Budgeted hours in Zoho Projects is the planned effort allocation for a project, task list, or individual task, expressed as a number of person-hours. When team members log time against tasks, actual hours are compared to budgeted hours to calculate effort variance.
Enter budgeted hours at the task level for granular tracking, or at the project level for a simpler overview. Project-level budgeted hours serve as the ceiling for all time logged across all tasks in the project.
Some projects track effort (hours) rather than cost (money), especially when billing is not the primary concern and the focus is on resource capacity. Zoho Projects supports both approaches. Hours-based budgeting is common in internal IT projects where the cost is treated as a fixed overhead rather than a variable expense.
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