Commitments

The commitments cost entity is only available for approved budgets. A verbal or documented agreement to purchase something from a seller is considered a commitment in e-Builder. Whether or not this promise or agreement has an actual purchase associated with it or not, it can be entered into e-Builder as a draft and go through different statuses as the planning, purchase and approval process gets underway. The most common types of commitments are contracts and purchase orders. The Commitments page provides an overview of a project's budget from the perspective of all commitments that have been entered (projected, pending, approved etc.)

Many of the procedures related to commitments can be performed by way of an automated cost process. See About Cost Processes for more information.

To guide you through working with commitments in the Cost module, the following sections are included: