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Understand budget alerts

ConstructionPro.io · 29 July 20261 min read

Overruns creep. Category alerts fire while the line is still cheap to fix.

Nine in ten construction projects run over, often by a lot. The overrun rarely arrives as one decision.

When a category crosses its budget, you get an alert that links to the invoices behind it. Open the line, see what posted, and decide whether this is a variation, a mis-file, or a real overspend.

Threshold emails can go to the people who should act. Viewers still cannot change amounts.

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