# Splitting one cost across several projects

> One cheque, several jobs: allocate the amount by percentage, hours or dollars and each job carries its own share.

Section: Projects and time · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/cost-splits

An employee is paid $1,000 for a week split between two jobs. The payment is one event, but the *cost* belongs half to each job. Without a split, whichever job gets named carries the whole $1,000 — one job flattered, the other punished, and nothing in the books showing it.

**How to do it:** on a bill, expense, check, vendor credit or item receipt, open the row menu on a line and choose **Split across projects**.

**Three ways to divide it:**
- **By percentage** — 50/50, 60/40. The odd cents are settled for you.
- **By hours** — in proportion to the hours worked on each job.
- **By amount** — type the dollars, with a one-click button to drop the remainder on a row.

**The rule that makes it safe:** the parts must add back to the whole, exactly, to the cent. A split that does not reconcile is refused rather than rounded, because a rounding difference here is a permanent error in job cost that nothing downstream can catch. The screen shows the shortfall as you type and will not save until it is nil.

**It is real, not a report overlay.** A split line posts as one journal line per project — same account, same total, different job. Every project report is therefore correct without knowing this feature exists, and the trial balance is untouched.

**Saved splits:** name a split you use often — the crew that is always 60/40 across the same two jobs — and apply it to any amount later.

**Cost codes** can be set per part as well as per line, so a split can land on different phases of different jobs. See [Cost codes](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/cost-codes).