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royalty management software

Royalty management software calculates and tracks the money a business owes to the people it pays royalties to — authors, songwriters, inventors, franchisees, mineral rights holders — based on the terms in each individual contract. It is run by the finance or rights-and-permissions team inside a publisher, record label, licensor, or franchise operator, who would otherwise be working these calculations out by hand on spreadsheets each accounting period and sending paper statements that are easy to get wrong. It replaces that spreadsheet-and-email process with a system that ties contract terms directly to sales data so each payee's share is calculated, reported, and paid on schedule.

Screened in United States · one of 250 markets on record

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