Finally, a royalty platform the music industry can love
The full-stack solution for music rights owners
Streamline operations with intuitive tools to track income, manage contracts, pay artists and uncover insights — all in a central hub your whole team can access.
More than just a royalties calculator
Expedite semi-annual and quarterly royalty runs by managing your team’s daily workflows in Tone.
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Other royalty platforms
Spreadsheets
Ingest & store sales, costs, catalog
Store & summarize contracts
Support for complex deal terms
Instant insights on sales data
Generate royalty statements
Built for collaboration
Integrated payments
Artist friendly statements & dashboards
Masters & mechanical royalties
Fast Royalty Period Processing
Don’t miss deadlines waiting for periods to process. Recalculate royalty periods and get statements out the door in minutes or hours, not days. Tone processes large royalty periods 5x faster than our competitors.
Enhanced Sales Tooling
Beyond sales ingestion and data normalization, leverage near-real-time sales data insights, a cash reconciliation workflow, and comprehensive revenue tracking.
Smart Cost Management
Forget about manually assigning a royalty period to your expenses. When you input costs into Tone, we’ll intelligently associate them with the next applicable period, while giving you the opportunity to adjust, as needed.
Complex Deal Terms, Simplified
Deal structures with reserves, deductions, and escalations complicate royalty calculations. Tone handles even the most elaborate deals and includes a contract simulator to verify your work.
Royalties Data that Benefits Your Whole Team
Flexible permissions and intuitive workflows maximize the benefits of royalty data across your entire organization. Give your team access to the tools they need and get started with minimal training time.
Flexible Statement Delivery & Funding Workflows
Replace manual statement emails and third-party payment processors with Tone. Publish industry-leading statements to your payees and fund positive closing balances in-app in just a few clicks.
Solve your largest sales tracking headaches
Your sales data is too critical for spreadsheets. Tone is the unified hub built to turn raw revenue data into strategic insight. Contextualize every sales stream to track, reconcile, and analyze with precision, giving you the clarity needed to maximize every decision.
Timeline View
See trends overtime and identify missing pieces of your revenue puzzle.Â
Sales Explorer
Instantly visualize your data in customizable charts—no more waiting for royalty runs.
Cash Reconciliation
Easily track differences between processed sales net amounts and payments received.
Feeling behind the curve in royalties? Get ahead with Tone.
Tone for...
Head of Finance
- Delegate with confidence using role-based permissions
- Generate flexible reports across sales, costs, and royalty periods
- Monitor royalty obligations in real-time with draft royalty periods
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Lawyers
- AI-powered contract analysis and storage
- Attach long-form PDFs directly to contracts
- Simulate contracts to model and project how deal terms will calculate before you sign
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Label executives
- Industry-leading analytics available 24/7
- 25+ years of royalties expertise backing your team
- One centralized hub for your entire team
- Trusted by business managers and royalty consultants, available for referral if needed
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Accountants
- Streamlined expense data entry from any system
- Flexible, integrated royalty payment workflows
- Export-ready payment data
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Business managers
- Manage numerous clients and seamlessly switch between Tone accounts
- Track revenue comprehensively across all clients
- Communicate with your clients by sharing access to dashboards, data and analytics
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Royalty accountants
- Prevent unending recalculations by catching errors at the point of data entry (programmatic period labels, flags on duplicate data, etc.)
- Industry leading run-times, so you can run multiple calculations in a workday
- Import data in bulk without templates
Fast processing times
When your high-priority artists are waiting for statements, it matters how quickly your royalties solution can generate a period and recalculate to address errors and adjustments.
Tone is consistently at least 5x faster than our competitors.
This means, during crunch time, you can get through several rounds of revisions and recalculations in one night, instead of multiple days.
Royalty math you can trust, statements you don’t have to explain.
Simulate Contracts
Pressure-test contract deals before you sign. Model how sales, costs, and fees impact payouts in real-world scenarios—no more guessing or signing without full visibility.
Once finalized, verify all terms are entered accurately before running your first official royalty calculation.
Integrated Payments
Reduce the number of platforms your team has to operate with Tone’s integrated royalty payment functionality.
Pay out your entire roster in a few clicks, or select the payments that make sense for your artist relationships and cashflow. With Tone, you’re in control.
Artist Experience
Give artists and their teams the information they crave.
- A complete financial picture in easy-to-read statements
- A personal account to understand and manage their finances and share with their team
- Clear, mobile-friendly artist statements, delivered automatically as soon as a royalty period is published
- Royalty payments deposited directly into their bank accounts, in their preferred currency, just like a paycheck
Expert Royalty Support
With decades of combined experience, our in-house royalties experts have seen it all and we’re here to help you navigate your most complex challenges. À la carte support options ensure you get the level of help you need.
- Interpret & process data from multiple sources
- Migrate from Curve, SR1, Record Maestro & more
- Set up complex deals & contracts with confidence
- Get hands-on onboarding, training & first-period reviews
- Improve accuracy and royalty hygiene
Built by the team that coined "Splits" for the music industry
Years into solving the toughest royalties challenges, we’re determined to fix the cracks in music industry through tech and innovation.
At Tone, royalties professionals lead every innovation. We collaborate with our users to identify what the industry needs next. Start using Tone and join us on our mission to make royalties work for everyone.
