Master your royalties
Turn a business obligation into a competitive advantage.
Future-proof your royalty accounting.
The music industry is constantly changing, generating complex contract and catalog data that legacy systems weren’t built to handle. When you rely on outdated tech, your team loses hours to manual workarounds and opaque review cycles—resulting in delays and error-prone PDF statements.
Tone is built for the current scale of the industry, innovating past the status quo, streamlining royalty workflows and unlocking valuable financial insights.
Deliver statements in days, not weeks
Modern music companies need a workflow that saves them time and effort during crunch time.
- Process periods 5x faster in Tone.
- Choose to scan closing balances or review priority statements in detail.
- Publish statements and send email notifications in a single click.
Royalty accounting, demystified
Accessible Data: See all your sales and costs, then easily filter to find your desired calculation inputs.Â
Flexible Periods: Tone supports unlimited accounting cadences, priority groups, and catch-ups.
Clear Forecasting: Easily create and delete draft periods to estimate your future royalty obligations.
Seamlessly Transition Between Payment Cycles
Bogged down by incorrect payments and manual accounting?Â
- Tone automatically accounts for payments and positive balances in sequential periods.
- Built-in validations ensure paid royalties aren't missed.
- External payments are easily submitted in-app and subtracted from artist balances.
Recalculate Periods after Publishing, Risk-Free
Sometimes mistakes happen or new information makes it to you too late. Unlike other royalty platforms, Tone lets you safely recalculate and preview the impact of changes without committing to anything or losing historical data.
Decide to republish statements or hold until the next run without losing historical data.
Uncover actionable insights
Dig into your royalties data for precise & accurate information on your highest-earning projects. Aggregate & segment data across your completed royalty periods to:
- Track the performance of your catalog over time
- Gain insight into ROI
- Compare income between territories, DSPs, channels & configurations
Take the guesswork out of statements for your artists
Today’s artists want to understand the royalties they’ve earned. Tone helps you give them the transparency they want.
- Industry-leading statements come with an approachable bottom-line summary.
- Downloadable CSV reports break down their income in detail.
- Artist-specific dashboards visualize all-time earnings across tracks, platforms, and territories.