Understanding Costs #

Assign costs to tasks and resources to see the total price of your project. The root summary task shows the grand total — compare it against budget resources to know if your project fits the approved budget.

How Task Cost Is Calculated #

Each task's cost is a combination of its own fixed cost and the costs of its assigned resources. Ingantt calculates the total cost of each task and displays it in the Cost column in the list of tasks.

Task Cost = task Fixed Cost + costs of resources assigned to the task

If you don't see the Cost column in the list of tasks, make sure the Cost Column flag is checked on the Task Columns tab of the Options dialog.

Summary Task Costs #

In its Cost field, each summary task shows the total cost of all its subtasks.

However, just like a regular task, a summary task can have assigned resources and a Fixed Cost. These are added on top of the subtasks' total cost, increasing the summary task's Cost.

Summary task Cost = total cost of all subtasks + summary task Fixed Cost + costs of resources assigned to the summary task

Use the root summary task to view and manage the total cost of your entire project.

Budget Resources #

A resource can be marked as a Budget resource in the Resource Properties dialog. Budget resources represent overall allocated budget amounts at the project level and can only be assigned to the root summary task.

Budget resources are excluded from:

• Scheduling
• Cost totals
• Overallocation detection
• Resource leveling

They provide top-down budget tracking that is separate from bottom-up cost calculations.

Currency #

If your project uses a currency different from the Ingantt default, you can change it on the Regional tab of the Project Properties dialog. Specify the currency as a symbol (e.g., €), abbreviation (EUR), or full name (euro).

On the same tab, you can also specify the Currency Position — before or after the value, with or without a space.

When you change the currency, cost values are not recalculated.