Clear statements your artists can check
Every period, each artist waits for their statement. Labelmate produces one PDF per artist, with the summary, the amount payable and the line-by-line detail, and you send it from the label's mailbox.
Before issuing
Check everything, then see the statement before the artist does
The Statements page shows the current period: what is payable, the royalties, what was recouped, and the checks to clear before issuing.
Every statement opens as a PDF before it is issued: the same document the artist will receive, marked “Draft” on every page. Nothing is kept or sent.
- The checks first, issuing after
- A PDF preview of every statement
- One row per artist: earned, recouped, payable
What the artist receives
A statement that answers questions before they are asked
The essentials first
What the artist earned in the period, what was recouped from their advance, what is left to recoup, and the amount payable.
Line by line
Track, channel, territory, quantity, net receipts, rate, royalty: every line comes from the distributor's report.
Everyone's share
When a track is shared, the statement shows the payees and their shares.
A document that lasts
An archived PDF/A with its fingerprint, in English or French, with the calculation's data attached to the file.
Issue and send
From a checked period to a statement sent
- 1
You issue the period
Labelmate produces the PDFs and locks the figures: an issued period no longer changes.
- 2
You read the email
For each artist, Labelmate prepares the subject, the text and the PDF attached; you type the address of the artist or their manager, then read it and correct it.
- 3
It leaves from your mailbox
The statement is sent from the label's mailbox, one click per artist. A copy comes back to your mailbox, kept as proof it was sent.
Questions
How often?
As often as your contracts say, often twice a year: Labelmate issues them every month, quarter, six months or year, as you choose. In France, when an artist's pay depends on revenue, the law asks for a statement every six months (article L. 212-15 of the Intellectual Property Code). In the United States, to our knowledge no federal law sets how often: your contracts do.
What about paying the artist?
Labelmate works out what is owed and sends the statement. The transfer you make from your bank, as today.
Can my artists see their statements online?
Yes: from a contract's page, you publish their artist portal, a private, encrypted page (their statements with their PDFs, where their advance stands, a question box that reaches you). You send the link from your own mailbox, and you can take the page down at any time.
An artist's accountant asks for the supporting documents. What now?
On an issued statement's page, or on its row in the Archive, Audit pack gathers them in one ZIP file: the statement and the calculation's data, the report rows, the contract's terms with their sentences, the invoices for recouped costs, the artist's history.
Go further
Royalty statements in the USThe other features
Audit-ready
Every statement's audit pack, a signed history, and your accountant in read-only.
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The artist portal
A private, encrypted page per artist: their statements, their advance, their questions.
See it in detail
Always up to date
This month, requests, key dates and where every advance stands, between statements.
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See it on your own figures
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