Over the past three months we shipped more than 600 improvements (!) including a dramatically more capable Toni, a template builder that saves your work for you, and a calmer, roomier workspace across Sales and Insights.
Toni went from simply answering questions to doing the work
Toni is now more equipped to work alongside you. Open a contract PDF, a CSV, or a text document and Toni reads it and acts on it. It can build a contract from an import and attach the source file, create rate conditions, and even set up deductions or reserves by pulling them straight out of the contract PDF. It’ll set your Sales Explorer and Sales Files filters for you, and jump you to the right page when you ask.
Toni is also just easier to follow. Toni’s steps now collapse into a single summary instead of scrolling past every action it took, and it’ll summarize a plan for your review before making any big changes. As always, Toni won’t take any actions without your explicit permission.
Your sales file templates now save themselves
Mapping a sales file is detailed work, and losing it halfway through is the worst. Templates now save automatically as you go. We redesigned the template builder around it: the column and overview panels were reworked, the Original and Cleaned views now have their own URLs so you can link a colleague straight to what you’re looking at, and the builder holds its place instead of resetting when a sheet picks up a template.
A calmer, roomier workspace
Filters used to float over the data you were trying to read. Now they dock cleanly to the side on both Sales Explorer and Insights, so you can adjust and compare at the same time.
The newly updated Library also uses a docked rail down its left edge, giving you much more room in your browser to view and work through your tracks, releases, payees and contracts.
Did you know?
Tone can now source missing catalog metadata from 3 reliable sources. When you’re importing new catalog or resolving unmapped sales, Tone looks up your ISRCs and UPCs against Spotify, Apple Music, and MusicBrainz, in that order. If a track isn’t on the first platform, it automatically tries the next, so identifiers that used to come back empty now often resolve on the second or third attempt. Each match shows which source it came from, so you can see exactly where a title, artist, or release date originated before you accept it.
Tip: If you’ve previously had a hard time finding metadata for some unmapped sales lines, it’s worth re-running them now.
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New for your payees
Toni is now available to every payee on Tone. Your payees can now ask Toni about their own statements, balances, and payment status directly. Common questions are where their latest statement is, what a payment status means, or what’s needed before they can be paid. Toni walks them through it without needing you. It’s deliberately careful about the line between you and them: for anything that’s your call like payout timing, a specific payment date, a question about the sales data behind a statement, Toni explains the situation plainly and directs them to you.
This means fewer routine questions in your inbox, and the ones that do reach you are the ones that actually need you.
Other highlights
Features we added:
- For publishers: Writers for works, plus the ability to delete works — with a warning if sales are already mapped to them
- Price category as a condition on contract terms
- Sales file source and source groups as conditions across sales-term, deduction-term, and mechanical-deduction sheets, and in the contract simulator
- Period filters for label and payee insights
- Five additional column filters on the Sales Files table
- An FAQ section on the payee Statements page
Features we changed:
- Redesigned the unmapped catalog and works summary tab
- Billing checkout now happens inside Tone instead of redirecting you to Airwallex
- Funding deposit details are now copyable values
- Numeric columns aligned and row dividers added across Royalty Period table
- Statement help text is now customizable
- Statements recalculated after being paid are now clearly flagged
- Insights pages load faster due to fewer backend scans and smarter filtering
Bugs we fixed:
- Number fields that wouldn’t let you clear them
- Dropdowns opening off-screen or overflowing on long names
- Overlapping layout when a sales file sheet name was long
- Reversed setup/finalize controls on the royalty period Transactions tab
- An inconsistent “wallet balance insufficient” warning caused by rounding drift