Where the money actually went. On one page.
Most independent labels answer whether an artist was paid for a release by opening three spreadsheets and a statement. Finance makes it one query: splits configured per release, payments tracked through to artist receipt, and distributor statements imported as line items you can search. In development, not yet something you can switch on.
A spreadsheet holds the splits, and then drifts.
It does not know the release date moved, that the remixer changed, or that the statement you just imported covers a period where one track was still unreleased. The numbers drift from the catalog the moment either changes, and nobody notices until an artist asks.
Finance reads the same catalog as the rest of Labelflow. The splits hang off the release you already created, the statements match the tracks you already registered, and the payments reference the artists already in contact management. Nothing is re-keyed, so nothing drifts.
Three things, one place.
All three in development. This describes what is being built, not what you can use today.
Who gets what, set once on the release and inherited by every track on it. Producer, featured artist, remixer, label share, with overrides where a track differs from the release default, because there is always one track that differs.
A split is a promise and a payment is a fact. Finance tracks the distance between them, so an artist asking whether it has come through yet gets an answer from the same record you pay from.
The monthly statement arrives as a few thousand rows with no relationship to your catalog. Imported as line items and matched to the releases and tracks you already have, it becomes something you can query per release, per artist, per period.
What Finance will not do.
Decided before the module exists, rather than after somebody complains.
Finance answers what a release earned and whether the artist was paid. It does not file your taxes, run your books or replace an accountant.
Every figure traces to a statement line you can open. Nothing is estimated, projected or smoothed to look better than it is.
Labelflow records payments; it does not initiate them. The transfer stays with you and your bank.
For labels who pay more than a handful of people.
One artist and one split is a note in a file. A roster, remixers and a compilation is a system, and the spreadsheet version of that system is where the awkward conversations come from.
An add-on at 9 euro a month once it ships, on either plan. Nothing is charged for it before it is live, and the pricing page marks it as in development for that reason. The roadmap has the build order.