Frequently Asked Questions

Loot Dealer is where fans directly fund the artists they actually listen to. One $5/mo subscription streams the full catalog, and it is split across the artists you played that month by your real listening time, never a global pool (patent pending). Artists keep everything else on one page too: fan club, merch, tickets, tips, and direct messages.

Artists: apply for the Artist Beta. Beta is by application, not instant signup, and every artist is welcome: any genre, any size, signed or independent, as long as the music is yours to put here. The one thing we keep out is AI-made music. Fans: create a free account any time, no invite needed; you only pay if you subscribe, tip, or buy something.

Creators pay nothing: uploads, fan club, merch, ticketing, and payouts are all free, with no monthly fee. Fans get a free account, and the $5/mo streaming subscription is optional. A service fee is added on top of the subscription, tips and purchases, and it is shown before you pay. Because it sits on top, a $10 tip still delivers the full $10 to the artist.

Never without your permission. Loot Dealer licenses a song for sync only if you opt that song in yourself and sign the separate Sync Licensing Agreement, and nothing is opted in by default. The license you grant by uploading covers streaming your music and paying you; it does not include synchronization rights or any right to license your content to third parties.

No. Your price is locked at whatever you subscribed at, for as long as your subscription stays active; a price rise only applies to subscriptions started after it. (If your subscription ends and you start a new one later, you'd start at the price current then. Sales tax and card-processing costs sit outside the lock, because neither is ours to set.) And the platform's own cut is a flat fifty cents of the $5, not a percentage, so a price change can't quietly grow it; if that number ever changes, we announce it publicly before it takes effect. Both commitments are written into our terms, not just stated here.

One $5 fan subscription splits across the artists that fan listened to that month, in proportion to actual listening time, through our patent-pending payout system. A fan who listened 70/30 across two artists splits their $3.50 artist share $2.45 and $1.05; money routes directly to each artist, never into a global pro-rata pool. Streaming money is held about 45 days, then paid on the 1st and 15th of the month once you are owed at least $10. Tips, Fan Club, merch and tickets settle when the fan pays and reach your bank on your payout account's schedule.

Connect a payout account under Account → Payouts: Stripe, or PayPal in countries Stripe can't pay. Once it is connected, fans can tip you directly from your profile. Tips, Fan Club, merch and tickets settle when the fan pays and reach your bank on your payout account's schedule.

Creators: $0 a month, and nothing comes out of the price you set for tips, Fan Club, downloads and albums. Fans pay a service fee on top of what they buy, shown at checkout before they pay. Digital sales add a small flat fee on top ($0.10 per single or digital product, $0.25 per album), so you keep the full price you set. Tickets priced $10 or more add $0.50 per ticket on top. Print-on-demand merch has a small flat amount on top of production cost: you set the price and keep the markup. The $5 streaming subscription is the one revenue we share. $3.50 of every $5 subscription goes to the artists that fan played, through time-proportional payouts (patent pending). Up to $1 goes to the people who brought that fan in: $0.50 to whoever referred them and $0.25 to the artist who recruited that referrer, or the full $1 to a Founding Artist (double), and every cent nobody claims rolls into the artist pool. The platform keeps a flat fifty cents of the $5, not a percentage.

Tips, Fan Club, merch and tickets settle when the fan pays and reach your bank on your payout account's schedule. Streaming money is held about 45 days, then paid on the 1st and 15th of the month once you are owed at least $10. Your Stripe or PayPal account shows your payout schedule and history.

Yes. You can share streaming, album-sale, tip, and fan-club revenue with collaborators, band members, a manager, or a label, each at a split you both agree to. Nothing is shared until they accept, splits apply only to earnings going forward, and each person is paid directly to their own account. Merch profit isn't split.

They're two different things. The $5/mo Loot Dealer subscription unlocks streaming of the full catalog, and it routes to the artists you actually listen to, split by listening time (patent pending). A fan club is per-artist: a membership at a price that artist sets, straight to that one artist, for exclusive posts, perks, presales, and direct messages. Many fans have both: the subscription to listen, a fan club to back their favorite.

Without a subscription: short previews of any track. With the $5 streaming subscription: full tracks at 320kbps. Fan club members get lossless FLAC for that artist's music where the artist uploaded it, and so does anyone who buys the album.

Listening on Loot Dealer is personal. Using a song in your own content, like a video, a podcast or an ad, needs a license from the artist who owns it. A subscription, a purchase or a share video doesn't give you one.

Go to Edit Profile in your dashboard to customize your display name, bio, profile photo, cover photo, and social links. To change how your page looks, choose your page design under Settings. Your profile is what fans see when they visit your page, so make it engaging!

Yes, you can change your username in Edit Profile. Keep in mind that this will change your public URL (lootdealer.com/username), so update any links you've shared. Your old username becomes available for others to claim.

Visit Account Deletion (also linked from Settings). It goes straight to deletion: review the consequences, confirm once, and the account is permanently removed, with active subscriptions cancelled so nothing keeps billing. Withdraw any pending balance first.

Yes. Print-on-demand through Printful, with no inventory to hold: a fan orders, Printful prints and ships, you keep the markup. Hundreds of products, multi-color designs with per-color mockups, all sold directly from your profile.

Create events (shows, meet-and-greets, streams) in the Events section with prices, capacity, and details. You can also run fan-club presales. Manage attendees and check-ins from your dashboard.

NAV is the Artist Development AI built into every artist account. Press the backtick key (`) anywhere on the platform to open it, then navigate, ask questions about your numbers, and run actions from one overlay. It knows your career stage and helps across both the platform (fan club, streaming, payouts, referrals) and the craft (release strategy, EPK, collabs, monetization mix).

Widgets are embeddable tools you can add to your website or streaming overlay. Options include tip buttons, QR codes for mobile tipping, latest supporters feeds, and event calendars. Get embed codes in the Widgets section.

Yes! The Analytics page shows charts for tips over time, profile views, revenue breakdowns, top supporters, traffic sources, and stream-by-stream listening data. Use these insights to understand your audience.