Set up your account and accreditations
By the end your rights-society numbers are on file, so every agreement you sign fills them in for you instead of asking.
Before you start
- Any society numbers you already hold — IPI, IPN, ISNI, or a PRO membership number. You can add them later, but they only fill in agreements signed after you do.
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Open Settings
Settings is reached from your name in the header rather than from a tab, which is why it is easy to miss. A track’s Metadata tab also links to account settings directly, so you can get here mid-task without losing your place.
- You now see your profile, and the accreditations below it.
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Add your IPI number
Type it into IPI number. It saves itself when you click away — there is no save button and no confirmation, which is disconcerting the first time. This is the number that identifies you as a writer or publisher, and it is the one most split sheets want.
- You now see your IPI on file, saved without being asked.
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Add an IPN or ISNI if you have one
Add IPN and Add ISNI each open their own field. IPN identifies you as a performer rather than a writer, and ISNI is the broader public identifier used by libraries and databases. Both are optional and neither duplicates the IPI.
- You now see each identifier in its own named field.
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Record anything else as a custom entry
Press Custom and give the entry a label and a value — a PRO membership number, a collection society ID, a publisher code. Anything a counterparty might ask for belongs here rather than in a note you have to go and find.
- You now see your own entry alongside the standard ones.
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Watch them reach a track
Open any track you are credited on and look at Metadata. Your numbers appear under Accreditation info without being retyped, and they pre-fill when you sign an agreement. A signer with nothing on file sees Not defined and an Edit in profile link that brings them here and back.
- You now see the same numbers on the track, filled in for you.
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Leave, or leave for good
Logout signs you out and stops anything that was playing. Delete account is the other one: it asks you to confirm and then removes the account outright. Signing up again with the same address gives you a genuinely new account, not your old one back.
- You now see the account gone, with nothing held in reserve.
What each field is for
- IPI number
- Interested Party Information — identifies you as a songwriter or publisher to collection societies. The number most split sheets ask for.
- IPN number
- International Performer Number — identifies you as a performer on a recording, which is a different role and a different set of royalties from writing it.
- ISNI
- A public identifier for a person or group, used well beyond music. Useful when your name is not unique, or when a catalogue needs to be certain which you are.
- Custom
- A labelled pair for anything without its own field — a PRO membership number, a society ID. It appears alongside the standard entries wherever they do.
- Product updates
- A single checkbox for occasional email about the product. It is unrelated to anything about your music and off unless you tick it.
- Delete account
- Immediate and permanent, behind one confirmation. There is no grace period and no restore, so export anything you want first.
Ways people use this
Filling this in before your first split sheet, not after
An agreement takes your numbers as they stand when you sign. Adding an IPI afterwards does not reach back into a document already signed, so five minutes here is the difference between a clean split sheet and re-signing one.
You write and you perform on the same record
Those are two identifiers doing two jobs — the IPI for the writing, the IPN for the performance. Filling in only the IPI is the common mistake, and it is the performance royalties that quietly go unmatched.
Asked for a number Vandall has no field for
Add it as a Custom entry named the way the person asking for it named it. It travels with you onto every track, which beats finding the email where you were last told what it was.
Tips
- Vandall does not bill you and has no plans, upgrades or payment settings. If money is involved in your Vandall use, it is between you and the label or organisation that invited you.
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