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How to read your ledger

Five ideas explain every page of StreamRev. Here they are.

Idea 01

Every number tells you where it came from

StreamRev never invents a figure. Every number you see is one of two kinds, and it is always marked:

Fact came off a real royalty statement or a public play counter. It happened.
Est. a range we computed from evidence, always shown as a range, never a promise.

When an estimate depends on your deal terms, a third set of marks says where those terms came from:

From your contract read out of an agreement you uploaded, with a page citation.
Default an industry-standard assumption standing in until you upload the real agreement.
Idea 02

Collected and recoverable are different money

Collected is money that was actually reported and paid to you. It comes straight from your statements and it is always a fact. Still recoverable is money your work likely earned that never reached you - royalties that sat unmatched, unregistered, or misdirected. It is always an estimate, and every dollar of it traces to a reason you can read.

Both live on your dashboard →

Idea 03

Your music earns in more places than you are collecting from

A song generates several separate kinds of royalties - streaming, songwriter performance, US digital radio, streaming mechanicals, international play, sync, social video. Most independent artists collect two or three of them. The Statement coverage page shows which streams you are collecting, which you are not, and how to start each one.

See your coverage map →

Idea 04

A case is how missing money gets claimed

When the evidence shows money you can go get, StreamRev builds a case: the direct-pay letter that tells the payor to pay you, the statement lines that prove what happened, and a downloadable evidence bundle you can hand to the payor, an administrator, or an attorney. Cases live under Act now on your dashboard.

Idea 05

Documents make everything sharper

Statements are the facts. Agreements are the terms. Upload either on the Documents page and it is recorded the moment it arrives - nothing is ever silently lost - then read, cited, and put to work. Every figure running on a Default switches to From your contract when its agreement lands.

Go to Documents →

The words

Every term, in plain English

The industry's vocabulary is the right vocabulary - you will meet these same words on every payor's portal - so we use it and explain it. Hover any underlined term anywhere in the app for the same definition.

That is the whole system. Statements in, facts out, estimates labeled, missing money found and claimed. When a term confuses you anywhere in the app, hover it - most carry a plain-English explanation.

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