If you want to use figuretree to balance incomings and outgoings, simply place a – “minus” sign in the quantity column before the quantity figure. Remember, this can be a decimal.

e.g. You develop a flat budget, and there are 5 flatmates paying a total of $550 per week. You’d simply place -.2 in the quantity column (one fifth), and $550 in the unit cost column, to be given an amount of rent payable -$110. This will then be an outgoing amount from the total cost.

Feel free to make contact if you have any questions.

A nice thing about figuretree is that it does calculations ‘as you type’ using Javascript.

This lead to a surprising problem recently, though. Using negative amounts in your rows – as many people do when creating budgets – could cause the rounding to be off while you were working. (Printable versions weren’t affected, just the editable sheets.) The problem has now been fixed, and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused!

At Figuretree we’re enjoying offering a logical web-tool that enables various calculations to be made and managed. Users may or may not be business oriented and can use figuretree for various different reasons.

Our ethos is to offer minimal features whilst providing an effective tool to develop prices/estimates and then turn these into quotes/invoices. Simple!

Our printing function is up and running. The invoice function is coming shortly. We’ll keep you posted.

Keep an eye out here for news of the latest updates: http://figuretree.com

Welcome to the brand new figuretree news page, where you can stay up to date on current and upcoming developments. We have some cool stuff in the pipeline, and we’ll let you know about it here first.

By way of personal introduction, I’m Tim, and I handle the technical development and maintenance of figuretree. I’m very keen on making the site as friendly and usable as possible. Your thoughts are always appreciated – our vision is to develop figuretree in collaboration with our users.