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Part of the Cue suite

Production budgeting
built for producers.

Industry-standard formats, real-time actuals, and hot costs — without the $500/year software license or the 40-tab spreadsheet. Budgets speaks production, not just finance.

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Formats

Every production format. One tool.

Budgets ships with industry-standard account structures for every production type — no reformatting, no custom spreadsheet, no consultant required.

Feature Film
IATSE / SAG-AFTRA account structure, above-the-line separation, completion bond reporting
TV / Episodic
Per-episode and series-level rollup, network delivery requirements, recurring cast structures
AICP / Commercial
Industry-standard AICP bid form, markup structures, bid vs. actual reconciliation
Documentary
Flexible structure for grants, co-productions, and multi-year projects with funder reporting
Features

Financial clarity, from pre to wrap

Designed for line producers and producers who need real-time visibility without living inside a spreadsheet — and accountants who need clean exports when the shoot wraps.

Top sheet to account detail

Start with the top sheet, drill into any department or account. Estimated vs. actual at every level — variances surface automatically, no formula hunting required.

Real-time actuals & hot costs

Log expenses as they happen. Hot costs update daily — producers see where each department stands against estimate before the next shoot day starts.

Purchase orders

Create, route, and track POs within the same tool that holds the budget. Approvals are tied directly to account balances — no overspending without visibility.

Crew database & deal memos

Generate deal memos from the crew database with rates, kit rentals, overtime rules, and bump structures. E-sign built in — no DocuSign subscription required.

Timecards & payroll export

Crew submits timecards digitally. Approved hours flow into payroll export — compatible with major payroll services. Overtime, penalties, and meal bumps calculated automatically.

Fringes, tax incentives & multi-currency

Calculate fringes automatically. Model tax incentive scenarios against real spend. Productions spanning borders get per-vendor exchange rates with automatic rollup conversion.

For Producers

See the big picture

Dashboard views that show where you stand — over budget, under budget, and where the risk is — before it becomes a problem on set.

For Line Producers

Control the details

Account-level management with full audit trails. Every change tracked, every PO accounted for, department-level permissions so each head sees their own numbers.

For Accountants

Clean exports

Export to industry-standard formats. Compatible with payroll services, accounting software, and completion bond reporting requirements — zero reformatting.

vs. Movie Magic Budgeting

Modern & connected

MMB is powerful but isolated — a desktop app with no real collaboration and no connection to your schedule or crew. Budgets is browser-first and integrated with the rest of your production stack.

vs. EP Budgeting

Affordable & accessible

Enterprise pricing puts professional budgeting tools out of reach for independent productions. Budgets has a free tier that's genuinely useful and scales to studio-level productions.

vs. Google Sheets

Production-aware

A spreadsheet doesn't calculate union fringes or know your shooting schedule. Budgets connects directly to Sheets — a schedule change updates your daily cost projection automatically.

Budgeting that works the way production does.

Get early access when Budgets launches.