When you cast from someone else’s pool,half the cut is theirs.
Entertainment Partners charges supporting artists cast from its Casting Community 10% of their earnings plus VAT, on top of your commission. Book the same artists on RosterDeck at the same total deduction and that 10% is yours. Every EP figure on this page is quoted from EP’s own pages and dated.
Deducted from the artist on top of your 5% to 15% commission.*
- Artists advised to allow up to 8 weeks for payment
- EP pays artists in a weekly batch payment
- At 10% agency rate, EP takes half the 20% deduction
You keep 100% of the commission you agree with your cast.
- £2 flat software fee per booked artist-day
- Production pays your bank directly against your invoice
- Pay artists the same day the invoice settles
- Your own brand, domain and client approval links
What the split costs you
EP publishes the agency commission range on its Casting Community as “5% and 15% of your earnings”. Pick your rate below to see what each chit earns you on EP today against booking the same artist on RosterDeck at a 20% commission.
Adjust artist headcount, average chit, or the commission you charge on RosterDeck.
£2,000 on EP becomes £4,000 on RosterDeck across 100 artists.
- Gross commission uplift (100 artists)+£2,000
- RosterDeck bill (bookings + signed releases)−£300
- Net extra kept after software bill+£1,700
And what that job costs you to run
Same job: 100 artists, one shoot day. Whatever you charge, this is the software bill, and none of it is taken from the artist. Credits cost £1 each however many you buy, and a booking uses 2 credits, so this is the figure whether it is your first job or your hundredth.
The whole bill for that job, nothing left out
Not just the bookings. Every artist signs a release form, because on a real job production requires signed terms before call time.
Optional extras: only charged when used
All off by defaultCharged only when an artist actually submits wardrobe photos.
Optional nudge for artists who haven’t replied to an availability check.
Flat monthly rate for your own subdomain and sending address, however many jobs you run.
Metered on token usage; lands in fractions of a credit per job.
Your artists wait eight weeks. They do not have to.
That is not a criticism of how EP is run. EP’s back office chases each invoice and pays artists in a weekly batch, and by its own account the time production takes to pay is outside its control. On RosterDeck there is no batch to wait for: you pay your artists as soon as production pays you.
“We aim to complete the payment process within four weeks but as several factors are outside our control (like the time it takes production to resolve queries or pay invoices), we ask artists to allow eight weeks for payments to arrive.”
RosterDeck never touches the money
The production pays your bank against your own numbered invoice. Once Xero or QuickBooks shows it paid, RosterDeck tells you who is owed what and you pay them from your own account, the same day if you want to. Nothing is queued behind anybody else’s batch run, and your commission never leaves your bank account.
| Where the money goes | RosterDeck | EP Casting Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Who the production pays | Your bank, against your own numbered invoice. RosterDeck never receives a penny | Invoiced via the agent, then tracked and chased by EP’s back office |
| Who pays the artists | You, from the artist bills in Xero or with a payment file for any UK bank | EP, in a weekly batch payment |
| When artists get paid | As soon as the invoice is settled. Same day if you want | Allow eight weeks, per EP’s own guidance |
| Time to check their pay | 48 hours to approve or query each chit | 24 hours to approve or query a job review |
| What comes off the chit | Your commission, and nothing else | Your commission, plus EP’s 10% + VAT admin fee on Casting Community artists |
Things you get that you are not getting now
Beyond the money, these are the parts agents notice in the first week.
Your brand, not ours
Everything a production or an artist opens carries your agency, not the name of your software supplier. To a production weighing you up against a bigger agency, it reads as your own booking system.
- Approval, booking and timesheet pages on your own subdomain
- Emails sent from your own domain, not a shared one
- Your logo and colours on every chit, call sheet and email
Your own subdomain and sending domain, switched on in settings for 15 credits a month (£15) and off again whenever you like. The month is refunded if you have not used it.
An AI assistant your production clients can use too
Ask it in plain English to find cast, set up an availability check ready for you to send, or work out what a day cost. It also sits on the approval and timesheet links you send to production, so they can ask it questions without an account and without installing anything.
- Search your roster and build a shortlist by describing who you need
- Production approves cast or sets call times by asking it, on their own link
- Production signs cast in and out or adds a supplement by asking it, on the timesheet link
Switch between the latest frontier models in your settings, with the running cost of each shown before you pick. If one is unavailable the other takes over automatically.
Two things you can promise production when you pitch
Most of this page is about your margin. These two are about winning the job in the first place: they are things the production company gets from working with you, and you can put them in the pitch.
Production approval
Your client signs off cast without a single email attachment.
Send a shortlist as a secure link. Production reviews every photo and measurement, then approves or declines each artist with one click and leaves feedback against anyone they are unsure about.
- Feedback lands back in your portal instantly, per artist
- They can export the cast list to PDF and Excel for their own records
- Nobody needs an account, and the link expires when you say it does
Digi-fits
Costume sees the whole crowd dressed before anyone travels.
Booked cast upload full-length wardrobe photos from their phone for a specific shoot date. Costume reviews the gallery and picks an option per artist, and the agreed fitting fee lands on that artist’s timesheet automatically.
- Multi-artist contact sheets, or a single-artist PDF pack for on-set markup
- Full-length layouts that keep footwear and headwear in frame
- Secure galleries shared straight with the costume department
What moves onto you
This is the real trade. EP runs the money side for you. On RosterDeck the money is yours from the moment production pays, which means the buttons are yours to press. Here is honestly what that involves.
| Step | On RosterDeck |
|---|---|
| Raising the invoice | Built from the approved chits when you send the day: a draft in Xero, or created unsent in QuickBooks |
| Sending it to production | From your accounting software, like any other client invoice |
| Knowing it is unpaid | Shown in your accounting software, where the invoice lives |
| Reconciling the payment | In Xero or QuickBooks. RosterDeck reads the settled status back |
| Paying the artists | From the artist bills in Xero, or with a batch payment file for any UK bank |
RosterDeck builds client invoices and artist bills from your approved timesheets, the 10% platform cut that went to EP stays entirely between your agency and your cast.
Keep the full uplift as agency commission, or pass part of it back so your artists take home more per chit while you still earn more on every booking.
Watch it in action
Short walkthroughs of core RosterDeck workflows, from first casting check to artists paid.
One job end to end: casting, call sheets and a signed-off timesheet
Follow one booking from casting and availability checks through client approval, call sheet dispatch, and signed-off timesheets in one workspace.
The AI assistant: casting, call times and timesheets by asking
See the assistant check clashing roles, find artists with matching wardrobe and clearance, draft call times, and calculate day costs from plain English prompts.
Invoicing and payments: from a finished timesheet to artists paid
How an approved timesheet becomes a sales invoice for the production and a bill for every artist in Xero or QuickBooks, and how the artists are paid once the production has paid.
Try the whole workflow in a free demo first
The demo account runs every feature free of charge. Cast a job, send an availability check, get it approved, issue the call sheet and collect a timesheet, then decide.
- No subscription. Purchased credits never expire
- £2 per artist, per shoot day
- Nothing ever taken from an artist
Estimate a full month on RosterDeck
See every feature rate in our live catalogue, plug in your monthly booking volume, and compare optional extras side by side on our pricing page. Credits cost the same flat rate however many you buy, never expire, and carry over automatically whenever you have a quieter month.
- Interactive monthly cost estimator with live rates
- Unlimited team seats and core workflow tools included
- Optional add-ons billed only when delivered
*EP’s 10% admin fee applies only to artists cast from its Casting Community. If you book only your own registered roster on EP, EP charges no artist admin fee, though the payment timing, branding and workflow sections on this page still apply. Entertainment Partners figures are quoted from the rates and payment process support pages of the EP Casting Community site, epcastingcommunity.co.uk (the old ep.com Casting Community pages now redirect there), checked 10 October 2026: “Entertainment Partners’ admin fee for supporting artists cast from the Casting Community is 10% of your earnings plus VAT”, “If you are individually registered with and successfully placed in work by one of the other agencies using EP’s casting technology, you will only pay commission to the agency. Entertainment Partners will not charge an admin fee”, and agency commission “can generally range between 5% and 15% of your earnings (plus VAT for agents who are VAT registered)”. On payment, artists are told that “the production will be invoiced for the earnings of all artists who worked on the engagement via the agent”, that EP’s Back Office will “chase any late or delayed invoices on the artist’s behalf”, that bank details are used to “generate the weekly batch payment”, and that “you have 24 hours to approve or query your job review, after which it will be deemed to be approved”. What EP charges an agency directly for its technology is not published anywhere, so no comparison is made on that line.
RosterDeck credit pricing on this page is read live from our current price catalogue and feature rates, where a booking (one cast member on one job date) costs 2 credits and credits cost the same however many you buy. The job total shown is the bill for that job, including a signed release form for every artist, not the bookings alone. Commission figures are worked examples on a £200 chit and are shown before VAT. What you charge your artists is your own commercial decision and nothing here is a projection of your earnings.
Entertainment Partners and EP are trademarks of their owner, and are named here for the purpose of factual comparison. This page is published by RosterDeck and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in association with Entertainment Partners.