Event budget software that prices the design as you build it.

The Budget measures what is in the scene, so the quantities are the design's own: the area of an LED wall, the linear feet of drape, the truss pull list, the seat count.

• ▸LED walls by area and pixel pitch, with processing, and ground support when the wall stands on the floor.
• ▸Projection screens by size, each with a projector sized to the screen, plus dress kits and a switching allowance.
• ▸Lighting fixtures by type, with a console, and a hazer when the design has beams or gobos.
• ▸Truss by profile and stick length, with corner blocks, base plates and chain hoists.
• ▸Stage decks, legs, skirting, fascia, rails, steps and ramps.
• ▸Drape by height and fullness with its uprights, bases and crossbars, plus cycs, tension fabric and SEG walls.
• ▸Chairs, tables, linens and centerpieces from the seating plan, along with stanchions and library props.

Every rate carries three numbers: low, typical and high. The Budget Meter at the top of the panel adds them into an estimated total with a typical figure and a range, and a chart shows how that total splits by category: video and LED, lighting, audio, rigging and truss, staging, scenic, soft goods, furniture, décor and props. Inside a category, like items are grouped together.

Enter a target, which is the client's number, and the meter shows what remains or how far over the design is. A line the Budget cannot price is counted as unpriced, and the total reads Incomplete until that line has a rate or is left out.

• ▸EVT defaults: a master price sheet of planning rates for rental gear, fabrication and labor, each with a low, a typical and a high figure.
• ▸Project overrides: type your own number on any line, on every plan. It applies to that project only.
• ▸Price Sheets, on Pro: save the rates you have collected or negotiated and use them on every project. A new sheet starts as a copy of the EVT defaults.
• ▸Every line shows which rate it used and what it measured, and selecting a line selects the object in the scene.
• ▸Add your own lines for anything the scene cannot know about, such as permits, catering or a supplier's number you already have.

• ▸Show weeks: rental lines multiply by the number of show weeks. Purchases, labor and one-time services do not.
• ▸Adjustments: contingency, markup, tax and a freight allowance, each off until you switch it on.
• ▸Whole sections and single lines switch in and out of the total, so you can read the number with or without a piece the client is still deciding on.
• ▸Currency belongs to the project. Pick from 32 currencies; a rate held in another currency converts at an exchange rate saved on the project, which changes only when you press Refresh rates.
• ▸Labor is its own section at the bottom and starts out of the total. Its allowances use planning rates for US non-union labor at straight time.

The Budget is for the weeks when the design is still moving: sizing a concept to the client's number, weighing a larger LED wall against two projection screens, or seeing what a third truss line adds. Change the design and the number follows.

It does not replace a quote. Rental houses price by market, dates and inventory, and union labor, venue rules, power, rigging points and freight all move the final number. Once the concept is approved, your vendors quote it. The Budget's job is to get you to that conversation with a design that already fits. It stays in the editor and is never shown on a viewer link.