DistroKid
How to get the data:
- Log in to DistroKid
- Click "Bank" in the upper right hand menu bar
- Click "See Breakdown by Service", scroll to the bottom and click "See Excruciating Detail"
- Adjust the date range from "All Dates" to the desired month and make sure the dropdown menu says "Reporting Date"
- Click "Display" to load that month of Reporting Date reporting and then click the Download button - a .tsv file will be delivered to you
Please note: Current month data of DistroKid Reporting Date reporting is updated as transactions are reported, so each month of Reporting Date data should only be retrieved after the period (i.e. month) has ended.
Your DistroKid report total is inclusive of your share receivable - so if you're using the DistroKid splits tool, you'll need to pro-rate IC contracts accordingly for that data to account for income that was sent to a payee directly.
Importing into IC:
- In IC, navigate to Royalties -> Data Imports
- Select the DistroKid importer from the dropdown menu
- Choose the desired file and click "Import"
How we process the data
Each month of DistroKid's Reporting Date data includes transactions as they are processed and reported to you by DistroKid. Once a Reporting Date period closes (i.e. for April 2025 Reporting Date reporting, this would be on May 1st when the month of April 2025 ends), additional transactions cease to be added to this reporting and royalty funds from the transactional totals from the month have been added to your DistroKid bank - which makes this reporting ideal for royalty accounting purposes.
"Sales Date" reporting is not ideal for royalty accounting purposes, as services and stores (i.e. DSPs) typically have months-long lags between when the transaction occurs and then it is finally reported to DistroKid - which is also why you will see streams from several months prior to the Reporting Date month in each Reporting Date report (more information on this here).
Furthermore, as royalty funds from reported transactions are made available for withdrawal on their Reporting Date within the DistroKid portal, our system maps the Reporting Date of each transaction as the Paid Timestamp within IC. Due to the DistroKid bank being on an accrual system (i.e. funds are added "live" to the bank as transactions are added to Reporting Date reporting), it is typically the case that withdrawal totals will not match precisely to each month of Reporting Date totals.