Publisher income is the money you receive in your publisher bank account, from your sales channels: distributors and retailers.
- One publisher income payment is a single payment that you received as a publisher.
- Publisher income should always be recorded in Royalties HQ in your publisher currency (not the currency of the related sales).
- When publisher income is entered into Royalties HQ, it must be linked or reconciled with one or more sales batches.
Linking to sales batches #
When a publisher income payment has not yet been linked to a sales batch, a red warning triangle is shown in the ‘Sales batches’ column. This highlights that you need to create this link.
When a publisher income payment has been linked to a sales batch, the number of linked sales batches is shown in the ‘Sales batches’ column.
Automatic currency conversion #
When a publisher income payment is reconciled with one or more sales batches, Royalties HQ automatically calculates the currency conversion rate and applies this to each sales lines in the sales batch. In this way, Royalties HQ automates currency conversion of your sales data from the currency of each sales marketplace to your publisher currency.
Viewing publisher income #
All your publisher income payments entered are shown on the ‘Publisher Income’ page (Main menu > Publisher Income).
Each publisher income payment is automatically given a name, e.g. “Payment #100”
Filtering publisher income #
You can filter the list of publisher income by sales channel, marketplace, sales month (when this data was added to publisher income).
The ‘sales batches’ filter allows you to filter publisher income by:
- ‘Allocated to sales batches’ – Publisher income that has been linked to (reconciled with) one or more sales batches
- ‘Without sales batches’ – Publisher income that is not yet linked to (reconciled with) a sales batch.
Adding publisher income #
Publisher income can be added in two ways:
If you have multiple publisher income payments to add, bulk CSV upload will be the most efficient method.
Publisher income can also be deleted and edited.