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Invoicing & job tracking for freelance camera assistants
If you're a freelance 1st or 2nd AC, your work lives in a mess of text threads, call sheets, and a Notes app full of day rates. Slater pulls it into one place — every shoot day, every kit fee, every invoice — built specifically for how camera assistants actually work.
The problem
Between prep days, shoot days, and travel, tracking what you're owed is its own job. Rates change per production. Kit and expendables get billed differently on every gig. By the time you sit down to invoice, half the details are buried in your camera bag.
What Slater does for camera assistants
Track every shoot day and rate — log labor days per production with the rate you agreed, including prep and travel days.
Bill your kit and expendables — attach camera kit rental fees and consumables to a job so nothing gets left off the invoice.
Send professional invoices in seconds — turn a job into a clean, branded invoice and track when it's paid.
See what you're owed at a glance — a running total of outstanding and paid work across every production.
Build reusable rate packages — save your standard day rate and kit fees so every quote takes seconds.
How it works
Add a job for each production, log your days and any gear you're renting to them, then generate an invoice when the gig wraps. Slater keeps the running tally of what's been paid and what's outstanding, so you always know where you stand.
Built for the whole camera department
Slater works the same way for focus pullers and loaders — anyone billing a mix of day rates, kit fees, and expendables across multiple productions.
Slater for the rest of the crew
Built the same way for gaffers, grips, production sound mixers, and DITs.