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# Budgets

Budget enables you to track your actual spend against your planned spend by defining spending limits.

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## Creating a Budget

To create a budget, navigate to Notifications from the [Economize console](https://www.economize.cloud/app/login) sidebar, and follow the below steps:

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### Enter Details

* **Budget name:** Enter a descriptive name for your budget.
* **For:** Choose what the budget should monitor, i.e., Projects, Services, Labels, or SKUs.
* **Filter:** Define the specific resources within the selected criteria of *the "For"* field above.
* **Time Range:** Define the frequency for the budget, i.e., daily, weekly, or monthly.

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### Define Scope

* **Include Credits:** Choose whether to subtract available credits from your actual spend when tracking the budget.
* **Target Amount:** Set the amount that you will compare your actual spend against.
* **Threshold:** Define alert triggers to notify you when spending exceeds a certain percentage or amount of the budget.

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### Specify Destination

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* **Destination:** Select the workspace tools where you want to receive the budget from the available [integrations](/integrations/overview.md).
* **Channel:** Select the specific channels within the chosen destinations.

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