Petty cash report

About Petty Cash reports

The Petty Cash report helps you track all cash-based expenses submitted and approved during your production. It consolidates petty cash activity across your project, making it easy to reconcile spending, audit reimbursements.

Ways to use this report

The Petty Cash report is especially useful for:

  • Reimbursement tracking - Confirm that petty cash expenses were submitted, approved, and reimbursed properly

  • Budget oversight - Stay on top of small, frequent expenses that can add up quickly on set.

  • Wrap and reconciliation - Include petty cash data when closing out a production to ensure all costs are captured

  • Department spending - Track spending by department or crew member for budget management

  • Audit and compliance - Provide clear documentation of receipts, amounts, and approval workflows

What’s included in the report

The Petty Cash report includes a line-by-line summary of all petty cash transactions submitted for a project such as:

  • Worker Name

  • Project Name

  • Submission Date

  • Approval Date

  • Amount Submitted

  • Amount Approved

  • Reimbursement Status (Paid, Pending, etc.)

  • Purpose/Description of the expense

  • Attached Receipts (links to uploaded files)

  • Payment Method (if reimbursed via Wrapbook)

  • Department or Cost Code (if assigned)

How to generate a Petty Cash report

To generate a project-level Petty Cash report:

  1. In the left-side navigation, click the dropdown menu

  2. In the dropdown menu, select the project that you want to generate the report for

  3. In the left-side navigation, in the PAYROLL menu, click to expand Cost tracking

  4. In the Cost tracking menu, select Petty cash

  5. On the Petty cash dashboard, click the Export button, and select either Hot Budget, Showbiz, or Backup

After you select an export option, the Petty Cash report will be automatically downloaded to your computer. To locate the file, navigate to where your computer saves new downloads.

Export options

Hot budget - This option provides a CSV file formatted for Hot budget budgeting software

Showbiz - This option provides a CSV file formatted for Showbiz budgeting software

Backup - This option creates a zip file that organizes all project petty cash records and their accompanying documentation (like receipts) into individual folders, which is useful when wrapping out a project

Pro tips

  • Encourage your team to upload receipts and include notes when submitting petty cash to ensure clean reporting

  • Run this report weekly during production to prevent overspending and catch duplicate reimbursements

  • Filter by department or worker to generate mini-reports for individual wrap books or department heads