How to track your ACX royalty-share earnings

Build a clearer royalty-share reporting habit than a six-tab spreadsheet can realistically support.

Why most spreadsheets fail

The usual narrator spreadsheet starts as a quick fix and then becomes a second part-time job. Royalty-share work makes that worse because the real question is not only what sold, but whether the title is beating the buyout you turned down.

What to track instead

Project title and author
Finished hours
Royalty split percentage
ACX retail price
Estimated monthly sales
Buyout-equivalent PFH benchmark

The operating rule

Keep the royalty model next to the rest of the business record. If the forecast sits in one sheet and the payment history sits somewhere else, you still do not have a decision system.