Track collaborators

What it is

A track's collaborators are the people and teams credited on it. The Add collaborator panel (on a track's Collaborators → People tab) is where you build that list. It opens on two tabs, Songwriter (a person) and Artist team (a whole team), over a single search that matches by name, email or @team-slug. An Invite link button sits beside each tab's submit for the kind of collaborator that tab adds. Throughout, people show as round avatars and teams as square so you always know which you're adding.

Using it

Invite a songwriter. On the Songwriter tab, search or tap a face in the Recent strip (people you've worked with) to drop them into the editor. Each person is one row: a status icon, then name, email, splits, roles, IPI and access. Add as many rows as you like. Press Add for a blank one, then Add collaborator commits them all at once.

• The status icon tells you what happens on submit: a green ✓ badge means we matched them to an existing Aden account; a ✉️ envelope means they're not on Aden yet and will get an email invite from you; a plain person icon means they'll be credited by name only (add an email to invite them). We only ever confirm accounts you've already worked with, so nobody can fish for whether an arbitrary email has an account.
• Splits default to one % that applies to every revenue type. Tap the gear (or the field, once it varies) to open a dialog and set a different % for master, royalty, publishing, composition, mechanical and sync. Laid out in a 3-column, 2-row grid, with an "apply to all" shortcut.
• Roles is a multi-select (pick suggested roles or type your own); IPI is their royalty identifier; PRO is a searchable picker (ProCombobox) prefilled with ~50 collecting societies worldwide (searchable by name or country) that still lets you type and add a custom PRO; Access is Full by default, or Restricted to hand-pick which areas of the track they can see.

Crediting while you create a track. The New track form's Collaborators tab has the same Add user or team panel. Songwriter and Artist team, so you can credit people and a whole team's artists before the track exists. Because there is no track to link yet, an artist team is credited through its artists (an off-Aden team is credited by name); link the team row itself from the track's Collaborators page once the track is created.

Add an artist team. On the Artist team tab, search or tap a team in the Recent strip. Credit them as a Collaboration or toggle Feature (ft.), and choose whether to Show in credits (public). Teams you haven't worked with can be added by @team-slug.

Credit the team's artists. When you pick a team, even one you're not on, the editor auto-fills that team's artists as rows (every member when the team flags no artists) so you can credit them (and tune their splits/roles) right away. You're never blocked from adding the headline act. If you're an admin of that team the link confirms instantly and you can add any member; otherwise the team gets an invite to confirm the link, and the artists you picked stay credited regardless.

Add a team that isn't on Aden yet. Tick "This team isn't on Aden yet" and type their name. They're credited on the track immediately, any member rows you filled in are added as collaborators, and you can share an invite link so they can join and claim the team. Email invite under the link mails it to everyone filed under the team, with or without an Aden account. The team menu's Resend invites does the same.

Invite link. The button beside Add songwriter makes a person link, the one beside Add team a team link, each with a QR code. Anyone who opens it can register or sign in and join the track, no seat picked in advance.

Quick entry points. The People tab keeps its toolbar at the very top refresh, Split evenly and Add user or team sit together next to the page description. When the track has no people at all a single Add collaborator call-to-action replaces the empty splits editor. Splits are optional up front: the "splits don't add up to 100%" warning only appears once someone has actually entered a split.

Compact layout. Teams render as a grid of small collapsible cards (not-on-Aden and hidden-from-credits states are icons with tooltips), there is no separate Writers section. Every person lives in a collaborator card below, and each card starts collapsed, expanding to its roles and split fields.

Notes. An expanded card has a Notes box for anything specific to that writer on this track: deal terms, session details, who to chase. It saves when you click away. Anyone who can edit the writer can edit the notes; everyone else with access to the track reads them.