Resources, allocations, and cost rollup

Resources are the people, materials, and equipment your project consumes. Each resource has a cost rate (e.g. $85 per hour, $120 per cubic yard, $400 per day for an excavator).

Adding resources:
• Open the Resources tab and click + Add Resource
• Pick a kind (Person / Material / Equipment), a name, a unit ("hour", "cu yd", "each", "day"), and a cost per unit

Allocating to tasks:
• On any resource, click + Allocate to a task
• Pick the task, enter the planned units (e.g. 80 hours of "Senior PM" on the Design phase)
• Later, fill in actual units to capture what was really consumed

Cost rollup:
• Allocated cost flows into the Budget tab's "Allocated Cost" total and the Overview's burn calculation
• Planned = sum of (units × rate) across all allocations
• Actual = sum of (actualUnits × rate) where you've filled in actuals

This is the cleanest way to see "are we on track?" for labor-heavy projects — you don't have to log every paycheck as actual spend; you log hours worked and the rate does the math.