Pitch2Table Web - Royalty Statements and Recycling Bin

Today we pushed out the latest version of pitch2table web bringing in contract deletion and the recycling bin and support for royalty statements.

As a philosophy we prefer to avoid destructive actions in pitch2table, this is especially true as our co-designer model means that both people have admin access to the game you’re collaborating on. Accidents happen and it’s frustrating to lose work. Because of this, we’ve avoided destructive actions preferring to use concepts like archive. The trouble with archiving is that the entries are still there and archiving quite the same metaphor as deletion.

Introducing the Recycling Bin

We’ve settled on the model we want to go with and that will be the recycling bin. So from today, you can delete contracts and they’ll disappear from the game record. The contracts will still be available in the recycling bin lest you change your mind. We’ve not set an expiration on the recycling bin, but we will at some point, something generous like 90 days.

The recycling bin is only accessible on the web version of the platform. The mobile app has hold to delete which makes accidental deletion slightly less frequent but it’s also likely to be an infrequently used feature and we’d prefer to invest in continuing to improve the app experience.

The recycling bin lets you restore deleted documents.

Introducing Secure Documents

That bring us to our latest addition, and that is the royalty statement or royalty receipt. With royalty events you can tie that to the contract that generated the revenue but there is nowhere to record the royalty statement or royalty receipt. Now you can!

The first change is to reclassify contracts as secure documents. All contracts on pitch2table are uploaded to a different part of the system to other uploads (like profile pictures or sell sheets) and royalty statements, because of the nature of those documents, also need to be stored more securely.

It’s in the same place it’s really just a name change with royalty statements being included with contracts. We added filters so you can jump between the two broad category of documents.

We’ve also added a way to link that royalty statement to one or more royalty events and then jump from the royalty event to the statement.

Secure documents can now be a royalty statement.

Royalty event recap

Royalty events are where you can record revenue from your licensed games. You can record the source amount, currency and units sold and link it to a publisher, contract and royalty statement. You can also indicate whether it has been paid.

All this lets you view royalty reports by game, by publisher and by year.

Royalty statements can be linked to royalty events.

As with all web releases it’s already out there ready for you to use. Secure documents and the recycling bin are both fundamental parts of pitch2table and so are included on free plans.