Your 2025 Product Recap

Powerful updates to MyCast&Crew, Hours+, Start+, PSL+, and more

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2025 brought major upgrades across our digital products—giving your production more speed, accuracy, and control. From cross-project PSL+ reporting to allowance cap tracking in Hours+ and expanded international support, these updates were built to streamline every step of your workflow.

Scroll to explore the full 2025 Recap, including our newest Q4 enhancements.

⬤ Watch our latest Master Your Craft episode about the changes made to Start+ (Onboarding) and Hours+ (Timekeeping)

⬤ 2025 Recap
Onboarding

Start+ Setting To Enable International Flat Deals: Apply international flat deals to new projects with a dedicated Project Onboarding setting for Start+
Timekeeping
Hours+ Allowance Cap Tracker

Allowance Cap Tracking in Hours+: Payroll Accountants can now track allowance caps with a new Hours+ widget that displays all payments across Hours+ and non-Hours+ timecards, automatically populates caps entered in Start+, and allows manual updates for future deals (Learn more)
Timekeeping
Hours+ Instant Deals

Instant Deals: Get faster, smoother workflows with offers sent in Start+ now appearing instantly in Hours+(Learn more)
Timekeeping
International Deals in Start+

International Onboarding and Timekeeping: LA-based crews on global projects can now be onboarded and paid under international terms, with Timekeeping streamlining these deals through simplified in and out time entry 
Timekeeping
Hours+ Approval Workflow Builder

Self-Service Approval Workflows and Departments: Trusted users with Workflow Admin permissions in Hours+ can now create and manage approval workflows, departments, and invoice templates, with more details in the Hours+ for Admins course (Learn more in the Hours+ for Admins course or check out this helpful article) 
Accounting
Pcard

New Pcard Option: Easily send global payments with the new Eved integration in PSL+, now supporting international payments and multiple currencies (Learn more)
Reporting
PSL+_Reports

PSL+ Reports: New, instant, self-service access to essential PSL+ Reports in Reporting+ for time-saving capabilities (Learn more)
MyCast&Crew
MyCast&Crew_Pay-stub-email-alert

MyCast&Crew: Crew members gain quicker access to earnings with opt-in email notifications that alert them as soon as new pay stubs are available, improving record-keeping and reducing delays in reviewing payment details (Learn more) 
MyCast&Crew
Direct Deposit Redesign

Redesigned New Account and Direct Deposit Workflows: A faster, more secure, and user-friendly experience for account and direct deposit setup (Check out the new look and feel in our videos: Direct Deposit | Account Registration) 
Secure File Transfer
Studio+_Auditing

Studio+ Auditing: The auditing process is clearer and more transparent, with coordinator and approver comments plus attached documents now accessible directly in Edit Report PDFs (Learn more)

⬤ Finishing Strong: Fall / Winter Enhancements To Make Your Work Flow 

Onboarding
 
  • More Control in Start+: Add or remove non-employee users in seconds—no support ticket needed. The new “Can manage users” permission puts control in your hands, keeping projects moving without delay.(Learn more)
 Start+ User Management Tool (horizontal)
  • Edit Approval Workflows in Start+: Need to adjust who approves what? The “Can manage workflows” permission lets you update approval paths in Start+ instantly, cutting setup time and giving you the flexibility to adapt as projects evolve. (Learn more)
 Start+ Approval Workflows
  • Start+ Filtering & Sorting Enhancements: Stay focused and save time with filters that remember your preferences across sessions on the managing offers, approvals, or I-9 review pages so you can pick up right where you left off

 Start+ Filtering and Sorting
  • More Flexibility With Overscale Overrides: Hiring managers in Start+ now have the power to decide when an offer should be treated as overscale to ensure the right workflows apply to the right situations—improving accuracy, reducing unnecessary delays, and keeping your approvals moving seamlessly

 Start+ Overscale Override
Timekeeping
 
  • Fix Coding Faster Without Rework: In Hours+, payroll accountants can now correct deal memo coding directly on submitted timecards. No new deal, no extra signatures, just faster, cleaner payrolls.
 Hours+ Edit Deal Memo Coding
MyCast&Crew
 
  • Track Project Setup Process in Real Time: The new Project Onboarding Dashboard and Service Setup Tracker bring full transparency to project activation. See real-time status, tasks, and required documents, all from a single view. (Learn more about the project onboarding dashboard and how to submit a new project request)
 Project Onboarding New Dashboard_cropped
Secure File Transfer
 
  • Find Files Faster in Studio+: Smarter navigation and clearer notifications make it easier to locate the right project and grab the files you need, saving time for both production and accounting teams.
 Studio+ New Prod Co Column

 

Ready to enable these features? Our Support and Implementation teams can help. Reach out to productsolutions@castandcrew.com for assistance. 

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As we close out the year, we’re grateful for your continued partnership and feedback, it’s what drives every improvement we make. We’re looking forward to bringing you even more enhancements in the new year to make production management faster, clearer, and more connected than ever.

Wishing you and your teams a successful wrap to 2025 and a well-earned, restful holiday season.