Financing
You can save a plan's structure as a template and start new plans from it, and you know a template is a frozen snapshot.
Most production companies finance the same way twice. The same national funds, the same broadcasters, the same group headings — and rebuilding that structure per project is wasted work.
A **template** is that structure, saved once and offered to every new plan.
In **New Financing Plan**, the *Template* list offers:
- **No Template** — an empty plan. - **Example Template** — a worked structure that ships with KOSMA. - **your saved templates** — with a delete action on each to take one out of the list. - **Load File** — a template file from disk, for one somebody sent you.
Pick one and the new plan opens with that structure already in place.
This is the difference from a copy, and it is the thing to understand.
**A template is frozen at the moment it was saved.** The plan it came from goes on changing; the template does not. Nothing propagates in either direction, and two people cannot collide over one.
That is deliberate. A template is a starting point you want to be stable — a starting point that shifted under you because a colleague edited the plan it came from would be worse than no template.
- **Improving a template means saving a new one.** Refine the structure in a plan, then save it again and delete the older entry. - **Nothing you do to a plan can damage a template**, so start from one freely. - **A template travels as a file.** Load File is how a template someone sent you gets into your list.
A template carries **structure**: countries, groups, source names. It is not the way to carry a *financed plan* forward with its amounts, statuses and schedules intact — that is what copying does — see [copy a financing plan](/kb/article/copy-a-financing-plan).
Think of it as the empty form your company always fills in, not as last year's completed one.
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