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Saturation

Budget tracking software for department heads.

Saturation is film budgeting and expense tracking software, built by producers. See what is left on your department’s lines, raise purchase orders and capture receipts from set.

Trusted by 17,700+ producers managing $2.7 billion in production spend.

Built for the people spending the money

Purchase orders, cards, receipts and vendors in one place, away from a desk.

Smarter purchase orders

Raise it, then three-way match the order, the invoice and the receipt before anything is paid.

Receipt scanning

Drop in a folder of receipts. They arrive coded, on the right lines.

P-Cards

Set the limit before it ships.

Views

Keep any filter, sort and column set. Shared or personal.

Unified tasks

Every open ask in one grid.

Vendor portal

Every vendor gets a home to sign, upload and get paid.

Know what is left on your line before anyone asks.

Art, camera, grip, electric and sound each have their own lines, vendors and pace. Saturation shows a department head what is committed, what is spent and what remains, as it happens.

  • Your lines in a saved view
  • Purchase orders tracked to approval
  • Receipts captured on set

See where your purchase order sits.

Submit it and the status changes to waiting for approval, with every step recorded beside the document.

Explore purchase orders

From budget line to receipt.

See it, order it, close it.

  1. Open your view

    Start from a saved view of your department’s accounts and what is left on each.

  2. Raise the order

    Submit a purchase order and a flow sends it to the right approver.

  3. Attach the receipt

    Snap it on set and it is matched to the charge.

Every charge with its receipt.

Open a card charge to see the receipt attached to it, or add the one that is missing.

Explore expense management

Try it on your next production.

14 days free. No credit card required.

One department, start to finish.

In prep, on set and at wrap.

In prep

Start with your number in front of you.

Open a saved view of your accounts and see the budget you have been given, line by line.

  • A view of your department’s accounts
  • Vendors onboarded by link
  • Cards with spend limits
On set

Spend without losing track.

Raise a purchase order, see where it sits and snap the receipt when the purchase is made.

  • Purchase orders submitted for approval
  • Receipts matched to card charges
  • Committed and actual beside the budget
At wrap

Close out without a paper chase.

Every charge already has its receipt and its account, so wrap is a check and not a hunt.

  • Charges missing a receipt in one list
  • Open orders against your lines
  • Final spend against the budget

Questions department heads ask

Straight answers, before you start.

Yes. Each department head signs in with their own login. Access is set by scope (workspace, project, or a shared view) and role (such as Editor, Commenter, or Viewer), and admins control who gets what.

Usually, yes. Project roles apply to the whole project, so a saved view sets what a department head lands on, not what they can open. For a department-only review, share a public read-only link to that view; it expires after 30 days.

Department heads create a PO in Saturation and submit it for approval. A Purchase Order flow routes it by amount, project, or vendor, for example UPM, then production accountant, then an executive above a threshold. Approvers decide in Tasks or by email, and the PO status shows where it sits.

Yes. Snap a receipt in the Saturation Wallet iOS app and it is matched to the card charge it belongs to.

Yes. A production can bring department heads onto Saturation mid-shoot, while production accounting stays on its existing tools.

Your department, on budget and on record.

Put your next production through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.