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Pipeline Budgets

The Pipeline budget is BigTime's simplest form of budgeting. It allows you to estimate the total revenues projected per project per month for a given project.

If you use the sales pipeline features in BigTime, your sales team can enter a pipeline budget when they add prospects to the system. This gives them a way to enter a general estimate revenue expectations for a given opportunity.

Client/Project

Pipeline State

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Allstate:XYZ Project

WIP (existing)

$25,000

$35,000

$ 35,000

$15,000

$ 5,000

AON:ABC Project

WIP (existing)

--

$45,000

$ 45,000

--

--

AON:XYZ Project

WIP (existing)

$ 7,500

$ 7,500

$ 7,500

$ 7,500

$ 7,500

City of Chicago

Opportunity

--

--

$ 5,000

$ 5,000

$ 5,000

Equity Office

Opportunity

--

--

$ 25,000

--

--

Alternative Resources

Opportunity

--

--

--

$18,500

--

Total (Projected) Revenue:

 

$32,500

$87,500

$117,500

$46,000

$17,500

Each project or prospect in the system can have a pipeline budget attached to it. If you're using the sales pipeline, you can also attache a probability to each project, and you can print reports that "weight" your pipeline data based on probability.

See Also

Budgeting

Estimating

Allocation Budgets