Are your tax and fringe expenses higher than they should be because your paying the payroll company’s fabricated rate instead of your own?
If you are tired of paying exorbitant fees to get bottom of the barrel service
from your Payroll Service, then you needed the FAST Platform yesterday…
Replace Your Paymaster
With Artificial Intelligence*
…And experience a new era of speed, flexibility, exceptional customer service
and more efficient creative output, for any budget size
*Disclaimer: for the sake of clarity, we actually won’t replace your paymaster with AI, per se. Specifically, we’ll help you replace your Entertainment Payroll Service with AI… And a few other tools. Read on to learn how!
Why Work With Painfully Slow & Unresponsive Payroll Companies
When You Can Control Payroll Powered By Today’s Best A.I.?
Does your payroll company treat you like a nuisance, avoiding your calls and completing work on their own timelines?
Are you buried in a mountain of paperwork and unusable digital systems that tie up talented people for dozens of hours each week?
Are you paying such exorbitant fees for your payroll that it might as well be brain surgery?
Is your payroll company causing you to increase borrowing costs by tying up huge wads of cash instead of paying payroll as it’s incurred?
Do you pay for 2 payroll accountants (yours + paymaster) when you know you should just be paying for one?
You know the problems. You encounter them every day.
What am I talking about? Stop using the Entertainment Payroll Services in production accounting!
You don’t need them!
Creating your own payroll service
That you own and control
You just need a little help and some AI…
I am talking about adding a payroll company, inside or above your prod cos, where you own and control your data and costs. To make this happen effortlessly, we will license our software (The FAST Platform) that provides a crew portal with APIs and robots to connect the generic payroll and bookkeeping providers so they can communicate in the background.
And our team will set it up for you and train your staff so the transition is seamless. We will also stay with you through post and delivery so any issues encountered can be fixed immediately.
Setting up your own company to process payroll for your production is no different than what is currently happening inside your production company. Your accounting office will process payroll exactly the same as they do now. Only without the issues from the Entertainment Payroll Services.
schedule your call.
It doesn’t have to be the way it is now, and you don’t have to pay for payroll
as a percentage of spend! There is an easier and much better way.
Eliminate Redundant Labor and
Save More Than 60% On Payroll Fees
The FAST Platform is the exact system we’ve been using for the past 3 years to process payroll 100% in our own payroll company – completely eliminating the Entertainment Payroll Services. It helps you communicate across various financial platforms seamlessly and instantly.
And now, it’s even better – powered by today’s best AI! After seeing what FAST could do with the help of AI, we knew we had to share it with the world.
Schedule A 30-Minute Call To
See If FAST Is Right For Your Production
If you need help in any of the areas we’ve been talking about on this page, FAST can help you process payroll directly by your current production accounting crew and control it with much more ease.
If you’re interested in learning more and seeing what FAST can do for you, or even if you just have questions… We’d love to talk with you. Simply hit the button below and pick a date and time that works best for you. I will call you at the time that you choose.
Thanks, and talk to you soon!
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
OF FIRING YOUR PAYROLL SERVICE
YOU’RE IN CONTROL
Your payroll, that sits above all of your production companies or inside an one-off prod co, taking the place of the Entertainment Payroll Services. We enable that to happen by licensing our in-house FAST Platform to your company.
Our Platform sits between the 3rd party software that specialize in processing payroll and bookkeeping so show costs can be sent to our cost reporting applet for weekly updates. Get a more detailed understanding of how the FAST Platform (Full Stack) integrates the software with the needs of production accounting’s document flow in our infographic (click button below).
FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION
All of the generic systems that our software connects to can do everything that the entertainment payroll systems do, and a lot more, with a lot less friction. We will customize a suite of software that is designed for the way you work and not some other producer.
The production accounting office will process AP, POs, per diems and PC the same as they do now – only better and with less effort (and paper). And they will account for those costs in an online accounting package. The big difference is our FAST Platform (designed specifically for production by an ex-production accountant & line producer), for the digital processing of paper and internal approvals.
SUPPORT (times THREE)
We want to make sure you feel confident in the support available to you. Your team at Full Force Financial is there to be your first point of contact for any issues you might encounter. And if they don’t have a complete answer, don’t worry – there are professional support people available through the payroll processor and accounting tech stack. You can reach out to them by phone or online chat, whichever works best for you.
Just know that you have three different avenues of support at your fingertips, and they’re all there to help you solve any issues that may arise. Don’t hesitate to reach out and utilize them – we’re here to support you every step of the way.
REDUCE COSTS
Will you save money? Yes. Is that the point of making a change? No. But here is a quick breakdown so you understand how making the change will impact your budget positively.
This change will likely see a 4-6% reduction in payroll processing fees, worker’s comp and fringe costs. That might seem trivial, but across a $5M budget (60% of which is probably labor) that’s $120,000 to $180,000 per show that can be put to licensing software and on the screen.
You can also click the button to see a comparison at four different budget levels.
COMPETENT TEAM
The team you bring on to handle your payroll, who sit right in your office, are hands down more competent than most of the paymasters at the Entertainment Payroll Services (EPS). And if for some reason they’re not cutting it, you have the option to train them or replace them altogether. You don’t have to put up with the payroll manager’s choice of personnel, for crying out loud!
And seriously, when was the last time you had a problem with one of those EPS paymasters and the manager actually bothered to pick up the phone to help you out? It’s beyond frustrating.
The eBook “Production Payroll Reimagined” goes into granular detail about how to create your own payroll company using the FAST Platform:
Production Accounting In The Spotlight – get the full blog series:
- WHITEPAPER – The Future Of Digital Paper: In Film Production Accounting
- The Entertainment Payroll Services Are Running a Dishonest Business
- Entertainment Payroll Is Hiding Their Fees By Overcharging For SUI And Capping Fringes By Project
- The Payroll Services Are Price Gouging For Worker’s Compensation
- How Can We Process Production Payroll Without Paying The Industry Services’ High Fees?
