Reporting Support

About CCLI reporting

Reporting is a vital part of being a licence holder. CCLI relies on your reporting to distribute royalty payments fairly and accurately to the songwriters and publishers whose work your licences permit you to copy or reproduce.

If you report manually, please report on a regular basis, ideally weekly, or whenever you have used songs or made copies under your licences.

How to report

If you use participating worship software you can set up automatic reporting. To ensure your auto-reporting is accurate, we recommend connecting to SongSelect to access free lyrics with the correct CCLI song number.

To report manually, follow the guides below or watch our video help guides. If you get stuck, please contact our Customer Support.

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Video help guides

Get started with Manual Reporting using our step-by-step video guides.

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Reporting step-by-step guides

Setting up your account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSf0fz8738w&t

To report, you’ll need a CCLI Profile account.

1. Visit reporting.ccli.com
Click Create a CCLI Profile and complete your details. If you’re a SongSelect user, you’ll already have an account, and you can sign in with your existing username and password.

2. Join your Church/Organisation
To link your account to your organisation you’ll need an Access Code. Your organisation’s CCLI Administrator may have this, or should be able to invite you to join the organisation. Contact CCLI if you get stuck.

3. Add other users
Click PROFILE from the USER menu to manage your account. If you’re the first person to be linked to your church/organisation, you’ll automatically become its Account Administrator. This means you can add other Users who will then be able to sign in and report. You can also assign others to be Administrators.

Report for the Church Copyright Licence™

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2fKjbXE3jE

Report under your Church Copyright Licence each time you reproduce (project, type out, copy & paste) the words of a song to assist congregational singing.

1. Select the correct song
On the Search & Report (Home) page, search for the first song you wish to report, using both the title and author if you know it.
Often your search will return multiple results, with the closest matches at the top. Click the i icon next to the song’s title if you need to confirm you are choosing the correct song or version.

2. Report song use
To report a use of the song, simply click the REPORT SONG button.

If you need to report more than one use of the song, for example, you’ve used the song more than once since you last reported, click the (+) icon to report additional uses of the song.

Then simply repeat this process for any other songs you’ve used since you last reported.

Report for the CCLI Streaming Licence™ and CCLI Streaming Plus Licence™

CCLI Streaming Licence™
If you have reported your use of a song under the Church Copyright Licence (see above guide), additional reporting for your CCLI Streaming Licence is not required.

CCLI Streaming Plus Licence™
Report under your Streaming Plus Licence each time you play master recordings (e.g. artist tracks) or multitracks (e.g. backing tracks, stems, community tracks) during online worship...

1. Open the Additional Usage modal
Having reported your use of the song under your Church Copyright Licence, click the (+) icon next to the REPORT SONG button to open the Report Additional Usage modal.

Click +ADD in the Master Recordings & Multi-Tracks section.

2. Choose Recording
Select the recording you used from the list by clicking CHOOSE.

3. Report streams of the track
In the Streaming Plus Licence – Streams field, enter the number of times this recording has been played during online services since your last report.

Click SAVE to complete your report.

Report for the CCLI Music Reproduction Licence™

Report under your Music Reproduction Licence each time you photocopy or scan pages from music publications, or share sheet music files electronically (e.g. by emailing a PDF). You can report copies made under this licence in two ways:

Report by song | Report by publication

Report copies by song

1. Open the Additional Usage modal
Having reported your use of the song under your Church Copyright Licence, the Report Additional Usage modal should automatically open. Otherwise, click the (+) icon next to the REPORT SONG button.

Click +ADD in the Music Reproduction Licence section.

Screenshot showing the Music Reproduction Licence section within the CCLI Reporting tool.

2. Choose Publication
Select the correct publication from the dropdown list.

Screenshot showing the Publication drop down within the CCLI Reporting tool.

3. Report copies
Enter the number of copies made of the song from that publication and/or the number of times the sheet music was shared electronically. Click SAVE to complete your report.

Report copies by publication

If you have copied a number of songs from a particular song book or music publication, you may find it helpful to search for that publication first, and then report songs included in it.

1. Select 'Publications'
On the Search & Report (Home) page, select Publications from the drop-down list next to the search bar.

Screenshot showing how to Select Publication within the CCLI Reporting tool.

2. Choose your publication
Select the correct publication from the search results by clicking VIEW.

Screenshot showing the button that opens the Additional Usage modal within the CCLI Reporting tool.

3. Select a song
You’ll now see a list of the songs in that publication which are authorised by your licence. To select a song, click the REPORT button next to that song.

Screenshot showing the REPORT button for a song from a publication within the CCLI Reporting tool.

4. Report copies made
Enter the number of copies made of the song from that publication and/or the number of times the sheet music was shared electronically. Click SAVE to finish reporting the song.

Screenshot showing how to enter copies made from a publication within the CCLI Reporting tool.

5. Report the next song
If you wish to report another song from the same publication, simply return to that publication and repeat the process.

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