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As you read in one of the previous posts, you (or a cast/crew member) can submit your expenses using your internet explorer or mobile phone. The main account holder is always responsible for approving or rejecting the expense.

1. Change the status of the expense (Note: This field will only be available for the main account holder)
2. Select a category group and department
3. You can submit an expense with or without VAT
4. A short description with a text describing what the expense is about.

Once you have saved your expense, it will appear on the expense overview screen below:

1. The message will display the results of your action
2. You can directly approve the expense from the overview screen
4. Example of an approved expense.  You can always reset an approved expense to the original status.
5. Example of a rejected expense. The submitter has to resubmit the expense before it can be approved.

We are still doing more test on the new functionality. Please watch this blog for more announcements when you will see the showcased functionality in Zooce.Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

More screen shots of the Zooce way to creating a production budget for you movie.

1. Select you category.
2. Enter the amount you have for the department.
3. Click on the insert line link to add a cost into your budget.
4. Continue with Step 1 until you have entered all of your dashboards.

Below is a screen showing the information that will appear on a completed budget screen

1. The main categories.
2. Total budget for your production.
3. These are the total number of expenses booked on your department. So you can track your actuals against your budget.
4. If you have spent more than your budget. The color of the actual value will turn red.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

This is the third post in about our upcoming release. We have completed the development of the budget module. The next step will be internal testing of the new module. If we are happy with the results of the testign we will bring the changes to the website. The budget module contains two main areas: the budget management and expense management.

Budget
You will be able create/delete and update your budget for a production. The budget is displayed in on a tab in your production. In this tab you’re able to enter departments and the expected costs. For examples you can add the department “Video editing” and add 400 pounds as a budget. The same page will also display the actual cost. The actual costs are calculated from entering amounts in the expenses. 

Expenses
Their will be two ways to enter an expense. You can either enter the expenses under the “Expenses” tab in a production or you can send a text message by mobile. (The cost of sending a text message will be same as sending a normal text message to a mobile phone). All expenses need to be approved before showing up as actual costs in the budget overview. Only the main user will have the abbility to approve or reject expenses.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the web-based movie production management tool

This is second in a series of posts about the upcoming budget functionality in Zooce. In the picture (follow the lick to see PDf version of the Budget Break downsheet) is an example of a new report called Budget Breakdown Sheet. It gives an overview of your total budget per category. The great thing about the report generator is that after you have generated your report. You download it or save it on your hard drive. In the future releases you will have the opportunity to send your report per email directly from inside Zooce to a colleague/friend.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

We are currently working hard to complete one of most requested functionality for Zooce. It is the budget functionality, with the budget module you can setup a budget for your production and manage the money of your production.

Below is a screen shot of what the current layout will look like, it could be possible we will make changes as more we get more input from our users.

Please watch this page for more information about this great new piece of functionality. This is great and exciting new functionality to our complete 100% web based movie production management solution.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

We moved our blog from blogger to a new platform called wordpress. It is now hosted on our domain http://www.zooce.co.uk.

Please update your bookmarks. The new address is http://blog.zooce.co.uk.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

A guy called Paul has a blog called “paulzadie.com“. On this blog he made a create blog post about free stuff for the indy movie maker. Please have look at http://paulzadie.com/free-stuff/.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk, the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

Small post about content we have added to our user manual.

• Characters have been added
• Productions have been updated

More work will be done in the next coming weeks. The manual is currently only available in English.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk

Hi,

We got a lot of questions about Zooce. So we decided to create a page in our wiki with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). You can access the faq directly by going to the following url: http://www.zooce.co.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faq

If you want to help us creating more content on our wiki. Please contact me at beta@zooce.co.uk.

Talk to you later.

Cheers,
team zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk

Hi,

I have created an 8 minute product overview. It will give you a overview of the functionalities of Zooce. Please follow the following link: http://www.zooce.co.uk/productoverview.html.

Team Zooce,
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk