We are Launching Projects

Production budgets rarely come alone. A single campaign produces a base budget, two or three scenarios, a revised scope and an approved version. Put a few clients on top of that and your budget list becomes one long, flat column where nothing says which budgets belong together or who should see them.

Splinde now has Projects to fix that. This post covers what a Project is, how access works, and what you can do from the All Projects view.

What is a Project in Splinde?

A Project is a container that groups related budgets, such as everything for one client, one show or one campaign. You create a Project, collect the budgets that belong to it, and from then on opening the Project shows only those budgets.

Splinde is a cloud-based production budgeting platform used by commercial and film production companies in Europe and globally. Projects add the layer it was missing: structure above the individual budget. Client now lives on the Project, so you stop repeating it on every budget.

Inside a Project, the budget table shows totals and status for every variant, and the Approved variant is highlighted. When the client asks which version is the real one, the answer is on the page.

You can also edit the Project description right on the Project page, and rename a Project by clicking its name.

How do you control who sees a Project's budgets?

You invite specific people as Members. Members can view and work on the Project's budgets, and everyone else stays out. That applies everywhere: lists, search and direct links.

The person who creates a Project becomes its Owner. Owners manage the roster and can delete the Project. Day-to-day work, including updating a Project's status, is open to every Member. A Project always keeps at least one Owner, so it can never end up without someone responsible for it.

This matters when one workspace holds budgets for several clients, or when a sensitive bid should only be visible to the few people working on it. Access follows the Project, so you set it once instead of per budget.

What can you do from the All Projects view?

The All Projects view is the overview of your work. Each row shows the Project's status, client, owner and team, with avatars.

From the list you can:

1. Sort. Click a column header to sort by newest, alphabetical or client. Click again to reverse the order.

2. Rename. Edit the name in place without opening the Project.

3. Duplicate. Start a similar Project from an existing one. The copy carries the name, description, client, agency, product, roster and the assigned budgets, so you are not rebuilding from zero.

4. Update the status. Choose Work in Progress, Approved, Canceled or Archived straight from the list.

5. Move a budget. A budget can be reassigned from one Project to another when it turns out to belong elsewhere.

You see the Projects you are part of. Projects you are not on stay out of your list.

How does a Project change the way a production team works?

Think of a car launch with a full-scope shoot, three location alternatives and two buyout options. Without a Project, that is six files and a shared folder. With a Project, it is one entry in the All Projects view, with one status, one client, one team and every scenario in the same table.

The agency asks where things stand. You open one page. A freelancer joins for two weeks. You add them as a Member and remove them when they roll off. The job wraps. You set the status to Archived and the Project's record stays on the list.

Small fixes that make the daily work smoother

Projects also ship with a round of refinements. Owner, Member and Status menus close when you click away and open aligned with what you clicked, and member menus are no longer cut off at the table edge. We also fixed an error that could block importing a budget from a JSON file.

The Faster Path to a Budget List You Can Trust

Projects give your budgets a home, your team a boundary and your clients one place to look. Start with your next campaign: create a Project, add its budgets, invite the people who need to work on it.

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