What you need — from company setup and store access to DDEX delivery, royalties and support — and how to launch faster with a white-label distribution dashboard.
Decide who you serve — independent artists, labels, regional or devotional catalogues, or other distributors — and how you charge: a yearly fee, a revenue share, or both. Your model decides your pricing plans, contracts and the features your dashboard needs.
Register a company, open business bank accounts that can receive international store payments, and prepare a distribution agreement for your clients covering rights, territories, revenue share, payment timing and takedowns.
Stores either work with you directly — usually after reviewing your catalogue size, quality and technical ability — or you reach them through a larger distributor or aggregator. Many new companies start through a partner and add direct deals as they grow.
Every release needs accurate titles, artists, contributors, ISRC and UPC codes, artwork at the required size, audio in lossless format, genres, languages, territories and rights. A music CMS keeps this consistent and validated.
Stores receive releases as DDEX ERN messages (ERN 3.8.2 or 4.x) over SFTP, S3, Aspera or a web-service API, and send back acknowledgements. A DDEX delivery system automates this and tracks every store.
Stores send sales and streaming reports, often as DDEX DSR files. A royalty engine matches every line to a recording by ISRC, applies each client's split and produces statements and payouts.
Clients expect to upload releases, see delivery status, read statements and request payouts themselves. This is the product your customers judge you by.
Building catalogue, delivery, royalty and client software from scratch takes a large team and many months. A white-label music distribution dashboard provides all of it under your brand, so you can launch in weeks and focus on clients.
| Area | What you need | How Plans Global helps |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Entity, bank, agreements | Guidance on structure and workflows |
| Store access | Direct deals or a partner | Delivery to 35 platforms |
| Catalogue | Validated metadata & codes | Music CMS |
| Delivery | DDEX ERN + APIs | DDEX & API delivery system |
| Royalties | Reports, splits, payouts | Royalty Engine |
| Client product | Branded dashboard | White-label dashboard |
| Marketing | Social media & promotion | Automatic social media management |
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