--- title: Controlling for staffing: contribution margin and forecast — alluvo description: Controlling for staffing: alluvo shows the contribution margin on the assignment, forecasts revenue, hours and costs, and evaluates prospecting and utilisation. url: https://alluvo.ai/en/product/controlling --- 1. [Product](https://alluvo.ai/en/product) 2. Controlling # Controlling that knows the contribution margin on the assignment. Controlling in staffing means knowing which assignment pays before the month is billed. In alluvo the contribution margin sits on the assignment, and revenue, hours and costs are available as a forecast. It calculates with the data your scheduling team works with anyway. [Start for free](https://app.alluvo.ai/register?lang=en&market=en&utm_source=website&utm_medium=market&utm_campaign=en) Get to know alluvo Module alluvo Controlling **Contribution margin** on the assignment **Forecast** revenue, hours, costs **Reports** also via the API **Apps** 2 **Funktionen** 2 **Included in** alluvo, with all modules Ein Datenmodell Part of alluvo, with the same data as every other module. From everyday work ## Three scenes from management. You can guess how they end. 1. Mit alluvo 01 ### The contribution margin sits on the assignment. In alluvo the contribution margin belongs to the assignment instead of sitting in a spreadsheet next to it. You see it where you also see contract and hours. A thing of the past ### The contribution margin is in Excel. *As of last quarter.* Once a quarter someone rebuilds the spreadsheet: hours from time tracking, rates from the contracts, wages from payroll. By the time it is finished, half the assignments have changed. **The consequence**An assignment has not paid for months because the surcharge under the pay agreement rose and the rate did not. That only shows once you have already lost money for half a year. 2. Mit alluvo 02 ### Revenue, hours and costs as a forecast. alluvo calculates revenue, hours and costs forward, as a detailed or a simple forecast. On top comes the market analysis: what is moving in your area. A thing of the past ### The forecast is made by the boss. *In their head.* What next month will bring, management estimates from a feel for the running assignments. How many hours really come and what they cost is written down nowhere. **The consequence**Wages go out at month end, client payments arrive weeks later. Without an overview you only notice the gap on the account. 3. Mit alluvo 03 ### The reports are ready. Prospecting, employees, matching and utilisation are available in alluvo as reports, plus client portal and employee app. Through the public API you also pull the numbers into your own reporting. A thing of the past ### Scheduling knows the utilisation. *Roughly.* How many employees are on the bench right now, how many requests sales brings in and how many of them get filled, someone pieces together from three programs at month end. **The consequence**Employees on the bench cost wages without bringing revenue. If the number first appears in the monthly report, you have already paid for the month. Apps in the module ## 2 Apps. One record. Book the module and you get every app in it. They all work on the same client, the same employee and the same assignment, so nobody has to transfer anything between them. - ### [Insights](https://alluvo.ai/en/apps/kennzahlen-zeitarbeit) The reports you otherwise piece together at month end. - Acquisition, matching and utilisation are available as reports, not as an export. - Your own surfaces count too: client portal and employee app. To the app - ### [Forecasting & Margin](https://alluvo.ai/en/apps/deckungsbeitrag-zeitarbeit) What next month brings, before it arrives. - Revenue, hours and costs as a forecast, not a gut feeling. - The contribution margin sits on the assignment, not in a spreadsheet next to it. - Plus the market analysis: what is moving around you. To the app What you get ## What is in the module. Every line appears like this in the price catalog of alluvo, and each one is included in the price per employee on assignment. What that costs is further down in the Price section. ### Forecasts - Forecast, simple forecast and contribution margin Revenue, hours and cost forecasts, margin and market analysis. ### Insights - Reports on acquisition, employees, client portal, employee app and market analysis Prospecting, employees, matching, client portal, employee app and utilisation. AI in the module ## Say it to alluvo. With the [alluvo operator](https://alluvo.ai/en/operator), Claude or ChatGPT does the work in this module at your word, with your permissions and in your data. Somebody types these sentences exactly as they are written here. - „Give me the dispatch overview for this week.“ **Coordinate staffing operations** · Utilisation, assignments ending, open demands, gaps in the shift plan and the backlog of hours, in one overview. - „Who is on the bench right now?“ **Bench check** · Who has no assignment today and whose assignment ends soon, sorted by urgency. - „Show me the forecast for the quarter.“ **Coordinate sales** · Pipeline, weighted forecast, BDR performance and pipeline review, plus the distribution of research and outreach work. - „What is on today?“ **Daily briefing** · Appointments, due tasks, replies from outreach and everything stuck in the pipeline, as one overview to start the day. - „Set up a weekly AI report for me.“ **Build automation agents** · Builds an agent for schedules, inbox events or multi-step flows, and manages which instructions it gets. How it fits together ## One module. The same data as all the others. Controlling is not a separate program next to the others. It works on the same data model, and you notice it at the handovers. - [Staffing & Contracts The contribution margin hangs on the same assignments and contracts your scheduling team manages.](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/scheduling) - [Sales The prospecting report counts the companies and contacts your sales team maintains in the CRM.](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/crm) - [People & Time Utilisation and the use of the employee app come from the same employee records the hours hang on.](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/time-tracking) Calculate for free The matching calculators. - [Assignment calculator A long assignment at a low rate or short ones at a higher rate?](https://alluvo.ai/en/tools/assignment-calculator) - [Bench cost calculator What does the bench cost you each month?](https://alluvo.ai/en/tools/bench-cost) - [Billing rate calculator What is the least you have to charge the client?](https://alluvo.ai/en/tools/billing-rate) Price ## One price. All modules. Controlling is included, together with all the other modules. You pay per employee on assignment, no matter how many modules you use. €69[1] per employee on assignment and month **€55** with annual payment **Free** Employees on the bench, candidates and users [Calculate the price for your business](https://alluvo.ai/en/pricing#rechner) - [Sales](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/crm) - [Recruiting](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/applicant-management) - [Staffing & Contracts](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/scheduling) - [People & Time](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/time-tracking) - [Payroll](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/payroll) - [Invoicing](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/invoicing) - [Controlling this page](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/controlling) - [Service & Inbox](https://alluvo.ai/en/product/ticketing) Questions ## Questions about controlling in staffing. **What does controlling in alluvo show?** The contribution margin on the assignment, forecasts for revenue, hours and costs and a market analysis for your area. Plus reports on prospecting, employees, matching, utilisation, client portal and employee app. **Where do the numbers come from?** From the same data you work with: assignments, contracts, hours and employee records. You build no spreadsheet next to the system, because controlling calculates in the same data model. **How do I calculate the contribution margin of a single assignment in advance?** With the free assignment calculator: gross wage and billing rate in, contribution margin per month and break-even out. **Can I pull the reports into my own reporting?** Yes. The report data is available through a public API. Through the alluvo operator you also query it in Claude, for example as an overview of utilisation and assignments that are ending. **What does Controlling cost?** Controlling costs nothing extra. It comes with all the other modules in the one price per employee on assignment per month, which the Price section shows. You can work out your monthly amount in the [calculator on the pricing page](https://alluvo.ai/en/pricing#rechner). ## Seeing is easier than reading. Start for free, or book 20 minutes: we show you Controlling on real workflows. [Start for free](https://app.alluvo.ai/register?lang=en&market=en&utm_source=website&utm_medium=market&utm_campaign=en) [See all modules](https://alluvo.ai/en/product) ## Footnotes 1. One price per employee on assignment and month, all modules included. All amounts exclude VAT. Everything else is on the [pricing page](https://alluvo.ai/en/pricing). ↩