For music distributors

Royalty accounting for distributors who answer to every label

You sit between the DSPs and dozens of label clients — every one of them expecting accurate statements, on their schedule, under your brand. Qlero runs that whole chain as one auditable workflow: ingestion, calculation, client-separated accounting, and payouts.

Last updated: August 25, 2026

One operation, many labels

A distributor's royalty problem is multiplication: every label client brings its own catalog, its own deal terms, and its own reporting expectations. Qlero's Enterprise tier is built for multi-entity operations — each client's catalog, contracts, and periods stay cleanly separated while your team runs them through one workflow, with one place to see what is processed, published, and paid.

Your brand on every surface

Your label clients signed with you, not with your software vendor. White labeling covers both the label-facing portal and the payee-facing artist portal, so the statements a client's artists log into carry your brand — not a third-party platform's. Available as an add-on on any plan and included at Enterprise.

Ingestion that keeps up with your sources

Distribution means sales data from every DSP, on every schedule, in every format. The import builder maps any CSV, Excel, or structured file with a live preview of transformations before anything is processed, and every mapping is saved as a reusable template — so the hundredth statement from a source imports like the second one did.

Payout runs with a paper trail

High payee counts turn payment admin into its own department. Qlero keeps one balance per payee across all their agreements, applies threshold-based payout eligibility, and supports a request-to-payment flow with approval steps, self-bill invoicing, and payment-file export — so a payout run is a documented process, not an inbox.

A platform your pipeline can talk to

Distributors rarely run royalty accounting in isolation — catalog data arrives from delivery systems, and results feed accounting and BI. DDEX catalog ingestion is included from the base tier, and API integration connects Qlero to the rest of your stack so it works as part of your pipeline rather than beside it.

Comparing platforms? The 2026 buyer's guide covers the seven criteria that separate royalty systems. Running publishing catalogs too? See Qlero for music publishers.

Common questions from distributors

Can a distributor run royalty accounting for multiple label clients in Qlero?

Yes. Multi-entity operation is what Qlero's Enterprise tier is designed for: each label client's catalog, contracts, and accounting periods are managed separately within one platform, so a distributor's team can process, publish, and pay across all clients without maintaining parallel systems.

Can we put our own brand on the portals our clients and their artists use?

Yes. White labeling in Qlero covers both the label-facing portal and the payee-facing artist portal. It is included in the Enterprise tier and available as an add-on on any other plan, so client-facing surfaces carry the distributor's brand.

How does Qlero handle sales files from many DSPs and sources?

Through an import builder that accepts CSV, Excel, and structured data from any DSP, distributor, or internal system. Columns are mapped with a live preview of the resulting transformations before processing, and mappings are saved as reusable templates per source. Unmatched or late-arriving sales roll forward into the next period automatically instead of being extracted and re-imported.

Does Qlero integrate with the systems a distributor already runs?

Qlero supports DDEX catalog ingestion from the base tier and API integration — included at Enterprise, available as an add-on elsewhere — for connecting royalty data to delivery, accounting, or BI systems. For a walkthrough against your specific stack, book a demo at qlero.io/book.

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