Solo shooter

Look bigger, and keep more of what you bill.

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

Gaffer with a kit

Make your gear earn what it's worth.

A 2,900+ item catalog prices your kit into every bill, replacement values feed your insurance conversations, and 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, and 1099s at year end, even for the pay you covered personally.

Production

Budget vs. what it's costing.

You see the live margin on every job across eight cost categories, with upside-down warnings before the wrap instead of after it.

Crew member

Your side of the table.

Claim your profile, see your jobs, your rate and what you're owed, and sign from your phone, all under an identity that stays yours.

Generic tools see revenue, but we show you what's yours.

You billed $9,850, and QuickBooks calls that income. But $3,700 of it belongs to your crew, $1,445 went to costs, and the IRS wants a slice. Production Ledger runs that math on every job automatically, so a good-looking invoice can never hide a bad-paying job.

Client paid$9,850.00
Crew labor− $3,700.00
Rentals, insurance, costs− $1,444.60
Tax reserve (27% planning)− $1,270.46
Yours after everything$3,434.94
Documents

Paper that understands film.

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

  1. Labor by the day puts the day rate on the line and the days in their own column, so rate × days reads at a glance, and deposits, closings and supplementals stay one job with one set of numbers.
  2. "What changed" prints an itemized summary on every revision, in service language, with your own words on why.
  3. Covered pay prints a line you're paying personally struck through with a note, and leaves it out of every total.
  4. Fees folded in means platform fees, tax and contingency raise the item prices themselves, so there's no junk fee line at the bottom, and the PDF comes out chrome-free on every browser.
Kettle Hill spot / invoice 04-001one of the job's documents
On the printed invoice
1st Assistant Director — $900.00/day2/d$1,800.00
Production Sound Mixer — $950.00/day2/d$1,900.00
Key Production AssistantPaid by the crew coordinator — no charge to client2/d$700.00$300.00
Lighting 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 that sets what the job bills against what it's really costing, with crew agreed, costs logged and rentals reconciled.

  1. Budget = every document the job bills, drafts and supplementals included and superseded paper never.
  2. Eight cost categories give lost & damaged gear its own line, so breakage can't hide in "misc."
  3. Rentals reconciliation matches the vendor's real total (fees, tax and all) item by item against what you billed.
  4. Yours after everything is real once you've billed, and honestly labeled projected while the invoice is still a draft.
Kettle Hill spot / budgetPrivate to you
Budget
Costing
Lighting package rental — undercharged− $100.36
It costs you $470.82 · the invoice bills $370.46
Margin left on this job$4,705.40recomputed 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, with 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: they see their jobs, their rate and what they're owed, and your books stay yours.
Kettle Hill spot / roster2 filled · 1 to fill
Crew network
On this job
Private to you
SRSam Roe · Sound MixerSound · 2 shoot daysSigned
JDJordan Doe · 1st ADProduction · 2 shoot daysMemo out
+Still to fill · GafferRole and rate already agreedOpen
Crew labor$3,700.002 people paid
Crew see their side. Your project books stay yours.
PL / Production file
Kettle Hill spot / deal memo · Jordan Doe1 of 3 signed
Deal memo
Kettle Hill spot deal memo
Role1st Assistant Director
Day rate$900 / 12-hour day
Days2 shoot days, Sep 14–15
KitNone
PaymentNet 30 from wrap
Awaiting Jordan Doe's signature
Signing envelope
Three signers
Producer · 3 viewsSigned
DirectorSent, not opened
1st AD · 1 viewNot signed
Certificate of signing is created once all three have signed.
Insurance documentsCOI · gear schedule · attached to this job
PL / Production file
Contracts & insurance

Send one deal memo and keep every signature with the job.

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

  1. Multi-signer envelopes go out in signing order or to everyone at once, 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, and templates fill themselves from the roster.
Gear & schedule

Your kit is an asset, and your 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. 2,900+ gear items carry structured day rates and replacement values, Entry → Advanced.
  2. AI kit import turns a photo of any gear list or insurance sheet into structured, priced kit rows, and it's free and private.
  3. Production Value makes the gear on set legible for insurance conversations.
  4. One timeline holds your shoot, delivery, rental and money dates, and subscribes into Apple or Google Calendar.
Sam Roe / sound package23 items
Sound Devices Scorpio$250/day · $12,000
Lectrosonics SMQV wireless$95/day · $1,850
Sennheiser MKH 416$40/day · $1,050
Production Value on set (23 items)$24,500what your insurance should cover
14Sep · gear outKettle Hill spot · returns Sep 16 · shoot days Sep 14–15
PL / Production file
Production Ledger features

How it works

Follow one of your jobs from booking to wrap.

A job starts as an agreement and ends with a clean record of the paper, people, money and gear that moved through it, and 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. That becomes the first version of the job record everything else points back to, because 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$9,850.00Scope 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 and a chrome-free PDF. The client sees a professional document while 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%)$4,925.00Terms printed
03 / The people

Staff & sign.

Positions sold on the invoice appear as roster cards with the rate already agreed, and deal memos go out, get signed on a phone and file themselves with the job. By the time everyone has signed, 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 labor$3,700.001 of 2 memos signed
04 / The middle

Run the money.

Crew agreed, costs logged, rentals reconciled, hours tracked and COIs on file all feed one live picture, so upside-down warnings arrive while there's still time to fix the job instead of 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$3,434.94Tracking
05 / The end

Wrap it clean.

Everyone is paid and it shows to the cent, your 1099 totals are ready at year end, the insurance is filed and the signed paper is frozen as history, which leaves you with the 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$3,434.94Job closed
System principles

One record. Everything else is arithmetic.

01

Every fact lives once

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

02

Derived, never duplicated

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

03

Documents freeze; ledgers live

A signed memo or a paid invoice stays as history and never drifts, while the job totals around it keep reflecting 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, and everything works offline and syncs when you're back.

2,900+
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, and you can build the rest of your business on the same record when you're ready.

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  • Unlimited projects, invoices, crews, and clients
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