Call Sheets & Payroll

Call sheets that build, send, and confirm themselves.

Select a shoot day and your call sheet auto-populates with crew, cast, scenes, weather, maps, and hospital info. Email it to the team in one click, watch confirmations roll in live, and log hours when the day wraps.

Professional call sheets in seconds

Stop spending hours copying data between spreadsheets, weather apps, and Google Maps. Production Slate pulls everything together from your existing project data — just select a shoot day and your call sheet is ready. New to the format? Start with what a call sheet is, section by section. Still filling call sheets by hand? Our free call sheet template covers you until you're ready to automate.

Auto-populated data

Crew, cast, scenes, and locations pull from your schedule automatically. No re-typing, no copy-paste errors.

Weather & sunrise/sunset

Real-time weather forecasts and sunrise/sunset times for your shoot location, updated automatically.

Hospital & parking info

Nearest hospital and parking details for each location — the safety information every call sheet needs.

PDF export

Generate a polished, industry-standard call sheet PDF ready to distribute to your crew.

Send call sheets and track who’s confirmed

Stop attaching PDFs to BCC’d emails and chasing crew on WhatsApp the night before a shoot. Production Slate sends the call sheet straight from the app, with the PDF attached and a one-click confirmation link. You’ll see who’s acknowledged and who hasn’t, in real time, on the same screen.

One-click send

Hit Send Call Sheet, pick the crew + cast for the day, and your branded email goes out with the PDF attached.

Per-recipient confirm receipt

Each recipient gets a unique link. When they click it, your delivery board flips to a green check with a timestamp.

Live status board

See "8 of 12 confirmed" at a glance. Auto-refreshes every 15 seconds so you can stop refreshing your inbox.

Resend & failure tracking

Bounced or failed sends are flagged with the error so you can fix the email and resend in one click.

Multi-location shoot days with company moves

Real shoots don’t always stay in one place. When you’re starting an interior at a house and finishing on an exterior across town, your crew needs to know exactly when the company move happens and where they’re going. One call sheet, every stop, every move time.

Add every stop to one call sheet

The primary location still anchors the day. Tap "+ Add another location" to append each additional stop — pick the location, set the company-move time, add optional notes.

Company move time per hop

Each extra location carries its own move time (e.g. 13:30). Crew see exactly when to wrap the morning setup and convoy to the next location.

Automatic on the PDF

Each additional location renders as a warm-tinted "COMPANY MOVE @ HH:MM" row beneath the primary location, with name, address, and notes. No manual formatting.

Per-scene filming addresses

When some scenes shoot at the day's primary and others shoot at a different address, the call sheet auto-renders a "Filming Locations" block listing each unique address with the scene numbers that shoot there. Hidden when every scene shares the day's primary, so the call sheet never carries unnecessary noise.

Safe editing

Add, reorder, or remove stops until you hit Save. Empty cards without a selected location are dropped on save so your data stays clean.

Crew payroll with film industry rules

Film payroll isn't like regular payroll. Tiered overtime, meal penalties, forced calls — Production Slate understands how production payroll actually works.

  • Log Wrap: record actual in/out times for each crew member after every shoot day
  • Tiered overtime calculation: straight time (1x), time-and-a-half (1.5x), and double time (2x)
  • Running totals per crew member across all shoot days
  • Mark hours as approved and track payment status
  • Total owed per person with a clear breakdown of regular and OT hours
  • Payroll data flows back into your budget as actual labor costs

Templates & colors that match your production

Your call sheet shouldn't look like everyone else's. Pick from 4 layout templates and 10 color themes — combine them however you want, save the look per project, and never touch it again.

Standard

Modern colorful layout with the full stats dashboard. The default for new projects.

Compact

Drops the dashboard and shrinks table type so more fits on a single page.

Minimalist

Airy magazine-style: borderless headings, no callout boxes, lots of whitespace.

Traditional

Old-school production form: heavy black borders, dense grid, classic industry look.

Plus 10 color themes — Classic, Mono (print-friendly), Indigo, Crimson, Emerald, Sunset, Ocean, Plum, Slate, and Forest. Both pickers live next to the Export button and update the in-app preview live.

The call sheet to payroll pipeline

Other tools make you generate call sheets in one app and track payroll in another. Production Slate connects the full workflow from schedule to payment.

1

Schedule

Build your shoot day with scenes, crew, and locations

2

Send & Confirm

Email the call sheet PDF and watch confirmations come in live

3

Log Wrap

Record actual hours after the shoot day wraps

4

Payroll

Review calculated pay, approve, and mark as paid

Ready to ditch the spreadsheets?

Start on the Free plan — no credit card required. Upgrade to Pro ($12/mo) or Team ($20 per user/mo, every seat gets everything) when you outgrow it.

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