One link. Every vendor, papered.
Saturation Vendor Onboarding replaces the email chain, the PDF packet, and the spreadsheet of who-sent-what with a single secure link. Vendors fill out their own info — contacts, tax documents, bank details, signed agreements — and everything flows directly into your production contacts.
Bring your team together
Production budgeting, expense tracking, credit cards, approvals, and cost reporting in one cloud platform for video production teams.
Collaborate
Collaboratively build budgets with line items, rates, fringes, and actuals. Start from industry-standard templates: feature film, TV, commercial, and more.
Projects
Group projects into folders, switch between workspaces, and stay on top of multiple productions without losing context.
Universal imports
Movie Magic, Excel and any table you can export. Seconds, not hours.
Project Library
Seven kinds of reference data, current everywhere.
Public API
Connect the tools you run on.
MCP server
Point your AI at your workspace.
Flows and approvals
Send anything for approval, not just payments. Branch it, delay it, test it.
Issue Cards
Virtual cards spend instantly, physical ships in a week. One at a time or twenty-five at once.
Comments
Comment directly on line items or expenses, so context never gets lost.
Access Control
Control who can see, edit, and approve, so clients, vendors, and your team only access what they should.
6
steps from link to papered
Type selection, contact info, tax docs, document signing, bank details, invoice — vendors complete the full packet in one sitting.
17,700+
producers on Saturation
The same production finance platform used for budgeting, actuals, expense management, and vendor payments.
3 types
vendor types, one link
Company, Independent Contractor, or Employee — vendors self-identify and see only the fields that apply to them.
Built for how productions actually hire.
Every production runs the same gauntlet in week one: dozens of vendors who need to be papered up before cameras roll. The tools most productions use for this are email, a shared folder, and a manual tracker. Saturation replaces the gauntlet with a link.
AUTOMATED COLLECTION
Stop chasing W-9s before day one.
Send one link. Vendors complete their own packet — contact info, tax documents, bank routing numbers, signed agreements — without any back-and-forth. Your dashboard shows who is done and who still needs to submit.
CONFIGURABLE REQUIREMENTS
The right paperwork for every type of worker.
Set different requirements for companies, independent contractors, and employees. Vendors self-identify and see only the fields that apply to them. One link, configured once, works for your entire crew list.
WORKSPACE CONTACT DATABASE
Every vendor you paper is a contact you keep.
Completed onboarding flows into your workspace contact database with payment details, tax docs, and signed agreements attached. Bring back the same DP next production — their bank info is already there.
How vendor onboarding runs today
Productions collect vendor info through email threads, PDF attachments, and manual data entry — then spend the first week of production doing HR work instead of prep work. Saturation replaces all of it with a single link.
The old way
With Saturation
One link, all requirements
Configure what each vendor type needs — W-9s, direct deposit forms, NDAs, startwork agreements. Everyone gets the right paperwork and nothing falls through.
Vendors drive themselves
Each vendor works through six steps at their own pace: type selection, contact info, tax docs, document signing, bank details, and invoice submission. You track completion from the dashboard.
Contacts build themselves
Completed vendor records land in your workspace contact database automatically. Payment info, tax docs, and signed agreements attached. The record carries forward to every production.
Crew paperwork without the production tax.
Every hour spent emailing vendors for W-9s, manually entering bank routing numbers, or hunting for signed NDAs at wrap is an hour not spent prepping the show. Saturation takes the tax off so your team can focus on what matters.
Built to connect vendor onboarding, contacts, and payments in one platform.
That is the difference between a form tool and a production operations system.
What makes Saturation Vendor Onboarding production-native.
These are the workflows that matter when thirty vendors all need to be ready before day one — and accounting needs clean records from the start.
Tax document collection
W-9s and other required tax forms are collected as part of the onboarding flow. Vendors upload PDFs, JPGs, or PNGs. Documents attach to their contact record and stay accessible for accounting at wrap.
Bank and ACH details
Vendors enter routing and account numbers directly in the secure onboarding form. Bank info stores to their contact record and connects to Saturation Pay for direct payment processing — no re-entry required.
Custom document signing
Add NDAs, startwork agreements, and any contract vendors must review and sign before submitting. Paste document content into StartWork fields and require signature before the onboarding is considered complete.
Completion tracking dashboard
See who has finished and who has not from the Contacts dashboard. Follow up with incomplete vendors without digging through email threads. Know your crew is papered before cameras roll.
Secure vendor data storage
Vendor information — including bank details and tax documents — is stored securely and accessible only to authorized workspace users. Saturation is SOC 2 compliant, meeting the standards studios and networks require.
Persistent workspace contacts
Every completed onboarding builds your workspace contact database. Contacts and their attached payment details carry forward across every project. If a vendor worked your last production, their record is already there.
Payments start where onboarding ends.
Vendor Onboarding is part of Saturation Pay — the built-in payment infrastructure for productions on Saturation. Once vendors submit their bank details and invoice through onboarding, your workspace can process payments directly. No third-party payroll software, no routing numbers on sticky notes, no week-late checks.
Vendor Onboarding FAQs.
The questions production accountants, coordinators, and line producers ask when they are evaluating whether to move vendor onboarding into Saturation.
Paper your crew before production starts.
One link. Every vendor type. All the documents. No email chains, no missing W-9s, no routing numbers on sticky notes. Get your first crew onboarded today.
Free tier available. No credit card required. SOC 2 compliant.