Five sliders, your numbers. See what the manual process costs per year in team time — and what happens to that number as the roster grows.
Your manual royalty process costs about
€5,280
per year, in your team's time
Hours per year
96 h
≈ 2.4 working weeks
Per payee
€35
Next 4 years
€28,343
Each new artist adds contracts, statements, and payment admin — that is the curve below.
Over 4 years
€17,006
The reduction is your assumption, not our promise — set it where you think it belongs, then pressure-test it in a demo.
If the roster keeps growing, so do the hours
€9,124
Growth premium: €7,223 over 4 years
45 minutes, your catalog, no slide deck.
Every figure comes from your inputs — nothing is benchmarked or assumed on your behalf. The projection assumes hours scale linearly with roster size. Illustrative, not a quote.
Hours per run × runs per year × cost per hour. That is the whole model — deliberately, because the point is that every figure comes from your own operation, not from a vendor's benchmark. The growth projection assumes hours scale linearly with roster size, which is how manual processes behave: each artist adds contracts, statements, questions, and payment admin. For what breaks first as the roster grows, see why royalty processing breaks down at scale.
Hours per royalty run multiplied by runs per year gives hours per year; hours per year multiplied by your cost per hour gives the annual cost. Cost per payee divides that by roster size, and the projection compounds the annual cost by your expected roster growth, assuming hours scale linearly with the roster. Every input is yours — the calculator assumes no benchmarks on your behalf.
Everything between sales files arriving and artists being paid: collecting and importing source files, mapping and validating them, matching to catalog, applying contract terms, calculating the period, reviewing, generating statements, and administering payments. Teams often undercount by only timing the calculation itself — the import and statement admin usually dominate.
In a manual process, each new artist adds contracts to apply, statement questions to answer, and payment admin to run — so hours scale roughly linearly with roster size. Platform-based processing breaks that link: templates, automated matching, and self-serve artist portals keep the marginal cost of the next artist close to zero.
See how Qlero can support your royalty workflow, from catalog and contracts to income ingestion and reporting.
