Clean Up Vendor Data and Simplify Startwork

Happy May everyone!

This month's updates are focused on reducing repetitive work and giving you more control where it counts—across vendor management, startwork, and payroll. Whether you're catching a duplicate vendor record before it causes a 1099 headache, or keeping a close eye on allowance spending before payroll runs, these updates are built to help your team move faster and make fewer mistakes.

Here's what's new.

Accounting & Spend: Cleaner vendor data, fewer headaches

Accurate vendor data is the foundation of clean reporting and year-end compliance. These updates help you prevent common errors before they ripple across payroll and accounts payable.

Catch and merge duplicate vendor records

Duplicate vendor records are one of the most common sources of confusion in production accounting, leading to mismatched 1099s, AP discrepancies, and reports that don't add up.

Wrapbook now helps you stop duplicates before they're created and clean up any that already exist. When you enter a vendor name that closely matches an existing record, Wrapbook will alert you in real time, so you can review the existing vendor's details inline and decide whether you're adding a genuinely new vendor or working with one you already have on file.

And if duplicates have already slipped through? You can now merge them. All AP invoices, payment history, W9 documents, and transaction records are preserved and consolidated into one clean entry—and you control which details to keep, field by field.

Onboarding & payroll: Less repetition, more control

Startwork and payroll are high-volume, repeat-touch workflows. These updates are designed to eliminate unnecessary repetition while giving your team tighter oversight where it matters most.

Reuse a signature across startwork

Workers can now save their digital signature once and reuse it across all future startwork documents—no need to recreate it from scratch every time.

During signing, workers can choose to save a typed signature that can be applied to documents across any project going forward. Saved signatures can be updated or removed at any time from Account Details. Signature saving is compliant and auditable under E-SIGN and UETA.

Sign all startwork documents in one step

Production admins can now click "Sign all" directly from the project worker page to initiate signing across all eligible startwork documents. Instead of opening each document individually, admins can move through the workflow in one streamlined flow—finishing with the required “Sign and Approve” confirmation to complete the process. This is especially helpful for teams managing large crews at scale.

NYC protected time off, now tracked in Wrapbook

For productions already tracking paid sick leave in Wrapbook, you now have a built-in way to manage the 32-hour unpaid ESSTA (Earned Safe and Sick Time Act) balance required by law for New York City workers.

Wrapbook automatically grants eligible NYC workers 32 hours of unpaid protected time off with the ability to adjust balances to support situations like rehires or workers moving into NYC mid-production. Workers can see their available balance and used hours directly in Wrapbook.

Easier navigation across pages and timecards

Finding your way around just got simpler. Breadcrumb navigation at the top of each page makes it clear where you are and lets you jump back to a parent page in a single click. You can also move through a set of timecards using prev/next arrows, making it faster to review a batch without losing your place.

Wrapping up

May's updates give production teams more control over their data, their documents, and their workflows without adding more manual work to the pile. From merging duplicate vendors to reusing signatures and tracking allowances in real time, these features are built to reduce friction at every step.

As always, our Support Team and Help Center are here if you have questions along the way.