Traktrain News

Licensing system update

August 14, 2026reason

A contract sets its own file delivery now and goes straight onto a track, instead of sitting in one of five slots that fixed both. Free downloads and kits got contracts of their own, and the upload page was rebuilt around an editable license list.

The slot no longer decides what the buyer downloads

Each contract had to sit in one of five slots: MP3 Lease, WAV Lease, Trackout, Unlimited or Exclusive. The slot fixed what the buyer downloaded, and a track held one contract per slot.

So two Unlimited tiers were impossible: $150 with MP3 and WAV, $300 that adds the stems. Unlimited was one slot carrying one file set. You picked one and dropped the other.

A contract now declares its own delivery: MP3, WAV, stems, or any combination of them. It goes onto a track as a license in its own right, priced there, with nothing capping how many of one kind a track carries.

Contracts and pricing on the upload page: a free download contract, three paid licenses with prices, and an Add license button — The paid contracts on this beat are priced at $22, $67 and $300. Drag handles set the order buyers see, and Add license appends another.

Free downloads run on contracts now

A free download used to be a switch. It is a contract now, so the terms on a free beat are yours to write, in two kinds.

Non-commercial, accepted by the downloader before the file arrives.
Commercial, carrying your royalty percentages in writing.
Tagged or full MP3, decided by the license you attach.

A commercial free download builds a PDF at download time and emails it to whoever took the beat.

Free downloads you already had were parked on an Unconditional contract. That is a placeholder holding no terms, not a third kind of license, and it is there so nobody got a template imposed during the move.

Swap it for a Non-commercial or Commercial contract whenever you want real terms on a free beat.

Kits have licenses for the first time

Kits sold for years with no license attached. They now carry contracts like beats, sold as one archive, so the MP3, WAV and stems split does not apply and there is no exclusive option.

New kit contracts use a Royalty Free Kit agreement. Kits you already sell were parked on the same kind of Unconditional placeholder, so terms on past sales did not move. Replacing it is one edit on the contract.

Upload runs off a license list, and presets save it

Licenses on upload and edit are one list you work with directly: add, remove, reorder, set prices, allow offers, or switch a license to Offers only.

Nothing is fixed in advance any more, so a beat selling one license and a beat selling nine are set up the same way.

Presets were rebuilt with it. One used to hold genres, tags and moods; it carries the licensing setup now as well: which contracts sit on the track, their prices, their terms and the free download settings.

Preset dropdown on the upload page listing saved presets with Update and Save As New buttons — Presets sit in the dropdown at the top of the upload page. Update overwrites the preset you are on, Save As New stores the current setup beside it.

Beats and kits keep separate defaults, and old presets came across on their own.

Contracts moved to one page, split into Beats and Kits

Paid and free contracts used to live in two tables. They share one now, with tabs for In use, Paid, Free download and All, plus search, filters, duplication and a preview of the document.

The contracts page with Beats and Kits toggles, tabs for In use, Paid, Free download and All, and a table listing contracts with price, files and track count — The Tracks column counts the beats each contract sits on, so MP3 Lease here covers 99 of them. Editing a contract updates every one of those tracks.

Changing a contract’s default price can push that price to all attached tracks at once, which used to mean opening each beat by hand.

Bundles & Deals extends Promo Offers

Promo Offers could only bundle one of the five types, so “3 MP3 Leases for $50” was the ceiling. A bundle covers any of your contracts and mixes them freely, under four rules.

Fixed price for a quantity, 3 for $50.
Percent off at that quantity, 20% off any 3.
Amount off at that quantity, $20 off any 3.
Buy 2 get 1 free, cheapest qualifying item free.

Create a bundle dialog with the rule dropdown open showing Fixed price, percent off, dollars off and Buy N get M free — A bundle carries a name, the contracts it covers, an optional schedule and an on/off switch. Your old Promo Offers arrived as Fixed Price bundles at the same price.

The cart applies bundles by itself, with no code to enter and no offer to pick. Two bundles covering different contracts both apply to the same cart.

Buyers read the licence before they pay

The buy modal and the cart show the licence attached to that beat, with a Review License link that opens the document before payment. Shared carts, one-click purchase, price offers and every PayPal and Stripe path carry the same licence through checkout.

Each sale stores that license as it stood that day, which means an order placed in August keeps its own PDF, its own download links and its old license name even after you rewrite every term in November.

Three things to know before you rebuild anything

Free plan sells non-exclusive MP3 licenses only.
WAV and stems licenses wait for the uploaded file.
Bulk edit replaces the licenses on a track.

Open a beat and build the lineup you actually sell, then save it as a preset. Your contracts page is where you archive whatever you stopped using, and Bundles & Deals is where the old promos landed.