Production finance software for payroll firms.
Saturation is budgeting and cost tracking software for productions, built by producers. Payroll you run for a client lands in their budget as coded wage and fringe lines, with union rates and fringes already set up.
Trusted by 17,700+ producers managing $2.7 billion in production spend.
Where payroll meets the budget
Union rates, fringes and imports that land payroll straight into the production's ledger.
Universal imports
Movie Magic, Excel and any table you can export. Seconds, not hours.
Rate packs
Verified union rates, versioned.
Fringes and markupsRebuilt
Stack them, cap them, and see the split on every line.
Schedule payments
Pay now or pick the send date.
Payments
Every payment, in one place.
Bank statement PDFs
A branded PDF for any range.
Give your clients payroll they can see in the budget.
A production wants to know what payroll did to each account. Saturation takes your payroll file and posts it against the client’s budget lines, so the producer and the accountant read the same number you sent.
- Timecards imported as coded lines
- Union rate packs built in
- Fringes set once, applied everywhere
Union rates, already in the Library.
Search a rate pack, open a classification and see its scale rate, agreement and effective date.
Explore budgetingFrom rate card to posted payroll.
Price it, import it, read it.
Price the labor
Type a slash in a budget line to pull a rate from the packs that are switched on.
Import the payroll
Drop in the file and each timecard is split into wage and fringe lines.
Read the fringes
Every line shows its fringes, so the loaded cost is never a guess.
A union rate, one keystroke away.
Type a slash in a line, pick the classification and the rate fills in.
See integrationsOne client, start to finish.
At show setup, through the weekly close and when the client calls.
Budgeted on the rates you will pay.
The production prices its labor from union rate packs and sets fringes before the first timecard.
- Rate packs for the major unions
- Fringes and caps in the Library
- Your own rate card imported from a CSV
Payroll posted in one import.
Drop in the payroll file and each timecard becomes wage and fringe lines on the right accounts.
- Columns mapped for you
- Wage and fringe lines split out
- A review step before anything posts
Answer the question from the same ledger.
When a producer asks what a week cost, the payroll lines are there with the rest of the spend.
- Payroll beside cards and invoices
- Actuals against the estimate
- Cost reports from live data
Questions payroll firms ask
Straight answers, before you start.
Explore related solutions
See how Saturation works for other roles and production types.
Payroll your clients can see in the budget.
Put a client production through it and see for yourself.
14 days free. No credit card required.