If a track involves multiple contributors — a co-writer, a producer with a points deal, a featured artist — manually calculating and sending each person their share every payout cycle gets tedious and error-prone fast. Royalty splits automate this entirely.
How it works
Once a split is set up on a track, every future royalty payment for that track is automatically divided according to the agreed percentages and routed directly into each collaborator's own DistroVibe wallet as royalties come in — nobody has to wait for you to manually calculate and forward their share.
Setting up a split
- Open the release, then go to the specific track's Royalty Split tab.
- Add each collaborator by their email address.
- Set each person's percentage share. All shares, including your own, must add up to exactly 100%.
- Save — each added collaborator receives an invite to accept their split.
What happens before a collaborator accepts
A split isn't active until every invited collaborator accepts it. Until then, royalties continue routing to you as the release owner. Once accepted, the split takes effect for future royalty payments going forward.
What a split does and doesn't affect
- Splits apply to future earnings from the moment they're accepted — past earnings already paid out before the split existed are not retroactively redistributed.
- Splits can be adjusted later (e.g. renegotiating a producer's percentage), but again, changes only apply going forward from when the adjustment is made.
- A collaborator with an accepted split needs their own DistroVibe account to receive funds into a wallet — the invite process handles account creation if they don't already have one.