Organizational Hierarchy is available by request
Organizations, organizational hierarchy, and production entities are available by request. If you don't see these settings in your Company settings, contact your Customer Success Manager or the Wrapbook Support Team.
Overview
If your company has a complex structure, Wrapbook's Organizational Hierarchy helps you set it up correctly. It includes:
Organizations (Organizational Units, or OUs): used to manage visibility and access (who can see/do what)
Production Entities (PEs): used to represent legal and financial entities (who is legally employing/payrolling workers)
Many companies only need a simple structure (one company with a single legal entity and no additional organizations). Organizational Hierarchy is intended for companies that are one parent company with multiple divisions and/or multiple legal entities.
Key definitions
Company (your Wrapbook company)
Your Wrapbook company is the top-level account that contains your projects, people, organizations (OUs), and production entities (PEs).
Organization (OU)
An Organizational Unit is a division or business unit inside your company.
Organizational units help you:
Establish well-defined access controls that govern which team members can view and interact with projects within each organizational unit
Model internal structure (for example, division heads)
Assign org-specific settings in Wrapbook where available (for example, approval workflows may be scoped to an organizational unit so that the workflow is only available to projects within that organizational unit)
Production Entity (PE)
A Production Entity is a legal entity (typically with its own EIN/FEIN and address, and often separate banking) that can be assigned to projects for payroll and legal responsibility.
Production entities help you:
Ensure the correct legal employer appears in the right places
Route payroll and certain project-related transactions under the correct entity
The simplest way to remember the difference
Organizations (OUs) = "who sees what"
Production Entities (PEs) = "who legally pays whom"
Organizations control access and structure. Production entities control legal/financial identity.
How projects use OUs and PEs
Each project can use both concepts:
A project is typically assigned to one Production Entity (for legal/employer context)
A project can also be associated with an Organization (for access/visibility and grouping)
This means you can, for example:
Keep two divisions from seeing each other's projects using Organizations
Still run payroll under multiple different legal entities using Production Entities
Common scenarios
One company with multiple divisions (access control is the goal)
Example: A studio has separate teams (Commercials vs. Unscripted) and wants each team to see only their own projects.
Use: Organizations (OUs)
Create an organization for each division
Assign projects to the right organization
Assign users to the organization(s) they should access
Scenario: Multiple EINs/legal entities (legal + payroll routing is the goal)
Example: A studio operates multiple legal entities and needs each show's payroll under the correct EIN.
Use: Production Entities (PEs)
Create a production entity for each legal entity
Assign each project to the correct production entity
Scenario: Both divisions and multiple legal entities
Example: A parent company has multiple divisions, and each division operates multiple legal entities.
Use: Both
Organizations: set who can see/manage which projects
Production Entities: set which legal entity is responsible for payroll on each project
What Organizational Hierarchy is not
Organizational Hierarchy is not designed for:
Combining unrelated businesses into one Wrapbook company
Creating complete "isolation" like separate companies across entirely separate clients
If productions do not roll up to one parent company, you may need separate Wrapbook companies.
Where to manage these settings
Manage Production Entities
Navigate to Company settings and look for Production entities. To learn more, see About production entities.
Manage Organizations (Organizational structure)
Navigate to Company settings and look for Organizations under Permissions and Access Control. To learn more, see About organizations.