Hard Costs Calculator & SOP

January 29, 20261 min read

Calculator:

Custom HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT

Hard Costs Guide & SOP:

Hard Costs serves to “translate” the fixed-price expenses into hours logged in the Teamwork task.

From an allocations standpoint, a Hard Costs task has a time estimate that tells how much budget (expressed in hours) is allocated for an expense. Example expenses would be:

  1. using a link building vendor to order links,

  2. buying citations in Bright Local, etc.

Hard Costs is set up as a User on Teamwork:

  • The “Log More Time” option in Teamwork can be used to log time as another user.

  • Log the time as the Hard Costs user in the Hard Costs task. Try not to exceed the allocated hours.

  • Log hard costs in teamwork at the time when the expense was made.


Original SOP Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YVPRrZBwqHAckQo9OF4VKoLhTAnLBRxoog0tJx5pv0I/edit?tab=t.0

Original Calculator Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zx1_pnSl7PDyoGeZ02vfWW1RmZOlcPMrEMd9Tblx9Y4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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