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Cameron Woodward is a Co-founder of Wrapbook. As a former Co-owner and Executive Producer of a production company with major clients like IBM, Levi’s, and T-Mobile, he brings a wealth of real-world industry insight to his role at Wrapbook.
V Gordon is Wrapbook’s VP of Business Development, bringing over a decade of experience in production accounting and entertainment finance. With a background that includes key leadership roles at CAPS Payroll and Entertainment Partners, V possesses a blend of hands-on product knowledge and strategic industry perspective.
Wrapbook’s Senior Product Solutions Specialist is Rene Quiroz. With over 25 years of experience in production accounting for unscripted and reality content, Rene brings deep on-the-ground expertise to the table—along with six years spent directly shaping production finance software.
Roles and permissions, along with approvals, form the foundation of team collaboration. Creating them should be an intuitive and efficient process.
With Wrapbook, you can manage roles and permissions directly—no need to wait on support tickets from a payroll provider.
Plus, Wrapbook’s One Platform solution means that everything is integrated, so there’s no need to juggle multiple logins or deal with the hassle of piecemeal access control across platforms. The system is fast, flexible, and built to grow with your needs.
Wrapbook’s software comes preloaded with default roles and permissions that can be easily tailored to meet your team’s requirements, so there’s no need to start from scratch for each role.
Once roles are set, it’s time to make sure the approval flows are clear.
Approvals are a notoriously common point of friction for production workflows. Emails get buried, responses delayed, and last-minute fire drills arise when no one can identify where things got held up.
Wrapbook makes it easy to avoid the bottlenecks by letting you build clear, structured approval workflows tailored to your project.
It’s simple to assign approval responsibility to specific users or user roles, and to create rules to trigger additional layers of approval—like requiring extra sign-off if a purchase order exceeds a certain amount.
The interface for approving or denying requests is also straightforward and transparent. Every action is tracked onscreen, creating a clear audit trail of the entire approval process. No need to rely on scattered emails or external systems—everything happens in one place, keeping workflows structured, visible, and moving forward.
Using Wrapbook to set up roles, approvals, and coding is simple—but first, you need a project to put them in.
With Wrapbook, project setup is fully self-serve. You can skip the busywork and back-and-forth with your payroll provider and launch a new project in seconds.
Even better, you don’t have to start from square one each time. When you get the greenlight on a new production, you can duplicate a previous setup—saving time and reducing the risk of errors.
Working on a larger production, and need multiple team members to be involved with project setup? Wrapbook’s platform is built for that kind of collaboration, so everyone can contribute without stepping on each other’s toes.
One of production payroll’s biggest pain points is the amount of manual cleanup that can come with using outdated systems. Teams spend hours tracking job titles, cleaning up line items, and constantly re-entering the same data across systems.
Wrapbook tackles that at the source.
From the moment you hire someone, you can assign them a default General Ledger (GL) code based on their job title or rate. Those defaults carry forward automatically, reducing the need for repetitive entries and ensuring accuracy throughout the accounting process.
This isn’t just about convenience—it’s about setting payroll up correctly from the beginning to avoid costly issues down the line. Default coding plays a major role in downstream accuracy, and even supports automatic fringing logic, helping productions save time and minimize errors.
Tools like fringe mapping, which breaks out your fringes for you, are especially valuable when going for tax incentives, making compliance easier and faster.
With thoughtful onboarding tools built into the payroll setup, you eliminate bottlenecks and reduce the risk of human error—so you can focus on running your production, not cleaning up spreadsheets.
Modern productions need modern tools, and Wrapbook’s setup features offer the speed, flexibility, and scalability needed to unlock your team’s momentum.
Want to see it in action? Watch the on-demand event recording for live demos of these user-centered workflows in motion.
New production projects come with a long list of setup and admin tasks that need to happen well before anyone can even step on set.
It can feel like a game of telephone—no single person has all the information, and critical details get lost in the shuffle.
Worse, teams often have to wait on their payroll provider to complete setup, costing valuable time and slowing down production before it even begins. And as your company grows? Without the right tools, your setup only gets more complicated.
Wrapbook offers a different way forward. As the next standard for production finance and accounting teams, Wrapbook’s robust set of tools to help teams achieve success faster—right from the start.
With Wrapbook, your team can launch projects faster and with less manual work. In just a few clicks, you can set custom roles, approvals, and default coding—no more waiting on your payroll company or wrestling with spreadsheets.
The result? Smoother collaboration, fewer errors, and faster momentum—no matter how many productions you’re running.
Ready to see it in action? Let’s take a look at the demos shared by Wrapbook team members Cameron Woodward, V Gordon, and Rene Quiroz at our latest Wrapbook Next event.
