Producer guidelines

1. Who can sell

Any producer account. Pick that type at signup, or convert an artist account from the Producer tab in your dashboard - that keeps everything you have bought, and cannot be undone. Set a producer name and make your profile public before you upload, or your listings will not appear on Browse.

One account each. A producer account buys as well as sells, so there is nothing a second one lets you do that this one does not. A second account is how somebody sells to themselves, stacks their own play counts, or carries on after the first was suspended, and finding one is grounds for closing all of them.

2. Your first upload has to be approved manually

Everything you upload waits until one of your files has been approved by somebody here. It happens once, to every producer, and it is usually done within a day. Nothing speeds it up, and nothing is wrong: it is the check that stops this marketplace filling with other people's work.

While you wait, those listings are not on the marketplace and cannot be bought, and anything else you upload waits with them. You are told the moment the first one is through, and from then on your uploads go straight up with no wait at all.

A file that is declined is deleted, and you are told that it was declined. We do not say which check it failed - a reason is a set of instructions for getting the same file past us next time.

3. Upload only what is yours to sell

This is the one rule that matters more than the rest of the page put together. By uploading, you are stating that you made the track, or that you otherwise hold every right needed to license it to a stranger for commercial release.

That rules out, among other things:

• Uncleared samples from commercial recordings - a chopped soul record is still that record's copyright, however far you took it.
• Loops or kits whose licence forbids resale as a beat. Read what you bought: most loop packs allow use inside a track, not sale of the loop.
• Anything reuploaded from another producer, site or leak.
• Tracks you made for a client or label who holds the rights, or a beat you already sold exclusively somewhere else.
• Vocals or a hook you do not have the performer's permission to sell.

Listings that draw a credible copyright claim are taken down, and the account behind repeated claims is suspended.

4. Files

• Beats and sound effects: .mp3, .wav or .zip. Enforced. A zip is how you sell more than one file at once - stems on a beat, a whole pack of sounds - and the file list inside it is read from the archive and shown on the listing, so buyers can see what they are getting.
• Up to 80 MB per file. Enforced.
• 2 GB of storage per producer across everything you have uploaded. Delete or delist what you no longer sell if you reach it. Enforced.
• Upload the mix you want a buyer to release. Do not sell them a tagged, quiet or half-finished version of what they heard.
• A zip must contain what its description says it contains. Stems means stems; forty sounds means forty sounds.

5. Previews

Every listing plays the first 0:45 by default, cut from your own file - the rest never leaves our storage until somebody buys it. You can turn that limit off per listing, and then the whole track plays for free to anyone who presses play. That is a real choice with a real consequence: leave it on unless you mean to give the track away.

A zip works differently, because nothing inside an archive can be played in a browser. Whatever the zip holds, you upload a separate MP3 or WAV alongside it, and that is what buyers hear. It must demo what is in the zip and nothing that is not.

For a beat, that file stands in for one track, so the 0:45 limit applies to it exactly as it would to the track itself - the same toggle, the same choice. For a sound pack it always plays in full: you decided what goes in it and how long it runs, and cutting it at 0:45 would stop it partway through describing the pack.

6. Describing the listing

• Title it as the beat, not as an advert. No pricing, no all-caps marketing, no other producer's name unless you actually made it with them.
• "Type beat" naming is allowed as a genre signal. Naming an artist so it reads as their work, or as an official release, is not.
• Genre, BPM and key should match the file. Tag for what a buyer would search - up to eight tags, and tags that have nothing to do with the track get the listing pulled.
• Tick contains a hook only when there is a sung or rapped topline. Buyers filter on it.
• Cover art must be yours to use and safe for work. Up to 10 MB; it is resized on upload. Enforced.

7. Licences and price

Two licences, and the difference is how many people can end up holding one. A royalty-free licence is sold over and over. An exclusive licence is sold once: the listing comes down permanently at the moment of sale and can never be relisted.

Choose carefully, because the licence locks the first time the beat sells - neither you nor staff can change it after that, which is what makes "exclusive" mean anything to the person who paid for it. If you sell a beat exclusively here, do not go on selling it anywhere else.

You set the price, between $5.00 and $1,000.00. The platform fee is 12% + $0.50 per transaction and comes out of your side - the buyer pays your listed price and you receive the rest.

8. After a sale

• The buyer keeps their download forever, whether or not the listing stays up. Delisting hides a beat from the marketplace; it does not reach anybody who already bought it.
• A sold beat cannot be deleted, because the file has to stay for the person who paid for it. Delist it instead.
• Do not upload a new version over a sold beat by relisting it as something else. If the track changes, it is a new listing.
• Staff can refund a sale. A refund returns the buyer's money, takes the amount back off your balance, and revokes their download.

9. Getting paid

A buyer pays by card at checkout. The sale credits your balance as soon as the payment clears, minus the 12% + $0.50 fee. Withdrawing has a $10.00 minimum, and you can spend cleared balance on featuring instead of withdrawing it.

Earnings clear for withdrawal 30 days after the sale, and your wallet shows what is available and what is still clearing. The wait is not us holding your money for the sake of it: a card payment can be reversed weeks after it was made, and a rights claim can arrive later still. Money on the platform can settle either of those. Money already sent cannot.

Get in touch with support to have your identity verified and that drops to up to 7 days on everything you earn afterwards.

Your first withdrawal is approved manually before it goes out - usually within a day, and you are told either way. After that they go with the next payout run, normally the next business day. We can hold or cancel a withdrawal if something needs looking at; a cancelled one goes back to your balance in full, with the reason.

Payouts go to the email address your account is registered with. Not a different address, not somebody else's, and not an address typed into a form at the moment of withdrawing - that field is exactly what somebody who had taken over your account would change. If your payment account is on a different address - which is common - talk to support and we will check it with you and record it. Your account address is always told when it changes, and withdrawals wait 3 days afterwards - long enough for you to say so if it was not you who asked.

Two limits apply to everyone. You can withdraw up to $500.00 a day, which bounds what anybody could take if they got into your account. And once you have earned more than $200.00 in total, we verify who you are before sending any more. It is a one-off, your balance stays yours while it happens, and it also drops your payout hold to up to 7 days.

If a run of your sales gets refunded we pause withdrawals and look into it. That is not an accusation - a refund comes out of a balance, and a balance already sent cannot be taken back, so the pause protects the money while somebody reads what happened. Your balance is untouched throughout.

10. Producer Pro

Selling here does not require it. Every producer account can list, sell and be paid on the free plan, and the platform fee is the same either way. Producer Pro raises your storage from 2.0 GB to 100 GB, unlocks a profile background image, and takes 20% off featuring.

Terms are paid for once and run out on a date. Nothing renews on its own, so you are never charged for a month you forgot about, and buying more before a term ends adds to it rather than replacing it.

When a term ends, nothing is deleted. Every listing you have stays up and goes on selling, whatever it adds up to. What changes is that you cannot upload anything new until you are back under 2.0 GB or back on Pro, and your profile background stops being shown - the image itself is kept, and returns if you renew.

We can also put a term on an account ourselves - a trial, or making good after something went wrong. It works exactly like a bought one, adds to any term already running, and you are told how long it is and when it ends. There is nothing to cancel and no card is involved.

If your account is suspended, any Pro time left is forfeited. Lifting a suspension gives back whatever is still on the clock.

11. Featuring

You can pay to sit at the top of Browse: $5.00 a day - $4.00 on Producer Pro- for 3, 7, 14, 30 days, paid from cleared balance. It buys placement and nothing else - it does not affect your fee, your licence, or how a buyer is treated. Featured listings are labelled as such, and the same rules apply to them as to everything else.

12. Conduct

• No hate speech or illegal content in a title, description, tag, profile or cover.
• Deal with buyers civilly. Disputes go through support, not through the listing.

13. Moderation

Staff can delist a listing or suspend an account.

A first mistake is usually a takedown and a message. Repeated or deliberate breaches - uncleared samples, reuploads, selling an exclusive twice - end the account.

Think a decision was wrong? Get in touch - say which listing and what you think happened.

14. Accolades

Badges that show on your public profile - for listing, for selling, for turning up, and for reporting things that turn out to be wrong. They are earned rather than bought, and once earned they are never taken away. The full list of accolades and how to get each one.

15. Changes

These guidelines change as the marketplace does.