Media Services - Entertainment Payroll, Accounting & Software

Breakdown your time cards faster and more accurately using Showbiz Time Cards. Then e-mail them to ANY payroll provider!

One button click will set up a time card for (studio or location) A, 3Day, B, C, F, H,
I, J, and K SAG schedules. Enter the hours, click MagicPay, and you're done.

How do Showbiz Time Cards work differently than manually breaking down time cards?

Current Manner of Calculating Time Cards:
Currently, you get a stack of time cards and start 10-Keying, day by day, all the straight time, overt time, gold time, meal penalties etc. Then you write it all down on the original time card. Once completed, you give them to the head accountant for approval. And finally, you FedX or get a runner to bring them to your payroll company.

The Showbiz Way:
You get a stack of original time cards. You key the hours into the computer. Click the MagicPay button and your hours-to-gross is calculated for you. You print the new time card out and give it to your head accountant for approval. Once approved, you print the Showbiz time cards again - but not to paper - to PDF. Then you e-mail the PDF file to ANY payroll provider. The time cards arrive a minimum of a half a day earlier. Since they are not faxed or hand written, they are crystal clear to read. And since the computer calculates mostly everything, there's less human error.

(Note: Even though the payroll company can start working on your edit right away, you will still need to send the payroll company the original time cards (with hours worked and a signature) for archival purposes.

BENEFITS

Most SAG rules are built right into the program:
Showbiz SAG Cards make your life easier because many of the SAG rules are built right into the program.

Get More Accurate and Easier to Read Time Cards:
Print your time cards to PDF and e-mail them to any provider. Or, attach the time card/worksheets to the signed time cards. Don't forget to let us bid on doing your payroll. Combined with Media Services' on-site check printing, there is no faster way to pay your cast, crew and staff.

Contract Players - Payment Tracker:
You'll always know how much you've paid, how many days/weeks left, and a one button click to pay out the rest of the contract. Plus, the weekly rate is calculated just by entering total days in week & contract.

A Plethora of Reports
You can generate reports for one day, one week, a month, for one production, for one employee, etc. For each of these type of reports you can print a box & car, mileage & lodging, holiday & vacation, employee checklists, etc.

Daily Labor Hot Costs
If you enter the work hours on a daily basis, you can generate a daily labor hot cost for each day on your production. And when the week is over, you've already prepared 90% of your payroll for processing.

FEATURES

Meal Penalties
Meal Penalties are automatically calculated giving you the option to call "Grace" to recognize all the meal penalties incurred.

Travel Time
Just enter the work hours and travel time is instantly calculated for you - plus any double time by SAG contract rules is automatically added to travel time OT hours and deducted from double time OT.

Stunt Adjustments
When you add a stunt adjustment on any day, new hourly rates are automatically calculated by day for day players and by week for all other schedules.

Turnaround / Force Call Hours
If you have to pay force calls, just tell it the force call interval, e.g., 10 hours, and the software will tell you exactly how many penalty hours you incurred - plus it will autopaste the cost on the time card (while automatically recognizing SAG ceilings).

Autopaste Per Diem
Your per diems, both taxable and non-taxable, are automatically paid based on how many days worked - plus, if you like, it will calculate and pay an advance equal to your total taxable and non-taxable per diems.

Agency Fees
Simply add a percentage in the agency field and all pensionable agency fees will be applied.

Money Breaks
The money breaks for all schedules are pre-programs when you use the autopaste Schedules section.

BIBLE
There's no need to create your Bible in Excel anymore. You can copy your Bible right out of the software and paste in directly into Excel so you can e-mail it to anyone.

6th & 7th Day Caclulations
All 6th & 7th day calculations are automatic.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating system: Mac OSX Universal 10.4 (or higher), Win XP, Vista

Hardware: CD-Rom Drive, 150mb of Hard Disk, 512mb RAM

Just a few clients who used Showbiz Software: 30 Rock • According to Jim • Ally McBeal • Alias • American Idol • American Gladiators • Andy Barker P.I. • Army Wives • Battlestar Gallactica • Bones • Boston Legal • Brothers & Sisters • Cavemen • California Connected • Chuck & Larry • Commander in Chief • Courting Alex • Criminal Minds • Crossing Jordon • CSI: New York • CSI: Vegas • CSI: Miami • Curb Your Enthusiasm • Day Break • Deadwood • Desperate Housewives • Dirt • Dirty Sexy Money • Drillbit Taylor • Eagle Eye • Eli Stone • Evan Almighty • Everybody Loves Raymond • Friday Night Lights • Ghost Whisperer • Grey's Anatomy • Hannah Montana • Hope and Faith • House • In Case of Emergency • In Justice • Jackass • Jackass 2 • Jimmy Kimmel Live • John From Cincinnati • John Adams • Journeyman • Land of the Lost • Law & Order • Law & Order: Criminal Intent • Law & Order: SVU • Less than perfect • LOST • Medium • My Name Is Earl • Monster Garage • Monster House • Night Rider • Night Stalker • Pepper Dennis • Private Practice • Race to Witch Mountain • Raines • Reno 911 • Rock Star • Rodney • Samantha Who • Scrubs • So You Think You Can Dance • Speed Racer • Surreal Life • Survivor • The Apprentice • The Contender • The Closer • The Nine • The Office • The Perfect Game • The Practice • The Price is Right • The Screen Actors Guild of America • True Blood • Ugly Betty • Vanished • Vegas • What About Brian …Why aren’t you?!