Abiliy to require a Task when creating an Expense

We have an issue where our staff often don’t assign a task to an expense and instead just assign it to a project. This adds to the total project budget, which is an issue for us. We need expenses to come out of the total project budget instead of adding to it. The only way for this to happen is if expenses are forced to require a task, like the setting for time entries.

Something like this setting, but for expenses:

For more info on how our project budget is set up:

Hello there,

Thanks for using the Forum!

Would it help if you completely remove the expenses from the budget by making sure the last option in the screenshot you have attached is not selected?

Kind regards,

No that is essential for us to track accurate spending.

Hello Jesudas,

Are you perhaps referring to Expenses automatically lowering the budget?

You can reach out to us at support@clockify.me so we can take a look at this together and figure out if there is a workaround for this situation.

Cheers,