Bandcamp Sales Report

The online record store and music community Bandcamp has proven to be vital platform for labels and artists over the years. The direct-to-fan service and the ease of use of the interface have made it an essential source of income for many creatives in music. However great Bandcamp is, its simplicity brings along some limitations. If you're a medium sized label and not in possession of a pricey administrative software package, then it can cost a you a good day (& night) to calculate the royalties each artist deserves. Enter Bandcampsales.report; a simple tool to process your Bandcamp sales reports into understandable artist and label statements. Developed to make sure artists and labels can easily calculate the royalties they are owed.

It works as follows:

Log in to your Bandcamp site and navigate to 'tools' in the dropdown menu on the top-right hand corner;
Go to 'Sales' and download your report for the desired timeframe of sales (a .csv file). If you have a Bandcamp Artist account it's called 'sales report'. If you have a Bandcamp Label account it's called 'raw data report';
Optionally edit your dowloaded .csv file to manually adjust the window of sales to match your royalty period, and re-export as .csv file;
Upload your sales report on Bandcampsales.report;
Enter the desired split between label and artist;
You'll now receive a .zip file statements. The package contains:
- One statement file containing all digital sales per item, including a total amount per artist (and a total amount for the label owner)
- A folder containing a statement file per artist, containing a list of the total amount earned per track / release.
- One statement file containing all physical sales, grouped per item.
- One statement file returning all the refunds. As the situations causing refunds can be exceptional, we decided to let the label owner decide on how to handle these.
- Digital and Physical statements are split, because in our experience the production costs will be deducted from the physical sales.