Production accounting that keeps up with the shoot.
Abacist is where a production's budget, purchase orders, approvals and cost reports live — one ledger, kept current, for the people who have to answer for the numbers.
What it does
Budgets and cost reports
Committed, actual and forecast tracked against the budget you started with, at whatever depth the production needs.
Purchase orders and approvals
Route spending for approval before it happens, along a path the production defines rather than one the software imposes.
Petty cash
Floats, advances and settlements reconciled against receipts, so cash on set is accounted for like everything else.
Crew and suppliers
One record per person and company, with tax identification checked against the public registry where one exists.
Bank reconciliation
Import statements and match them against what the ledger already knows, instead of keying the same line twice.
Document intake
Forward invoices to a project's own address. Figures are extracted for review — proposed to you, never posted behind your back.
Who it is for
Production accountants, line producers and production managers — the people who have to answer for the numbers, on features, series and commercials.
Get in touch
Abacist is in active development. If you run production finance and want to talk about it, write to hello@abacist.io