We're starting to track project-related expenses (external agency/production expenses, not internal labor) in Workfront, and curious if any other companies have run into limitations with expenses that span across multiple projects. For example, we might have 3 separate TV spots that we're producing, and each spot is a separate project in Workfront (due to differing project teams and the amount of conversation going on within each project, it's not practical to have them as subtasks within a single project). However, from a billing standpoint, we gain efficiencies by producing all 3 spots at the same time, so the estimates and invoices covering that production are not split by the individual deliverable. Currently, we're opening a "Billing Only" project so that there's a project number associated with that bundled production effort, and the estimates/invoices reference that project. There's no work done under that project though, so it's just another project to keep track of in addition to the 3 we already have in progress. Aside from just picking one of the 3 projects and making that the one that all of the expenses are attached to, has anyone found an alternative? Thanks! Harry Thompson Workflow Manager - Brand, Content, & Advertising Lowe's Companies, Inc.
