Split income and pay your band

Band Bank is where ArtistHQ keeps track of who has earned what, who has been paid, and who is still owed — across both show settlements and other income like sync, licensing, and royalties. Set your split once, split each non-show payment as it lands, and settle up when the tour is over.

Set your band split first

Both the Split action and Band Bank read one thing: your default split rule. Set it in Settings → Band & splits.

• Mark who counts as a band member. Only members flagged this way are included in payout splits and shown in Band Bank.
• Choose how the money divides: equal, percentage, or fixed amounts per member.
• Set one rule as the default. That default is what every split applies, so it is worth getting right before you start dividing income.

Split a non-show income row

Log the payment first under Money → Income → + Log Income (a sync placement, a licensing cheque, a distributor royalty). Then, in the Other Income list, hover the row and click the people icon (Split among band).

That applies your default rule to the amount and creates each member's cut. The row picks up a Split among band badge, and every member's share appears in Band Bank straight away. To undo it, click the same icon again. Splitting income is free on every tier — there is no gate on it.

Two things to know: if you have not set a default rule yet, the app asks you to set one in Settings → Band & splits first. And for a one-off cheque, an equal or percentage rule is the safe choice — a fixed-amount rule only splits cleanly when its per-member amounts add up to the exact total.

Why show income is different

You cannot split a show's income row here, and that is deliberate. A show fee already divides across your members through its Settlement tab, so its payouts flow into Band Bank automatically. Splitting the linked income row on top of that would count every member's cut twice. Split shows in the settlement; split everything else in Income. See settle a show for how the settlement side works.

Read Band Bank and pay people

Open Money → Band Bank. Each member gets a row with three numbers — Earned, Paid, and Unpaid — kept per currency. Nothing is blended and there is no conversion, so a member paid in euros and dollars shows two separate lines, never a fake combined figure.

Expand a member to see every payout behind those totals. Show payouts link straight to that show's settlement so you can verify the share; income payouts show the split you made.

• To pay someone, click Mark paid on a row and record the date and time, method, and a reference. It moves to the Paid bucket.
• At the end of a tour, tick every unpaid row and use Mark ... paid to clear them in one pass with the same date and method.
• Marked something too early? Open the payout and choose Undo paid to move it back to Unpaid.

Need the numbers outside the app? Export CSV pulls the whole ledger — member, amount, currency, share, and paid status — for your accountant or your own records. For the bigger picture of income and expenses, see tracking money.