HR software for media & production companies
Crews scale up, edits run long, kit walks. CoDash keeps the people and the gear accounted for - permanent staff and freelancers on one system.
CoDash handles production-company reality: employment types for permanent, fixed-term and freelance crew, clean onboarding and offboarding as projects spin up and down, the kit register that knows where every camera and licence went, TOIL when the edit overruns, and a culture layer that keeps a distributed crew feeling like one company.
Freelancer-heavy without the mess
Employment types are configurable, every person carries their own pattern and pro-rata allowance, and offboarding is a checklist - access off, kit back, records retained to policy - so wrap doesn't mean loose ends.
Kit that comes back
Cameras, drives, licences and laptops tied to people in the asset register with condition and return tracked at offboarding - chased automatically, not remembered eventually.
The edit that ran long
Overtime logged in seconds, approved into TOIL or flagged for pay with weekend multipliers, settled from the finance payout view. The 48-hour opt-out register sits alongside for the heavy weeks.
One crew, wherever they are
The feed, kudos and celebrations keep shoots, edit suites and the office in one conversation; the anonymous pulse (no author column, k-anonymity on aggregates) tells you how people are really doing.
What we deliberately don't do
Call sheets, bookings and production scheduling live in your production tools. CoDash is the employment layer - people, hours, kit and records.
Worth reading alongside
- TOIL vs overtime pay when the edit overruns
- Rolled-up holiday pay - when it's lawful for irregular crews
- Irregular-hours holiday pay calculator
- The 48-hour opt-out for heavy weeks
Common questions
Can fixed-term crew be onboarded and offboarded quickly?
Yes - invite with a start date and the checklist fires; offboarding chases kit and access and can anonymise the record after your retention period.
Does the kit register handle serial numbers?
Yes - tag, name, serial, condition and holder, with search across all of it and returns tracked at offboarding.
How does TOIL work after a crunch edit?
Log the hours, the manager approves as TOIL or pay, TOIL lands in the leave balance to book like any other day.
Do call sheets or bookings live here?
No - production scheduling stays in your production stack. CoDash is the employer's record beside it.
See it between productions
The demo is open - check the kit register, the overtime flow and the feed. No sign-up needed.