From day-player timecards to final wrap, Reel Harbor handles union rules, meal penalties, and vendor payouts so a two-person production office can run like a studio.
Crew clock in from the set, and Reel Harbor auto-applies rest violations, meal penalties, and overtime tiers before a single dollar moves.
IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters — we keep the rate cards current so you stop cross-checking rules against a PDF at 2am.
Loan-outs, W-2 crew, box rentals, and vendor kit fees settle in a single approved run with a clean paper trail.
Live labor spend flows straight into your budget lines, so you know the burn before the daily hot costs land.
Start paperwork, I-9s, and deal memos capture themselves as crew join — no folder of scanned forms.
Year-end W-2s, 1099s, and residual-ready records are assembled as you go, not reconstructed after the shoot.
“We used to close payroll on a spreadsheet the size of a screenplay. Reel Harbor cut our Friday wrap-out from six hours to forty minutes, and I finally trust the meal-penalty math.”
“As a two-person production office, we punch far above our weight now. Loan-out payments and IATSE fringes just resolve themselves — it feels like having a payroll department on staff.”
“The live cost report is the thing. I can walk onto set and tell the director exactly what an extra hour of overtime costs before he asks. That never happened before.”
Start free-ish. Upgrade when it hurts.
For owner-operators running one production at a time.
For working production offices juggling overlapping shoots.
For multi-title shops that need controls and integrations.