Budget Vision
Your budget understood.
Budget Vision is an online budget presentation tool that will increase the number of people viewing your city or town budget. Budget Vision provides interactive charts and graphs that will help your citizens improve their understanding of revenue and expenses. Budget Vision allows you to provide context, history, trends and meaningful comparisons
Hermon, ME
Hermon is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,416 at the 2010 census.
Mount Desert, ME
Mount Desert is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,109 at the 2000 census.
Watertown, MA
The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.
Up front pricing
| Examples | Population | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Union, CT | 854 | $29 |
| Salisbury, NH | 1,382 | $75 |
| Hermon, ME | 5,416 | $150 |
| Belmont, MA | 24,729 | $200 |
| Waltham, MA | 60,632 | $500 |
| Boston, MA | 617,594 | $1,000 |
8 awesome reasons to use Budget Vision
| Budget Vision | Excel ™ | PowerPoint ™ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web based | Yes | No | No | No |
| Printable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Comparisons | Yes | No | No | No |
| Interactive Charts | Yes | No | No | No |
| Comments | Yes | No | No | No |
| Import/Export | Yes | ~Yes | No | No |
| Trends | Yes | No | No | No |
| Goal Setting | Yes | No | No | No |
Web based
Putting a PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint™ or Word™ document up on your website just doesn't cut it anymore. The public has come to expect high quality tools to interact with data and information while using the web. Personal finance sites like Mint.com have increased the expectations of your audience.
Printable
The concept of the paperless office or government is a great one and hopefully Budget Vision reduces your paper needs but the reality is you'll still need to print things out for meetings. Budget Vision generates beautiful reports and PDF documents using the information on the website.
Comparisons
How much are your neighboring towns spending on Public Safety, Education and Public Works? Budget Vision makes it easy to perform direct comparisons with similar communities to help planning and budgeting. View another town's budget and learn how they were able to trim their paving costs.
Interactive Charts
Goodbye static spreadsheets, hello interactive charts. Budget Vision is extremely easy for budget novices to dive in, view and understand the details of your budget. All the beautiful charts in Budget Vision are created using the data you provide, update the data and the chart is also updated.
Comments & Questions
People will have questions or comments, Budget Vision integrates with the Disqus.com commenting platform, a super simple commenting tool that makes it easy for people to ask questions about the budget and for budget owners to respond.
Import & Export
We make it easy for you to get your data in, but more importantly we will NEVER LOCK UP YOUR DATA . Import a CSV file to get started, then use our exporting tools to get it back out.
Trends
Hopefully your budgets aren't shifting wildly year to year, but the automatically generated trending charts in Budget Vision will help you identify patterns and show your citizens the long term picture.
Goals & Results
Where is your city or town headed? Describe city or town goals to frame the big picture and provide context, then generate results to show the public how you did.
