Monitoring your performers’ penalties for overtime, meals and forced calls can be tricky and time-consuming. With the industry-standard Showbiz Cast Cards, now you don’t have to. We have built this program with input from the guild to incorporate every nuanced rule of the Screen Actors Guild Basic Agreement. Use the software that SAG uses to audit your show. That’s right, many auditors have adopted Showbiz Cast Cards to audit production companies. Why? It automates the process and reduces the risk of errors. Showbiz Cast Cards will automatically calculate 1x, 1.5x, 2x, travel time, total hours, meal penalties, forced calls, stunt adjustments and more!

How do Showbiz Timecards work differently from manually breaking down time cards?

Current Manner of Calculating Time Cards:  Currently, you get a stack of time cards and start 10-Keying, day by day, all the straight time, overt time, gold time, meal penalties etc. Then you write it all down on the original time card. Once completed, you give them to the head accountant for approval. And finally, you FedEx or get a runner to bring them to your payroll company. The Showbiz Way: You get a stack of original time cards. You key the hours into the computer. Click the MagicPay button and your hours-to-gross is calculated for you. You print the new time card out and give it to your head accountant for approval. Once approved, you print the Showbiz Timecards again – but not to paper – to PDF. Then you e-mail the PDF file to ANY payroll provider. The time cards arrive a minimum of a half a day earlier. Since they are not faxed or hand written, they are crystal clear to read. And since the computer calculates mostly everything, there’s less human error. Note: Even though the payroll company can start working on your edit right away, you will still need to send the payroll company the original time cards (with hours worked and a signature) for archival purposes.

Benefits

Most SAG rules are built right into the program Showbiz Timecards Cast makes your life easier because many of the guild rules are built right into the program. Get More Accurate and Easier to Read Timecard Print your timecards to PDF and e-mail them to any provider. Or, attach the timecard/worksheets to the signed time cards. Don’t forget to let us bid ondoing your payroll. Combined with Media Services’ on-site check printing, there is no faster way to pay your cast, crew and staff. Contract Players – Payment Tracker You’ll always know how much you’ve paid, how many days/weeks left, and a one button click to pay out the rest of the contract. Plus, the weekly rate is calculated just by entering total days in week & contract. A Plethora of Reports You can generate reports for one day, one week, a month, for one production, or one employee, etc. For each of these type of reports you can print a box&car, mileage & lodging, holiday & vacation, employee checklists, etc. Daily Labor Hot Costs If you enter the work hours on a daily basis, you can generate a daily labor hot cost for each day on your production. And when the week is over, you’ve already prepared 90% of your payroll for processing.

Features

SAG and AFTRA Exhibit A Schedules are built in One button click will set up a timecard for Schedule A, 3Day, B, C, F, H, I, J and K (studio or location). Enter the hours, click MagicPay, and you’re done. Meal Penalties Meal penalties are automatically calculated, giving you the option to call “Grace” to recognize all the meal penalties incurred. Stunt Adjustments When you add a stunt adjustment on any day, new hourly rates are automatically calculated by day for day players and by week for all other schedules. Travel Time Just enter the work hours and travel time is instantly calculated for you – plus any double time by SAG contract rules is automatically added to travel time OT hours and deducted from double time OT. Turnaround / Forced Call Hours If you have to pay forced calls, just input the forced call interval, e.g. 10 hours, and the software tells you exactly how many penalty hours you incurred – plus it will autopaste the cost on the time card (while automatically recognizing SAG ceilings). Money Breaks The money breaks for all schedules are pre-programmed when you use the autopaste schedules section. 6th & 7th Day Calculations All 6th & 7th day calculations are automatic. Final Cast List Click one button to generate a Final Cast List. Autopaste Per Diem Your per diems, both taxable and non-taxable, are automatically paid based on how many days worked – plus, if you like, it will calculate and pay an advance equal to your total taxable and non-taxable per diems. Agency Fees Simply add a percentage in the agency field and all pensionable agency fees will be applied. Bible There’s no need to create your Bible in Excel anymore. You can copy your Bible right out of the software and paste in directly into Excel so you can e-mail it to anyone.