MUSIC & STREAMING ROYALTY PAYOUTS
Get artists paid—faster & with less work
Automate royalty payouts, tax reporting, and compliance in one seamless platform. Reduce manual work and keep your recipients happy.
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Trusted by the music industry’s best
Royalty payouts, simplified
Trolley is the royalty payment tool built for the music industry. Automate the entire process—from onboarding and paying royalties to musicians to preparing end-of-year tax forms. With Trolley, you can pay artists and rights holders quickly, accurately, and in full compliance.
Seamless artist onboarding
Collect bank and tax info and verify artists’ identities all in one go to streamline artist pay and reduce onboarding delays.
Royalty statement ingestion
Import royalty data—including mechanical, performance, and sync royalties—from music royalty calculators like Music Maestro to simplify payment workflows.
Payments without borders
Make payouts to 210+ countries and territories, in 135+ currencies.
Automated IRS compliance
Auto-calculate withholding on royalties paid to musicians, issue end-of-year tax forms, and e-file directly to the IRS.
Two-way ERP sync
After you’ve paid out your sync licensing royalties, sync with your ERP! Trolley integrates with leading ERPs like QuickBooks Online, Oracle NetSuite, Xero, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Risk & fraud mitigation
Flag and stop suspicious account activity with geolocation, IP, login, and watchlists tracking.
Our success is measured in customer wins
210+
countries & territories
Soundrop expanded its reach, including 100+ countries previously inaccessible to them.
75%
reduction in fees
Crucial Music reduced PayPal service fees by 75% after making the switch to Trolley.
Millions
of $
SoundCloud pays out millions of dollars to their community of 40 million music creators every month.
Learn why we’re trusted to pay 1.5 million+ artists
“ We pay out millions of dollars to artists every month and getting this right is a responsibility that we don't take lightly. Trolley enables us to have confidence that artists’ royalties will be handled with the care that they deserve.
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— Stephen Shirley,
Product Director at SoundCloud
“ With Trolley, we’re now able to pay artists a week earlier than before, and the process has never been smoother. ”
– Jon Baltz, CEO and Co-Founder of Distro Nation
“ Trolley’s support has been great, and their team is responsive, which is vital when dealing with real money leaving our bank. ”
– Al Person, Chief Financial Officer of Hopeless Records
“ The whole banking world feels stuck in the 1980s...With Trolley, we’ve transitioned to a system that is not only scalable but future-proof. ”
– Haakon Mathisen, CEO of Vier.live
Book time to talk with Trolley
- Get a tailored product demo with your industry’s needs in mind
- Have all your questions answered and specific challenges addressed
- Learn how Trolley can streamline your payouts process, handle end-of-year tax forms, and scale with you