📊Cost Type view now available in Budget Register

When we released Cost Types last month, we introduced a cleaner way to structure project costs without bloating cost codes. If you missed that update, you can read it here: https://feedback.deepspacesync.com/changelog/53310/ That release separated three ideas that are often forced together in construction systems: Cost Code – what the work is Cost Type – how the work is delivered Budget Category – where the cost rolls up financially This update is the practical extension of that foundation. Cost Type View is now live inside the Budget Register. On every live project, there are two distinct commercial conversations happening at the same time. The first conversation is structural. You want to understand how Preliminaries are tracking. Whether Concrete is running over. What’s happening in Structural Steel. This is scope-based analysis. It aligns with the WBS and how contracts are administered. That’s Cost Code View. The second conversation is behavioural. You want to know how much Labour exposure you are carrying across the entire project. Whether the job is subcontract-heavy. What your Materials position looks like across all trades. Whether consultant costs are concentrated in one area. These questions don’t sit neatly inside a single work package. They cut across the entire project. That’s Cost Type View. Most systems blur these two ideas together. Over time, cost codes start absorbing reporting responsibilities they were never meant to carry. You see structures expand with variations of the same code simply to separate labour from materials. It works early on. It becomes painful later. With Cost Type View now available in the Budget Register, you no longer need to compromise. Inside the Budget Register, you’ll now see a simple Display toggle. You can view the budget structured by Cost Codes or grouped by Cost Types. The underlying budget lines do not change. Totals reconcile perfectly between both views. Nothing is duplicated. Nothing is inflated. The data is simply grouped differently. To make that practical, imagine CC-01-03 Temporary Works carries a $250,000 allocation entirely under Labour. In Cost Code View, you’ll see it sitting under Preliminaries as expected. Switch to Cost Type View and that same Temporary Works line appears under Labour with the same $250,000. Same number. Same line. Different roll-up. Now imagine you’re running a $30–40M commercial build. Concrete includes subcontract supply, self-performed labour and some plant hire. Preliminaries carry supervision labour and consultant fees. In your monthly review, the PM wants to focus on scope performance, so you stay in Cost Code View. Later, the commercial manager wants to understand total Labour exposure across the entire job before finalising the forecast. You switch to Cost Type View and instantly see that exposure consolidated. No exporting. No rebuilding structures. No inflated cost codes. For mid-sized builders, this keeps your cost codes stable across projects while giving you behavioural insight when you need it. It supports cleaner forecasting conversations, clearer exposure analysis and more confident reporting to directors and finance teams. This is the operational step that makes Cost Types truly useful inside day-to-day commercial workflows. As Cost Types continue to extend into commitments, invoices, claims and forecasting, this behavioural clarity will carry through from Original Budget to final account. As always, thank you for the feedback that shapes these releases. If you have thoughts or suggestions as you start using Cost Type View in the Budget Register, we’d love to hear them. — The Deep Space Product Team