WECLICKK ACADEMY · PRODUCTION BUDGETS

The production budget that writes itself.

You never type a production budget in WeClickk. You plan the shoot, and the budget derives itself: crew day rates from Team, rentals from Equipment, fees from Locations, all rolled up against what the client pays. Watch it build below.

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This is your budget, deriving itself.

Desert Film bills Nike MENA JOD 11,300, set once in Define. Every cost you planned already lives somewhere: day rates in Team, rentals in Equipment, fees in Locations. Derive the budget, add the one cost no feature owns, then add a rental and watch the whole number track itself.

Budget overviewLive rollup of your shoot budget.Edit total in Define ↗
TOTAL BUDGETJOD 11,300Set in Define
ALLOCATEDJOD 0Sum of every category
REMAININGJOD 11,300Nothing allocated yet
From your projectDerived live from Team, Equipment, Locations, and more. Nothing retyped.
Crew13 people · 30% of allocatedOpen Team →JOD 2,600
Sara M. · DP · 150 × 2 days300
Omar T. · 1st AD · 120 × 2 days240
+ 11 more from Team2,060
Talent3 people · 15%Open Team →JOD 1,300
Layan Haddad · Lead800
Yousef R. + Dana S. · Runners500
Equipment4 items · 12%Open Equipment →JOD 1,100
Sony FX6 ×2 · RENTAL600
Aputure 600d · RENTAL180
Grip van + consumables320
DJI Mini 4 drone · RENTAL · just added250
Locations2 fees · 12%Open Locations →JOD 1,050
Rooftop permit · Al Weibdeh600
Location fee + power450
Wardrobe & props9%Open Wardrobe →JOD 800
Catering14 × 2 days · 7%Open Catering →JOD 640
Unitstransport · 6%Open Units →JOD 560
Other costsOne-off lines no feature owns+ Add cost
Contingency · shoot day buffer750
READY · THE SHOOT IS PLANNED · THE BUDGET IS EMPTY
BILLING · SET IN DEFINENO COSTS YET
CLIENT PAYSJOD 11,300
ALLOCATEDJOD 0
MARGINJOD 11,300 · untested
EVERY LINE BELOW COMES FROM A FEATURE YOU ALREADY FILLED
HITTING YOUR TARGET

Every resource you add is checked against your target.

Set what the client pays and the margin you want to keep. The budget pill then follows you around the project: add a crew member or a rental and it recalculates on the spot, so you always know if you still hit your number.

78% BUDGETJOD 8,800 / 11.3k
Lives in the project header, on every tab.
Recalculates with every resource you add
Green while the margin hits your target
One tap opens the full budget
BUDGET78% used
JOD 8,800 of 11,300
MARGINOn target
JOD 2,500
BillingJOD 11,300
TargetJOD 2,000
BY CATEGORY
Crew2,600
Talent1,300
Equipment1,100
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ON THE SHOOT DAY

The budget keeps tracking while you roll.

Day 1 locks your plan as the baseline. Anything extra on set gets logged in seconds, you pick who pays, and your margin updates live. All from your phone, between takes.

Mark as Paid
Rooftop permitLocations · Al Weibdeh600
Planned
JOD 600
Actually paid
JOD 620
Paid via
Cash · on set · receipt photo added
+ JOD 20 over plan · logs itself as a change
Mark Paid
9:41LTE ▮▮▮
Baseline locked
On-Set BudgetDay 1 of 2 · Aug 27 · JOD
Spent so far JOD 9,050
Baseline8,800 Over by+250 Margin left2,400
CrewJOD 2,600
Gaffer overtimeTime overrun · 19:10Due+90
TalentJOD 1,300
Layan H. · leadConfirmed · day rate × 2✓ Paid1,300
EquipmentJOD 1,350
Rain tarp rentalWeather · On us✓ Paid+60
Drone renegotiatedVendor · Under planDue−50
LocationsJOD 1,050
Rooftop permitAl Weibdeh · permit fee✓ Paid600
Something change on set?
Log a Change
1What
2Who covers it
3Review
Time overrunScope changeVendor pricingWeather
What happened
Gaffer overtime · rooftop reset ran long
Amount
+ 90 JOD
Day
Day 1 · Aug 27
Who covers it
On usClient pays
Log It
WHAT YOU GET

Everything the budget feature gives you.

A budget that derives itself

Crew, talent, equipment, locations, wardrobe, catering, units: every category rolls up live from the features you already filled.

Day rates do the math

Set a rate on each person in Team and the crew line becomes rate × shoot days, updating when either changes.

Margin, tracked from Define

Billing lives in Define: what the client pays against what you spend, so the margin is visible all the way to wrap.

Rentals flow from Equipment

Mark a kit RENTAL, OWNED, or BORROWED and its cost lands in the right line: the gear list and the budget are one thing.

One-off costs, one card

Permits, contingency, the thing you only remember on Thursday: Other costs holds the lines no feature owns.

BEFORE WECLICKK / AFTER WECLICKK

Where does the budget live?

✗ BEFORE WECLICKK
DesertFilm_budget_v7_FINAL.xlsxLAST OPENED ON THE SHOOT DAY
ITEMWHOJOD
12crew total??sara list2,400
13camera rentalquote v2600
14TOTAL#VALUE!#VALUE!
did we pay the rooftop guy??
STICKY NOTE · CASH · NO RECEIPT
"can we still afford the crane?"
WHATSAPP · 21:14 · NOBODY KNOWS
FW: invoice · gear house · OVERDUE
EMAIL · FOUND AFTER THE MARGIN WAS GONE
THE MARGIN DISAPPEARS ONE UNTRACKED LINE AT A TIME.
✓ AFTER WECLICKK
PLAN / BUDGET · LIVE ROLLUP JOD 2,500 MARGIN
TOTAL11,300
ALLOCATED8,800
REMAINING2,500
Crew · from Team2,600
Talent · from Team1,300
Equipment · rentals only1,100
Locations · permits + fees1,050
+ 4 more categories2,750
The number is real, all the way to wrap.DERIVED FROM 7 FEATURES · NOTHING RETYPED · MARGIN PROTECTED
ONE NUMBER, DERIVED FROM THE SHOOT ITSELF. THE MARGIN SURVIVES.
QUESTIONS

Production budgets, explained.

How do you budget a video production?

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Start from what the client pays, then allocate it across the real categories: crew day rates, talent, equipment rentals, location fees, wardrobe, catering, transport, and a contingency. In WeClickk you skip the allocation step: each category derives from the feature where you planned it.

What are the main production budget categories?

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For most commercial shoots: crew, talent, equipment, locations, wardrobe and props, catering, units and transport, and other one-off costs. WeClickk rolls up exactly those, each with its own color, share bar, and a link back to its source feature.

How much contingency should a shoot budget have?

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Working practice for small commercial shoots is 5 to 10 percent of the total. On Desert Film that is JOD 750 on an 11,300 budget. Keep it as its own visible line, not padding hidden inside other numbers, so you know when you are actually eating into it.

Why do production budgets blow up?

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Rarely one big line. It is the untracked small ones: the cash permit with no receipt, the extra rental day nobody logged, the spreadsheet that stopped matching reality on day one. A budget that reads from the plan itself cannot drift away from it.

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