Production Ledger
Solo shooter

Look bigger. Keep more.

Client-ready invoices and quotes in minutes, market rates for your city, and a tax reserve that ends April surprises.

DP with a kit

Your gear is money.

A 1,300+ item catalog prices your kit into every bill. Replacement values feed insurance. Rentals reconcile against what you charged.

Crew coordinator

Everyone gets paid right.

Rosters with private rates, deal memos that sign themselves, payables to the cent, 1099s at year end — even the pay you covered personally.

Production

Budget vs. what it's costing.

Live margin per job, eight cost categories, upside-down warnings before wrap — not after.

Crew member

Your side of the table.

Claim your profile, see your jobs, your rate, what you're owed, and sign from your phone. Your identity is yours.

Generic tools see revenue. We show you what's yours.

You billed $5,565. QuickBooks calls that income. But $2,000 belongs to your crew, $1,445 went to costs, and the IRS wants a slice. Production Ledger runs that math on every job, every day, automatically — so a good-looking invoice can never hide a bad-paying job.

Client paid$5,565.00
Crew committed− $2,000.00
Rentals, insurance, costs− $1,444.60
Tax reserve (27% planning)− $572.51
Yours after everything$1,547.89
Documents

Paper that understands film.

Coverage invoices and production quotes with the structure a real job has — and the honesty a real client respects.

  1. Labor by the day — day rate on the line, days in their own column, rate × days at a glance. Deposits, closings, and supplementals stay one job, one truth.
  2. "What changed" — revisions print an itemized summary in service language, with your words on why.
  3. Covered pay — a line you're paying personally prints struck through with a note, excluded from every total.
  4. Fees folded in — platform fees, tax, and contingency raise the item prices themselves. No junk fee line at the bottom. Chrome-free PDF on every browser.
Spring campaign / invoice 04-001one of the job's documents
On the printed invoice
Director of Photography — $750.00/day2/d$1,500.00
B Camera Operator — $550.00/day2/d$1,100.00
Stills PhotographerPaid by the crew coordinator — no charge to client2/d$1,000.00$300.00
Cinema Camera Package (2 days, fees & tax included)×1$370.46
PL / Production file
Money truth

Upside down? Know before the wrap.

Every project carries a private budget card: what the job bills against what it's really costing — crew agreed, costs logged, rentals reconciled.

  1. Budget = every document the job bills — drafts and supplementals included, superseded paper never.
  2. Eight cost categories — lost & damaged gear gets its own line, so breakage can't hide in "misc."
  3. Rentals reconciliation — the vendor's real total (fees, tax and all) matched item-by-item against what you billed.
  4. Yours after everything — real once billed, honestly labeled projected while the invoice is a draft.
Spring campaign / budgetPrivate to you
Budget
Costing
Camera package rental — undercharged− $100.36
It costs you $470.82 · the invoice bills $370.46
Margin left on this job$2,120.40recomputed on every save
PL / Production file
Crew & people

Your crew, your network, their own doorway.

Build the job around real people. Keep private rates and payables together, send documents for signing, and let crew claim only the profile and pay information that belong to them.

  1. Sold positions appear as role cards until you fill them — the rate already agreed.
  2. Payment state is exact to the cent and private to the job owner. The client never sees any of it.
  3. Signed work draws a clear boundary between the job record and a crew member's view. Their jobs, their rate, what they're owed — your books stay yours.
Spring campaign / roster3 filled · 1 to fill
Crew network
On this job
Private pay on
JDJordan Doe · GafferLighting · 2 shoot daysSigned
SRSam Roe · 1st ACCamera · 2 shoot daysMemo out
+Still to fill · B cameraRole and rate already agreedOpen
Crew committed$2,000.002 people paid
Crew see their side. Your project books stay yours.
PL / Production file
Spring campaign / deal memo · Jordan Doe3 of 3 signers signed
Deal memo
Spring campaign deal memo
Jordan Doe
Signing envelope
Three signers
ProducerSigned
GafferSigned
OwnerSigned
Certificate retained with the signed document.
Insurance vaultCOI · gear schedule · attached to this job
PL / Production file
Contracts & insurance

Cancel the DocuSign seat.

Send one deal memo to the people who need to sign it. Keep the signed copy, the certificate, and the insurance paperwork with the job — instead of chasing them across separate services.

  1. Multi-signer envelopes route in sequence and record the state of every signer. Crew sign from any phone, no account on their end.
  2. Every signed copy carries a tamper-evident certificate, and view counts reflect real human opens, not inbox scanners.
  3. Insurance certificates and gear schedules stay attached to the production record — templates fill themselves from the roster.
Gear & schedule

The kit is an asset. The calendar is the job.

Price equipment like the investment it is. Bring a gear list in from a photo or insurance sheet, keep a current replacement value, and let job dates, gear-out days, and money deadlines share one calendar record.

  1. 1,300+ gear items carry structured day rates and replacement values, Entry → Advanced.
  2. AI kit import — photograph any gear list or insurance sheet; it becomes structured, priced kit rows. Free, private, local.
  3. Production Value makes the gear on set legible for insurance conversations.
  4. One timeline — shoot, delivery, rental, and money dates, subscribed into Apple or Google Calendar.
Personal kit / camera package23 items
FX6 body$450/day · $5,998
Prime lens set$350/day · $9,800
Tripod & support$90/day · $2,200
Production Value on set (23 items)$24,500the number your COI needs
14Sep · gear outSpring campaign · returns Sep 16 · shoot days Sep 14–15
PL / Production file
How it works

Follow one job through.

A job starts as an agreement. It ends with a clean record of the paper, people, money, and gear that moved through it. The figures never need to be rebuilt along the way.

01 / The beginning

Book the job.

Name the project, the scope, the dates, and the working rate. It's the first version of the job record everything else can point back to — the project, its budget, its calendar, and its crew roster are all born from this one document.

What carries forward
Set once

Project, scope, day rate

Job record

Quote, project dates, starting budget

What you know

What the job bills before you crew it

Starting budget$5,565.00Scope set
02 / The paper

Send real paper.

A coverage invoice or production quote with the structure a real job has — labor by the day, kit priced from the catalog, deposit terms, chrome-free PDF. The client sees a professional document; the job record keeps every version.

What carries forward
From the record

Roles, days, rates, kit

The document

Invoice or quote, deposit terms, late-fee terms

What you know

What the client owes, and when

Deposit due on booking (50%)$2,782.50Terms printed
03 / The people

Staff & sign.

Positions sold on the invoice appear as roster cards with the rate already agreed. Deal memos go out, get signed on a phone, and file themselves with the job. That's the DocuSign seat gone — and the crew management is already done.

What carries forward
From the invoice

Sold roles become roster cards

Job record

Signed memos, private rates, payables

What you know

Every rate agreed, in writing

Crew committed$2,000.001 of 2 memos signed
04 / The middle

Run the money.

Crew agreed, costs logged, rentals reconciled, hours on the clock, COIs on file. Upside-down warnings arrive while there's still time to fix the job — not in the postmortem.

What carries forward
As it happens

Costs, rentals, hours, payments

Job record

Live budget vs. costing, per category

What you know

The margin, while it can still move

Yours if it wraps today$1,547.89Tracking
05 / The end

Wrap it clean.

Everyone paid, and it shows to the cent. 1099 totals ready at year end, insurance filed, the signed paper frozen as history — and one number that matters: yours after everything.

What carries forward
At wrap

Payments logged, documents frozen

Job record

A closed job, 1099 totals, filed COIs

What you know

What this job was really worth to you

Yours after everything$1,547.89Job closed
System principles

One record. Everything else is arithmetic.

01

Every fact lives once

The invoice owns what a job bills. The payments ledger owns what crew were paid. Every surface takes its number from the source — so the figures agree to the cent, everywhere, always.

02

Derived, never duplicated

Budgets, roster slots, calendar dates, reminders, and rental checks are computed from the project records rather than retyped. Nothing to re-enter, nothing to go stale.

03

Documents freeze; ledgers live

A signed memo or a paid invoice stays as history — it never drifts. The job totals around it continue to reflect what happens next.

04

Private by structure

Costs, adjusted crew pay, and margins are structurally unable to print on client documents. A single control hides dollar figures on set. Works offline; syncs when you're back.

1,300+
gear items with structured day rates & replacement values
19
state film incentives, verified against statute
To the cent
the same figure on every product surface — machine-checked
0
private project numbers that can reach a client document
Pricing

Free to start. $17 when it's running your business.

One complete project stays free. Build the rest of your business on the same record when you're ready.

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  • Up to 3 invoices on it, each leaving its own kit
  • Three kits of your own
  • Full 14-day Business trial — no card
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$17/mo · $170/yr
  • Unlimited projects, invoices, crews, and clients
  • Contracts, crew portal, insurance vault, exports
  • Everything above, forever
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