Everything you need to manage royalties.
Automate data processing, statements, and payments on the music industry's most intelligent royalty operations platform.
Join the industry-leading labels, business managers, publishers, and rights holders using Tone every day.
Multiply your team’s impact.
Royalty accounting software designed to support & scale the entire royalty ecosystem.
AI-powered workflows
Scale your business without growing your back office team. Lean on Toni, our built-in AI assistant to complete tedious tasks, surface issues, and immediately locate information.
Faster data ingestion
Get 10+ hours back every period with Tone’s innovative import tools. Upload any file, in any format, or bulk copy and paste directly from your source into the app — no templates required.
Integrated payments
Ditch the patchwork of tools and disconnected workflows. Manage your entire royalty process in Tone — from data ingestion to calculations and payouts with our end-to-end tooling.
Accuracy, built in
Build confidence with comprehensive validations and tools designed to help you clean your data before generating statements — so you don’t have to spend hours double-checking after.
Modern contract admin
Stop searching folders of PDFs for answers. Keep your contracts organized in one place, and ask Toni, our in-app AI assistant, to find terms, explain complex deals, and simulate outcomes.
A better artist experience
Empower your artists with Tone’s individualized payee dashboards. They get transparent statements, actionable insights, and editable payment settings. You get a competitive advantage.
Meet Toni
Tone’s built-in AI assistant doesn’t just answer questions. It gets work done. Hand Toni the tedious tasks, review the results, and approve any changes. You stay in control, while Toni does the legwork.
- Ramp up faster. Ask Toni how the platform works and get answers in context, without digging through help docs.
- Get hours back. Ask Toni to reformat Excel files, merge duplicate tracks into aliases, or bulk update participation rates across your catalog.
- Catch what you might miss. Toni works securely within your account to surface insights and flag errors.
- Stay in control. Toni never changes your data without your direction — and you approve every change before it's made.
Ready to unblock your royalty operations?
WHAT TONE DOES BEST
Royalty accounting without the friction.
The tools and workflows in Tone work seamlessly together to accelerate your entire royalty process.
Speedy royalty calculations
Tone’s royalty calculation engine works 5x faster than competing platforms. Don’t spend crunchtime waiting.
Smart contract management
Interpret, set up, & validate complex contracts with Tone’s AI-powered tools and cut your time investment in half.
Dynamic catalog ingestion
Leverage and pull metadata directly from trusted sources like Spotify, Apple Music, or your distributor sales files.
Intuitive sales data processing
Import and map sales 9x faster with auto-matching templates and monitor trends in user-friendly dashboards.
Flexible costs recoupment
Manage expenses in bulk, automatically assign costs to the correct reporting period, and control who recoups them.
Secure, global payments
Pay your entire roster and their collaborators in one click, so you don’t spend your weekends on manual payments.
Feeling behind the curve on royalties?
Migrate to Tone in 12 weeks
Migrating your data to a new royalty system is a huge task. At Tone, we provide an actionable framework and expertise to lighten the load. Within 12 weeks you’ll have your first set of statements, plus a template for migrating the rest.
- Collect. We give you a checklist of required data and help you audit it for completeness.
- Map. We help translate terms and values from your current system into Tone.
- Plan. We build a detailed timeline for ingesting your data.
- Support. We take on the work your team doesn't have capacity for, so milestones stay on track.
Royalty experts on your side
Popular services include:
- Sales retrieval & processing
- Contract creation & interpretation
- Royalty creation & statement review
Built by royalty professionals
Years into solving the toughest royalty challenges at Stem Distribution — the company that coined “splits” for the music industry — we developed Tone to double down on creating solutions for the people who generate, process, and pay out royalties. Tone now operates independently, with royalty professionals leading every innovation and bringing decades of collective experience in the music industry to every feature. Our team uses Tone every day, working alongside our clients to find the next problems worth solving.
