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Categories/Tax & Accounting/Saturation
Saturation

Saturation

Founded 2022

Manage film production budgets, track expenses, and issue virtual credit cards in real time

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

You can use Saturation to build production budgets, track live expenses, and manage team spending for film, TV, and commercial projects. The system replaces legacy budgeting spreadsheets with collaborative online workbooks and industry-standard templates. You can issue physical or virtual expense cards directly to crew members, automate receipt collection, and track actual costs against your budget in real time. It also lets you import data from Movie Magic or Excel, route financial approvals, sync transactions with QuickBooks, and generate cost reports before overages occur.

What Saturation does

Import budget data from Movie Magic or spreadsheetsAssign virtual credit cards to crew membersScan and attach receipts to expensesCalculate fringes, rates, and union allowancesTrack actual production expenses against budgeted line itemsSet role-based approval rules for invoices and purchase ordersExport standardized production cost reportsReal-time budget tracking with live actuals against estimated costsInstant issuance of physical and virtual team expense cardsBuilt-in industry-standard budget templates for film, TV, and commercialsDirect budget importing from Movie Magic, Excel, and CSV filesAutomated bank syncing via Plaid connecting over 12,000 institutionsMobile receipt scanning and automatic transaction categorizationGranular permission controls for department heads and line producers

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price
CreatorFree
Pro (annual billing)$32 / mo, billed annually
Pro$40 / mo
Team (annual billing)$79 / mo, billed annually
Team$99 / mo

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Saturation, film budgeting, production accounting, expense tracking, production banking, commercial budgeting, Movie Magic alternative, AICP templates, cost reports, purchase orders, receipt scanning, Plaid integration, QuickBooks sync, virtual credit cards, production finances