Costs

Costs is the console section about your money, not the provider’s invoice. The CTO / finance question: “what is expensive, and when do we pay?”

The model is simple:

1. Rate — what you will pay (monthly or yearly). The next due date is computed.
2. Charge — what you already paid. The next rate invoice can be marked paid.
3. Calendar — upcoming payments plus one-off events (domain, contract).

A rate does not store its own project: it comes from the resource card. Currencies are never summed into one number.

Overview

Getting started

1. In the catalog, assign projects if you want grouping.
2. Open rates → Add rate and attach an amount to a resource (or an “other expense”).
3. Use the calendar and mark the next invoices paid.
4. Project totals live under By project.

Screens in the console

Sidebar Costs:

Item	Purpose
Overview	Run-rate, rate mix, upcoming payments. Horizon 7 / 30 / 90 days.
Rates	Catalog: search, chips, pagination. Click opens the rate card with invoices.
Charges	Already-paid invoices (history).
Calendar	List or month; view and filters are remembered.
By project	Active rates grouped by the resource’s project.
Changelog	Who created / updated / deleted a rate, charge, or calendar event.

Roles

Role	Costs
owner / manager	Writes rates, charges, calendar, mark-paid.
devops	Read-only.

What costs is not

• It does not pull a Hetzner / AWS invoice — you set the amount.
• It does not convert EUR + RUB into one figure.
• It does not email renewals — use alerts (renewal_upcoming) for that.