Everything in the kit,
and what each piece does.
A walk through the departments. If you'd rather see the headline, go back to the title card.
Your kit either earns its keep,
or it doesn't.
Day, three-day, week rates. Rentals with handling fees. And, quietly, the only number that matters — what each item has actually billed across every job you've shot with it.
Owned gear, billed honestly.
Day, 3-day and week rates straight from the catalogue. Quantity per line. Every entry shows what it costs you, what the client pays, and what's left.
Rented gear with a real handling fee.
Optional +15% (or whatever you set) on rentals to cover sourcing. The fee shows up internally; the client sees the package, not your margin.
Break-even per item.
Record a purchase price and Slatewise tells you how many shoot days that kit needs to bill before it's paid for itself.
Aputure 600x Pro
Day rate €120 · Purchase €2,900
Sony FX6
Day rate €450 · Purchase €18,000
Day 3 · Tue
Studio A
08:00
4 crew
Call 18:00 · Studio B
Day 5
Loca…
The calendar is the budget.
Day rates, night rates, overtime, day-out-of-days — wired to the schedule so a calendar move costs what it should, and not a euro more.
Day vs night rates, no fuss.
Each crew role carries a day rate and a night rate. Mark a shoot day a night and the right number flows into the budget.
Overtime that maths itself.
Per-line OT threshold (default 10h) plus OT hours captured on the day. We compute it at 1.5× hourly automatically.
Assign crew to shoot days.
Drop a gaffer onto Day 4. The budget's crew-day count updates. Move them off Day 3. It updates back. The calendar is the single source of truth for crew days.
Pre-prod through delivery milestones.
Mark pre-prod deadlines, shoot days, post hand-offs and delivery on the same calendar. Nothing slips out of view.
Set the rule once.
Forget it forever.
A flat fee inside a free threshold, per-distance beyond. Round-trip if you want it. Configure it the first time; never compute it again.
Set the rules once.
Free up-to distance, flat fee inside the threshold, rate per km beyond. Kilometres or miles. Set it in Settings → Transport.
One number per shoot.
Enter distance, tick round-trip if relevant, get the cost. Live preview as you tweak the rules.
What's the work
actually worth?
Workspace-wide truth. Revenue and profit by month. Equipment that earns, and gear gathering dust. The clients that pay, and the ones who think they do.
Revenue, profit, margin by month.
NEWA six-month trend you can read at a glance. Confirmed + completed projects only — drafts don't get to flatter the numbers.
Equipment ROI per item.
NEW% of purchase price recovered, days billed across all projects, dead-stock callouts for the kit no one's using.
Top clients ranked.
NEWRevenue, profit and repeat flag per client. See who actually pays well, not who you remember loudly.
Pipeline by status.
NEWDraft → quoted → confirmed → completed. Win rate, average deal size. Quiet diagnostics, not theatre.
The only thing they see.
A clean branded PDF with category totals. No internal rates, no markup, no margin tip-off. The number they signed off, in the format they keep.
Categories totalled, nothing more.
Camera & Gear, Crew, Transportation, Misc, Production Fee — and the grand total. No per-line rates, no markup, no hint of margin.
Your branding, every tier.
Your company name and details in the header. On paid tiers the 'Powered by Slatewise' footer is gone. Free keeps a small attribution line.
Serenity Productions
Brand X · Spring Campaign
Plumbing that disappears.
Roles for real teams. One account, many workspaces. Stripe-hosted billing. The infrastructure you stop noticing.
Three roles, no more.
Admin runs the workspace and billing. Producer manages projects, gear and clients. Freelancer sees their own shoots and their own role.
One account, many workspaces.
Freelancers who shoot for multiple studios sign in once and switch between them. Producers see clean separation between gigs.
Stripe-hosted billing.
Cards stay with Stripe; we never see them. Upgrade, downgrade, cancel — all through the standard portal.
Set up before the next job lands.
About four minutes. No card. Cancel by deleting your account.
Prep the next productionFADE TO BLACK