Your Workspace & Templates

Templates & Custom Workspace Standards

Start every budget from a template instead of a blank page. In this guide, you create a production budget from a template and turn your own budget into a reusable standard for your whole team.

Industry Templates, Ready to Use

The public Splinde Template Gallery holds budget templates for standards used across the production industry, including:

• AICP: the Association of Independent Commercial Producers standard, used across US commercial production

• SCoPE GWA/KVA: the German standard for commercial production budgeting (Gesamtwirtschaftliche Aufstellung / Kostenvoranschlag)

• FFA: the German Federal Film Board standard for feature film and TV production

• BBC: the British Broadcasting Corporation production budget format

• Netflix, HBO and Amazon MGM: the budget structures of these studios

• Digital Content: a structure for social and online productions

Each template comes with its section structure and line item positions, so the structure and what goes where are already in place.

See all available budget templates →

How to Create a Budget from a Template

1. On a template's page in the gallery, click Start using this Template. It opens Splinde with that template. Inside Splinde, templates live under Templates in the sidebar.

2. Hover the template and click Use this template.

3. Enter a Budget Name and choose the Project the budget belongs to.

4. Click Create Budget.

Your budget opens in a new browser tab with the template's Sections, Cost Items, Variables and AddOns in place. Client, start date and end date start empty, ready for this production.

Next, fill in your numbers. Each Cost Item has the fields Amount, Days and Fee. A Production Cost Item splits the days into Prep, Shoot and Wrap. Enter the values and the Cost Item total calculates automatically.

Currencies: Click and Convert

On an international production, you can give any Cost Item its own currency. Click the currency badge at the right edge of the Fee field and pick the currency. The Cost Item then shows its converted value in the budget currency, using a live exchange rate or a rate you set yourself under Conversion Currencies in the Info tab.

Your budget can be in euros with individual Cost Items in US dollars or British pounds, and the totals stay in euros.

Create Your Own Workspace Template

Any budget you build in Splinde can be saved as a workspace template, so your team works from one shared structure.

Every production company structures budgets its own way. You might always include a specific set of line items for commercial productions, or use a standard section structure for branded content. Save that structure once instead of rebuilding it or copying it from an old file every time.

How to save a workspace template

1. Open the budget that has the structure you want to standardize.

2. Open the menu at the top left of the budget editor and click Create Template.

3. Enter a Template Name (for example, "Commercial Standard 2026") and, if you like, a Description.

4. Click Add to Template Gallery.

Splinde creates the template as a copy, and your original budget stays as it is. From then on, your template appears under Templates → Workspace Templates for everyone in your workspace. Everyone starts from the same structure, and the question of which Excel master to use goes away.

Who can use workspace templates?

Every member of your workspace can use the saved templates and create new ones.

Are you Ready?

Continue with Day 2: AddOns & Variables.