The outcome you are walking toward
Royalty and fee flows that meter themselves: every charge explainable from the ledger, splits applied the same way every time, and a reconciliation conversation that starts from the record instead of from exports.
1. Confirm the structure first
Metering inherits the tenant hierarchy — brand, region, location. If the structure is wrong, the splits are wrong. Run Structure a new brand on the shared platform before you touch fee configuration.
2. Define what is metered
Usage events and fee rules are declared per brand on the shared ledger. Royalty metering & the ledger is the reference for what is captured and how the P15 model computes against it — read it before you write a single rule.
3. Configure splits as data, not side agreements
Splits between brand, region, and location belong in billing & treasury splits configuration — never in a side spreadsheet or an inbox thread. A split that is not in the ledger does not exist at audit time.
4. Reconcile against the record
Once metering runs, reconciliation is a query, not a project: every charge traces to the events and rules that produced it, and the audit trail captures who changed which rule when. The field note on automated royalties covers why this replaces the end-of-month scramble.