Fringes are the employer-side costs on top of wages — payroll taxes, union benefits, health contributions, pension, and workers' comp. On a union film, fringes can add 25–40% on top of every crew rate. Pericles calculates fringes automatically based on union status, guild rates, and your shoot location, so your budget reflects what you'll actually spend — not just the day rates.

A film tax credit audit requires a complete production cost report, payroll records with proof of in-state spend, vendor receipts, bank statements, and a certified audit from a CPA. Pericles keeps your cost report updated in real time, flags which expenses qualify for your state's credit, and organizes your documentation — including a private URL for your CPA auditor to review and print final reports.

Crew submit digital timesheets daily through Pericles. You approve them, and payroll runs automatically — calculating overtime, meal penalties, and kit rentals against your budget. Payments go directly to bank accounts via ACH. Real paystubs with deductions are generated automatically. No Venmo. No checks. No spreadsheets.

Avails (availability windows) define when and where your film can be licensed — by territory, platform, and time period. Managing avails is critical to maximizing revenue without creating conflicting deals. Pericles tracks your rights windows, flags conflicts, and helps you build a licensing strategy that protects your film's value across every market.

A distribution package includes your finished film in required specs, a trailer, EPK, poster art, closed captions, music cue sheet, chain of title documents, and E&O insurance. Pericles walks you through every deliverable, generates your music cue sheet from your edit, and organizes your assets into a submission-ready package for any platform or sales agent.

A CDP (Content Delivery Platform) is the infrastructure that gets your finished film from your hard drive to a streaming platform, broadcaster, or distributor. It handles encoding specs, metadata, closed captions, and delivery manifests. Pericles manages your deliverables checklist and tracks every asset required by each platform so nothing gets rejected at the finish line.

An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is the central nervous system of your business. It connects your budgets, payroll, contracts, and cash flow into one unified view. For a production company, it means no more spreadsheets scattered across departments — every dollar, every deal, every deadline lives in one place. Pericles is built as a film-specific ERP from the ground up.

Film reconciliation means comparing every dollar spent against your approved budget, resolving variances, and producing a final cost report for your investors, completion bond, or distributor. Pericles tracks actuals against budget in real time throughout production, so reconciliation at wrap is a review — not a reconstruction. Your final cost report is already built.

Pericles sends your cast and crew a secure onboarding link where they complete their deal memo, provide direct deposit information, upload their I-9 documents, and confirm their schedule — all before day one. No paper. No chasing. Every team member is contracted and ready to be paid before the first day of shooting.

Pericles gives your entire team a shared creative workspace — writers use the screenplay tool and beat sheet builder, directors use the scene planner and storyboard, ADs manage the stripboard and call sheets, editors work in Cine Edit with cloud-backed storage, and sound designers record ADR and build music cue sheets. Every department. One login. One platform.