You know the drill on a Canadian show.
Crew is starting Monday, start work is still trickling in, and you are the one making sure residency, unions, and codes all line up before payroll hits. The work is important. The busywork, not so much.
That is the gap this Circus + GreenSlate webinar digs into. Instead of another checklist of “things you should be doing,” it walks through a real Canadian production setup and shows what happens when onboarding, start work, timecards, and payroll actually talk to each other. One flow. Fewer places for things to break.
Most accountants on Canadian shows are still juggling a familiar mix of disconnected tools: start work in one place, documents in another, payroll in a third, and the cost report trying to keep up at the end. It is the piecemeal setups that force you to touch the same data two or three times. You spend hours double‑checking names, codes, and fringes, not because the work is hard, but because the systems are not connected. When something changes, you fix it twice. Or three times.
Circus already gives productions a clean, digital way to get crew onboarded and through start work. GreenSlate already keeps payroll and accounting in one platform. The real win is what happens when you use them together and stop relying on manual handoffs between systems that were never built to talk to each other.
In the webinar, you see what it looks like when that whole front end is tightened up. A crew member gets invited and onboarded in Circus, completes Canadian start work, and moves through approvals. When they are cleared, they are already waiting in GreenSlate, because the two systems are connected. No re‑typing, no ‘did we set them up over there yet?’ moment. It takes two streamlined platforms and turns them into one pipeline.
From there, the focus shifts to what you live in every day: timecards and payroll. You watch a digital timecard get built in GreenSlate using the same worker who just came through Circus. Defaults and codes do more of the heavy lifting, so you are not rebuilding the wheel for each episode. When payroll runs, you can see where it lands from an accountant’s view, which makes it easier to keep your numbers straight, because payroll and accounting are already living in the same GreenSlate platform.
A connected workflow changes the shape of your week. Fewer last‑minute scrambles to reconcile what crew signed with what payroll is about to process. Fewer late nights tracking down gaps that came from copying data between systems. A little more room to look ahead instead of constantly playing catch up.
If you have been wondering what a more streamlined Canadian payroll workflow could actually look like, this replay gives you a concrete picture. You see where the friction usually is, and how running Circus for onboarding and GreenSlate for payroll and accounting together eliminates that friction.
If you want to go deeper with the workflow you saw, you can sign up for Canadian Pro Training to get hands‑on time in GreenSlate and walk through the same flow at your own pace. And if you are looking to stay on the radar for upcoming projects, join the GreenSlate A‑List so productions and controllers can easily see your availability and keep you in mind when they are staffing up.
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