Royalty & Income Tracking

Authors selling on multiple stores end up with multiple dashboards (KDP, D2D, Apple Books Connect, Kobo Writing Life, Findaway, IngramSpark). These tools aggregate the mess. For self-publishing distribution see writing-self-publishing-kdp; for audiobook distribution see writing-audiobook-production.

Royalty aggregators

★ Book Report — paid; subscription scaled to revenue (free for first $1k/month); ★ the gold-standard KDP dashboard replacement; Chrome extension reads the KDP page; clean charts; daily / monthly / per-book / per-series breakdowns.
★ ScribeCount — paid; cross-retailer (KDP, Apple, Kobo, B&N, D2D, Findaway, Smashwords, GooglePlay); the multi-store aggregator default.
TrackerBox — paid one-time; Win desktop; old-school but cheap and works.
Bookkeeper — paid; multi-retailer; smaller tool.

Direct dashboards (free, where the money lives)

KDP Reports — free; Amazon's dashboard; sales / KU pages / royalties; only shows Amazon.
Apple Books Connect — free; iTunes Connect-shape; Apple Books sales.
Kobo Writing Life — free; Kobo + Tolino sales.
Draft2Digital Dashboard — free; aggregated for the wide-distribution stores D2D pushes to.
IngramSpark Dashboard — free; print + library sales.
ACX Reports — free; Audible / iTunes audiobook royalties.
Findaway Voices Dashboard — free; multi-store audiobook sales.

Tax / accounting for authors

See accounting for QuickBooks, Wave, Xero, GnuCash.
★ Wave — free; ★ the indie-author-favorite free accounting tool; invoices, expenses, royalty tracking.
Bookkeeper Pro / Author Accounts — paid; author-specialized.
TaxJar / Avalara — paid; sales tax automation.
1099-MISC tracking — KDP / ACX / D2D etc. each issue 1099s in the US.

Royalty statement parsing

PDF royalty statements — most retailers send monthly PDF statements; ScribeCount parses these.
OCR + Pandas — free; for the data nerd: OCR the PDFs (see ocr-vision) and load into a Pandas notebook (see notebooks).

ACX royalty-share splits with narrators are tracked inside ACX itself.
Findaway's royalty share splits are tracked in Findaway.
Spreadsheet — many indie authors use a per-narrator spreadsheet.

Author income reports / benchmarks

The Indie Author Survey (Mark Lefebvre / others) — free; periodic income benchmarks.
Written Word Media reports — free + paid; market reports.
ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors) — paid membership + free reports; pro body for indie authors.

Pick this if…

KDP-only, daily sales tab obsession: Book Report.
Multi-retailer aggregator: ScribeCount.
Free, where the money lives: the retailer dashboards.
Author business accounting: Wave (free) or QuickBooks Self-Employed.