Revenue Tracking and Financial AutomationPurpose
1.2. Automates manual export, collation, and reconciliation of royalty statements, sales, and usage data.
1.3. Streamlines financial reporting for accurate, up-to-date earnings and payment records across all revenue sources.
1.4. Ensures compliance by automatedly documenting payments, splits, and third-party statements.
1.5. Enables composers to automate notifications, trend analysis, and payout scheduling.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Monthly or weekly scheduled data pulls from integrated APIs.
2.3. Receipt of new sales or streaming event via webhook or email automation.
2.4. Manual upload or drag-and-drop of statement files triggers processing automation.
2.5. Payment confirmation or deposit notification automates revenue entry.
Platform Variants
3.1. Spotify for Artists
• Feature/Setting: Automate API data sync (“GET /v1/me/royalties” endpoint for revenue reports).
3.2. Apple Music for Artists
• Feature/Setting: Automate ingestion of monthly CSV royalty files via SFTP automation.
3.3. DistroKid
• Feature/Setting: Automate webhook or API polling for new earning reports (“/earnings” API endpoint).
3.4. TuneCore
• Feature/Setting: File automation for new statement emails and automate CSV extraction.
3.5. CD Baby
• Feature/Setting: Automator retrieves monthly payment statements via secure portal scraping/API.
3.6. SoundExchange
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled automated PDF parsing of royalty reports from dashboard.
3.7. Bandcamp
• Feature/Setting: Automate email parsing from sales notifications to trigger revenue events.
3.8. YouTube Content ID
• Feature/Setting: Automate API connection to “/cms/v1/reports” for monetization data.
3.9. Amazon Music
• Feature/Setting: SFTP automation pulls new royalty files and automates parsing.
3.10. Google Play Music
• Feature/Setting: Automate historical data import from partner portal (“Download Reports” automation).
3.11. ASCAP
• Feature/Setting: Automate statement PDF scraping and auto-extract payment data.
3.12. BMI
• Feature/Setting: Automator logs in and retrieves new royalty files on schedule.
3.13. SESAC
• Feature/Setting: Automated email fetch and PDF parsing for quarterly payment breakdowns.
3.14. PayPal
• Feature/Setting: Automate IPN/webhook for payment receipts to update records.
3.15. Stripe
• Feature/Setting: Automate “/v1/payouts” API polling for royalty payments.
3.16. Songtrust
• Feature/Setting: API automation retrieves new collection statements for registered works.
3.17. TikTok for Artists
• Feature/Setting: Automate data sync with API for usage- and royalty-related data.
3.18. Facebook Rights Manager
• Feature/Setting: Automate reporting data sync via Graph API.
3.19. Music Reports
• Feature/Setting: Automate SFTP download and parsing of blanket/statutory statement files.
3.20. Audiam
• Feature/Setting: Automator triggers on statement uploads and automates CSV data extraction.
3.21. BeatStars
• Feature/Setting: Automate email and dashboard parsing for sales/royalty notifications.
3.22. Songtrust
• Feature/Setting: API automation retrieves new collection statements for registered works.
3.23. Sentric Music
• Feature/Setting: Automate new royalty statement notifications via API integration.
Benefits
4.2. Reduces manual effort and errors with automated statement parsing and entry.
4.3. Enables automated cash flow analysis and trend reporting for composers.
4.4. Faster payouts and earlier red-flag alerts via event-based automating.
4.5. Provides a scalable, repeatable automator pipeline for growing catalogs or complex splits.
4.6. Automated tracking enables instant access to up-to-date revenue dashboards.
4.7. Increases transparency and audit-readiness by automatedly documenting every financial event.
4.8. Supports decision-making and negotiation with automatedly consolidated historic data.