Solutions / Video production studios
The treatment was the quote. The shoot was the cost.
Oct 24, 2026
The treatment says one shoot, one edit, two rounds. The day runs long. Travel sits in a card export. The invoice is typed after the drive home.
After the treatment
Video studios price a treatment. The cost is the day, the overtime, another cut, footage, and travel. The producer knows which of those were in the quote. The invoice does not, until someone remembers.
A client who asks for “one more version” rarely opens the treatment again. The editor does the version. The fee does not move.
Expenses on the job
The job holds the treatment, the days, the people, and the expenses. Overtime and another cut are change orders. Expenses hang off the same project as the fee.
Finance invoices signed lines, billable time, and those expenses. The client sees the invoice on their link. They do not pay inside the product.
Who was on the day
Resources are the crew and the rates, including contractors who log in. The margin of the job is signed paper against time and money, visible when the next cut is requested.
Client 360 keeps the producer’s contacts and the open invoice on that account, so the next job does not start as a new folder with the same client spelled three ways.
Seats and the voice line are on the pricing page. Clients are not seats. Book a demo to see the job on one record.
Questions
- How should a production studio bill overtime and another cut?
- As change orders on the job that started with the treatment. Travel and footage fees are expenses on that same project. The invoice uses the signed lines plus those expenses.
- Do clients get a portal for cuts and invoices?
- They get a link and a PIN, not a login. Invoices and change orders to sign are on that link.
- Are freelance crew members seats?
- If they can log in, they are members. If they do not log in, they are not. Clients and signers are never seats.