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Once your sales data is in, Just-ROYALTIES handles the rest - automatically calculating royalties, managing complex contract terms, and delivering accurate statements in a fraction of the time.
For TV, film, and media companies, the journey from a completed sale to a paid royalty statement involves a lot of moving parts: multiple titles, varying commission rates, territory and rights type breakdowns that drive how royalties are calculated. Doing this manually is slow, error-prone, and expensive in staff time.
Just-ROYALTIES, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, is designed specifically to automate this process - from the moment sales data enters the system to the moment a royalty statement lands in your partner’s inbox.
Here is exactly how it works.
Everything starts with your sales data. Just-ROYALTIES captures the key dimensions that drive royalty calculations - most notably the rights type and territory associated with each sale. These aren’t just labels, they act as calculation drivers that determine which contractual rates are applied.
Because Just-ROYALTIES is embedded directly within Business Central, you can create Sales and Purchase documents straight into the system. By selecting a Title on the transaction line, the system automatically generates Title Ledger Entries - meaning your standard sales processes and your royalty calculations all happen in one place, with no data exports or re-keying.
Your sales workflow doesn’t change. Just-ROYALTIES simply sits inside it, picking up the data it needs to calculate accurately.
Once sales data is in, Just-ROYALTIES takes over. This is where the real complexity is handled - automatically.
Contract-Driven Rates
Royalty agreements vary enormously. Some are straightforward percentage commissions; others involve minimum guarantees, advances, rate escalators, or complex tiered structures. Just-ROYALTIES is designed to automate the intricate calculation of royalty payments based on predefined contractual terms, eliminating the need for manual rate lookups or spreadsheet formulas.
The system stores the contractual terms required for royalty calculation - commission rates, rights type rules, territory-specific rates - and applies them automatically to every relevant transaction.
Deductible and Non-Deductible Costs
Not all costs are treated equally in a royalty calculation. Just-ROYALTIES gives you precise control over how costs are applied:
This level of control means the royalty figure produced is always consistent with what the contract actually says - not an approximation.
Advances and Minimum Guarantees
Where royalty agreements include advances or minimum guarantees, Just-ROYALTIES tracks these alongside sales performance so you always have clarity on recoupment status. You can post royalty ledger entries and calculate all future commitments with full visibility - no separate spreadsheets required.
The result: royalty calculations that are accurate, auditable, and repeatable - every time.
Media businesses rarely have just one income stream. Licensing fees, broadcast rights, streaming revenues, format sales, each may carry different contractual treatment. Reconciling these manually across multiple sources is where errors compound fastest.
Just-ROYALTIES consolidates data from various revenue sources into a single platform, providing real-time insight into your finances. Rather than assembling numbers from multiple systems before you can even start calculating, everything sits in one place, giving your team immediate visibility into what is owed and why.
When it comes to producing statements, Just-ROYALTIES makes what was once a multi-day process a matter of a few clicks.
Statement Generation
Calculate, generate, and distribute royalty statements directly within the system - no exports, no reformatting, no manual assembly. The platform supports:
Approval Workflows
Before any statement goes out, it is automatically submitted for approval. This built-in approval step ensures that your finance team retains oversight without adding manual bottlenecks - the workflow handles the routing.
Automated Distribution by Email
Once approved, statements are distributed by email directly from the system. There is no need to download, attach, and manually send - it is handled as part of the same workflow.
Purchase Document Creation
When a statement is posted, Just-ROYALTIES can automatically generate a purchase document. This gives your finance team immediate visibility of royalty commitments within your ERP environment - everything flows through to your general ledger without a separate step.
What once required days of manual reconciliation, calculation, and formatting is reduced to a process your team can complete in seconds.
Royalty disputes and audit requests are a reality in the media industry. Just-ROYALTIES is built to make these manageable rather than stressful.
Every calculation is logged, traceable, and repeatable. Your team can demonstrate exactly how each royalty figure was derived, which sales, which contract terms, which deductions, without reconstructing the process from memory or paper trails.
The system is also built with the specific regulatory and reporting requirements of the TV and film industry in mind, so your statements remain compliant across territories with differing tax and reporting obligations.
One System. No Silos. No Manual Steps.
The most significant advantage of Just-ROYALTIES is not any individual feature. It is the fact that the entire process - sales capture, calculation, approval, statement generation, distribution, and financial posting - happens within a single environment.
Finance directors and rights teams are always working from the same numbers. There is no middleware, no data transfer between systems, no version mismatch between what the royalty team calculated and what the ledger shows. Because Just-ROYALTIES lives inside Business Central, your royalty process and your financial reporting are the same process.
If your team is still calculating royalties by hand, cross-referencing contracts, applying rates in spreadsheets or assembling statements manually, you are spending time and resources on work that a purpose-built system can do in seconds, with greater accuracy and a full audit trail.
Just-ROYALTIES by Creative Total Media is that system. Purpose-built for TV, film, media, and content businesses. Embedded in Business Central. Designed to turn a week of manual work into a matter of clicks.
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