Selling your music

How much money will I receive when Score Exchange sells any of my music?

When your music is sold to a buyer, Score Exchange agrees to buy the same music from you. The price that you sell the music to Score Exchange for is calculated from the selling price that you specified, less a percentage discount. The discount rate is determined by the total value of the total selling price of your music (excluding VAT) in the current calendar month. The greater the value of your sales in the month, the lower the discount that you are required to provide when selling your music to Score Exchange.

The following table shows the discount rates that apply:

(All prices are shown in US Dollars)

Example

Score Exchange has already sold $250 of your music in the current month and another of your scores sells for $10. How much of this $10 will you receive?

Because you have already sold $250 this equates to a discount of 35%. Which means that Score Exchange will pay you $10 - 35% for this new sale which is $6.50.

Reseller Network

There are different rules for sales and payments when your music is sold via the Score Exchange Reseller Network. See the Score Exchange Reseller Network FAQs for more information.

How do I set the selling price of my music?

While you are editing the details of a score (accessed from the My scores page), there are fields to set the price of the score and a default price for that score's parts. You can also manually override the default part price for individual parts if you wish. Any changes that you make will take effect as soon as you save your changes.

You set the price of the score excluding VAT, as Score Exchange will automatically add on the VAT where applicable.

Why do I have to sell my music in US dollars?

Currently the largest market for selling sheet music online is in the US. In addition, US dollars are almost universally accepted.

How do I tell how much money I'm making from my music?

From the My account section of Score Exchange, the My financial statement page shows details of your sales that month, you can choose to see sales records for any other month.

More details are available on the My invoices & payments page which shows all the invoices raised on your behalf from you to Score Exchange, and the payments that we have made to you.

How and when do I get paid when I sell music to Score Exchange?

On the 15th of each month we will pay into your nominated PayPal account any monies owed from sales of your music in the previous calendar month. Sales made via the Score Exchange Reseller Network will be paid in the second month after the sale took place.

You must enter your PayPal email address on the My account page to ensure that you can receive payment.

We will pay you using PayPal's 'Mass Payments' facility where the payer (us) pays the transaction fee rather than the payee (you). In the unlikely event that PayPal don't allow this in your territory we will use a regular PayPal payment method instead.

What stops people making a screenshot of my music instead of buying it?

Scorch was designed by Sibelius (now Avid Sibelius) to be a secure method of selling music. This includes making prints from Scorch display at publisher quality but screenshots of music displayed in Scorch will be much less clear than a proper print out from Scorch.

On Score Exchange we show the whole score and parts on the site before a user purchases the music as people are more likely to buy something they can see first.

Making screenshots to print instead of printing legitimately is a cumbersome process, and the results are poor - not to mention illegal. The ease and quality of buying the music legitimately outweighs the time and effort required to steal your music illegitimately.