The fiscal year isn’t January
Every year uses your own start date.
Department budget
Budget New
Your department budget as a spreadsheet, not an accounting package. Set the fiscal year your municipality actually uses, build your own GL codes, and type figures straight into the sheet — which shows what you budgeted, what you’ve spent, what is left, how far through the year you are, and which lines are spending ahead of the calendar.
Any fiscal-year startPace against the calendarLast year side by side
Answers a chief’s five questions
Overspending flagged early
Board-ready exports
What we solve
Budget replaces scattered work with one accountable workflow.
Your budget as an editable sheet: any fiscal year, your own GL codes, spending pace against the calendar, prior-year comparison, and exports.
Overspending noticed too late
Each line is labeled Ahead, On Track, or Behind against the percent of the year gone.
Rebuilding the budget every year
Start a new year by copying GL codes forward and seeding proposed amounts.
Proposed vs. approved confusion
Proposed and approved amounts sit side by side with the difference shown.
How it works
From setup to a record your department can trust.
Each step hands its context to the next instead of sending people back to a spreadsheet, inbox, or paper form.
Set the calendar
Enter your fiscal-year start date and label.
Build GL codes
Each code is one line of the budget.
Enter figures
Type proposed, approved, and spent amounts directly into the sheet.
Track and close
Watch pace, export, and close the year to lock it.
Inside the module
See Budget in the Station Clipboard portal.
Real screens from the product, shown with a sample department.
Capabilities
What Budget includes.
The member experience, administrative controls, and accountability tools to run the workflow end to end.
Inline sheet editing
Saves as you go, accepts “$1,205”, and updates totals immediately.
Pace labels
On track, ahead, behind, and over-budget flags with a year-progress notch.
Prior-year comparison
Show last year’s budgeted and spent columns alongside this year.
Year lifecycle
Draft, proposed, approved, and closed — closing locks the sheet.
Roll forward
Copy codes into a new year and seed amounts from last year.
Your GL codes
Codes in use are retired rather than deleted to protect history.
Analytics
Approved, spent, remaining, lines over budget, and where the money is.
Reports and exports
Saved reports with CSV and PDF exports, plus change logging.
Part of one portal
Budget works alongside the rest of your department.
Members keep one secure identity and one set of role permissions across every module your department turns on.
Turn on when you need itRole-based permissions
Questions
Budget FAQ
Does Budget track receipts or purchases?
No. Spending is a number your team enters — Budget is a planning and tracking sheet, not accounting software.
Custom modules
Request a Custom Module Don’t see the workflow your department needs?
We build custom modules. Tell us what you track today, who touches it, and what a good outcome looks like — we’ll scope a module that lives inside the same portal, permissions, and member accounts.
See Budget inside your department workflow.
Tell us how you handle this work today. We’ll walk through the module in the context of the complete Station Clipboard portal.