Costing add-on in Project Management

The Project Management costing add-on connects the Project Management application to the Cost Management application to allow for estimating and tracking the costs associated with projects.

This plugin enables the following project costing features:

Estimate group resource costs during project planning.
Tracking the actual cost of each user resource for a project.
Track actual project task costs from time cards and other project expenses.
Allocate project costs to the business.
Represent project costs to the CIs that the project affects.
Rollups of actual task expenses to parent tasks and the project record.

The Project and Cost applications work together as shown in the diagram:

[Omitted image "project_costing_concepts.png"] Alt text: screenshot for Project and Cost applications relationship

The following properties are available with this plugin:

Description	Property Name	Notes
For planned tasks types, calculate the actual cost field using the total of expense lines for the task.	glide.cost_mgmt.calc_actual_cost	Default: true. This property is from Cost Management. When an expense line is created against any task of planned_tasktype and this property is true, the system calculates the sum of all expense line costs. The total is set in the work_cost field.
When creating a task expense line should the system also create expense lines for the top task?	glide.cost_mgmt.process_task_top_task	Default: true
Enable project cost rollup (estimated and actual) - updating the cost of a project task updates the cost of its parent.	com.snc.project.rollup.cost	Default: true

The following business rules are added or modified with this plugin:

Name	Table	Description
Project Cost Rollup	Planned task [planned_task]	Default: true. This property is from Cost Management. When an expense line is created against any task of planned_tasktype and this property is true, the system calculates the total cost. The system gets a sum of the costs for all expense lines and sets the total in the work_cost field.
Process Top Task Parent	[fm_expense_line]	Default: true

Parent Topic:Starting a project

Related topics

Create a project task from a project

Create a parent-child relationship on the Project Task form

Create a monetary benefit plan for a project

Create a non-monetary benefit plan for a project

Associate monetary and non-monetary benefit plans

Create a project cost plan

Recalculating costs of all resource plans in a project

Create an expense line

Create and manage waterfall projects

Schedule a project from a start date

Apply or change a task constraint

Update a project

Copy a project

Assign a project schedule

Create baseline of a project

Create a milestone

Activate project task email notifications

Change the planned start date of a project

Create a cost type definition

Generate labor costs

Create a project status report

Allocate budget to a project

Migrate budget of active projects to Next Experience

Migrate financial baselines of projects to Next Experience

title	Costing add-on in Project Management
description	The Project Management costing add-on connects the Project Management application to the Cost Management application to allow for estimating and tracking the costs associated with projects.
locale	en-US
canonical_url	https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-business-management/project-management/c\_ProjectManagementCostingAddOn.html
release	australia
product	Project Management
classification	project-management
topic_type	concept
last_updated	2026-09-13
reading_time_minutes	5
breadcrumb	Starting a projectUsing Project ManagementProject ManagementProject Portfolio ManagementStrategic Portfolio Management