries or form-driven overhead tracking

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### 🧠 **Example**

Cost code: **“LAB-01: Electrical Rough-In”**

| Budgeted Hours | 100 |

| Logged Time | 60 |

| Remaining Hours | 40 |

| % Complete | 60% |

If the worker wage is $50/hr, and you’ve logged 60 hours, the **actual cost** is $3,000.

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### **📌 Progress Page Behavior Notes**

-   It **only shows cost codes that have budgeted values**
-   It includes only codes that were added to the project during setup (Step 3)
-   If no time/material/equipment has been logged, **actuals = $0**
-   Updating cost code overrides (e.g., wage or billing) affects future entries but **doesn’t retroactively recalculate actuals**

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### **📤 Export Options**

Click the **three-dot menu (⋮)** at the top right of the Progress Page to:

-   **Export to Excel**
-   Share or archive budget-to-actual comparisons
-   Filter by cost code category or completion %

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### **📈 Reporting Tie-Ins**

The Progress Page feeds directly into:

-   **Time Card Reports**
-   **Project Dashboard widgets**
-   **Custom Analytics** (via the Analytics Engine)

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### 🧠 **Tips**

-   Review this page weekly to **catch cost overruns early**
-   Sort by **% Complete** to identify tasks at risk
-   If a cost code is fully billed but not 100% complete, it may indicate **missing time/material entries**