Welcome to Projects
A project is a framework for tracking and managing the financials for a type or area of business. Sage Intacct provides a selection of Projects applications, each with a unique level of project management and project accounting capabilities.
Your ability to access these Projects applications depends on your user privileges and Projects subscriptions.
| Subscription |
Access to these applications depends on your organization's subscriptions and your user permissions. Projects Basic Project Tracking Task Tracking Project Costing: Subscribe to Projects to enable Project Costing Project Costing and Billing Project Resource Management |
|---|---|
| User type |
Business user with admin privileges Construction Manager Project Manager Employee Warehouse |
| Permissions |
Business user, admin: list, view, create, edit, configure Project Manager: list, view, create, edit Construction Manager: list, view, create, edit Employee: list, view Warehouse: list, view |
Subscribe to Projects
Depending on your company's accounting needs, you might subscribe to any of the Sage Intacct project management applications.
- To request a subscription to a Projects application, contact your Sage Intacct administrator.
- For Sage Intacct Business users with admin privileges, see Configure Projects.
What's available in Projects
Sage Intacct offers the following suite of Projects modules and dimensions. For more
- Basic project tracking: Track projects for reporting purposes.
- Task tracking: Track task transactions for reporting purposes.
- Project costing: Track the entirety of project costs.
- Project costing and billing: Track project costs and generate invoices.
- Project and resource management: Track projects, tasks, costing and billing, manage resources, and forecast and usage reporting.
You can subscribe to any or all of the Projects applications, based on your organization's business needs. For more information on each of these applications, see Learn about Projects applications.
Types of projects
The Construction industry uses specific terminology that can differ from Sage Intacct terminology. Understand how Sage Intacct terms align with Construction industry terms.
You can then change Sage Intacct terminology to match Construction industry terms. For example, you can change Project to Job.
You can track and manage the financials for a number of different types of projects:
- Construction projects
- Bill to maximum projects
- Fixed fee projects
- Overhead projects
- Time and materials projects
For list of all the ways you can utilize Projects applications, go to the landing page for Sage Intacct Projects.