- Manual Forecast

Build your Procore forecast in Excel.

Procore's manual forecast is set one budget line at a time. Sandspit pulls every line item into a single flat grid you can bulk-edit, then syncs the Forecast to Complete back to Procore.

Every manual forecast line in one grid
Bulk-edit quantities and unit costs
Create, update, and delete, synced to Procore
Itemized or lump sum, your call
- The manual way

Today, the forecast goes in one line at a time.

Manual Forecast is one of Procore's Forecast to Complete methods. On a budget line, you add forecast line items with a quantity and unit cost, and they sum to the line's remaining cost. There is no bulk editor, so every line is set by hand.

  • Forecasts are entered one budget line at a time, in the Forecast to Complete panel.
  • Each line item needs a description, quantity, unit, and unit cost.
  • A single project carries dozens of budget lines, each forecast by hand.
  • It is redone every month as the outlook on the job changes.

Procore Budget tool

Forecast to Complete, per line

Open one at a time
Description Forecast to Complete
01-100 · Project Management
01-100-01-01.L Budget Management.Labor $600 ›
01-100-02.O Document Control.Other $3,690 ›
01-100-04.L Permits & Approvals.Labor $850 ›
03-300 · Cast-in-Place Concrete
+ 50 more budget lines
One flat grid

Every forecast line, every budget code, in one editable sheet.

Procore stays the system of record. Sandspit pulls the manual forecast line items into a single Excel sheet, so updating the forecast is spreadsheet work: change a column, fill down, done. When you are finished, sync the changes back to Procore.

  • Pull every manual forecast line item into one flat grid, across all budget lines
  • Bulk-edit quantities and unit costs with fill-down; amounts recompute
  • Create, update, and delete line items in one sync back to Procore
  • Row-level validation and per-row sync results, so you see exactly what posted

Manual forecast

All budget lines, one sheet

18 lines
Budget code Budget description Manual forecast description Qty UOM Unit cost Amount
01-100-01-01.L Budget Management.Labor Project accountant budget update hours 5 hours $100 $500
01-100-02.O Document Control.Other ASI response coordination and drawing revisions 40 hours $85 $3,400
03-310.L Footings.Labor Remaining footing labor through final pours 10 hours $300 $3,000
03-300.S Cast-in-Place Concrete.Commitment Remaining concrete commitment with buyout variance 1 ls $42,000 $42,000
03-320.L Slabs-on-Grade.Labor Slab finishing and curing for the loading dock 24 hours $275 $6,600

The fields Procore's Itemized Manual Entry tracks: budget code, budget description, forecast description, quantity, UOM, unit cost, amount. Amount = quantity × unit cost.

Itemize or lump sum

Itemize the forecast, and it rolls up to the line.

Each budget line's Forecast to Complete is the sum of its line items. Itemize as granularly as the job needs, or drop a single lump sum. Sandspit pushes the line items; Procore rolls them up.

  • Itemize a budget line as granularly as the job needs
  • Or enter a single lump sum amount for the line
  • Line items sum to the budget line's Forecast to Complete
  • Document the reasoning in a note that Procore keeps

01-100-02.O · Document Control.Other

Forecast line items

Itemized
ASI response coordination $3,400
Building permit inspection $65
As-built drawing updates $65
Forecast to Complete $3,530

Three line items, one rolled-up Forecast to Complete on the budget line.

- Who it is for

For the people who own the cost-to-complete.

Manual Forecast runs in the Sandspit Excel add-in. It is for the teams that build and maintain the Forecast to Complete in Procore, every month for the life of the job.

Project managers

Build the cost-to-complete forecast for the whole job in one pass, instead of clicking through every budget line.

Project accountants

Update quantities and unit costs across every line each month from a single grid, then sync once.

Operations and execs

Keep the Forecast to Complete current so the Estimated Cost at Completion stays trustworthy for reviews.

Use your real project

See Manual Forecast on your Procore budget.

Bring a live project and we will pull its forecast into Excel, bulk-edit a few lines with you, and sync them back to Procore.

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