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

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 Income 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.

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 songwriters to track when they were last paid. More info

Calculations

Account Royalties in Multiple Currencies

With Curve, you can report to your songwriters 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 Songwriters

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

Create a Fees Invoice for Your Commission

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

Withhold Tax & Add Tax to Royalties

This feature allows you to withhold tax from your songwriters. Publishers that self-bill their songwriters can also use this feature to add tax to their songwriter's royalties. Administrators 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 Income 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 songwriter via your Income 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

Catalogue Deliveries

Send Catalogue in a CWR and Other Formats

The Deliveries tool allows you to send your publishing catalogue in structured and widely accepted formats to your collection societies or sub-publishers. The available formats are CWR, Catalogue Shipment, YouTube & MLC’s DQI. More info

Integrate Directly With Your Societies' Database via FTP

When creating a catalogue delivery (in a format such as CWR), you can opt to export this file and send it off to your society or sub-publisher independently. Or you can create a Delivery Partner for you to deliver your catalogue straight from the Curve platform. You can set up either an email or FTP integration. More info

Review Your Registrations & Automatically Store Society Identifiers of Your Works

Once you have delivered your catalogue, your partner may provide you with an acknowledgement file. The import will update the status of your works, and allows you to check if the registration of your Works was successful. The status will either say “Accepted” or “Rejected”. When accepted and provided in the acknowledgement file, Curve will automatically populate your Works with work aliases. More info