Budgeting Pro & Complete

Plan every dollar. Track every outcome.

Build annual, termly and departmental budgets around how your school actually operates. As income and expenses flow through NuPay, Budget vs Actual updates on its own, so you spot overspending early, not at year end.

  • Budgets for the whole school or each department
  • Budget vs Actual tracked automatically
  • Variance by department, account and category
Build a budget

Budgets shaped like your school year

Plan by the year, by the term or by the month, for the whole school or one department at a time.

Per-department budgets

Every department knows where it stands

Each department gets its own budget, and every expense NuPay posts is already tagged with the department it belongs to.

  • A budget for each department, with its own lines for salaries, supplies, maintenance and more.
  • Expenses are allocated to a department as they are captured or categorised from the bank feed, so the budget updates without extra data entry.
  • Heads of department see their own numbers. The bursar sees every department side by side.
  • Over budget, close to it or on track, at a glance.
Budget vs Actuals report

See the variance before it becomes a problem

The Budget vs Actuals report compares what you planned with what actually happened, line by line, straight from the ledger.

How it works

From plan to variance, without a spreadsheet

  1. 1

    Set the budget

    Start from last year, copy a budget or begin from blank. Split it by term, department and account.

  2. 2

    Run the school

    Invoices go out, parents pay, bills are captured and the bank feed runs, exactly as before.

  3. 3

    Actuals fill in

    Every posted transaction lands against its budget line and department automatically.

  4. 4

    Watch the variance

    Open Budget vs Actuals at any time to see what is over, what is under and why.

FAQs

Is budgeting available on every plan?

Budgeting is available with NuPay Pro and NuPay Complete. NuPay Start does not include the budgeting module.

Can each department have its own budget?

Yes. You can build a budget for the whole school or for each department, with its own lines and its own owner. Expenses are tagged with their department as they are captured, so each budget updates on its own.

How are actuals tracked against the budget?

Automatically. Every income and expense transaction NuPay posts to the ledger lands against its budget line, so Budget vs Actual is always current without re-entering anything.

What does the Budget vs Actuals report show?

Budget, actual, variance in dollars and variance in percent for every income and expense line, with over-budget lines flagged. You can run it for the whole school, one department or one period, and export it.

Can we budget in more than one currency?

Yes. Budget in the currency each account runs in, USD or ZWG, with actuals kept at their historical rates.

Can we start from last year’s numbers?

Yes. Start from last year’s actuals, copy an existing budget or begin from blank.

Stop finding out at year end

See a department budget fill in with real actuals and the variance report update as it happens.