Key Concepts

A Budget is Splinde's working file for one estimate, a tree of Sections and Cost Items with a currency, a status, scenarios and documents.

A Section is a chapter of a Budget that groups Cost Items, nests inside other Sections, and carries its own subtotal.

A Cost Item is one priced line inside a Section, in two kinds, General or Production, with a quantity, a unit and a Fee.

A Unit tells Splinde what a Cost Item's quantity means, from Day and Week to Percentage, chosen from a workspace-controlled catalog.

Every budget has one Budget Currency that every total is shown in, and Conversion Currencies that convert other currencies into it, live or manually.

A Scenario is a full, independent version of a budget that lives beside Main as its own column in the editor.

A Workspace is your company's shared space in Splinde, holding its people, budgets, templates, labels and units in one place.

A Project groups a job's Budgets inside a Workspace, with its own Owners, Members and status, and controls who can see them.

Splinde uses two separate role systems, Editor and Admin for a workspace, Owner and Member for a Project, each answering a different access question.

Several people can work in one Splinde budget at once, seeing who else is there and which field or block each person is currently in.

A Variable is a named value you set once and reuse across a budget, so updating one number updates every line built on it.

A Reference is a live link from one numeric field to a Variable, Cost Item or Section, typed with @, so the field always follows its target.

An AddOn is a ready-made uplift you drag onto a Cost Item, either a percentage on top of the line or an overtime charge, with no formulas to write.

Smart Subtotals is a sub-tab that rolls the whole budget up by AddOn, by Label and by Currency, cutting across the Section tree.

A Label is a workspace-wide colour tag on a Cost Item that tracks spend by category instead of by Section.

An Offer Document is the client-facing page that lives beside a budget and reads its numbers live.

A Budget Block is a live table of budget data placed in an Offer Document that updates as costs change.

A Budget Template is a reusable starting budget you create a new budget from instead of rebuilding the structure.