About Revenue Share

RevenueSha.re is an OpenVideo.tech project trying to make it easier for creatives, non-profits and other collaborators to easily and safely create revenue-sharing plans for little/no cost.

We do this thru three layers:

• Revenue Sharing Language (RSL): a new YAML-subtytpe syntax to describe Revenue Sharing plans in a human and machine readable way.
• Cascade: a drag and drop interface to create RSL agreements. There are both framework-free native-JS and a Svelte-JS version.
• CiviSplit: a suite of three CiviCRM extensions to save, process and payout RSL agreements:
  • Agreement Builder integrates Cascade, with save/edit, Civi contact lookup, reporting, viewing and fixing agreements.
  • Processor calculates who is owed what, and could be used for manual entry and integration with other systems/extensions.
  • Uphold is the payment processor integration with Uphold to create a dedicated payee account, generate a custom ILP address, check balances and make payouts to payees.

You can see these in action below in a presentation, by Matthew Wire taken from the December 2021 Grant for the Web skillshare:

What exactly does CiviSplit do? #

1. Setup multi-step pro-rata & pari-passu revenue sharing…
   Supporting a succession of fixed and percentage payouts from a specific payee address.
2. Store agreements in a human and machine readable syntax…
   Revenue Sharing Language (RSL) is a YAML-subtype describing multi-step, multi-payee revenue plans.
3. Create with a drag-and-drop user-friendly Javascript app…
   RSL agreements are built through an intuitive builder, Cascade, available in native-JS and Svelte.js.
4. Generate agreements with SHA-hash signature to prevent future changes…
   RSL agreements form the basis for payouts, so once securely hashed prevent future changes.
5. Collect income for each agreeement at a dedicated sub-account with its own Payment Pointer
   Each agreement has it’s own sub-account and payment address (Uphold only).
6. Calculate, make, track and report on payouts in CiviCRM…
   CiviCRM (available for over ½ of world’s websites) extensions manage agreements, payees and payments with notifications and reporting.

Team #

• Rich Lott, Artful Robot: Initial Cascade Svelt JS Build, all unit tests, developer & structural input.
• Matthew Wire, MJW Consulting: CiviSplit extensions build and architecture.
• Nicol Wistreich, Netribution Ltd: Project lead, RSL author and designer.

With…

• Mark Boas: Initial Cascade Standalone JS Build.
• Silvia Schmidt: Film and legal advice.

And thanks to Dave Boyle of the Community Shares Unit and Aidan Saunders for their input.

Links #

• gitlab.com/openvideo – Gitlab & issue tracking