{"id":147400,"date":"2026-10-13T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=147400"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:49:18","slug":"is-a-cost-center-automatically-created-for-each-project","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/en\/faq\/is-a-cost-center-automatically-created-for-each-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Cost Center Automatically Created for Each Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"352\">Yes, a cost center is automatically created for each project. Once the project is successfully created, a cost center with the same name as the project title is automatically generated under the main cost center folder selected in the project creation form (the <strong data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"344\">\u201cParent Cost Center\u201d<\/strong> field).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"489\">The final structure of this cost center depends on the value selected in the <strong data-start=\"431\" data-end=\"456\">\u201cCost Tracking Level\u201d<\/strong> field when creating the project:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"761\">\n<li data-section-id=\"1lbpsf6\" data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"616\">If the selected level is <strong data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"531\">\u201cProject\u201d<\/strong>, the project\u2019s cost center is a single <strong data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"589\">file (account)<\/strong> under the selected folder.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1jsvw6t\" data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"761\">If either of the other two levels (<strong data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"667\">Work Item<\/strong> or <strong data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"680\">Items<\/strong>) is selected, the cost center is a new <strong data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"735\">main folder<\/strong> instead of a single file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"template":"","categories":[15599,16098],"tags":[17754,15689,17759,16110,17756,17757,17758,16580,17760],"class_list":["post-147400","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","category-construction","category-projects","tag-automatically-create-a-cost-center-for-each-project","tag-construction","tag-cost-center-as-a-file-or-folder","tag-cost-tracking-level","tag-how-is-the-project-cost-center-determined","tag-how-to-assign-a-cost-center-to-a-project","tag-project-cost-center","tag-projects","tag-select-parent-cost-center"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is a Cost Center Automatically Created for Each Project? - Daftra Knowledge Base<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/en\/faq\/is-a-cost-center-automatically-created-for-each-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is a Cost Center Automatically Created for Each Project? - Daftra Knowledge Base\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes, a cost center is automatically created for each project. 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