TV Commercial Production · End to End
HoldCrew runs a TV commercial from the bid and budget straight through crew holds, bookings, call sheets and talent, all the way to wrap, invoicing and payroll. One source of truth, live-synced — no re-typing, no copy-paste, no chasing paper. Producers and PMs get their time back.
Bids re-typed into budgets. Crew chased across texts and email. Call sheets rebuilt by hand every day. Invoices retyped into payroll. HoldCrew connects all of it in one live system, so data is entered once and follows the job from bid to wrap.
What HoldCrew does
Import your bid — AICP, Hot Budget or Point Zero — or build it in HoldCrew. It becomes the job's backbone: working numbers and actuals track against every line as the shoot runs, flagged the moment a department goes over. No separate cost report to keep alive.
One click sends personalised holds to your crew lists. Crew reply 1st hold, 2nd hold or not available — or refer someone — right from the email. No app, no login. Book or release straight from the dashboard; confirmations send themselves.
Build it once. HoldCrew personalises every crew member's call, adds weather and the nearest emergency hospital, and delivers each email with live open tracking — your call time front and centre. No formatting marathon, no PDF wrangling.
Pull the casting director's talent list straight into HoldCrew, choose your cast, book them, and watch them land on the call sheet — without typing a single name or one more round of copy-paste.
Crew and vendors build or upload invoices — no login — and HoldCrew reads the PDFs and fills the amounts. Approve submissions (flagged if over), then export payroll and vendor CSVs with tax and GST ready for accounting or cheques.
Every hold, booking, call, invoice and dollar lives in one connected system, synced live and logged automatically. Nothing re-typed, nothing copied between documents, nothing chased — one live job overview from bid to wrap.
The pipeline
Import your budget — AICP, Hot Budget or Point Zero — or build it in HoldCrew. It becomes the job's backbone: working numbers and, later, actuals live here, so you never re-key the bid into a second cost report.
Everything sits in one place — every crew list, every job, one log to confirm at a glance. Select positions, pick a crew list, add shoot dates and a note. HoldCrew emails a personalised hold to each matching crew member instantly.
First hold, second hold or not available — crew reply straight from the email, no app, no account. See how each responded and book or release right from the dashboard; the confirmation email generates and sends itself.
Confirmed crew flow into the call sheet — no re-typing. Fill in locations, calls, vendors and transport in HoldCrew's simple row structure, then send. Every crew member gets their own call, weather and nearest hospital, print-ready.
One dashboard per job: who's confirmed, who's pending, who's on hold — plus email deliverability and weather, updating as crew reply. Every hold, confirmation and release logged automatically.
Crew and vendors submit invoices with no login — HoldCrew reads the PDFs and fills the amounts. Approve (flagged if over), export payroll and vendor CSVs for accounting, and watch actuals close against the very bid you started with.
See it in action
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