How does Curve accurately map Income to Catalogue?

There are two Catalogue Types in Curve's publishing side: Work and Contract. When an income line is ingested, it is assigned a Catalogue Type based on the identifying information within the income line: Work Identifiers for Works and Contract IDs for Contracts.

The standard methodology for Curve is to map income lines to a Work, which in turn is linked to a Contract to flow revenues through and create royalty statements.

Works

Curve maps revenue to Works by default based on the Society Identifier (or ISWC/Tunecode if available).

We do not map based on the Main Identifier because the risk is too high that different societies or sub-publishers use very similar song code naming conventions. This means that the same identifier across two different sources may relate to two different Works. Therefore, we only map using Society Identifiers, as these are source-specific.

Case Sensitivity Constraint 

Please note that Curve is case sensitive. This means that Society Identifiers only match when the Template Source and the stored Identifier are an exact match.

For example, if your Work's stored Identifier is $\text{SABAM} = 1234$ and the Template's Source is "Sabam", Curve will not make the connection between the stored Society Identifier and the one provided by the Society (Source) in the income file. You must ensure that all your Templates have consistent source names (e.g., all "SABAM" or all "Sabam").

For more information, please review our Article Adding Aliases & Society Identifiers

Contract

If the Contract Identifier value in the income data exactly matches the name of your Contract, the line will be automatically allocated to the Contract. If the value isn't an exact match to a Contract name, the Mapping Manager will flag this value and prompt you to map it to a Contract. Any mapped Contract Identifiers will be stored on the Alias tab of your Contracts. When assigning revenue to a Contract, make sure to include a calculation that forces the Catalogue Type (Cat Type) to be "Contract".

When income is assigned the Catalogue Type of 'Contract' via a matching Contract Identifier, the income is allocated at 100% participation to the contract with which the Contract ID is associated.

For more information, please refer to the article Mapping Sales Directly to a Contract.