Qlero
Qlero provides a royalty operations platform for music labels, publishers, and distributors, connecting catalog, contracts, sales data, and artist statements in a single auditable workflow. The platform handles complex contract mechanisms like cross-recoupment, reserves, and producer deductions, and integrates with Tipalti for artist payments and DDEX for catalog ingestion.
- Music Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Music labels, publishers, and distributors manage royalty accounting across disconnected systems, forcing teams to stitch together catalogs, contracts, sales reports, and artist statements. Complex contractual mechanisms like cross-recoupment, reserves, producer deductions, and profit shares are easy to mis-model, leading to errors that persist across multiple royalty periods.
Solution
Qlero provides a royalty operations platform that connects catalog, contracts, incoming sales rows, and artist statements in a single auditable workflow. Teams can track what came in, what is owed, and what is ready to close each royalty period without switching between multiple tools. The platform includes import templates for DSP and distributor reports, column mapping and validation tools, contract application with split calculation, and statement generation. It also supports DDEX repertoire metadata imports and integrates with Tipalti for artist payment processing.
Target Audience
Primary customers are music labels, publishers, and distributors that need scalable royalty accounting and statement workflows. The platform is built for teams managing complex contracts and high-volume sales data.
Features
- Flexible import builder with reusable templates for DSP and distributor sales reports, including column mapping and sample import review
- Contract modeling for cross-recoupment pools, multi-tranche advances, reserve schedules, producer deductions, profit shares, territory rules, escalations, and source-specific overrides
- Row-level validation with unmatched line investigation and comparison of imported totals against source reports
- Period-based workflow that organizes source files by reporting cycle and tracks what has arrived and what needs attention
- Statement generation with auditable close, including recoupment balances, reserve releases, and payee-level calculations
- DDEX ERN NewReleaseMessage import for native catalog ingestion from delivery partners
- Tipalti integration for artist payment setup and execution