The hidden price of going over budget
When spending drifts away from the plan, schedules slip, quality falls, and legal claims often follow. Procore’s own data points to that risk across thousands of projects.
Three common budget breakers
- Unrealistic early estimates
- Site surprises uncovered after ground-breaking
- Design or scope changes that creep in mid build
Each problem starts small but snowballs when updates live in email threads and paper binders.
How Procore pulls the numbers into view
The Budget tool in Procore records every commitment against its allowance. If a line tips past its limit, that cell turns red. Project managers can open the entry, see the reason, and act before the cost spreads across the schedule.
Connect the Budget module to the company ERP and the change order a superintendent enters on site moves into accounting within minutes. Builders who adopt this loop often cut thousands of dollars in courier fees and hours of duplicate data entry.
Putting that insight on a Volanti plan table
Procore runs in any modern browser. Opening it on a Volanti screen turns the meeting room itself into a shared cost dashboard. Drawings live on one half of the display, the Budget tab on the other. Owners and trade partners see the impact of every design tweak before they leave the room.
A portable Job Box wheel into the trailer gives the same clarity during weekly site walks. Crew leads update quantities, enter a change, and watch the budget adjust in real time. Nothing waits for an end-of-day sync.
A quick three step field test
- Place a Tabletop in one project trailer and load Procore Drawings and Budget side by side.
- Enter a change order during the next owner architect contractor meeting and ask your finance lead to confirm the new figure in the ERP before the meeting ends.
- Track paper use and courier spend for one month. Compare the numbers to the previous project without the table.
Measured payback you can quote
- Live budget flags cut rework and late claims.
- Lower courier and print costs often cover hardware inside the first year.
- Faster on site decisions shorten review cycles and keep crews moving.
Ready for a live look
Book a ten minute demo. We will open one of your projects on a Volanti plan table, trigger a red budget alert, and show you the update flowing straight into your accounting system. Decisions land faster and money stays on track. www.volantidisplays.com