Stipends & Contracts

On the Casting tab's Offers screen, you choose whether this production pays stipends and whether it uses contracts. Both are optional and start off. With them on, when a performer accepts, CueCall records what they are paid, sends them a contract to sign online, and counts the stipend against your budget, so nobody has to dig through email to find what was offered.

  • Turning stipends on or off: Use the This production pays stipends switch above the offers. Off (the default) means offers ask for no amount and there is no budget card or stipend column. Contracts still work without stipends. With stipends on, an individual offer can still leave the amount blank. Turning stipends off clears the amount from offers you have not sent yet; an offer already sent keeps its stipend, because the performer has seen it
  • Set the stipend on the offer: Type an amount when you draft offers, or press Terms on any offer that has not been answered yet. The amount appears in the offer email (you can also use in the email text) and on the page where the performer accepts or declines
  • File it against a budget line: If you have access to the budget, choose the line the stipend comes out of, such as "Actor stipends". The Offers screen then shows each line with what it budgets beside what you are offering, for example "Budgeted $700.00, offering $500.00", and warns when offers go over
  • Turning contracts on or off: Press Contract settings under the offers and use Use contracts on this production. Off means accepted offers get no contract
  • Write the contract here: In Contract settings, choose Write it here and write your agreement once, using merge fields such as and, and the preview shows it filled in. Put stipend wording between and, with optional other wording after, so a performer with no stipend gets the unpaid version. Use the With a stipend switch on the preview to check both. CueCall starts you with a sample agreement; it is a draft, not legal advice. A misspelled merge field is caught before you save
  • Use your own contract: Choose Use our own document and pick a PDF or text file from the show's Files, or press Upload a PDF. Your document is sent exactly as uploaded, with a terms page in front naming the performer, their role, the dates and, when they have one, their stipend, so each performer signs a contract with their own details on it
  • When contracts go out: Choose whether a contract is made automatically when an offer is accepted or only when you press Issue, and whether it is emailed straight away. The performer reads and signs it online the same way as any form to sign; for a performer under 18 the contract goes to their parent or guardian
  • Tracking signatures: The Contracts list shows every accepted performer, their stipend, and whether their contract is ready to send, waiting for a signature, or signed. Press Remind to email anyone who has not signed, and Signed copy to download the signed PDF
  • Committed to the budget: Choose when the stipend counts as committed spend: when the contract is signed (the default), when the offer is accepted, or never. Committed spend appears in the Committed column of the budget line. A stipend with no budget line is never added to the budget
  • Correcting a contract: Press Void to cancel a contract's signing link, then Issue a corrected one. A signature already given stays on record, and voiding does not change the budget
  • On the Hours tab: An accepted stipend is also saved as the person's compensation for the show, so it shows up there without being entered again

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