Setting Aside Sales That Aren't Yours

It may occur that some revenue finds its way into your sales files that isn't actually yours to keep. In this instance, you may wish to set aside these sales. Either by creating a unique Track or Release for every recording that you receive income for that is not actually yours to keep. Or by creating one Dummy Track and one Dummy Release and assigning all this type of revenue to this Track/Release.

The benefit of such a Dummy Track/Release is that it allows you to efficiently bring your sales files down to zero invalid lines (rather than always leaving these sales as unmatched and invalid). It's also an efficient way for you to keep track of the total sales that is not actually yours to keep.

A Dummy Track/Release can be created just like any other Track/Release, as per the example below. You may also choose to assign a Dummy Contract for this revenue not to end up in your Unreported Sales CSV.

Furthermore, by creating a report that includes the Original ISRC, Original Track Title and Original Track Artist or Original Cat No, Original Release Title and Original Release Artist (Original refers to the data as read in the original sales file, before it was mapped down and normalised by Curve); you can easily review which catalogue the sales come from that was mapped to this Dummy Track/Release.