The project category. On selecting a project category, the page will refresh and show the custom fields for the selected category. Read more about Project Categories (Section 7.1).

A short description of the project.

The date the project starts.

The date before which the project must finish. If the project is a continuous project i.e. without a deadline, enter a far off date say 5 years from now.

The finish date of the last task.

The date this project is expected to finish based on its progress. This is system calculated.

The project's client. Choose the default provided "internal" client if this is an internal project.

The person who will manage this project.

A short unique code that will identify this project. This code should be unique across your organization. If you don't have one, leave this field blank.

Project priority.

A detailed description of the project.

The project-lifecycle phase. Read more on project phases.

Whether percent completes of summary tasks should automatically be calculated from its sub tasks. Read more .

The project team members. Click on on the add/edit project screen to select the team. Read more about Project Team (Section 7.3).

Indicates whether this project is to be kept compatible with Microsoft Project. Read more.

This project's budget. Cost of the project must not exceed project budget.

Indicates whether this project is a turnkey (fixed price) project or based on hourly billing. Time entries for a fixed price and hourly projects are marked the "non-billable" and "billable" respectively by default. They can be changed.

The price of the project. Fixed price means that the project is bid at a fixed price, regardless of the cost incurred.

This means that the project is bid on a per hour basis. In this case, you can define a start price and a ceiling price. The start price is the upfront amount that is received and the ceiling price is the maximum amount that can be charged to the client.

The advance associated with the project.

The maximum amount the client will pay for this project.

The estimated cost of this project. This is calculated as the sum of estimated labor cost, estimated non labor cost and overheads of each task.

This is the actual cost till date of this project. This is calculated as sum of labor cost, non billable expenses and pro-rated overheads of each task.

The total estimated work hours on this project. This is calculated from the task schedule.

The total actual work hours on this project. This is calculated as sum of approved time entries filled on tasks on this project.