Artists & Labels
Legal Compliance
Site design
- Bandcamp design tutorial
- My band already has its own official site, can I integrate it with Bandcamp?
- How do I change the order of albums and tracks on my discography page?
- How do I edit my artist photo / album art / custom header?
- How do I add links to my custom header?
- How do I display upcoming shows?
Account basics
- What are tags and how do I use them?
- I received an invitation to connect to an Artist or Label I don’t know.
- How can I be featured on Bandcamp?
- Can I have multiple artist accounts?
- I’m an artist and just received an invitation to join a label. How does that work?
- I already have a fan account, can I create an artist account?
Uploading music
- Why won’t my tracks upload?
- How do I upload music?
- My new release isn’t saving. Why?
- How and why should I upload lossless files?
- Can I upload higher-resolution tracks? What about 24-bit?
- What’s the maximum upload size?
Album & track editing
- How do I edit or delete a track?
- How do I change the URL of my artist account, a track or album?
- How do I change the price of my album?
- How do I change the order of an album’s tracks?
- How do I change the featured track on my album?
- How do I move a track or album from one account to another?
Audio FAQ
- What format/quality are the streams on Bandcamp?
- Is there a required LUFS setting for my audio files?
- Why does my music sound quieter on Bandcamp?
- I lost my original audio files! Can I download them from my Bandcamp account?
- I hear a warbling sound when I stream. Is it your fault?
- Does Bandcamp support 30-second snippets?
Getting paid
- How do I get paid on Bandcamp, and how often?
- Reading your Payment Summary page
- My payout was less than I expected. Why?
- Setting up your PayPal account
- What are Bandcamp’s fees?
- How much are payment processor fees for digital sales?
Selling FAQ
- Do you have any advice for promoting my music?
- Will Bandcamp issue a form for taxes?
- Can you help with royalty accounting for my label?
- Optimize your release for Discover
- Reporting Sales for EU-based Artist & Labels
- I already have a direct-to-fan store on my own site, why bother setting up on Bandcamp?
Selling merch
Album pre-orders
- How do I set up a pre-order?
- How do pre-orders work with physical packages?
- Can I set my pre-order to automatically release at a certain time?
- Can I send out track/album codes for my album during the pre-order?
- Will my fans be notified when I release my pre-order?
- Why would I want to do a pre-order?
Embedding Bandcamp music on other sites
Music charts
- Which charts does Bandcamp report to, and when?
- How do I get my sales reported to music charts?
- Does Bandcamp supply UPCs and ISRCs?
- Why am I getting an error that says my code isn’t valid?
- Are all sales eligible for reporting?
- Do I need to register my releases directly with the music charts?
Track/album codes
- Track/album code tutorial
- Do track/album codes expire?
- Can I make changes to my track or album after I’ve generated codes for it?
- Do codes work with private albums?
- Do codes work with album drafts?
- Couldn’t someone just share a code with as many people as they like? How do I stop renegade downloaders?
Discount codes
Community
- Who can see my community page and comment on my messages?
- How do I report someone sending threatening messages through my contact form?
- I have a custom header. How can I link to my community page?
- What happens to my community page when I create a subscription?
- How do I deal with an abusive commenter on my community page?
- I’m not interested in a community page. How do I turn it off?
Collecting emails
Bandcamp for Labels
Bandcamp Pro
Artist subscriptions
- Setting up your artist subscription
- What’s an artist subscription? Why should I make one? What can they do? Can I see some examples?
- Should I choose monthly, or annual billing?
- When are subscribers charged, and when do I get paid?
- How much are transaction fees for artist subscriptions?
- What happens to existing subscribers if I change the price or term of my subscription?
Bandcamp Live
Running a Vinyl Campaign
- When should I raise the campaign goal higher than the minimum?
- Should I add more pledge levels to my vinyl campaign?
- What makes an effective campaign page description?
- What should I do if I have questions? What is a vinyl rep?
- What is the vinyl campaign approval process?
- What's included in the production costs for running a vinyl campaign?