Adding Revenue Items to Tasks
How to create revenue items on tasks to define how project income is calculated.
Overview
Revenue items define how income is calculated for each task. Every task that generates revenue needs at least one revenue item — whether it's rate-based, fixed, or formula-driven.
Adding a Revenue Item
- Open a task on the Schedule or from the Projects page.
- In the property panel, go to the Financials tab (or section).
- Click Add Revenue Item.
- Choose the calculation type:
- From Allocations — hours × billing rate
- Fixed Amount — enter a specific dollar amount
- Formula — write a formula expression
- Percentage of Parent — percentage of the parent task's revenue
- Configure the type-specific settings (see below).
- Click Save (or the item saves within the schedule's change tracking).
Configuring Each Type
From Allocations
No additional configuration needed. Revenue is automatically calculated from:
- Allocated hours on this task
- The billing rate of the allocated resource
Revenue updates as you add or modify allocations.
Fixed Amount
Enter the amount in your project's currency. This is the total revenue for the task, regardless of time spent.
Formula
Enter a formula expression. Available references:
total.hours— total allocated hours on this tasktotal.costs— total cost items on this tasktotal.expenses— total expense items on this task- Other item slugs — reference specific items by their generated slug
Example: total.hours * 120 calculates revenue at $120/hour.
Hover over existing financial items to see their slug, which you can reference in formulas.
Percentage of Parent
Enter the percentage (e.g. 25 for 25%). Monument calculates the amount from the parent task's total revenue.
Revenue on Parent Tasks
Parent tasks (phases, stages) default to showing the sum of children — aggregating revenue from all their child tasks. You can also add direct revenue items to parent tasks, which are combined with the child rollup.
Be careful not to double-count: if a parent has a fixed revenue item and also sums children with their own revenue items, the total will include both.
Visibility
Each revenue item has a visibility toggle. Hidden items are excluded from totals but remain in the configuration. This is useful for:
- Temporarily excluding an item during what-if analysis
- Keeping a record of an item that's no longer relevant
Reordering Revenue Items
Drag revenue items to reorder them. Order affects the display in the financials panel and can matter for formula evaluation (formulas reference items that are calculated before them).
What's Next
- Adding Cost Items to Tasks — set up cost tracking
- Understanding Financial Rollups — how totals aggregate
- Revenue Types and Sources — detailed explanation of each type