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How does contracting work on Engine?

Connecting crew with projects. Contracting, Timecards, and more.

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Written by Jonathan Scott
Updated over 6 months ago

Studios or Production Companies choose Engine

Primarily to contract freelance crew members to their projects.

To accept an offer to work on a project who are using Engine, you'll need your own Engine account.

You use that account to save your personal startpack information & attachments once and re-use it to join future projects.

You'll never complete a start form again!

Engine offers additional services

A project can choose to add on:

  • Timecards - record & approve crew working hours, with calculated overtime & penalties

  • Send - aka 'Distribution'. Manage groups and securely share watermarked documents

  • Diversity - anonymous surveys entirely controlled by the Company

The contracting process

  • Project sends the crew member an Offer via Engine

  • Crew member receives an email

    • If crew member has an existing Engine account, they log in

    • if crew member doesn't have an Engine account, they follow these simple steps to quickly create their account

    ​Check the Startpack is correct​

  • In order to accept the Offer (be contracted to the project, start work and be paid), Crew member must:

    • Click UPDATE on each tab you edit in order to save changes



      Check the Offer is correct

    • Check that the Offer is to their satisfaction (check Start date, Rate, Allowances, eta plus Engagement type)

      • NOT ACCEPT the offer if it is not correct

      • Use the links to phone or email the project to discuss the changes required

    • Closely read the 'Accept offer' popup confirmation



      Do not proceed if Offer or Startpack is incorrect

      Proceeding will mean that documents which contain errors will be emailed to you every other day until you sign or decline.

      • If the information is not correct, click 'Cancel' or 'View startpack' to go back and update your Startpack

      • When happy to proceed, tick the box and then click 'Accept offer'




​Contract documents are created


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