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Breadshift

For shoots that move fast and stay small

Find crew, track hours.

Built for producers chasing crew on tight timelines. Filter for an available DP for Tuesday's spot, ping them in two taps, then they log call and wrap from set. Hand the CSV to your payroll provider.

Free demo. No signup. Runs in your browser.

  • No cut of your payroll, ever
  • Crew owns their own profile
  • Export to any payroll provider

Four roles, one timecard

  • Producer
  • Department head
  • Accountant
  • Crew member

Exports drop straight into

  • Wrapbook
  • Cast & Crew Start+
  • Entertainment Partners
  • GreenSlate
  • ADP
  • Gusto
  • Plain CSV

Features

Two things, done well.

Everything in Breadshift exists because a producer asked for it after a 14-hour day. Nothing is here for show.

Find crew

Filter working crew by union, position, day rate, and the dates you actually need. In a producer-led market, first-tap wins.

  • Live availability calendar per crew member
  • Saved filters so you don't start over every Tuesday
  • One-tap requests, no chasing texts at 11pm

Track hours

Crew logs call, meal, and wrap times from their phone. Department head approves the day. The accountant gets a clean CSV in the format their payroll provider expects.

  • Mobile timecards, including day-wraps after midnight
  • Three-stage approval: department head, production, accounting
  • Per-provider exports for Wrapbook, Cast & Crew Start+, EP, GreenSlate

How it works

Booked Monday, paid by next Friday.

  1. 01

    Find the crew you need

    Filter by union, position, day rate, and availability. Ping the people you want for the dates you need. They accept or decline in one tap.

  2. 02

    They log hours from set

    Crew taps call, meal, and wrap times from their phone. Department head approves the day. Producers see the day's status at a glance.

  3. 03

    Hand the CSV to payroll

    One click, pre-formatted for Wrapbook, Cast & Crew Start+, EP, GreenSlate, or a plain spreadsheet. Your payroll provider does the math.

Before / After

What changes on Tuesday.

Producers we’ve talked to all describe the same Monday: chasing crew over text, then a Friday spent reconstructing hours. The shape of the week with Breadshift is different.

  • Group text to twelve crew on Monday.

    Filtered list of who's actually free, in two taps.

  • A spreadsheet of who said yes, and who ghosted.

    Live yes, no, or tentative per crew, with one-tap requests.

  • “Send me a timecard” emails on Friday night.

    Crew taps call, meals, and wrap from set.

  • Three departments arguing over hours in a thread.

    Dept head approves the day; production sees status at a glance.

  • Accountant rebuilds the math from a PDF.

    One CSV in your payroll provider's format. They do the math.

“The whole point is that Friday is quiet. Crew gets paid, the accountant gets the CSV, and I don’t open a spreadsheet.”
What we hear, paraphrased, from producers on indie features and commercials.

Pricing

One price, per production, per month.

No setup fee, no per-crew charges, and we take no cut of your payroll. Wrap a production and the billing for it stops.

Founding
$99$49/ month

per active production, plus sales tax where it applies

Founding rate for the first ten production companies, locked for twelve months. Standard rate $99 / month.

  • Unlimited role posts on that production
  • Live availability calendar per crew member
  • One-tap requests with accept, decline, or counter
  • Mobile timecards including post-midnight wraps
  • Three-stage approvals (dept head, production, accounting)
  • Per-provider CSV exports (Wrapbook, Cast & Crew Start+, EP, GreenSlate)
  • Crew owns their profile, union, and rate
  • Full audit log of every hours change

Running several productions at once? We band by crew headcount. Tell us your size and we will quote it.

FAQ

Straight answers.

Still unsure? Email us. A real person answers.

Do you run payroll?
No. Breadshift is for finding crew and logging their hours. Hand the hours CSV to your payroll provider, whether that's ADP, Gusto, Wrapbook, Cast & Crew, EP, GreenSlate, your accountant, or a spreadsheet, and they do the math.
Union shows?
Yes. We capture union or guild affiliation and member ID per crew member (BECTU, IATSE 600, 52, 80, Teamsters 817, non-union, and the rest) so you can filter by it on the way in and your payroll provider can handle dues on the way out.
Which countries?
The UK, Europe, and the US. Hours, roles, and union affiliation are jurisdiction-agnostic, so the data model travels. We will not pretend to know your overtime or holiday-pay rules; that is what your payroll provider is for.
How do crew get on Breadshift?
Right now, by invitation from a producer they have worked with. Closed networks beat open marketplaces when the question is who is available Tuesday.
Which currency do I pay in?
Pounds, euros, or dollars. The page picks one from where you are and you can change it with the switcher; whichever you pick is what you are invoiced in. These are fixed local prices rather than a live conversion, so the number on the page is the number on the invoice.
What happens to my data if I leave?
Full CSV exports of every timecard you have collected, on demand. Crew records are theirs to take with them, not ours to keep.

Friday is quiet.

Take the demo for a spin. It runs in your browser, with seeded data, so you can book a DP and approve a week of timecards in about three minutes.