Catalogue Overwrite Sales

At Release level, you have the ability to store a default Channel, Configuration and Price Category.

There are times when sales data you ingest does not have Channel, Configuration or Price Category information, and you'd like to pick this information from the mapped Release instead. If you wish to do so, you can enable the option on your Template to Overwrite the Channel, Configuration or Price Category.

You have four options:

• Overwrite Distribution Channels - The sales line will take the Channel as stored on the mapped Release. This will only apply to Release sales.
• Overwrite Configurations - The sales line will take the Configuration as stored on the mapped Release. This will only apply to Release sales.
• Overwrite Price Categories - In the event of a Release sale, the sales line will take the Price Category as stored on the mapped Release.
• Overwrite Track Price Category - In the event of a Track sale, the sales line will take the Price Category stored on the mapped Release. This would only happen in the event where the sales line is mapped to both a Track and Release. If the sale is a track sale without any release information (no UPC/ISRC combination), then the sales line Price Category won’t be overwritten since Curve cannot match it to any release.

The first three options will only apply on Release sales. When your template is picking up Track sales, then the channel/configuration/price category will be applied as per usual via the mapped sales data or template defaults. In the event of a Track sale, only with the Overwrite Track Price Category option enabled will Curve look at the Price Category of the Mapped Release and assign this to the sales line.

Use-Cases for this Functionality

A suitable use-case would be that you receive a sales file with physical revenue, but this file does not provide information on the Configuration (eg CD, LP, 12", ...). In this case you could make sure all your Releases have their Format specified, and enable the "Overwrite Configuration" option at the Template so that these are used to populate the sales lines.

Another use-case would be that you wish to add a "Compilation" price category to all sales coming from a specific Release (including physical and digital Release sales, and individual Track downloads or streams as part of this Release). In this case you could make sure all compilation Releases have their Price Category specified as "Compilation". You could then enable "Overwrite Price Category" to make sure all Release sales have this Price Category, and enable "Overwrite Track Price Category" to make sure all Track sales as part of this Release also have this Price Category.