For more details about what overheads are, please refer to the help article.
The Overhead object represents overhead costs for a particular month of a fiscal year. Productive generates overhead objects automatically every month, starting the month when you opened your Productive account.
Please note that some overhead settings are also defined at the organisation level. This settings can be changed by modifying the Organizations object.
The number of past overhead periods used to calculate projected estimates when averaging is enabled.
The total available work capacity in hours for the period, based on employee schedules.
Total hours tracked on billable client projects during this overhead period.
Hours tracked on billable client projects that are marked as overhead during this period.
The currency of monetary values in this overhead record.
The monetary values in this overhead record converted to the organization's default currency.
The monetary values in this overhead record in the normalized (display) currency.
Date when this overhead period ends, or null if this is the current projection period.
The exchange rate used to convert costs to the organization's default currency for this period.
The facility cost per hour.
The facility cost per hour default.
The facility cost per hour normalized.
The total facility (office and infrastructure) costs allocated to this overhead period.
A breakdown of facility costs by category (e.g. rent, utilities) for this overhead period.
The facility costs converted to the organization's default currency.
The facility costs in the normalized (display) currency.
The total internal costs including work, time-off, and expenses, adjusted for overhead inclusion controls.
The internal componentized costs default.
The internal componentized costs normalized.
The total cost of internal expense reports during this overhead period.
The internal expense costs default.
The internal expense costs normalized.
Total hours tracked on internal (non-billable) projects during this overhead period.
Hours tracked on internal projects that are marked as overhead during this period.
The total cost of time tracked on internal projects during this overhead period.
The internal work costs default.
The internal work costs normalized.
The new internal cost per hour.
The new internal cost per hour default.
The new internal cost per hour normalized.
The organization this overhead record belongs to.
A set of flags controlling which overhead types (facility, work, time-off, expense, undertime, overtime) are included in cost calculations.
Total hours marked as overhead across all project types during this period.
The cost associated with overtracked hours — when employees tracked more time than their scheduled capacity.
The overtracked costs converted to the organization's default currency.
The overtracked costs in the normalized (display) currency.
Hours tracked in excess of the employee's scheduled capacity during this period.
Timestamp when the overhead costs were last recalculated from tracked time and bookings.
The current recalculation status of this overhead, tracking whether bookings and time entries have been processed.
Date when this overhead period starts.
The subsidiary this overhead record is associated with (null for global overheads).
ID of the subsidiary this overhead record is associated with (null for global overheads).
The total cost of paid time-off hours during this overhead period.
The time off costs default.
The time off costs normalized.
Total paid time-off hours taken by employees during this overhead period.
The time off overhead hours.
Total hours tracked across all project types during this overhead period.
The cost associated with undertracked hours — when employees tracked less time than their scheduled capacity.
The undertracked costs converted to the organization's default currency.
The undertracked costs in the normalized (display) currency.
Hours not tracked by employees relative to their scheduled capacity during this period.
Timestamp when this overhead record was last updated.
The person who last updated this overhead record.
When true, overhead calculations are enabled and applied to cost rate computations for this subsidiary.
When true, overhead costs are averaged over multiple past periods rather than using a single period's values.