Cast Rates, Deals and Paperwork

Money on the Cast DOOD is producer information. An AD-level member sees the same board with the days, the age brackets and nothing else. Every plan gets an Exhibit G check per week. The money columns below appear on the Producer tier, and the Company plan adds the paperwork group.

The Deal column sits in front of Rate because it decides what the rate is a rate of. The performer's profile card labels the figure to match: Day Rate, Weekly Rate, Flat Fee or Schedule F Fee.

Click a Rate cell. The menu opens with a Custom rate box at the top for any figure you type, then the SAG-AFTRA minimums for the performer's deal, one row per agreement with its budget band. Pick a minimum and the cell stores the figure and a short chip naming the agreement, such as Basic, TV, LBA, MLB or ULB. Once Globals names the agreement this show signed under, the menu lists that one alone and marks it "(this show)". The last row, "Edit SAG rates and contract in Globals", goes straight to the settings.

• A Flat or Schedule F deal shows the Custom rate box only. There is no per-day minimum to offer for one negotiated sum
• Ultra Low Budget, Short Project and Special New Media Category A have no weekly minimum, so a Weekly deal will not list them
• An agreement with no fixed figure (Micro-Budget, Student Film, New Media) is left out until you type one in Globals. If it is the show's agreement, the menu says the pay is negotiable or deferrable and asks for the agreed figure
• Typing a figure clears the agreement chip, because the figure no longer comes from a contract

The stored rate is what the deal was written at. If the agreement's minimum changes later (a new rate year, or somebody edits the table in Globals), the performer's figure stays put and the chip turns amber. Hover it to read the new minimum. Re-pick the agreement from the menu to take the new figure, or leave it.

Globals has a SAG & Work Hour Globals section with three settings for the Cast DOOD: the SAG-AFTRA Agreement the show signed, the name of the Custom Paperwork Column, and a Performer Minimums table with a daily and weekly figure per agreement. The agreement picker groups every agreement by family (Theatrical and Television, Low Budget Theatrical, Shorts, Student and Micro, New Media) and shows each one's budget band and current minimum. Pick one and the line under it says what the Rate menu will offer. Any minimum you edit turns amber and survives app updates. Reset to latest known rates puts every cell back to the figures the app ships with. AD-level members can see and set the agreement, but not the figures. Preferences has the same editor under SAG Defaults. Whatever you set there seeds every new show you create.

Each week band carries a pay cell per performer: Waiting, Auth, Paid or Error. A past week with work in it and no status turns yellow. Type records how the performer is paid (W9 / Loan-Out, Payroll or Escrow). Total Paid and Total LTP (left to pay) close the row.

Signed is the deal memo, and every Producer-tier member sees it. The Company plan adds four more ticks: SAG (the performer's union agreement), Long (the long-form agreement), L/O (the loan-out letter) and one column you name yourself. A ticked cell goes green. Click the custom column's header to rename it in place: BRC, W-9, Work Permit, whatever this show chases. The same name can be set in Globals.

On every plan, every week has an Ex G check per performer. The tick in the week header marks the whole week for everyone who works in it. It reads green when all are in, amber when some are. A performer on hold all week, or with no working day, is left alone by the header. Their own cell still takes a click.

Changing a cast number or a character name runs through a dialog that shows every scene the change touches, with Swap them and Shift the rest down for the common cases. Reps live in the Reps cell on the cast list, as many per performer as they have. Both are covered in Adding and Managing Cast.