Every call time,
every crew,
one sheet of truth.
Tinds runs the part of live production that spreadsheets and group texts keep breaking: building the shift plan, confirming the crew, printing the call sheet, clocking the hours, and getting a clean file to payroll.
Per-company pricing. A 115-person roster costs the same as a 15-person one.
We built Tinds because we run crews for a living and nothing on the market understood a call sheet.United Entertainment Solutions, the labor company behind Tinds
Most workforce software is built around a fixed weekly rota, then stretched to fit production. It has no idea what a load-in is, why a Crew Head earns a different rate than an Electrician on the same call, or why a night premium starts at midnight.
Tinds started as the tool UES used to run its own five-market operation. Every feature exists because a real crew needed it on a real show day.
Every screen,
as it ships.
From the first booking to the payroll file, this is the office side of Tinds. Tap any screen to see it full size.
Crew get their own app.
No app store.
Shift requests, the call sheet, chat and the time card on any phone, installed from the browser.
The whole show day,
in order.
Nothing here is a bolt-on. The roles you plan become the crew you confirm, the sheet you print, the hours you approve and the file you send.
Shift plans on a calendar
Click a day, name the event, add roles with counts and rates. Multi-day projects get Day 1 of 4 automatically. Duplicate an event to any date, with or without its crew.
Availability checks and confirmations
Ask the roster who can work before you assign. Crew confirm or decline from their phone; the calendar shows filled, partial and open at a glance.
Call sheets and production schedules
One click prints a real call sheet: general call, wrap, weather and sun, crew grouped by role with open slots shown, next call, payroll rules, and In / Out / Initials columns.
Time clock and kiosk
Six-digit PIN clock-in on a tablet at the site or on each phone. Managers see who is on the clock live and can force out anyone who forgot.
Your payroll rules, applied
Daily overtime threshold, multiplier, double time, night premium window, coffee and meal breaks. Set once, printed on every call sheet, applied to every timesheet.
Timesheets to payroll
Review, edit, approve and export hours by date range, site and person. Detailed CSV or a payroll-ready file, rates already attached per role.
Sites with their own time zones
A crew in Los Angeles and a crew in New York on the same day, each seeing their own local call time. Addresses and directions on every event.
Estimates before you commit
Rough out roles, hours and rates for a bid and turn the winning estimate into a real event.
Bring your roster with you
Import the export from your current system, blank continuation rows and all. Every field round-trips back out as CSV.
Run the business,
not just the schedule.
Crew covers scheduling, call sheets and the time clock. Production adds the tools for the owner who quotes the work, bills it, and needs to know what it actually made.
Estimates that become the event
Build the quote line by line: role, date, call time and hours. Type a time like 0800-2200 and Tinds splits straight time, overtime and double time using the pay rules for that state.
- Rates pull from your rate card, so every line bills and costs correctly
- Hotel, flights, rail and vehicles with their own travel and gear markup
- Internal P&L down to profit and margin
- A branded client PDF. Your costs never appear on it
- Send to calendar builds the event and its shifts
Close out against the quote
When the job wraps, Tinds lines up the hours you quoted with the hours your crew actually worked, by role, from approved time cards.
- Billable, cost, profit and margin for the job in one view
- Quoted against worked hours by role, with the difference flagged
- An invoice breakdown ready for your accounting system
- Unapproved time cards called out before you bill
Rate cards with burden built in
Set your labor burden and markup once. Every bill rate, cost and margin follows, on every role and every estimate that has not gone out yet.
- Payroll tax, health and welfare, workers comp, paid family leave and unemployment
- Markup, travel markup and gear markup
- Premium rates such as overnight at 1.5x, applied by time of day
- A separate card for each market
Team chat that lives with the schedule
Replace the group texts. Conversations sit next to the shifts they are about, on the same login your crew already uses.
- Public and private channels, grouped by site or team
- Direct messages and crew group chats
- Threads, @mentions, search and file sharing
- Push notifications on every phone, with per-channel mute
Availability checks
Before you build the call, ask the people who fit whether they can work it. They answer yes or no on their phone, and you staff from the yeses.
- Send to the whole roster or a hand-picked list
- Yes, no and pending counted as replies come in
- Start a check straight from an event you are building
Compliance tracking
Keep licenses and certifications on file with each person, and see what is about to lapse before you put someone on a call that needs it.
- Issuer, license number, issue date and expiry
- Flags for anything expiring within 30 days or already expired
- Search and filter across the whole roster
Works with the rest
of the business.
Tinds connects to the tools you already run on, including three built by the same people who built Tinds. Integrations come with Production and Enterprise.
GantlineEstimates you build in Tinds appear as Gantline jobs, jobs booked in Gantline arrive as draft estimates, and status and totals stay in step.
OrbisignSend estimates and crew agreements for signature from Tinds. The signed copy comes back to the job it belongs to.
MarqueeTicket and point-of-sale sales feed the Tinds forecast, and the published schedule shows on the Marquee operations board.
Shifts follow the forecast and the dashboard shows live sales and labor as a share of sales.
Approved and closed-out work becomes a QuickBooks invoice in one click, with paid status coming back.
Approved hours download as a payroll file ready to import, split into regular, overtime and double time.
Zapier, Make, any POS or in-house system can send numbers in or hear about published schedules, approvals and closed jobs.
Crew subscribe once and their shifts appear in the calendar they already use.
Six steps from
booking to payroll.
This is the order a show actually runs in. Tinds follows it instead of making you fight it.
Build the event
Date, site, call and wrap, roles with headcount and rate. Or load a saved template.
Check availability
Send a one-tap yes or no to the people who fit. Assign from the ones who said yes.
Publish and confirm
Crew get the shift on their phone and confirm it. Declines show up red so you can refill.
Print the call sheet
Weather, contacts, crew by role, next call. Hand it to the Crew Head.
Clock the day
PIN kiosk or phone. Breaks and overtime calculated by your rules.
Approve and export
Fix the stragglers, approve the week, send the file to payroll.
The rules are yours,
and they are written down.
- Rates live on the role, not the person. The same electrician can be an Electrician on Tuesday and a Crew Head on Friday, and the timesheet knows which.
- Managers, admins and crew are separate levels. Nobody sees another company.
- Your data is exportable at any time. If you leave, you leave with everything.
See it on one of your real calls.
Bring a call sheet from last week. We will rebuild it in Tinds while you watch, then hand you the login. Thirty minutes.