Importer Settings

Every importer within Infinite Catalog has its own Importer Settings which can be found by navigating to Royalties -> Data Imports -> Importers -> (Importer) -> Settings as shown below:

From the Importer Settings page of each importer, you can set Fees to be deducted at import, choose a Default Currency for an importer, separate Items by Territories and Format Groups at import, set the importer's Cleanup Settings, and add other importer-specific settings detailed on the respective data source's Knowledge Base documentation.

Fees

Fees can be added as percentage amounts to be deducted from transactions at import in the Fees settings of an Importer's Settings. To do so,

• Add the Fee Name (i.e. 10% distribution fee), Fee % (expressed as a decimal amount), and the Format to apply the fee to if applicable
• Once applied, the fee % will be applied to each individual transactional total ingested via the importer and will deduct from the total accordingly

For more information on adding Fees to an importer, please see the How do I account for a fee not present in my data? documentation in our Knowledge Base.

Default Currency

The default currency of an importer can be set, or overridden, under the Default Currency settings of an importer's Importer Settings. To do so, simply select the currency that your data is reported in from the drop-down currency selection menu as shown below

Items by Territory & Format Groups

Individual items are normally created for any unique combination of artist, release name, track name, catalog number, ISRC, and UPC metadata for an importer. In addition to this, Territory and Format Groups in an importer's Importer Settings also allow you to create individual Items for groups of Regions and Formats, separating Items (and their Transactions) by Format and Region and allowing Region and Format-specific contracts to be managed at the Item level. To do so, follow the instructions in our Split Items for Region and Format Specific Contracts documentation and apply these Territories and/or Format Groups to your accounting preferences in the Importer Settings.

Cleanup Settings

By default, our system automatically matches tracks and releases to Internal Objects and External data matches in the Spotify public API to set your catalog up and match Items with ease. As such, we recommend leaving the Cleanup Settings to their default settings - however, Cleanup Settings can be specified in an importer's Importer Settings. The Cleanup Settings will determine how your Items match to IC Objects at import with the Internal Track Matcher and Internal Release Matcher - and how information in your data matches to the Spotify Track Matcher and Spotify Album Matcher to create Objects within the system. Cleanup Settings can be modified to your preferences depending on your manual, or automatic, cleanup needs.

Allow Umapped Values for Retailer

IC maps retailer values like "Amazon UK" to "Amazon" to improve the consistency of your data. By default, IC leaves the retailer empty when creating a transaction with an unmapped value. The "Allow Umapped Values for Retailer" checkbox can be enabled in order to use the raw value provided by your data source as the retailer.

Other Settings

Importer-specific settings can be set in the Other Settings menu of applicable importers and are detailed on the respective data source's Knowledge Base documentation.