Submit Performance Reports as you go and get paid quarterly
Published
Friday 16 April 2021
Submit Performance Reports on-the-go, all year round via the app or the Writer Portal. No stressful deadlines!
Get paid regularly: submit Performance Reports and get paid quarterly.
If you're playing live shows, make sure to submit Performance Reports, so you can get paid.
Playing gigs?
Make sure you are submitting Performance Reports, so you can earn a live performance royalty from the songs you play.
No cut-off dates
There is no cut-off date for Performance Reports, you submit them as you like, when it's convenient for you.
Get paid quarterly
Performance Reports royalties will be paid quarterly, per the APRA domestic royalty payment calendar with payments in February, May, August, November.
Two easy ways to submit Performance Reports
APRA AMCOS for Music Creators app
- Get it for free from the App Store or Google Play
- Use your email login and password that you use for the Writer Portal - the same email as you receive your APRA AMCOS correspondence to
- Submit current financial year
- Submit Performance Reports for up to a year from the date of performance*
- Submit same venue/same setlists
- View your submitted Performance Reports
- Edit/view active (yet to be paid) submissions
- Venue search
- Create and save new setlists for submitting
- Share a submission with band mate and/or co-writers and more.
- Submit Performance Reports via the new Writer Portal (Have you logged in yet? Log in with the email address you use for APRA AMCOS correspondence for payments, APRAP, invitations, etc.)
- Submit Performance Reports for up to a year from the date of performance*
- Ability to search from own works as well as APRA's database of works
- Create a setlist
- Ability to add an existing Setlist
- View previous submissions
- Venue search
- Submit retrospective Performance Reports*
Quick tips
- Register your works in the app or Writer Portal before submitting Performance Reports
- Submit Performance Reports if you are playing gigs at pubs, clubs, cafes or other live music venues in Australia and New Zealand. If you perform at an event organised by a promoter, you don't need to submit a Performance Report.
- *Retrospective Performance Reports: The standard claim period for Performance Reports is limited to one year from the date of the performance. It may be extended to up to three years from the date of the performance, conditions apply, so please contact us if beyond the standard period.
article updated May 2026
