We automate financial tracking for project-based work like Film, TV & Event productions. Issue crew cards, scan receipts & approve expenses. Backdrop lets you monitor spending, manage inventory, pay vendors & create financial reports - keeping you on budget.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 This is Akanksha from Backdrop.
🙋♀️ What is Backdrop?
Backdrop is a global software and payments company designed for project-based work, including Film, TV, Commercial, and Event Productions. We help productions manage their expenses more efficiently and save over 70% of the time wasted on financial reporting.
👷♀️ Why We Built It?
Currently, productions rely on Excel and outdated, fragmented software to manage billions of dollars in expenses. This leads to delays, poor spend visibility, and budget overruns.
Our founding team experienced these production challenges firsthand, inspiring us to create Backdrop using our 10+ years of expertise in entertainment, technology, and finance. We built a modern solution that centralizes all expense data -—from petty cash and card spending to purchase orders, inventory, and vendor payments. With Backdrop, all it takes is a quick photo of your receipt.
🔥 What We Offer
With Backdrop's mobile app and web dashboard, you can:
- Issue virtual and physical p-cards instantly, with customizable limits for crew members. You can also track cash
and third-party card expenses.
- Gain real-time cash flow visibility against your production budget.
- Enjoy automatic expense and petty cash reconciliation.
- Generate and approve purchase orders, and pay vendors directly from our platform.
- Create expense envelopes and manage approvals.
- Track live inventory and carbon emissions.
- Produce accounting and tax credit reports in your preferred format.
💰 Product Hunt Promo
We're offering our software for just $50/month to Product Hunt users who sign up for our cards—saving you thousands of dollars every month.
Interested? Visit www.joinbackdrop.com to sign up for a demo or email us at [email protected] for more information. We’d love to hear from you! 🧡
Your product is truly impressive, team! The concept is intriguing. I'm interested to know, what exciting milestones or features can we expect in the next phase of development? Keep up the fantastic work!
Huge time and money saver, seemsreally applicable for SMB and Enterprise businesses and their production excited to see this grow!
Such a cool product, and supporting an often underserved market. Can't wait to see what comes next for this team! Congrats on the launch :)
Congratulations on the launch! Building tools to optimize working capital of underserved industries with technology is such a need of the hour.
Amazing team and the product! Congrats on the launch ladies @akanksha_backdrop @caitlinjshort! Keep going!
Congrats on the launch @caitlinjshort @akanksha_backdrop !!!
This is a huge win for the Productions industry. Streamlining expense management is long overdue, and this launch will be a game-changer for so many production teams. No more chasing receipts or struggling with spreadsheets! This will free up valuable time and resources for what matters most – creating incredible productions Woohoo!
I really appreciate products like this because they can actually address the specific needs of a large population that's otherwise been pretty widely ignored. Loving this product!!
About Backdrop on Product Hunt
“Expense management for Film, TV, Music & Event productions”
Backdrop launched on Product Hunt on May 13th, 2024 and earned 400 upvotes and 88 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. We automate financial tracking for project-based work like Film, TV & Event productions. Issue crew cards, scan receipts & approve expenses. Backdrop lets you monitor spending, manage inventory, pay vendors & create financial reports - keeping you on budget.
Backdrop was featured in Fintech (46.9k followers), Entertainment (1.9k followers) and Accounting (1.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 19.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Backdrop?
Backdrop was hunted by Michael Seibel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Backdrop stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
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