This screen shows all commissions where the Rights need to be approved before the payment can be approved (if necessary) or paid.
Once the rights have been approved the the payment instruction will be released subject to the commission going through the fee approval process. For more details see commissions approvals
Clicking on a commission will display the Rights information on the right hand side of the screen. Navigating between different commissions will refresh the Rights tabs.
There is an automated RCS process that approves the most common types of Commissions. The exceptions which are not auto approved include the following:
Picture, Audio and Video Commissions
Book extracts
Staff commissions
Contracted freelances who are commissioned
Non-standard rights (all formats)
Any commissions with special terms
Commissions that are fulfilled but unmatched
Any commissions where the contributor is listed as a possible duplicate
Commissions where the payee and the commission recipient OR the payee and revenue payee are different
Commissions where the contributor has previously had an assignment
Filtering the commissions on screen
Use the radio buttons at the top of the screen to filter the commissions displayed.
The first choice is between:
Txt, Pix, Ill Aud, Vid- toggle between formats.
Staff- show commissions by staff members only
Books- Show box extract commissions only
Special- Display all commission that have details in the Special Terms field
Pending- show only commissions where the Pending? flag has been ticked
Unapp. - Shows all commissions that have been recently approved
And the second choice is:
Matched - By default the screen only shows commissions that have been matched to content
Fulfilled - Shows commissions that have been fulfilled but have not been matched to content
Unmatched - Shows all commissions that have not been matched or fulfilled
All - Shows all commissions
Approving the Rights of a commission
With the commission highlighted on the left side of the screen, go into the Edit tab where the Rights details can be viewed and updated as necessary.
Click on Approve when happy with all the terms.