Since 2009
Budget & Cost Tracking for JiraJira Cloud · Atlassian ForgeA budget for each Jira project, and what the logged work has cost
Jira tracks time but not money. Budget & Cost Tracking adds a budget to a project, turns the hours your team logs into cost with hourly rates you set, adds expense lines, and shows budget, spent and remaining month by month. It reads Jira and never changes it.
What it does
Planned against actual, on the project itself
A budget for each project
An amount, a currency, a first month and an optional last month. The project page shows budget, spent, remaining and the share used, with a table month by month. A note appears when spending reaches 80% and 100%.
Cost from logged work
Hourly rates per person or per group, each with an optional start month, so past months keep the old rate. The app reads work logs every hour, only what changed since the last read. Hours without a rate are shown, not hidden.
Expenses
Licences, travel, outside work: add a line with a date, a description and an amount. A minus amount is a refund. Each line counts in the month of its date.
Export
One Excel workbook with a summary, the months and the expenses. The export on the admin page adds the cost per person, in total and month by month.
Built to be safe
What it will never do
The app has no write permission in Jira, so Atlassian's platform itself prevents it from changing issues, work logs or settings. Budgets, expenses and rates live in the app's own storage.
Only Jira administrators can see or change rates and the cost per person. The app checks this on every request, not only in the page.
In a small team, the totals next to the hours in Jira can show what someone is paid. So by default only project administrators and Jira administrators see the money on a project page. A Jira admin can change that.
No servers of our own and no API key. Everything is stored in Atlassian's storage for your site, with people as account IDs only. Names are looked up from Jira when a page is shown. Emails are not used or stored.
Getting started
Install, set a budget, add rates
Install
From the Atlassian Marketplace, in Jira under Settings → Apps → Find new apps. It starts with a free trial.
Set a budget
A project administrator opens the project, clicks Budget & Cost in the sidebar, enters the amount, currency and first month, and clicks Save budget. The app starts reading the project's work logs.
Add rates
A Jira admin opens Settings → Apps → Budget & Cost Tracking, goes to the Rates tab and adds a rate per person or per group. A personal rate counts at once; a group rate once the app has read the group's members.
Paid through the Atlassian Marketplace, per user, billed on your Atlassian invoice, with a free trial. The listing is not public yet. Request access or ask a question.