Everything in the kit, and what each piece does.
A walk through the departments. Every number here is one you'd otherwise be holding in your head at 23:40 on a Tuesday.
Your kit either earns its keep, or it doesn't.
Day, three-day and week rates. Rentals with handling fees. Kit you lend to the studio down the road. And, quietly, the only number that matters — what each item has actually billed across every job it has been on, yours or theirs.
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 has paid for itself. Give a client a deal and the kit on that job recovers its share of what was actually paid, not its list rate — a camera never claims money nobody handed over. The days still count: it was out either way.
Lend your kit to another workspace.NEW
Tick the items, send a share code. They quote with your gear at your rates — and only you can change them. The days they bill still count toward your break-even, so a camera out on loan is a camera paying for itself.
What you paid stays yours.NEW
Borrowers see the day, three-day and week rates. They never see the purchase price or how close the item is to breaking even — that data isn't hidden from them, it's never sent. Borrowed gear is labelled on every screen it appears on, and free on any plan.
Know whether your kit is actually paying for itself.
Try Slatewise freeThe 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 and the crew-day count updates. Move them off day 3 and it updates back. The calendar is the single source of truth.
Pre-prod through delivery milestones.
Pre-prod deadlines, shoot days, post hand-offs and delivery on one calendar. Nothing slips out of view.
Call to wrap, and the overtime works itself out.NEW
Give a shoot day a wrap time — past midnight for a night shoot — and everyone's overtime is calculated from it and lands in the budget. Crew invites end when the day does, not twelve hours after call. The gaffer who stays for de-rig still gets their own figure.
Director and DoP? Both.NEW
Give a crew member every role they work in, each with their own rate. Book them as either — or as both on the same day — and each role is priced at the rate that applies to it.
Move the shoot. Let the budget move with it.
Build a productionSet 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. 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 who pay, and the ones who think they do.
Revenue, profit and margin by month.
A six-month trend you can read at a glance. Confirmed and completed projects only — drafts don't get to flatter the numbers.
Equipment ROI per item.
Percentage of purchase price recovered, days billed across all projects, dead-stock callouts for the kit no one's using.
Top clients ranked.
Revenue, profit and a repeat flag per client. See who actually pays well, not who you remember loudly.
Pipeline by status.
Draft → quoted → confirmed → completed. Win rate and 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 — including the one you agreed instead of the one the maths produced — in the format they keep.
Categories totalled, nothing more.
Camera & gear, crew, transportation, misc, production fee — and the grand total they add up to, to the cent. No per-line rates, no markup, no hint of margin: add the rows up and all you get is the price.
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.
“They've only got €5,000.”NEW
Charge what you agreed, not what the markup produced. A flat price for a client with a ceiling, or a standing % off for a friend — your costs stay untouched, so you see the computed quote beside the agreed one, exactly what you gave away, and the margin you're left with. In red, if you went under. The client just sees a total.
VAT on the quote, not in your margin.NEW
Set your tax once — VAT, ΦΠΑ, GST, whatever your market calls it — and quotes show the net, the tax and what the client pays. Zero-rate a reverse-charge client with the legal note on the page. Your revenue and profit stay net, because the tax was never yours.
Your client sees the quote. You see the margin.
Create my first quoteThe work that arrives after the invoice.
Another revision. An extra edit day. A licence they forgot to mention. It gets billed without touching the quote they already agreed — so you can finally answer what a job earned, not what you hoped it would.
The job's delivered. They want one more round.NEW
Add it as an extra — a revision, an edit day, a licence, a rush export. It carries what it costs you and what they pay, the price pre-filled from that job's margin and then yours to change. That's how a rush premium gets recorded instead of absorbed.
Included revisions, actually counted.NEW
Say how many rounds your quote covers. Slatewise counts them down as they happen and records anything inside the allowance at zero — so you can see what you gave away, and when you stopped.
The quote you sent doesn't move.NEW
Extras sit beside the budget, never inside it. The total on the PDF the client signed off stays exactly what it was. Your numbers read quoted, plus extras, equals final — which is the first honest answer to 'what did this job actually earn?'
Plumbing that disappears.
Roles for real teams. One account, many workspaces. Stripe-hosted billing. One search box that knows the whole workspace. 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 several studios sign in once and switch. Producers get clean separation between gigs.
Stripe-hosted billing.
Cards stay with Stripe; we never see them. Upgrade, downgrade and cancel through the standard portal.
Search the whole workspace, not just the project list.NEW
Type three letters and find projects, clients, gear, crew roles and people at once. Open a client and you get their whole history — every job, what it earned, what's still quoted. Open a camera and you get its rates, the shoots it has billed, and how close it is to paying for itself. Freelancers only ever find the shoots they're on.
Category totals. Nothing more.
Camera & gear, crew, transportation, misc, production fee, grand total. No per-line rates, no markup line, no hint of margin. Your company details in the header; on paid tiers no Slatewise footer at all.
| Camera & Gear | €4,800 |
| Crew | €3,200 |
| Transportation | €185 |
| Production Fee | €800 |
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