Royaltally started with a problem I know you'll recognize — too many spreadsheets.
I'm Hannibal Hills, founder of Royal Wave Media, a small independent publisher of ebooks, print, and audiobooks. I work with authors, co-authors, narrators, and rights holders across dozens of titles on platforms like KDP, Ingram, ACX, and more. Every month, each of those distributors sends a royalty report. And every quarter, I need to figure out exactly how much I owe each person I work with.
For a long time, that meant downloading reports, opening spreadsheets, and carefully piecing everything together by hand. Which edition earned what. Who gets which percentage. How much of an advance has been earned out. Whether a box set's revenue should count toward this work or that one. It was hours of meticulous, error-prone work — and the more my catalog grew, the worse it got.
I looked for a tool that could handle it. The options I found were either way too expensive for a small publisher, missing features I needed (like box set splitting or per-edition, multi-format royalty handling), or both. So I built my own.
Royaltally takes the distributor reports you're already downloading and turns them into something useful. Upload your XLSX files, and the system matches earnings to your catalog, applies royalty splits per edition, tracks advances, handles currency conversion, and generates professional PDF statements you can send to your royalty holders. It also gives you analytics — trend charts, title comparisons, format and channel breakdowns — so you can see what's working and where to focus. What used to take me hours now takes minutes.
After building Royaltally for myself and using it to manage my own royalties for over a year, I realized other small publishers were dealing with the exact same problem. The big players in this space charge $100+/month — that's a tough pill for an indie publisher running a lean operation. Royaltally starts free and scales with your catalog, because I know what it's like to watch every dollar.
Royal Wave Media is a small, independent company. I'm not a venture-backed startup or a big tech firm. I'm a publisher who built a tool to solve my own problem, and now I want to help other publishers solve theirs. When you email support, you're not getting a chatbot — you're getting someone who understands exactly what you're dealing with, because I deal with it too.
If you're tired of the spreadsheet nightmare, I'd love for you to give Royaltally a try.
— Hannibal Hills
Founder, Royal Wave Media, Inc.