Streamline production budgeting, planning, and cost control in one platform
Professional media productions require clear financial and operational oversight. Yet information is often scattered across tools, spreadsheets, and teams. Tubes brings budgeting, planning, and cost control together in one platform, giving production teams real-time insight throughout the production lifecycle.
It connects budgets, actual costs, and forecasts in real time, helping teams maintain financial and operational control from development to wrap. AI assistants help draft budgets and proposals, spot spending patterns and flag unusual costs.
- Development
- Planning
- Production
- Wrap
Setting up and managing your productions
Keep your productions on track with powerful dashboards and pipelines. Track every stage of the production process, from preparation to delivery and analysis, while setting up budgets, managing documents, and staying fully in control.
Control your production and planning in real time
Allocate costs to co-producers, monitor expenses in real time, and handle and approve incoming production invoices with ease. Schedule cast, crew, and locations, and keep everyone aligned by sharing schedules and call sheets through the Tubes app.
Got Xero? Supercharge it.
Keep Xero. Add Tubes. Connect production and finance.
Tubes connects directly with
Xero, adding a powerful production layer to the accounting system you already use.
Manage budgets, costs, commitments and forecasts in Tubes, while financial information flows seamlessly into Xero. Production gets greater visibility and control, while finance keeps working in the system it already knows.
Using another accounting system? Contact us to discuss integration.
How well is your production finance process working?
Find out in a free 45-minute video session with us.
We will take a fresh look at your production finance process, identify what is working well, uncover where you may be losing time or control, and explore opportunities to improve.
Free · 45 minutes · No obligation
In 45 minutes, we'll
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Understand
Your business and current setup
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Identify
Where there may be friction or opportunities to improve
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Explore
How Tubes can support your production finance workflow
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Discuss
Our findings and potential next steps
Choose your plan
Producer Pro
For freelance producers, creative duos, micro teams, co-producers, project consultants and short-term collaborators.
From€ 49 per month, includes 2 users
Includes up to 3 active projects. € 25 per month for each additional user, up to 10 users.
- Budgeting & cost control
- Simple, intuitive workflows
- Self-service onboarding
- Standard support & SLA
- Xero connection
(optional) - No hidden costs
- Cancel anytime
Set up in 30 minutes, including a Xero integration if you wish. We help you get started.
Enterprise
For teams of more than 10 users. Connect financial intent, planning, and execution across your entire organisation, with the control, security, and scalability enterprises require.
- Unlimited projects
- Budgeting, planning & cost control across the organisation
- Real-time reporting & forecasting
- Multi-entity and multi-country setup
- Advanced permissions, roles, and approval flows
- Enterprise-level reporting & audit trails
- Deep system integrations + full API access
- Dedicated onboarding & Customer Success Manager
Questions, or curious about Tubes Projects and Tubes for Companies? See all plans or get in touch.
When planning, finance and execution are disconnected, control is lost
In many productions, budgeting, scheduling, and cost control live in separate tools. Tubes brings planning and execution together in a single, shared environment, for the entire production lifecycle.
Without Tubes
- Budgeting, scheduling and cost control in separate tools
- Manual recalculations after every change
- Information copied across multiple versions
- Teams working with outdated data
- Errors, delays and avoidable cost overruns
- Financial insight that arrives too late to prevent overspending
With Tubes
- Structured budgeting and planning in one shared environment
- Integrated production workflows
- Real-time cost control and forecasting
- Role-based access for all stakeholders
- Reliable reporting without manual consolidation
- Operational finance layer for processing and approving production costs
What Tubes Covers
Planning & Budgeting
Create structured budgets and schedules with full version control and scenario comparison. Explore alternatives and instantly see financial and operational impact before committing decisions.
Execution & Cost Control
Track actuals, commitments and forecasts in real time. Changes are reflected instantly across budgets, schedules and reports. Production costs are captured, validated, approved and processed within the financial workflow before being transferred to your ledger accounting system.
Reporting & Transparency
Provide stakeholders with clear, role-based insight into performance, risks and outcomes, without manual reconciliation.