Participations Management

In today's competitive landscape, intellectual property owners are looking for new ways to leverage existing content or obtain new content they can capitalize on. In many cases, this leads to complex agreements that often involve multiple parties, each of whom receives a share of the generated revenue. Participations Management is the core IPM Suite module for calculating payments owed to talent, third party content owners and other participants who are due a royalty on sales or other contractual payments. Coupled with the IPM Suite Deal Management module, the IPM Suite Participations Management (PM) module takes into account contractual obligations, financial considerations and sales data to calculate and process participations payouts. Users of the module achieve the following:

  • An efficient platform to aggregate multiple sources of sales data and pay third parties
  • Consistent and detailed data for reporting purposes
  • Ability to track complex contract terms including advances, recoupment and other adjustments

Automated Financial Integration

The IPM Suite PM module easily integrates with existing financial payables systems to perform accurate and timely talent payout consistent with contractual rates and statement calculations.

  • Automatic tracking of payments reduces the possibility of duplicate payments
  • Invoice details are reconciled with contract terms, thereby eliminating errors
  • Multi-currency support facilitates international growth

Party Management

The IPM Suite PM module easily tracks multiple relationships between various parties to a contract (e.g., agents, talent, distributor, publisher, etc.). This enables IP owners or licensors to better manage revenue-generating relationships and ensure contractual obligations are being met.

  • Full participant visibility into the historical contractual payments made to them
  • Access to detailed payment schedules and milestones
  • Improved relationship servicing yields ability to attract and retain top talent and content

Automated Calculations

The IPM Suite PM module maintains a native data processing capability along with a powerful calculation engine and statement generation process that provides many time saving benefits:

  • Reduced staff manual labor that frees up time to focus on other value added activities
  • Integrated system for payments and data entry reduces workloads, processing time, and errors
  • Easy access to data allows for quickly and effectively providing critical data to clients
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