If you've used other software, you might wonder why MinRight doesn't automatically import your royalty payments, pull lease data from a database, or sync with your operator. The short answer is that it's manual on purpose, for two reasons.

That's How It Already Works

If you're a small mineral rights holder, you already enter this information by hand. You get a check stub in the mail or an ACH deposit notification. You look at the gross amount, the deductions, the taxes, and the net. Maybe you write it in a notebook. Maybe you type it into a spreadsheet. Maybe you just file the stub and move on.

MinRight doesn't change that workflow. It gives it a better home. Instead of a notebook or a spreadsheet with 40 tabs, you enter the same information into a structured form that connects it to the right property, the right well, and the right lease. The work is the same. The result is more useful.

The big mineral management platforms that offer automatic data feeds are built for companies managing thousands of wells across multiple states. They connect to operator systems, pull production reports, and reconcile payments automatically. That's a different business. If you're tracking a handful of inherited interests across a few counties, you don't need that infrastructure, and you probably can't justify the cost.

It Keeps Your Data Yours

The other reason is privacy. Automatic data import means connecting to external services. It means creating accounts, granting access, and trusting a third party with your financial information. Every connection is a place where your data leaves your computer.

MinRight was designed so that nothing leaves your machine. There's no account, no cloud, and no connection to operators or payment processors. The trade-off is that you type in the numbers yourself. We think that's a fair trade for knowing that your lease terms, royalty amounts, and property details aren't sitting on someone else's server.

What Manual Entry Actually Looks Like

It's not as much work as it might sound. A typical royalty payment takes a couple of minutes to enter. You fill in the date, pick the well, enter the gross and net amounts, and add any deductions from the check stub. MinRight saves it and updates your analytics automatically.

Properties and leases are even faster. You enter them once, and they stay. When a new royalty check comes in, the property, well, and lease are already there. You're just logging the payment.

Most people who own a handful of mineral interests get checks monthly or quarterly. That's a few minutes of data entry a few times a month. In return, you have a complete, searchable record of everything you own and everything you've been paid.

When You Do the Entry, You Notice Things

There's actually an upside to manual entry that's easy to overlook: you see the numbers. When you type in a deduction that's higher than usual, you notice. When a well that used to pay every month skips a quarter, you notice. When the operator changes the payment method or adjusts a prior period, you notice.

Automated systems can catch these things too, but they bury them in dashboards and alerts. When you enter the data yourself, you develop a feel for what's normal and what isn't. That's valuable when you're dealing with your own money.

The Bottom Line

MinRight is manual because that matches the reality of how most individual mineral rights holders manage their interests, and because it's the only way to keep your data completely private. No connections to external services means no accounts, no data sharing, and no surprises.

If you're the kind of person who was already keeping track of this stuff in a spreadsheet or a filing cabinet, MinRight just gives you a better way to do it.