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Say hello to Royalty Producer

iTunes Producer's best buddy


Royalty Producer - a Royalty System for the rest of us.

Manage releases, sublicences, track information and license agreements with ease. Import your sales data and create sophisticated royalty statements for albums, singles, 3rd party compilations and digital downloads. Please note our separate section: Processing Digital Sales !

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Professional Royalty Processing:

• contracts can manage different shares for different territories, release types and formats
• territory sets can be defined per contract and release type individually
• profit split royalty calculation, even combinable with share-based contracts
• reduce royalty shares, based on price: Mid-Price, Budget, Clearance Sales, Sellout
• reduce royalty shares when products are advertised or sold by mailorder
• set the maximum number of concurrent reductions
• set a minimum share, regardless of possible reductions
• individual technical deductions for different formats, per contract
• automatic calculation of reserves for returns
• automatic release of reserves for returns in the next period or in multiple stages
• multiple contracts per licensor
• multiple contracts and licensors per track
• royalty splitting for single tracks (e.g. strip a remixer's share from the share of your artist)
• additional contracts for releases (overrides, calculated alongside track-based royalties)
• one royalty statement per licensor manages all licensor's contracts
• possible deductions for mechanicals on download and physical sales (for EU customers)
• full featured US mechanicals reporting tool
• contract groups allow fine-tuned setups of cross-colateralisation between contracts
• optional sublicense control tool with reminders for your licensees
• optional publishing module for all publishing income (account artists, co-publishers, etc.)
• download sales data can be compressed to the max for less clutter on your royalty statements
• sales reports allow you to monitor product and even track-based performances
• sales reports by territories and distribution channels / download stores
• one-click import of the new version of iTunes sales reports (July 2008)
• one-click import of beatport sales reports
• one-click import of Napster sales reports
• support for all sales reports that contain EAN/UPC/Catalog No. and/or ISRCs
• and much, much more...


Process Digital Sales Information with ease


As download sales gain momentum, how do you handle the data?

Finally, music download sales gain momentum. You spent a bunch of time collecting all your release and song metadata for the iTunes Store or an aggregator. You receive numerous, detailed sales data files from the iTunes Music Store and other resellers. Fine, but how do you transfer all this data into royalty statements?

Say Hello to iTunes Producer's best buddy.
Introducing Royalty Producer, the first royalty software for download sales. With royalty producer, your data comes to life. You set up this software with just three simple steps. From that point, your professionally designed royalty statements are just one click away.


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Good news: Royalty Producer can process meta data and sales data from iTunes AND generic sources. You can import text / tab, csv and Excel files additionally to iTunes Producer data easily: great for Musicload, OD2, finetunes, Ringtone Resellers, etc. You can even mix data from different sources as all releases and tracks are identified by their EAN and ISRC Codes. Just use the built-in interface to match the import order.

Step 1: Setting up your licensors

Import address information from various sources, like the Apple Address Book, Entourage, Outlook or Excel. After Importing, you enter the royalty settings for each licensor.
Single track and album downloads can distribute different royalties. The interval for royalty statements can be set from 1 month to any number of months. Statements can be issued in any currency.

Step 2: Import playlists from iTunes producer

You can transfer all playlist and release data by simply choosing the desired release in a file dialog.
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The meta data files can be located easily in the Music / iTunes Producer folder. You can assign an exisiting licensor to all tracks of a new release with a single mouse click.

Royalty Producer automatically creates new labels, when needed. The imported data shows up in a well arranged data browser. Click on a label entry on the left list to display all releases of that label. Click on a release to display the playlist. Click on a song to display the track and licensor information.
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Step 3: Import sales data

Import the monthly sales statements you receive from the different iTunes Music Stores with a single mouse click. All sales data shows up in the "Sales" tab. As Royalty Producer only
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calculates royalties on sales that have been paid, you are able to enter the payment date and currency exchange rate. Royalties will be adapted and paid accordingly. You now have all necessary data for royalty statement creation - in just three simple steps.
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Step 3: Create professional royalty statements

OFFICER Business Software Solutions serves independent music businesses since 1996. Royalty Producer offers you the power and knowledge of over 300 record labels when it comes to royalty statements. They are created for all licensors that are due or for a single licensor with just a few clicks.
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Royalty Producer offers extensive support for download stores and aggregators:

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Expand your business - Royalty Producer is growing with you.

Royalty Producer can be expanded on a modular basis, whenever your business needs grow. You can even upgrade Royalty Producer to our high-end software OFFICER CBS (Creative Business Suite) with ease. All of your data will be available instantly, so you can enjoy the power of the extended versions right away: network-ability, full royalty processing power, ERP, CRM and much much more. All OFFICER products are available for Mac OS X and Windows.


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General Features

Powerful Royalty Engine
strong contract management system, based on contract templates. fine-tunable cross-colateralisation via contract groups. Account royalties for phyiscal and download sales. Optional sublicense and publishing modules.

Easy Data Import
release information • playlist information • licensor contacts • download sales • physical sales

Flexible
import metadata from text / tab, CSV and Excel files • import sales data from download shops, aggregators and distributors • available for Mac OS X and Windows

Expandable
Upgrade path to our Creative Business Suite software (OFFICER CBS) - exisiting data is instantly usable.

Zero install
Royalty Producer needs no install. All application data resides in ONE folder. You can even run Royalty Producer from an USB stick in cross plattform environments: Do some work at home on your shiny Macbook, then plug your stick at work into your Windows desktop computer to continue working.

Easy Backup
Copy the Royalty Producer application folder to any other disk, network volume or USB stick for a backup. If you want to re-use the backup version, just copy it back to its original location.

Scalable
All Royalty Producer users can move up to higher-end versions or OFFICER CBS for an upgrade fee. In any case, all your previous data will be available instantly in your new, shiny OFFICER software.

Cross Plattform
WinMac
All OFFICER products are available for Mac OS X and Windows.
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