Using Revelator Pro

Modified on Mon, 15 Jun at 8:17 PM

Revelator brings together catalog management, distribution, rights, royalties, finance, and analytics in one unified workspace. This guide walks through each section of the platform to help you get oriented and understand what's available to you as an enterprise client.

How accounts are structured

Revelator uses a parent-child account model:

Your account (the parent) is the main workspace — typically a label or distributor. This is where you manage platform-wide settings, clients, and all core workflows.
Client accounts (children) belong to the labels or artists you work with. Clients can create catalog and submit music to you, with you maintaining full oversight and control.

Note You can switch between your main account and any client account using the account switcher in the top-left corner of the platform.

Account Settings

Account settings control how your workspace is configured. Key areas include:

Organization — account name, logo, default currency, and default release language (19 languages supported)
Team Members — invite staff and assign granular permissions by section and role
Pay Settings — configure how you receive payments from distributors and pay out to rights holders
Integrations — view all connected DSPs and distributors, and connect MCN accounts for YouTube Content ID
Branding — upload statement logos and set your accent color
White Label — custom domain, login screens, email sending, custom policy documents, and feature visibility controls for clients
Security — multi-factor authentication and signup protection settings

→ How to Enable Google Login for Your White-Label Account
→ How to Assign Trust & Safety Permissions to Your Team

Home

When you log in, the Home screen gives you a quick snapshot of your workspace:

Latest Releases — your most recently added or updated releases, shown as a visual grid
Product News — announcements and updates from the Revelator team about new features and platform improvements

Clients

The Clients section is where you manage all sub-accounts within your workspace. Each client entry shows key information: number of members, Trust Score, lock status, and any notes. From here you can create new client accounts, manage existing ones, and access Client Feedback — a collected view of any flags associated with client accounts.

→ How to Create and Invite a New Client

Catalog

The Catalog section is the core of the platform — where all your music content lives. It's organized into four areas.

Assets

Tracks are individual audio recordings, each with a full metadata and credits page, audio file management (stereo, HD, and Dolby Atmos), and embedded analytics. Videos are managed separately and follow a similar structure.

→ Delivering Dolby Atmos Music: A Complete Guide ·
→ Replacing an audio file after delivery

Products

Digital Releases are your albums, EPs, and singles. Each release page covers metadata, artwork, rights settings, UGC policies, distribution, and embedded analytics. Physical Releases allow you to manage physical catalogs with the option to link to an existing digital release.

→ How to Set Streaming, Download, and UGC Rights For Your Release ·
→ Changes you can and cannot make once your release is distributed

Contributors

Manage Artists, Performers, Producers & Engineers, Writers, Publishers, and Labels from dedicated sections. Each contributor profile links to their full discography and includes analytics across their catalog.

→ How to change an artist's name

UGC Platforms

YouTube is managed as its own section within Catalog. Connect MCN accounts and YouTube channels, link videos, and set up channel-level royalty splits separately from your audio DSP contracts.

→ Linking YouTube Channel to Revelator's MCN ·
→ How to Set Up YouTube Channel Royalties & Reporting

Rights

The Rights section is where you define how revenue from your catalog is distributed to rights holders.

Contracts

A contract sets the business logic for royalty payments. Each contract has three components: Assets (which catalog it applies to — set at account, label, artist, release, or track level), Terms (the payout rate and conditions, e.g. by territory, service type, or format), and Payees (who gets paid and at what percentage).

When you add a payee, you can invite them to a Payee Portal — a login that gives them view access to their statements and analytics, without access to catalog management or supply chain.

→ Understanding Contracts
→ Royalty Splits: How to Share Royalties with Collaborators

Royalty Splits (OnChain)

Blockchain-based royalty split functionality, available for Enterprise accounts.

Distribution

The Distribution section manages the flow of your catalog to DSPs and handles the quality control process before anything goes live.

Inspection

When a client submits music, it arrives in the Inspection queue — your QA/QC layer before releases reach the market. The queue uses ACR Cloud to automatically flag potential issues (AI-generated content, cover songs, remixes, samples) and has five tabs:

Queue tab	What it contains
To Inspect	New submissions, awaiting your review
Deal Owner Inspection	Releases pending review from the relevant deal owner
Reinspection Required	Items flagged for another pass
Parked	Releases that have been held
Failed Inspection	Releases that didn't pass QC

→ Release Metadata Inspection — Best Practices ·
→ Which DSPs does Revelator support?

Batch Distribute and Batch Takedown

Send or remove catalog in bulk — select releases by label, artist, or individually, choose destination DSPs, and execute in a single action.

→ Connecting your Digital Supply Chain

Activity

A log of all distribution events — what's been sent, updated, or taken down — on a per-release basis.

Finance

The Finance section handles incoming revenue from DSPs and distributors.

Revenue Reports

Import sales reports from DSPs and distributors. Reports move through a four-stage approval workflow: Need FX → Unmatched → To Approve → Approved. A matching tool helps reconcile unmatched lines where a UPC or ISRC is missing.

Note Rights holders cannot see revenue until a report has been approved. Approving a report makes its data available downstream in Analytics and Royalties.

→ FAQ: Revenue Report Processing
→ Fixing Unallocated Revenue

Revenue Analytics

A visual dashboard of your revenue across DSPs, territories, formats, and time periods. Interact with the visualization, apply filters, and export any view as a CSV.

Distributor Balance

A record of all payments received from your distributor, including a full history and any open balances.

Royalties

The Royalties section handles the end-to-end process of calculating what you owe rights holders and managing payments.

Royalty Runs

A royalty run aggregates approved revenue reports for a given period (monthly, quarterly, or semi-annual) and calculates payee earnings based on your contract logic. Once a run is processed and approved, statements are automatically generated for all affected payees.

→ Royalty Run & Statements Guide

Statements

Each statement includes a downloadable flat file, an HTML view, and an analytics visualization. Statements can be approved, unapproved, emailed, or deleted and rerun. Payees with portal access can see their statements once you've approved them.

Warning If payments have already been issued and you need to correct a statement, contact Revelator support before making any changes.

→ Approving and Sending Royalty Statements

Payees

Each payee record shows the assets and contracts connected to them, their full transaction history, and their current balance. You can manually add advances, expenses, payments, and adjustments — all factored into the next royalty run.

→ Payees in a Parent-Child Setup · Payee Advances and Recoupments

Review & Pay

Once statements are approved, bulk-pay all payees in one action. Payments are grouped by gateway — Revelator supports Tipalti for cross-border payments and Bamboo for payouts in Brazil and Latin America.

→ Making Payments with Tipalti
→ How To Set Up Bamboo in Revelator

Payment History

A full log of all payments processed through the platform.

Trust & Safety

The Trust & Safety section provides tools to monitor your catalog for fraud and policy violations.

Artificial Streaming Detection

The platform flags releases showing patterns consistent with artificial stream inflation, drawing from data reported by DSPs. View flagged content by release or asset, filter by DSP and market, and drill down to specific tracks.

→ What is Artificial Streaming and How To Avoid It
→ Are fraud royalties and data displayed in the catalog?

Analytics

The Analytics section gives you a cross-catalog view of how your music is performing. The same analytics are also embedded within individual artist, release, and track pages throughout the platform.

Section	What you can see
Consumption	Streaming and video/UGC performance. Toggle between streaming and Video & UGC views.
Engagement	Skip rates, completion rates, and sub-30-second stream counts.
Playlists	Playlist placement and movement data across DSPs.
Revenue	Revenue broken down by DSP, territory, format, and time period.
Top Movers	What's rising and falling across your catalog. Filter by track or artist and choose a time window.
Geo	Geographic view of consumption and revenue, visualized on a map.

→ How to Use Top Movers Analytics

Insights Hub

An AI-powered feature that answers common questions labels and artists have about their catalog. Choose from a curated set of questions and the platform generates a report with the relevant metrics and analysis.

→ How to use the Insight Hub

Need help?
Contact support if you need assistance.