Label25 years label business.
One App for you.
Automate your label with melino. Use contract forms, deliver to or fetch from aggregators and account royalties with state of the art statements.
Built for Labels
of today and tomorrow.
We manage 100+ labels and we built a software for that. Run your label with melino to benefit from this knowledge.
Catalog
Your single source of truth
One catalogue, not five spreadsheets
Recordings, releases and the rights behind them live in one record, so the catalogue your team works from and the catalogue your statements are built on are the same catalogue. DDEX in every version, in and out, so a partner on an older one is not a special case.
Contracts
Select template, request signature, done.
The contract becomes the calculation
Pick a template, fill in the deal, send it for signature. Signing happens in melino, and the terms that were signed are the terms the royalty run uses — nobody re-keys a contract into a spreadsheet afterwards, and nobody accounts against the wrong version of it.
Label copies
Interactive, branded, up-to-date
Label copies that cannot go stale
The label copy is generated from the catalogue rather than typed out beside it: correct a credit or a share once, and every copy showing it is already right. Branded to your label, and shareable as a link rather than a PDF someone has to find again.
Deliveries
Send releases to aggregators
DDEX Delivery
Metadata complete
10s
Assets online
20s
Validating XML
30s
Delivering
40s
Generating Report
50s
Out to the shops, and back again
Push releases to aggregators and sync services, and fetch back what they report, on the same catalogue that produced them. Deliveries and the revenue they earn stay attached to the release rather than meeting again in a reconciliation.
Custom APIs
Integrate your favorite apps and services.
It fits the stack you already run
melino talks to the tools around it rather than asking you to abandon them: third-party APIs for the services you depend on, and an API of your own for the ones we have not met yet.
Rights Management
Sign, release, account, pay.
Four steps, in the order they happen — the same record, from the contract that created it to the tax certificate that closes the year.
Step 1: Sign
The deal, agreed once and never re-typed.
Create contract
Contracts
Send for signature
Contracts
Artist submits data
Artist Portal
Step 2: Release
Everything the deal covers, out the door.
Prepare release
Products
Push to aggregators
Deliveries
Send to sync services
Deliveries
Step 3: Account
Money in, matched, and shown to the artist.
Import sales reports
Imports
Enter costs and fees
Recoupments
Send statements and credit notes
Stmt Tools
Artist gets push notification
Artist Portal
Step 4: Pay
Paid, filed, and receipted.
Generate mass payments
Credit Notes
Report payments to the tax office
Credit Notes
Generate tax certificates
Credit Notes
Artist receives certificate
Artist Portal
Your team does this in melinoYour artist sees this in the portalEnterprise, baby.
Reporting you can act on, finances that reconcile, an audit trail that holds up — and an app your artists log into themselves.
We speak your language.
We speak your language
melino is not only the platform for the daily label work, it integrates into your organization.
Connect melino with your ERPs, support your financial accounting and tax agency, integrate Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, sync users calendars with release dates and license expirations.
Automation is in our DNA.
Controlling
Knowing the numbers is key.
Streams
4.28M
+12.4%Royalties
€84.2k
Revenue
Apr – SepTop territories
Statement runs
3 wks
The same numbers, upstairs and down
Revenue by release, country, contract and label, set against the costs booked to them. Controlling reads the ledger the statements are built from, so the report in the board meeting and the statement in the artist's inbox cannot tell two different stories.
Finances
Credit notes, payments and taxes
Certificate
3 pending
Withholding tax taken at the rate the artist's country agreed, and the certificate they need to reclaim it.
Payment
In batch
One SEPA batch settles every approved credit note, each transfer referenced back to the statement behind it.
Credit Note
Approved
Self-billed from the royalty run on the artist's behalf, VAT applied, numbered in one unbroken sequence.
Credit notes, payments and taxes, in one run
Statements, credit notes, payouts and the tax that goes with them are handled where the royalties are calculated. Tax certificates are generated, and what you report to the tax office comes from the same ledger your artists are looking at.
Enterprise Security, GDPR, Full Auditability
German law, and your data stays yours
Your catalogue is processed inside the EU, by a German company, under German law: melino runs on AWS in Frankfurt (eu-central-1). Every change is auditable, and there is no contract term holding you — you can export your catalogue, your contracts and your statement history at any time.
Artist Portal
Stay connected to your Artists
The questions stop landing on your desk
Artists see their own catalogue, financial data and statements in full line-level detail, with revenue broken down by release, country, contract and label. They submit their payment and tax data themselves and download their own tax certificates. Web, iOS and Android — included with every plan, not an extra product.
Walkthroughs
See it running.
Short recordings of the screens your team would work in, taken from melino itself.