Budgeting

Use Globals, Fringes, and Tags in your budget

Reusable values, automatic payroll fringes, tags, state incentive credits, and multi-currency.

The budgeting power tools

Globals are reusable values (like shoot days or a day rate) you reference across line items. Change the global once and every line updates.

Fringes apply percentage or capped payroll burdens (union, taxes, benefits) to the accounts you attach them to.

Tags let you group and track spending across accounts, and Credits model state tax incentives. Exchange Rates support multi-currency budgets, and union Tiers help you budget to the right guild agreement.

Where to find them

All of these live in the budgeting top navigation while you have a budget open.

Create a budget from a template, then pull in your schedule

Pick a starting template, optionally import your schedule data, and work Top Sheet → Accounts → Details.

Import a Movie Magic Budget (XML)

Bring an existing Movie Magic budget into Shamel with its structure intact using the XML import.

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