Welcome 👋🏼

Your Workspace & Budget Import

Welcome to Splinde. This is your starting point. In the next two minutes, you see how your workspace is organized and how to bring your existing budgets into Splinde without rebuilding them.

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What You See When You Log In

When you open Splinde, you land in your workspace. This is your home base. Under Projects, the All Projects page lists your productions with the information you need at a glance:

• Name: the name of the production

• Client: who the Project is for

• Created at and Last Edit: when the Project started and when someone last made a change

• Owner and Members: who runs the Project and who works on it

Every budget lives in a Project, so this one list gives a production manager the overview they need to stay on top of active productions.

How to Create Your First Budget

Creating a budget takes three steps:

1. Click New Budget on the All Projects page, or Add Budget on a Project page.

2. Choose how to start: Start from Scratch, Import Excel (for a SCoPE Excel file) or Explore a Demo. To start from an industry format such as AICP, FFA, BBC, Netflix or SCoPE, use a template instead. Day 1 shows how.

3. Enter a Budget Name, pick the Project it belongs to and click Create Budget.

Your budget opens, ready for you to add Sections and Cost Items.

Already Have Budgets in Excel?

Keep them. Splinde offers a free budget import service:

1. Reply to the welcome email you received.

2. Attach your existing budget file (Excel, a Google Sheets export or any spreadsheet format).

3. The Splinde team imports it into your workspace, including your structure, line items and numbers.

Your imported budget appears alongside any new budgets you create, in the same workspace, overview and workflow.

The import service is free for all trial and paid users.

What Comes Next

Over the next five days, you receive one email per day from Joshua, Co-Founder of Splinde. Each email covers one part of building production budgets:

Ready to start? Continue with Day 1: Your Workspace & Templates.

Have existing budgets to import? Reply to your welcome email or write to care@splinde.io.