Freelancers & Subcontractors
Contract talent and outsourced delivery work.
Freelancers & Subcontractors captures payments to contract talent — people who do delivery work for you but aren't on payroll.
Appears under Operating Expenses in the Foreqast table, as an expense. Ledger key: Subcontractors.
What lands here
What to watch out for
Contract spend follows the work, not the calendar. A quiet month between projects projects forward a low number just as you take on the delivery that will need three freelancers; a heavy month does the reverse. If you assign contract talent to projects, forecast this line from planned project hours instead — that is what actually determines it.
Planning this line properly is what Internal work is for.
How it's forecast
With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Freelancers & Subcontractors is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.
daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in monthFor Freelancers & Subcontractors, €3,500 booked over the last 30 days gives €3,500 ÷ 30 ≈ €117/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €3,500. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.
Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.
Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.