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 Bandcamp card and its drawer: what Orla reads, what it never does, and the partner client id and secret it asks for. The credential is tried against Bandcamp before the connection exists, and encrypted once it is accepted, and never returned by the API again.
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 first, 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 keeps its currency: a sale in pounds stays 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 they connect it
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.
Other platforms
Connect Bandcamp, and put the music income in the same book as the rest
Platforms connect on the paid plans; the free plan keeps the book.
Or see the creator page →- Stripe →
- One restricted key, with the fees split out and the payouts matched.
- Shopify →
- Sales, Shopify Payments fees and refunds apart, plus the balance still held.
- PayPal →
- Sales, refunds and payouts as earnings; what you spend from the same PayPal is left alone.
- Gumroad →
- Every sale with its price and Gumroad's cut as separate figures.
- Lemon Squeezy →
- A merchant of record: income from the subtotal, and the sales tax was never yours.
See it on your own books
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.