✶Game Publishers & Designers
Accounting that knows a Kickstarter from a KPI.
Royalty splits, reward tiers, convention sales tax, and print-run economics. Balance is a GAMA member firm that speaks fluent tabletop.
Balance, PLLC provides bookkeeping, royalty accounting, and CFO services for tabletop game publishers and designers: crowdfunding revenue recognition, designer and artist royalty splits, convention sales tax across multiple states, and cost-of-goods tracking for print runs. The firm is a GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association) member based in Minnesota, working with publishers nationwide.
Most accountants have never reconciled a Kickstarter payout against pledge tiers, shipping add-ons, and platform fees, or split royalties across a designer, an artist, and a licensor by contract. Pam has. Balance counts working game publishers among its clients and affiliations, including Chip Theory Games, and handles licensing accounting from a single IP to 15+ IPs with subsidiary rights and multi-party splits.
✶Tabletop Game Publishers
Plot twists we handle
Crowdfunding revenue done right
Kickstarter and Gamefound funds arrive as one lump, but they are pledges, shipping, taxes, and fees that belong in different places, often in different accounting periods. Balance recognizes the revenue properly so fulfillment season does not look like a phantom loss.
Royalty and licensing splits
Designer percentages, artist royalties, licensed IP fees, subsidiary rights. Balance runs royalty accounting from $150 per month for a single license to $1500 per month for 15+ IPs with multi-splits, with statements your partners can actually verify.
Convention and multi-state sales tax
Selling at Gen Con, Origins, and PAX means collecting and filing in multiple states. Balance manages registration ($150 per state) and filings from annual single-state to monthly 10+ state schedules.
Print runs and inventory
A print run is a pile of cash that becomes a warehouse of COGS. Balance tracks inventory, freight, and per-unit costs so you know your real margin per SKU before you reprint.
Where most tabletop game publishers start
Growth Bookkeeping
Inventory, multiple accounts, and accrual options for publishers with active catalogs.
See plan →Royalties & Licensing
$150 to $1500 per month based on IP count and split complexity.
See plan →Fractional CFO
Print-run financing decisions, campaign forecasting, and distribution deal modeling.
See plan →✶Good Questions
Tabletop Game Publishers questions
Can Balance handle Kickstarter or Gamefound accounting?
Yes. Crowdfunding accounting is a Balance specialty: pledge revenue recognition, platform fees, shipping and VAT collected, and the timing gap between funding and fulfillment are all handled so your books reflect reality across campaign cycles.
How does royalty accounting pricing work?
By complexity: $150 per month for one IP or license, $500 for up to 4, $850 for up to 15, and $1500 per month for 15+ IPs with subsidiary rights and multi-party splits.
Does Balance understand the tabletop industry specifically?
Yes. Balance is a GAMA member, lists Chip Theory Games among its affiliations, and Pam is, in her own words, a geek. It is kind of her thing.
We get each other.
Start with a free consultation. Bring the weird stuff, that is the fun part.