What is a Universal Product Code (UPC)
A number (12 to 14 characters long) exclusively associated with your release.
Retailers use the UPC as a unique identifier for your release
and track and report all sales according to the UPC. Most
published CDs have the UPC printed, along with the bar code
form, on the back cover.
We assign all products you upload to your regular free bizmo
account with a UPC code free of charge
Your UPC codes will appear on your Super Distribution
account page as soon as it is activated. This means that if
you want your music on iTunes etc. and have no codes, you
first have to put the songs and albums on theBizmo to get the
codes you need.That’s how we create the associated codes.
Also it makes sense to use theBizmo for all your music as well,
because it’s often a better and more direct way to sell your
music than iTunes or other similar services.
Once you know that all the tracks you want to sell using
Super Distribution are uploaded into thebizmo, access the
list of codes from your Super Distribution account page.
Then you can use the list to input the codes when putting the
tracks into the Super Distribution Content Management System
or the (SD CMS).
You are free to use these codes and numbers for your physical
CDs as well at no extra charge. You can continue using them
even if you are no longer a customer of theBizmo. As you upload
new products, the list will grow if you are still a paying user of
the Digital Super Distribution Service, so just download a new
list after adding more content to your bizmo for the new codes..
IMPORTANT: UPCs and barcodes issued by theBizmo are for
you to use, now and forever. Please do not resell them! There
are penalties to discourage this: You’ll have to pay a $25.00
fee plus all the revenue you received from the sale of the UPC
or barcode or both, and theBizmo can take this money from the
proceeds of music sales. Please keep the UPC and barcode
what they are meant to be: a free and convenient part of the
theBizmo experience for you, our client.
IMPORTANT: when you are creating an album You use the UPC
code for the album on all tracks in the album. If you are releasing
a single then use the UPC code assigned to the track for that
single
Generate barcodes to print on your Cd`s
http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/ or
http://www.barcoding.com/upc/
What is an ISRC number ?
For tracking and accounting purposes, each of your songs
needs its own unique ISRC number.
An ISRC (”International Standard Recording Code”) is assigned
to each song. This allows easy tracking of each song, such as
keeping track of how many copies of it sold. Each ISRC is
associated with only one song. Each ISRC number is a total of
twelve characters in a combination of letters and numbers. For
example: GB DE3 2551321.
Your songs need unique ISRC numbers. With theBizmo, there
are two options:
1.You already have your own ISRC codes for each song and
want to use them.
No problem, just enter each song’s ISRC..
2. You do not yet have ISRC codes.
No problem, we will make them for you free of charge.
i. If we assign your songs ISRC numbers, you are free to use
them any way you like for anything else you like at no extra
charge. You can continue using them even if you are no longer
a theBizmo customer. theBizmo will never re-use your ISRC..
Inumbers, if you want them, they’re yours forever.
ii. Both your UPC/Barcode and ISRC numbers will be used on
your “My Account” page in calculating and displaying how
many songs and albums, EPs or singles sold.
iii. IMPORTANT: A single requires both an ISRC (for the song)
and a UPC (for the “album”): as far as stores are concerned, a single is merely an album with one song.
iv. IMPORTANT: To get the ISRC you have to upload the tracks to your bizmo first in the regular bizmo microstore CMS.
What is an ISRC number ?
For tracking and accounting purposes, each of your songs
needs its own unique ISRC number.
An ISRC (”International Standard Recording Code”) is assigned
to each song. This allows easy tracking of each song, such as
keeping track of how many copies of it sold. Each ISRC is
associated with only one song. Each ISRC number is a total of
twelve characters in a combination of letters and numbers. For
example: GB DE3 2551321.
Your songs need unique ISRC numbers. With theBizmo, there
are two options:
1.You already have your own ISRC codes for each song and
want to use them.
No problem, just enter each song’s ISRC..
2. You do not yet have ISRC codes.
No problem, we will make them for you free of charge.
i. If we assign your songs ISRC numbers, you are free to use
them any way you like for anything else you like at no extra
charge. You can continue using them even if you are no longer
a theBizmo customer. theBizmo will never re-use your ISRC..
Inumbers, if you want them, they’re yours forever.
ii. Both your UPC/Barcode and ISRC numbers will be used on
your “My Account” page in calculating and displaying how
many songs and albums, EPs or singles sold.
iii. IMPORTANT: A single requires both an ISRC (for the song)
and a UPC (for the “album”): as far as stores are concerned, a single is merely an album with one song.
iv. IMPORTANT: To get the ISRC you have to upload the tracks to your bizmo first in the regular bizmo microstore CMS.
