What Data Do I Need to Onboard to Curve? (Labels)
Once you have signed up for Curve, you can begin the process of onboarding your data to produce royalty statements. Curve Pro clients will have a client manager available to guide them through the onboarding process. We recommend gathering the following materials prior to beginning the onboarding process, as this will help provide focus and direction to that process.
There are four categories of data that you will need to produce royalty statements in Curve. Most of these will be imported using our Excel import templates, so ideally, they are already in a spreadsheet format. However, your data may be stored in different forms and in different locations, so please communicate with your client manager to discuss the best options for importing or onboarding your data.
1. Payees
Your Payees are any person or business entity for whom you produce royalty statements. The relevant data is their legal name, artist name or fictitious business name, their address, and other contact information; however, the only required field for Payees is their name. Tax ID numbers may also be applicable if you need to add or withhold tax from your Payees' statements. For more information, please see our documentation on creating Payees.
2. Contracts
Your contracts are the agreements you have signed with your payees, containing the terms on which their royalty payments are based. You may have these in PDF format, or you may have deal summaries in a text document or spreadsheet. Contracts need to be entered directly into the app or by using our Excel import templates. Your payees may all have unique agreements, or they may all have agreements with similar terms, but having a detailed description of these terms is necessary to correctly create contracts and calculate royalties. How to Create Artist Contracts
3. Catalogue
Catalogue for record labels includes all tracks, releases, and merchandise for which you need to calculate royalties and their relevant metadata, including title, artist name, ISRC, Catalogue Number, Barcode, track listing, version, and duration. Catalogue can be added to Curve via the app interface, our Excel import templates, our Spotify API integration, or DDEX delivery. Your client manager can help you determine the most efficient way to add your catalogue, but it will be beneficial to have a "source of truth" for this data. For Mechanical royalties, you need to know the share of each of the musical works embodied in your recordings owned or administered by the relevant publishers and composers.
The Headline Metadata of a Track
The Headline Metadata of a Release
4. Sales and Costs
Your sales are any revenue generated from the sale or exploitation of your recordings or merchandise, and costs are any of the expenses related to that sale or exploitation. Your sales will take the form of CSV, Excel, fixed-width text files, or other delimited file formats. Sales data that is not delivered in one of these forms can be added manually to our standard sales template for upload, or you can create a custom template of your own. Costs are imported using our Excel template format. For sales or costs reported in a currency other than your home currency, you will need an exchange rate.
Gathering this data ahead of your first meeting with your client manager, or prior to starting your Curve Lite subscription, will help make the onboarding process smooth. Some of these datasets may be very simple to onboard, while others may require more manipulation or formatting. If you have any questions, please reach out to your client manager.
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