Cost centers

The Cost centers page is the central place for every cost center in your organisation. Here you give each numeric cost-center code a readable name and an optional description. Those names then appear everywhere in Fyvel where cost centers are shown: in categories, in the personnel-cost split, and in exports.

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What is a cost center?

A cost center is a numeric code that represents a department, a project, or a cost unit in your company. In accounting, cost centers assign bookings to specific areas. In Fyvel you can:

• Name cost centers — give each code a readable label (for example code 5 → “Sales Berlin”).
• Store descriptions — optionally document what a cost center is for.
• Use names across the organisation — the stored names appear automatically in categories, personnel-cost splits, and filters.

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Create a cost center

Click “Create cost center” and fill in:

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Edit and delete a cost center

Click the pencil icon in the table to edit a cost center. Use the trash icon to delete one.

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Where do cost-center names appear?

Once you have given a cost center a name, it is shown everywhere in Fyvel:

• Categories — in the category list and in the cost-center filter, the name appears next to the code (for example “5 – Sales Berlin”).
• Personnel costs — in the cost-center split and in the default allocation, cost centers are listed with their name (for example “Sales Berlin: 60%”).
• Filters — in every filter that filters by cost center, the name appears so you can orient yourself.

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Tip

Create cost centers before you start splitting personnel costs or assigning categories. Then every view shows readable names instead of only numeric codes.

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