Connect Bandcamp
Bandcamp sales, with the cut worked out from their own figures.
What the fan paid, and where Bandcamp says so, what was left. The difference is the fee, not a guess.
Partner client id and secret, the pair Bandcamp issues to a label or artist.
The credentials you give us
Not a personal token, and not a sign-in.
An id and a secret from their partner programme.
- →Two fields, the client id and the client secret Bandcamp gave you
- →They are exchanged for a short-lived token on every sync, so nothing long-lived travels around
- →Checked against Bandcamp before the connection is created, then encrypted at rest and never shown again
What lands in the book
Sales in the currency they happened in, and the cut where it is stated.
Merch, records and digital sales all arrive the same way.
- →Every sale carries its amount and its currency, so a sale in pounds stays a sale in pounds until your books convert it
- →Where the report states the net amount, the difference from the gross is booked as Bandcamp's fee. Where it does not, no fee is invented
- →The Bandcamp account holds nothing: they publish no balance and no payouts, so the money counts once, when it reaches your bank
Questions
The questions people ask before connecting.
What credentials does Bandcamp need?
A client id and a secret from their partner programme, the pair issued to a label or an artist. Not a personal token and not a sign-in. They are exchanged for a short-lived token on every sync, so nothing long-lived travels around.
Is Bandcamp's cut recorded?
Where their sales report states the net amount, the difference from the gross is booked as the fee. Where it does not, no fee is invented, because a made-up cost in a ledger is worse than a missing one.
Does a sale in pounds stay in pounds?
Yes. Every sale carries its own currency and is booked in it, and the conversion into your base currency happens in your books, where you can see the rate that was used.
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Connect Bandcamp, and put the music income in the same book as the rest.
Platform connections are on the paid plans; the free plan holds the book, manual accounts and imports.