Every rupee of the film.
One control room.
Zeerow Cine Spend runs the whole production's money on one platform — bank transfers and UPI to every department, a separate wallet for every crew, approvals you design yourself, and a live budget the producer can read at a glance. Real-time control that recovers up to 3% of the budget otherwise lost to leakage.
Every film has a villain. Yours doesn't have a face.
He isn't stealing — you'd catch stealing. He works the gap between a payment happening and anyone finding out about it, and on a production that gap is about eleven days wide. He is polite. He is helpful. He is on your crew. By the time the books close he has already left the state, and the only thing he leaves behind is a budget that says one number while the bank says another.
Bundles handed to whoever is standing closest, reconciled from memory at midnight. Nobody lied. Nobody remembers either.
Advance paid in Mumbai, paid again in Goa, because two people were being helpful on two different phones. The vendor said nothing.
₹50,000 with the rental house. The film wrapped. Everybody moved on. He kept it.
No bill, no GST. Every missing invoice is a discount you handed to nobody in particular.
Transport crossed its budget on day 12. You found out on day 21, in a spreadsheet, at 2 a.m.
Your line producer rebuilding the film by hand every night. Version 14. Two typos. One of them is load-bearing.
Approvals as blurry screenshots. The record exists — scattered across four phones, one of which is now in a river in Wai.
Spot boy paid for the chai three weeks ago. He hasn't asked twice. That silence is not free — it costs you the next shoot.
He works in the gap.
So we took the gap away.
That's the whole trick. There is no chase, no twist, no confession. Eleven days between a payment happening and somebody finding out becomes four minutes — and the man on the charge sheet has nowhere left to stand. Everything after this is simply what four minutes lets a producer do.
This is what four minutes looks like.
Not a brochure — these are the actual cards from the Zeerow desk. The budget board, the wallets, the payment run, your approval rules, the cash calendar and the audit file. Click through and see exactly what a producer sees while the camera is still rolling.
Where the film stands, right now
One number the producer trusts, and the seven departments underneath it. Committed money is counted before it leaves — so the free balance is the truth, not an estimate.
Department-wise · The Last Local
Fig. 01 · Budget board| Department | Allocation | Budget | Paid | Committed | Free | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talent & artistsCast · doubles · agency | ₹3.40 Cr | ₹1.60 Cr | ₹0.90 Cr | ₹0.90 Cr | On plan | |
| Camera & lightingRentals · deposits · crew | ₹2.60 Cr | ₹1.24 Cr | ₹0.62 Cr | ₹0.74 Cr | On plan | |
| Post & VFXMilestones · retention | ₹2.00 Cr | ₹0.15 Cr | ₹0.50 Cr | ₹1.35 Cr | Not started | |
| Art & production designSets · props · dressing | ₹1.60 Cr | ₹0.78 Cr | ₹0.34 Cr | ₹0.48 Cr | On plan | |
| Transport & travelFuel · vanity · flights | ₹1.30 Cr | ₹0.71 Cr | ₹0.22 Cr | ₹0.37 Cr | Watch · 72% | |
| Catering & spotUnit food · runners | ₹0.85 Cr | ₹0.44 Cr | ₹0.11 Cr | ₹0.30 Cr | On plan | |
| Location & permitsFees · police · protocol | ₹0.65 Cr | ₹0.29 Cr | ₹0.16 Cr | ₹0.20 Cr | On plan |
A separate wallet for every department
Not one big float that everyone dips into. Each department gets its own wallet with its own limit, its own categories and its own bill rule — funded by you, spendable only on what you allow.
Pay the whole day in one run
Junior artists, vendors, rentals and reimbursements — approved through the day, released in one batch. UPI where it should be instant, bank transfer where the amount is serious.
Ready to pay
Fig. 03 · Payment run| Payee | Department | Rail | Approval | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior artists — 25 headsAttendance sheet attached | Talent | Bulk UPI | AD → Line producer | ₹18,500 |
| Prime Cine RentalsBalance on delivery · deposit ₹50,000 held | Camera | IMPS | Auto · under contract | ₹85,000 |
| Sagar CaterersInvoice #1184 matched · GST 5% | Catering | UPI | Production manager | ₹41,300 |
| Hotel Estrela — 20 roomsAdvance · balance at checkout | Travel | NEFT | Producer · pending | ₹60,000 |
| Fuel & generator top-up3 vehicles · driver tagged | Transport | Wallet | Auto · under ₹10,000 | ₹9,800 |
| Ramesh · spot boyReimbursement · bill photographed | Spot | UPI | Auto · under ₹10,000 | ₹2,000 |
one release · every beneficiary paid to their own account · every rupee already tagged to a department, a schedule and a vendor
Approval flows you design — once
Write the rule the way your production actually works, and Zeerow enforces it on every request from then on. Small things clear themselves. Big things reach you, and only you.
What this kills
Fig. 04What the film owes, before it owes it
Every contract, rental, milestone and hotel bill lands on a calendar the day it's signed. The producer funds the account for the week ahead — not the panic of the morning.
Cash calendar
Fig. 05 · Committed outflowContract dues · this week
Fig. 06| Due | Payee | Against | Amount | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu · 16 Jul | Prime Cine Rentals | Weekly rental · wk 3 | ₹4,20,000 | Funded |
| Fri · 17 Jul | Hotel Estrela | 20-room block · balance | ₹6,40,000 | Fund by Thu |
| Sat · 18 Jul | Choreography unit | Song schedule · milestone 2 | ₹8,50,000 | Funded |
| Mon · 20 Jul | Sunlight Studios | VFX · milestone 1 of 4 | ₹38,00,000 | Producer sign-off |
Audit-ready the day you wrap
Nobody rebuilds the film's books in October. Every payment already carries its bill, its GST, its TDS section and its approver — so the file closes itself.
TDS — section wise
Fig. 07| Section | Applies to | Deducted |
|---|---|---|
| 194CContractors | Rentals · catering · unit | ₹2.90 L |
| 194JProfessional | Director · DOP · VFX | ₹2.40 L |
| 194IRent | Locations · equipment | ₹0.90 L |
The audit file
Fig. 08his take, from the morning the production moves onto Zeerow.
The villain doesn't get a second half.
Nothing about him was clever. He only ever needed one thing — time between the money leaving and somebody noticing. Close that gap to zero and every count on the charge sheet becomes impossible to commit, not harder to commit. Same crew, same chaos, same ₹12 Cr. He just has nowhere left to stand.
Every seat in the house gets a different view.
One platform, four kinds of people. The producer sees the film. The HOD sees their department, live. Nobody sees a number they shouldn't, and nobody waits for someone else to send it.
- The whole film on one number — spent, committed, free.
- Projected close and variance before the money moves.
- Approvals only where the amount deserves your attention.
- Freeze any wallet, any department, from anywhere.
- The day's budget against the day's actual, live.
- Loads wallets, clears requests, runs the batch.
- Overrun alerts days early, not weeks late.
- Day report generated at wrap — no 2 a.m. Excel.
- Their own department's spend, in real time.
- Their wallet, their limit, their remaining balance.
- Raises a request with the bill attached, gets an answer.
- Never sees another department's numbers.
- GST input, TDS sections and thresholds, tracked live.
- Invoice matched to payment, payment matched to UTR.
- Vendor ledgers with advance, deposit and balance.
- Export to Tally or Excel, any date range.
Money leaves the way the moment demands.
A spot boy can't wait for a NEFT window and a ₹38 lakh VFX milestone shouldn't move on a QR code. Zeerow picks the rail, you pick the person.
Scan or VPA. For runners, junior artists, reimbursements and anything the crew is standing around waiting for.
IMPS, NEFT and RTGS straight to the vendor's account. Advances, balances, rentals, milestones — with the UTR on the ledger line.
One request, 25 junior artists, 25 separate accounts. Attendance attached, each head paid individually.
Pre-loaded, capped, category-locked and swept at wrap. Cash behaviour, without the cash.
Every rupee leaves with a stamp on it.
In a production office the bill travels. Desk to desk, day after day, waiting for somebody with a rubber stamp to be in the room. Here the stamp lands in four minutes — and it lands on a record that nobody can quietly change afterwards.
- ProductionThe Last Local
- ScheduleGoa · day 14 of 48
- DepartmentCamera & lighting
- PayeePrime Cine Rentals Pvt Ltd
- AgainstWeekly rental · wk 3 · inv #4471
- GST27ABCDE1234F1Z5 · 18% captured
- TDS194C · ₹8,400 at source
- RailIMPS
- UTRSBIN325041700284
- Raised14 Jul 26 · 18:38
raised 18:38 · approved 18:42 · paid 18:42 · on the ledger 18:42 — one voucher, three thappas, four minutes
Move your budget. Watch what the leak costs you.
Between duplicate advances, unreturned deposits, unclaimed GST, cash that never came back and overspend caught too late, a production quietly loses 2–3% of its budget. Zeerow closes the gap because the control is live, not monthly.
recovery band assumes 2–3% of budget currently lost to duplicate advances, unreturned deposits, unclaimed input credit, unreconciled cash and late-caught overspend
Follow the money from call time to wrap.
A single shoot day, as Zeerow records it. Every payment leaves a department and lands on the board — approved, categorised, reconciled — while the camera keeps rolling.
Scan → paid before the tea gets cold. Dedicated wallet, daily limit, bill required on the spot.
Advance already logged; balance released on delivery, ₹50,000 security deposit tracked separately so it comes back.
One request; Zeerow splits the payout head-by-head against the attendance sheet. Each artist gets their own UPI credit.
Lunch for 120 on an outdoor set — invoice photographed, matched to the food budget, GST captured for input credit.
Three vehicles and one generator top-up, logged against transport with the driver tagged — the department is at 84% of its cap and everyone can see it.
Advance for a 20-room block; balance and GST settle at checkout, both already on the cash calendar.
Every open wallet reconciled before the crew leaves. Unused float swept back. Day report generated — nobody rebuilds anything tonight.
Every seat sold.
Every rupee accounted for.
Get Zeerow Cine Spend on the film before the first schedule, and let the only thing you worry about on wrap day be the party.