Backbeat for Production Music

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Auto-ingest income statements

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Match to repertoire automatically

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Distribute royalty statements

Upload metadata from any content platform and register a complete library in minutes. Process the resulting royalties from all sub-pubs, agents and PROs, even distributing and pro-rating blanket fees as needed and also recouping all costs, expenses and advances at whatever level is required.

Upload metadata from any content platform and register a complete library in minutes. Process the resulting royalties from all sub-pubs, agents and PROs, even distributing and pro-rating blanket fees as needed and also recouping all costs, expenses and advances at whatever level is required.

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Auto-ingest income statements

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Match to repertoire automatically

3

Distribute royalty statements

Features

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Content Management

Upload content from Harvest, Source Audio, Cadenza Box or any other spreadsheet format

Bulk register thousands of tracks direct with PROs via CWR files, album by album

Group tracks together by album

Detail your albums and tracks along with their unique identifiers (album code, catalogue code, EAN, ISRC, ISWC etc)

Identify each track and album by library and link each library to appropriate royalty contract. No need to link contracts, track by track, on sub-published content

Import ACK files from societies and record their works numbers for easy matching to subsequent royalties

Royalty Contracts

Rates expressed as simply as your contracts. If you pay 50% receipts on all income, then that is all you need to enter. One entry defines all possibilities

Define many clients for a Payee and cross-collateralise where necessary album by album

Vary rates where necessary by Territory and Income Type

Define frequency of accounting – half-yearly, quarterly, monthly, annually etc.

Define payment terms – 90, 60, 45, 30 days etc

Report to Payees in currency of their choice

Income Processing

Post Blanket Fees direct to albums or other collections of tracks and pro-rate accordingly

Import your income directly into the database from whatever format is provided by your PROs, Sub-publishers and partner libraries

Automatically match income to tracks by track listing on album, ISRC, ISWC, works number and even title and composer. You decide how your income database will match and what your business requires

Unlimited number of Income Types. You decide how your income database will process and what your business requires

Report income in any currency, convert to base currency of host company and then pay out in currency of Payee

Calculations and Statements

Royalty statements customised with your own logos and graphics

Email royalty statements direct to Payees

Powerful royalty engine calculates whole periods in minutes NOT hours

Calculations performed across all sales or by selected sales statement or source

Provisional calculations performed as accruals with no royalty liability recorded allowing for transparency and flexibility

Withholding tax and VAT applied where required

Royalty statements defined to show as much or as little as you need to report

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