Thirty dollars a head. Once.

One number, and the arithmetic is a multiplication you can do in your head.

Per crew memberUSD 30.00

Charged once, for the production. Not per week, not per day, not per meal.

Charged whenstatus becomes active

Your first meal service closing is what ends prep. Until then the subscription sits in prep_free and owes nothing.

Charged againnever

A member removed and re-added is not charged twice. A member who wraps is not refunded. Both are the same unique constraint on(production, member), not a policy somebody has to remember.

Not chargedroster_only

People pasted in off a call sheet that nobody has decided to feed yet. Putting the whole unit on the roster to check who is there costs nothing.

A sixty-person feature is 1,800 dollars. A hundred-and-twenty-person show with a second unit is 3,600. A twelve-person commercial is 360. That is the entire price list.

The meter starts when a meal is served, not when somebody creates an account.

1. prep_free

   Prep, and it is free

   The status a subscription starts in, by database default, from the moment the production is created. It is not a trial with a countdown behind it. Prep runs as long as your prep runs — build the roster, engage the caterers, load the rate cards, paste the call sheets — and none of it is metered.

2. active

   The first meal actually served

   Activation is set on the first shooting day with a completed service, not at signup. A show that slips six weeks is not billed for six weeks of slipping, and nobody has to remember to start anything.

3. wrapping

   After the last shooting day

   The shoot is over and the reconciling is not: declarations to settle, variances to close, invoices to approve. That period is bounded rather than open-ended, and the date it ends on is recorded on the subscription itself.

4. archived

   The show is over, the records are not

   A separate recorded date marks when the production moves to archive. What was served, to whom, at what cost, and what each supplier was paid stays readable — a production is audited long after it wraps.

5. paused

   Stood down

   A show that halts. Weeks with no shooting day produce no meter row anyway, so this is a statement about the subscription rather than a separate discount.

6. trial · past_due · cancelled

   The rest of the enum

   Named here because a status you first discover on an invoice is not a pricing model. These are the remaining values the subscription status can take.

Two rails, because a short-form commercial and a returning series do not pay the same way.

Card, self-serverail = paddle

For productions small enough that a card is genuinely the fastest route. The billing account carries the customer reference and nothing else changes about the meter.

Purchase order and invoicerail = manual_invoice

The rail productions above micro-budget actually use: a PO number held on the billing account, a tax id, an invoice raised in the account’s own currency, and payment terms that default to thirty days. This is accounts payable, and the product is shaped for it rather than around it.

• A metered week cannot be edited. org.usage_week is unique on the production and the week, the metering job may insert and read, and no identity in the database holds UPDATE or DELETE on it. A correction to a billed week is a compensating row or a credit note, never a restatement — evidence that can be edited is not evidence, and immutability that rests on everybody remembering is not immutability.
• Your suppliers cannot see what you pay us. Vendor, crew and kiosk identities are excluded from the billing tables by privilege rather than by policy — they are not named in a grant at all. A policy is one statement away from being widened by somebody who did not know; a missing grant fails closed and fails loudly. Your subscription tells a caterer how large a customer you are, and that is not theirs to read.
• Inside the show, it is visible to the people whose job it is. The UPM and the production accountant, who hold billing:read. A coordinator, a 2nd AD, the set medic and even the auditor hold plenty of access to the production and do not see the CrewFuel bill — the show’s budget and the company’s subscription are two different pots of money belonging to two different people.
• Adding somebody to the roster adds thirty dollars. Said plainly because it is the one thing about this price that could surprise you at wrap. It is charged once, when they are put on the show — not per week they stay, and not again if they leave and come back. Pasting a call sheet in to see who is on it costs nothing until you activate them.
• Suppliers are not billed. There is exactly one subscription row per production and one billing account behind it; nothing raises a subscription against a caterer or a craft operator for reading their own engagement.