A List of Add-Ons Available in Curve Pro for Labels

Curve Lite is a streamlined version of our core platform making modern royalty accounting software accessible for all labels and publishers in the music industry. Labels and publishers with a medium to large dataset or complex royalty agreements will feel right at home with our Curve Pro platform. In this article, we will discuss all the additional features that are available in Curve Pro as opposed to Curve Lite.

Throughout our documentation, functionality that is part of a Curve Pro plan is highlighted with a ✪ icon.

Customisation

Use Companies to Customise Your Statement Design for a Set of Contracts

When a Statement is created for a Contract, as a default we will apply the Statement Design that you have specified in your General Settings. It may be however, that you want a different Statement Design to be applied to one group of Contracts versus another. A common scenario is the example of multiple sister labels that are handled within the same Curve client. Perhaps you'd want the sister label's logo to be used on that label's respective Contracts, as opposed to your main company's logo. The Companies function provides the flexibility to generate statements under different brands. More info

Customise your Channels, Configurations, Cost Types & Sources

Your Channels, Configurations, Cost Types, Sources and Price Categories form the building blocks of your data. How you populates these lists will decide how you can break down your sales & costs in your analytics and how you can apply custom royalty rates to particular sale or cost types. More info

Furthermore, you will be able to group your Territories, Channels, Configurations, Cost Types and Sources to allow you to streamline your Contract terms. More info

Customise Accounting Period Types

Accounting Period Types are best described as a way to group your Contracts. When creating a Period, you will need to choose which group to create statements for. For example, when creating a Period for the Accounting Period Type Monthly, Curve will only include and create a statement for your Monthly Contracts. Any Half-Yearly or Quarterly Contracts would be excluded from that Period. More info

Automation

Automatically Import Sales Files via an FTP Integration

When sales files are provided to you via FTP or SFTP, you can direct Curve to automatically retrieve these sales files and import them to your Curve client. On a daily basis, Curve will scan for new files in this FTP folder and import these via our Bulk Upload tool. Any newly imported sales files will appear on your Sales page and will be tagged as New. More info

Create Catalogue via DDEX Deliveries

DDEX is a format used by all distributors and delivery platforms in the music industry to efficiently deliver sound recordings and their metadata to the DSPs (such as Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, ...). Similar to how your catalogue is delivered to these DSPs, you can also deliver the metadata to your Curve client. More info

Trigger Payments In Your Payment Platform

Curve integrates with payment providers, for you to organise your payment process within Curve. The integrations allow you to securely store payment details, track which amounts are payable, mark balances as paid and queue your payments within your payment provider for approval. The process integrates nicely with Curve's artist portal, making it very transparent for artists to track when they were last paid. More info

Calculations

Accounting Royalties in Multiple Currencies

With Curve, you can report to your artists in differing currencies. This will allow you to upload sales in multiple currencies, setting exchange rates for conversion into each currency, before setting any exchange rates missing at the point of calculation. This will ensure that $1 in reports out as $1 & is not subject to multiple conversions before royalty calculation. More info

Create a Self-Bill Invoice on Behalf of Your Artists

When there are royalties due to your artist and you are ready to make a payment, you have the ability to automatically create an Invoice on behalf of your artist. We call this the Self-Bill Invoice. Self-Bill invoices can be created per Contract via the Generate Self-Billing Invoice checkbox. More info

Withhold Tax & Add Tax to Royalties

This feature allows you to withhold tax from your artists. Labels that self-bill their artists can also use this feature to add tax to their artist's royalties. Distributors can use this tool to add tax to their commission.

Use Cross-Contracts to Transfer or Subtract Royalties

Cross-Contracts can be used to transfer or subtract royalties from one statement to another. The results of a Cross-Contract will be added as Transactions on the Statements. More info

Use Complex Sales Terms

These terms allow you to apply multipliers and reductions to individual sales terms. More info

Use Escalations to Increase or Decrease Royalty Rates

Escalations are used to change a royalty rate once a trigger has been met. This trigger could be a date, a volume or a value. More info

Add Deductions to Your Contracts

Whilst you calculate a royalty for your artist via your Sales Terms, it may be you need to apply a further deduction under certain conditions. Deductions work in a similar fashion to sales terms. You are able to deduct either a percentage of the sales input, or a percentage of a different calculation input basis, or a unit rate. It can be done either before (Pre-), or after (Post-) the sales term calculation that relates to the programmed deduction. More info

Mechanicals

Report Mechanicals to Publishers & Societies

A mechanical is a royalty due to the songwriters & publishers of a composition every time a recording utilising the composition is reproduced. So every time a sound recording is duplicated as a physical product or download or reproduced as a stream, the royalty due to the composition elements of the recording is typically referred to as the Mechanical. In many cases, mechanical royalty accounting is handled by mechanical collection societies, but in some cases it may be the label who is liable for the mechanical royalty accounting. More info

Additionally we have purposely developed a tool to report AP1 Mechanicals to MCPS. More info

Deduct Mechanicals From Your Artists

If you report mechanicals to publishers & societies, you may also want to deduct these as costs or deductions from your artists. More info

Distributor Tools

Create a Fees Invoice for Your Commission or Distribution Fee

If your artist is on a distribution or administration deal, for tax purposes, you may require your artist to invoice you for the total revenue prior to any commission taken, and subsequently for you to invoice your artist for the distribution fee you are taking. More info

Auto-Match Contracts to a Label's Catalogue

Do you need to account all the royalties of a particular label to a single Contract? This is a common scenario for distributors who account royalties to labels. In this scenario, you likely have one Contract per label, and need all the royalties of a label's catalogue to funnel to that one Contract. Our Contract's Labels tool can automatically attach a Contract to all the Tracks and Releases with a given Label value. More info