Seirbhís (Service Work) — module user guide

# Seirbhís (Service Work) — User Guide

The inbound-service-production module of Togra: the single-purpose workspace for acting as the Irish service producer on a foreign principal's production — running the DAC, the S481 administration and the statutory reporting, kept out of the rest of the slate.

1. What Seirbhís is for

Some of an Irish company's work is service production: a foreign principal holds the IP and the creative, and the Irish company is engaged to run the Irish-spend portion through a DAC to access S481. That job is mostly administration and statutory reporting — the cultural cert, monthly cost reports, the producer fee, crew tax-residency evidence, union local-hire targets, F/X on USD funding vs EUR spend, and the DCCS/Revenue/CnaM deadline cadence. Seirbhís is the streamlined workspace for exactly that.

Critically, service projects are scoped out of every other Togra surface — they don't appear in the production pipeline, the dashboards or the development funnel — because they're a different kind of work with a different rhythm. Seirbhís gives the service producer a focused UI for the S481-administration job without the full production-management apparatus.

2. How the module is laid out

• Primary: Slate · Reporting calendar · Principal contacts · DCCS submissions
• Compliance (More ▾): Crew residency · Union compliance
• Money (More ▾): FX rates · Fee schedule · VAT periods
• Setup (More ▾): DAC templates · Contract templates

3. The surfaces in detail

Slate (seirbhis.php) — the service-project slate (the inbound productions you're servicing). Reporting calendar (seirbhis-reporting-calendar.php) — the DCCS / Revenue / CnaM deadline cadence per service project: cultural cert, monthly cost reports, quarterly returns, final cost statement, audit responses. Principal contacts (seirbhis-principal-contacts.php) — the foreign-principal liaison register (exec producers, production accountants, lawyers, business affairs, insurance brokers). DCCS submissions (seirbhis-dccs-submissions.php) — the submission log (cultural cert / interim / final cost statement / audit response) with refs and responses.

Crew residency (seirbhis-crew-residency.php) — crew tax-residency declarations as S481 eligibility evidence. Union compliance (seirbhis-union-compliance.php) — IFTPA / SIPTU / Equity local-hire targets vs actuals.

FX rates (seirbhis-fx-rates.php) — the F/X rates used per cost statement (USD funding vs EUR spend). Fee schedule (seirbhis-fee-schedule.php) — the producer fee structure (base + % of eligible + retainer + completion bonus + overrun escalator). VAT periods (seirbhis-vat-periods.php) — per-project VAT reconciliation (input recoverable, output zero-rated for exports).

DAC templates (seirbhis-dac-template.php) — group-level DAC house standards. Contract templates (seirbhis-contract-template.php) — service-mode contract templates.

4. Seirbhís and the rest of Togra

• Self-contained by design. Seirbhís deliberately silos service projects from the main pipeline; its money surfaces (FX, fee schedule, service VAT periods) and compliance (crew residency, union) are service-specific, not the producer-side equivalents in Airgead/Cuntasaíocht.
• Shared statutory spine. It uses the same DAC/S481 concepts as the rest of Togra — the DAC is a legal entity, the cost statements are the S481 evidence — but presents them through a service-producer lens.
• Iarratas holds the S481 cultural-cert application packs; Seirbhís tracks the service-side submission and reporting cadence around them.

Audit note (2026-06-07): Seirbhís is correctly scoped as a single-purpose inbound-service module. Its apparent overlaps with other modules (a VAT surface, crew compliance, contract templates) are service-specific by design and intentionally siloed from the producer-side pipeline. No surface needed to move.

5. How this makes service work easier for a production company

• A focused workspace. The service-producer job is administration and reporting, not creative development — Seirbhís gives exactly that, without the production-management surfaces that don't apply.
• The deadlines are the product. Service S481 work lives or dies on the DCCS/Revenue/CnaM reporting cadence; the reporting calendar and submission log make that cadence the spine.
• The fee and the F/X are explicit. The producer fee structure and the USD-vs-EUR F/X used per cost statement are first-class, because they're how a service producer actually gets paid and reports.
• It doesn't pollute the slate. Because service projects are scoped out of the main surfaces, the company's development and production views stay about its own IP.

6. Worked example

Servicing an inbound production. Add the project to the Slate; capture the foreign Principal contacts; set the Fee schedule and the FX rates for cost statements. Work the Reporting calendar — cultural cert, monthly cost reports, final cost statement — logging each filing in DCCS submissions. Keep Crew residency and Union compliance current as the S481 evidence, and reconcile VAT periods (input recoverable, output zero-rated).

This guide reflects the Seirbhís module as shipped. The Iarratas guide covers the S481 cultural-cert application packs, and the Cuntasaíocht guide covers the book of record for the DAC.