Project
Used on screen and on the printed sheet only.
Contract
What the client is committed to pay, and what is still being argued about.
The contract as signed.
Instructed and agreed. Counted as revenue.
Not counted as revenue.
Budget
What the job was priced to cost when you took it.
Needed to show how far margin has moved since tender.
Cost position
Spent, committed, and still to come. These three make the forecast final cost.
Cost already incurred on the job.
Ordered or subcontracted, and not yet in actual cost.
Everything left to finish, on top of the two above.
Project status
Optional. Adds the cost against progress reading, and the cash position.
The forecast works without these. Add them to see how far cost has run against progress, and how much of the job you are funding yourself.
Forecast margin
Enter your project figures
Contract value and project cost are both needed before a margin can be worked out.
What you will get
Fill in the contract and the cost position, and the forecast appears here as you type.
- Forecast margin, against the margin you priced the job at
- Forecast final cost, against your original project budget
- Forecast profit, and how far it has moved
- Unapproved variations, kept out of revenue and shown as a scenario
- Cost incurred and committed, against progress
Working this out by hand?
You have just gathered eleven figures for one project, on one day.
OraOS Construction keeps this calculation running. It derives project margin from your BOQ, procurement, commitments, variations, certificates and actual costs, so the forecast moves when the job moves, across every project at once, instead of being rebuilt in a spreadsheet each month.
- Margin at tender against margin forecast, per project
- Variations tracked from submitted through to approved
- Commitments from real purchase orders and subcontracts
- Certificates, retention and cash against every job
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Ora Account
Coming soonSave projects, compare results and reopen your work across Ora Tools when the Ora Account launches. It will be free.
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What the account will doOra Tools Pro
Coming soonSaved projects, unlimited scenarios, project comparison, margin history and export to PDF and spreadsheet are intended for Pro.
None of it exists yet, and no price has been set. The calculation on this page is complete and free, and will stay that way.
Free and Pro, comparedYour calculation runs in your browser. The figures you enter are never sent to Ora, and are kept only in this browser so that a refresh does not lose them. Clearing the form removes them. Like any website, Ora Tools counts anonymous page views, which carry nothing you typed.