The basic service is free. There are no signup costs, and no listing fees.
We make money via a revenue share on sales: 15% on digital, 10% on merch.
Very nearly. In addition to all our great free features, we also offer some optional premium features.
Yes, the revenue share on digital drops from 15% to 10% as soon as you reach $5,000 USD in sales (and stays there, provided you've made at least $5,000 in the past 12 months).
The revenue share rate is based on sales to your PayPal email address, not your Bandcamp account. So if you’re a label and have five artist accounts all using the same PayPal address, your rate will be calculated by looking at the combined sales of all five of those artists. Power in numbers!
No. Shipping and tax, if applicable, are not included when calculating the share on merch.
No, processing fees are separate and typically range between 4 and 6%. Please see the details here, including tips on what you can do to minimize those fees.
Definitely. Some people sell higher priced items like super deluxe packages or beat licenses through Bandcamp, and with name-your-price we occasionally see superfans paying big bucks for a single item (thanks mom!). That's why the revenue share only applies to the first $100 of any given transaction.
When a fan makes a purchase, the money flows directly from them into whatever PayPal account you specify (Bandcamp doesn't hold your money).
As you sell on Bandcamp, we track your revenue share balance, and when a sale comes along that's less than or equal to your balance, that sale goes to Bandcamp. Let's look at an example. Say you're at the 10% rate, and you sell an album for $10. All $10 of that sale goes straight to you, but your revenue share balance (the amount you owe Bandcamp) is now $1. Then you sell another album for $10. All $10 of that sale also goes straight to you, but your balance is now $2. You keep on selling $10 albums, and those sales keep on going to you. However, upon the sale of your tenth $10 album, your balance has reached $10, so that $10 sale, and only that sale, goes to Bandcamp (and your balance is then reset back to zero). You can view your balance at any time by exporting your sales history from the Sales section of your Tools page.
Bandcamp Pro – Our monthly Pro option offers several great additional features, including batch upload for queueing up an entire album’s worth of material at a time, private streaming for giving the press exclusive access to unreleased tracks and albums, custom domains for a touch of added professionalism, and Google Analytics integration for obsessing over even more stats. more info
Download codes – Download codes are unique codes good for a download of a track or album. Generate them for any of your tunes on Bandcamp, then send them out via email or print them up and bundle them with your merch. Every account comes with 200 codes to try out. You can either buy more for a small fee (from 1.5¢ to 3¢ each, depending on quantity), or earn more by selling (we add 1,000 codes for every $500 USD in sales). more info
Download Credits – Every Bandcamp account comes with 200 downloads per month of tracks or albums that you’re giving away (meaning you’ve set them to free, or let-fan-name-price with no minimum and the fan enters zero). Once each month, we look at your download credits, and if you have less than 200 remaining, we bump you back up to 200. If that won’t cut it (because you’re planning a big free download campaign, for example), you can either buy more (they’re 1.5-3¢ each, depending on quantity), or earn more by selling (we add 1,000 credits for every $500 USD in sales).
We want our pricing to be as clear as possible. There's a frustrating lack of transparency in this industry, with many services requiring you to comb through fine print to see what you'll really be paying. If any of the above doesn't make sense to you, please get in touch. We'll happily answer your questions and use them to keep improving this page.
