Using Togra — start here

# Using Togra — start here

The one-page map of Togra: what each module does, how a project flows through them, and where to go for the detail. Each module has its own in-depth guide — this page links them all.

What Togra is

Togra is an end-to-end production-management platform for indie film and TV producers across the island of Ireland and beyond. It follows a project across its whole life — develop it, finance it, produce it, account for it, exploit its rights, and forecast the company around it — plus the company admin, funder applications, inbound-service work and post-house business that run alongside.

Each area is a module, reached from the top bar. Most surfaces are project-scoped (pick a project, or get a picker); some are slate-wide or company-level. Two access gates apply: per-account capability flags and per-group module gating, and a few modules (Accounts, Forecasting) are admin/lead only.

How a project flows through the modules

1. Develop it — Forbairt (Development). Ideas, reading/coverage, rights options, writer deals and script drafts; pitches, packaging and the readiness score; the formal green-light gate that hands a project to production.
2. Finance it — Airgead (Financing). The budget and finance plan, soft money and pre-sales, cashflow, the cost report and hot costs, and the S481/S487A/AVEC tax-credit trackers. The three credits each have a dedicated end-to-end walkthrough: how Togra handles S481, how Togra handles S487A and how Togra handles AVEC.
3. Apply for funding — Iarratas (Funder applications). The pre-filled application packs for Screen Ireland, CnaM, DCCS, HMRC, the BFI, NI Screen and more — the documents you submit (the trackers stay in Airgead).
4. Produce it — Bordáil (Production). Schedule, cast and crew, call sheets and DPRs, onboarding, the timecard→pay pipeline, floor finance, on-set compliance, and wrap & deliver.
5. Account for it — Cuntasaíocht (Accounts). The double-entry book of record: the general ledger, purchase orders → invoices → payment runs, VAT, financial statements and year-end.
6. Exploit the rights — Cearta (Rights). Article 19 transparency reporting, the recoupment waterfall, residuals, the collection-account loop, the rights catalogue (windows / avails / conflicts) and music clearances.
7. Forecast the company — Teoranta (Forecasting). The legal-entity backbone (parent + per-project DACs), the present-tense company position, and the 10-year P&L + cashflow forecast.

Alongside the lifecycle

• Cúram (Company Admin) — recurring upkeep and employment compliance: tasks, insurance, policies, leave, employment-status, pay transparency, accommodations.
• Seirbhís (Service Work) — the single-purpose workspace for inbound service productions (S481 administration for a foreign principal), siloed from the main slate.
• Eagar (Post-production) — the opt-in post-house business module: room bookings, bids, client invoices and a client portal.

How the modules connect

Togra is one joined-up system, not separate apps:

• The green-light handoff is the spine from development to production: Forbairt's gate advances the stage, stamps the dates, and carries the recoupable dev spend forward into the Airgead finance plan.
• One ledger underneath the money. Everything spent on the floor (Bordáil expenses, per-diems, payroll) and everything billed (Cearta sales invoices) posts to the Cuntasaíocht book of record; Airgead's cost report reads the same journals, so the producer's numbers and the statutory books can't drift.
• One entity backbone. Teoranta defines the parent company + per-project DACs; the book of record resolves each project to its entity from that register.
• Revenue closes the loop. Cearta's collection-account loop ingests revenue → the waterfall → Article 19 reports, all on real posted revenue.

Cross-cutting tools

• The approvals inbox (approvals.php) aggregates everything that needs you across the slate — contracts to chase, invoice/PO approvals, option expiries, writer-step and follow-up nudges, working-time breaches, vetting renewals — sorted by priority, snoozable, with an optional morning email.
• Global search (⌘K) finds any record across ~30 types and doubles as a jump-to-page palette.
• Eolas (this knowledge base) explains the schemes, bodies, roles and regimes behind the work; the user manual is the in-app reference.

By role

Prefer to start from your job rather than the modules? The By role (persona) section has a short guide per persona — Producer / Lead, Finance Director / CFO, Business Affairs, Head of Development, Production Manager, Casting Director, Production Accountant, Sustainability Lead, Skills Development Officer, External Filing Accountant — each covering where you land, what your view shows, and which module guides matter to you. Personas are a presentation lens (set on the Team page); they narrow the view without changing access.

Where to go next

Open the module guide for whatever you're doing — each one walks every surface, the fields and automation, how it connects to the rest, and worked examples. If you're new, read Forbairt → Airgead → Bordáil in order: that's a project from idea to shoot. If you run the books, start with Cuntasaíocht; if you handle rights and revenue, Cearta. Or jump to your By role guide above.

This overview links the per-module guides; each is the canonical detail for its module.