Real-Time Collaboration

Real-Time Collaboration: One Team, One Budget

Production is a team sport, and your budgeting tool works the same way. In this guide, you invite your team and work on the same budget at the same time, with one version for everyone.

The Problem with Spreadsheet Collaboration

Every production team knows this situation: someone opens the budget, makes changes and saves a new version. Meanwhile, someone else was working on the old version. Now there are two files, neither is complete, and someone spends an hour merging them.

Or the budget goes out as an email attachment. Three people make changes to their own copies, and nobody knows which file is current.

Splinde keeps everyone in one budget instead.

How Collaboration Works in Splinde

In Splinde, your team works on the same live budget, with no copies, versions or email attachments. When your line producer updates a fee in Munich while you review the total in Berlin, you both see the change within seconds.

What you see in real time

Who is here: when more than one person is in a budget, everyone's avatar appears, each in their own colour.
Live updates: when someone changes a number, the Cost Item total, the Section total and the budget total update on your screen within seconds.
One line, one person: while a colleague works in a Cost Item, including its AddOns, it is outlined in their colour with their avatar beside it. Splinde holds that Cost Item for them until they move on, so two people never overwrite each other's numbers.

How to Invite Team Members

Open the workspace switcher and go to Settings.
Under Administration, open Team.
Click Invite new Member.
Enter the email address of each person you want to invite. A new row appears for each additional person.
Choose a role for each person (see below). New rows start as Editor.
Click Send Invitations.

Each invited person receives an email and joins your workspace by clicking the button in it. Every invitation takes a seat; you choose the number of seats at checkout.

Roles and Permissions

Splinde uses two workspace roles:

Role	Can Create and Edit Budgets	Can Invite and Manage Members
Admin	Yes	Yes
Editor	Yes	No

Admin: full control. Works on budgets, invites and removes team members, changes roles and manages the plan and billing. Use this for the workspace owner and lead producer.
Editor: works on budgets and creates Projects. The admin controls are hidden for Editors. Use this for line producers, production managers and key crew.

Admins can change a member's role at any time under Settings → Team.