Every crew fee needs employer social contributions on top. How do I add them to 200 lines?

Drag a prepared employer-contribution card onto the first crew fee, put its rate in a Variable, and duplicate that line for the rest. Each copy carries the AddOn, so two hundred lines come from one configuration.

Prepared employer-contribution cards exist for several countries, each named for its country, and the set keeps growing. Open the AddOns list and pick the card for yours. If your country is missing, How do I budget my country's employer contributions and levies? covers the blank Markup AddOn, and you can ask Splinde to add a card for your country.

Add the contribution to the first fee

1. Open the sidebar Insert tab, then the AddOns sub-tab.

2. Drag the employer-contribution card onto the first crew Cost Item. It appears as a coloured strip under the line, showing its name and its calculated value.

3. Click the chevron on the strip to expand it. You see the rate, the mode, and the amounts the rate applies to.

Set the rate once

Prepared cards store their rate in a Variable that Splinde creates the first time you use the card in a budget. Dropping the same card on another Cost Item reuses that Variable, so the whole budget starts on one rate. Open the sidebar Variables tab to see it and change the figure to the one your production owes this year.

A rate field holds either the Variable or a typed number. If you type a number into the strip, that line stops following the Variable. Type @ in the field and pick the Variable to link it again.

Duplicate the line

1. Select the configured Cost Item.

2. Press Duplicate Selection (⌘D) once for each further position. The copy carries the AddOn, and its name gains the suffix (Duplicate).

3. Rename each copy and set its Amount, day count and Fee.

The contribution recalculates on every line whenever the fee or the day count changes. It rolls into each line total, the Section subtotal and the Total automatically.

Good to know

• The strip has two modes. Unified applies one rate to everything the AddOn covers. Individual gives each item its own rate. The two keep separate settings, so a rate typed in one mode does not appear in the other.

• An AddOn belongs to one Cost Item, so it sits on exactly the fees you choose. A levy applies to some of my fees, not all. How do I add it only where it belongs? shows how.

• When the rate changes next year, edit the Variable once. See A contribution rate changed this year. How do I update every line at once?.

• Working with the German levy? What is AGA, and how do I add employer contributions to every fee? names the card and its Variable.

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