Grip on budget, schedule and execution
Flexibly set up your production and budgets
Tubes is the solution for setting up, planning and budgeting film, TV and entertainment productions. It enables you to clearly map out the entire budgeting process (set up, manage, track and close) and the associated planning.
Tubes also allows you to evaluate each step of the production process, revealing strengths and weaknesses. This allows you to learn from previous productions and implement improvements effectively. The process is more efficient, without loss of creative space, and with financial insight at every stage.
Budget templates & blocks - Save time and ensure consistency.
Dynamic budgeting - Adjust quantities and costs directly with globals and formulas.
Budget comparison - Analyze differences between budgets.
Price lists - Easily apply different pricing models.
Collaboration & transparency - Share budget scenarios and coordinate with your team.
Multiple budgets per production - Add episodes or extensions without changing the original budget.
Prepare quotations in your own style - Professional and recognizable to clients and funders.
Streamlined approvals - Speed decision making and avoid delays.
Plan your activities - Make sure you have an orderly and efficient schedule so that activities fit together well.
Relationship Management - Manage clients, funders and suppliers for your productions.
Funding plan - Define which parties will fund what portion of the budget.
Reports & exports - Share substantive budget information, scenarios and results with stakeholders.
Real-time insight into budget, planned costs and actual costs
Tubes offers effective and centralized budget control with Cost Tracking, updating data in real time for an accurate overview of budgets, planned costs and incurred costs. It recognizes potential budget overruns early, allowing you to make adjustments in time.
Cost control - Manage prepared budgets with working budgets, purchase orders and transactions during production. Tubes thereby calculates expected budget results.
Data-driven - Make better decisions with real-time forecasts, snapshots and reports. Always have insight with up-to-date data.
Structure - Manage costs by cost type and cost category. Tubes keeps your budget organized.
Tagging & Incentives - Tag budgets, POs and transactions. Easily filter, analyze and report budgets by country and fund.
Budget transparency - Producers and teams see and manage their available and allocated budgets in real time. No more surprises.
Smart budget allocation - Set work budgets and make flexible adjustments during production. Manage your resources purposefully and efficiently.
Imported data - Import transactions directly from your records. Tubes keeps your numbers current and complete.
Access management - Control access to financial data by role or employee. Not everyone needs to see everything.
Snapshots & Cost Reporting - Generate periodic cost reports based on snapshots and progress, as is common in film and TV productions.
With Tubes, you process invoices and production costs effortlessly
All cost flows come in centrally, are automatically recognized and linked to the correct project. This way you maintain control, avoid duplication of effort and have real-time insight into the financial status of your production.
Automatic reading - Invoices (PDF/UBL), employer charges, payment cards and internal charges are automatically read, recognized (OCR) and processed.
Smart workflows - Invoices or invoice lines are linked to the correct project and cost type, immediately visible in Cost Tracking and matchable with planned costs or POs.
Approve with one click - Finance and producers easily approve invoices within the same workflow.
To administration - After approval, forward them to administration or export them to your accounting package for further processing.
Up-to-date insight - This helps you keep a grip on your costs, work more efficiently and always have real-time insight into the financial progress of your production.
Production management overviews for your projects, episodes and budgets
Tubes gives you at-a-glance insight into the status and progress of your productions. The dashboards and pipeline show exactly what is relevant per role.
Plan and organize people and locations
With Tubes, find the perfect location and cast for your production. Manage your location database and create detailed casting profiles. Select ideal actors instantly and communicate efficiently with your team.
Callsheets and communication to all involved
Tubes lets you set up the callsheet, schedule people and automatically notify all involved via the app.