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The complete solution for managing publishing information...from product order entry to job costing, royalties and subsidiary rights management.
Whether your book buyers are the Big 3, Amazon, college professors, visitors to your website, corporate and special sales, government or individuals, you need to know who they are, what they're buying, and how you can sell them more.
ÉLAN BOOKfrom the Media Services Group can help you consolidate your customers in one place, where you can see them, and sell to them, no matter where they came from.
ÉLAN BOOK:The core system includes Customer Service/Order Entry & Fulfillment, Reporting & Analysis, Royalties & Subsidiary Rights Management, Job Costing, Accounting and Marketing & Campaign Management . Bookworks integrates seamlessly with Sales Prospector and E-Commerce.
Sales Prospector--Everything your sales groups need for customer contact management and Sales Prospecting, including customer history, to-do lists, email and mail-merge, user-definable fields, and sales management reports. With Prospector, you can drill down into your client database to view history, order status, future orders, credit history and more on your customers. You can also enter orders and access prospects from the same screens.
E-Commerce--MSGL's tools allow your webmaster to set up direct links from your website to your BookWorks customer database, to facilitate e-commerce, while maintaining one integrated customer file.
For more information on how The Media Services Group can help your view of your book buyers, call us at 1-800-234-4674 or email us sales@msgl.com (click here).
The ÉLAN Solution includes:
Order Processing (Order Entry and Fulfillment) --simple-to-use order entry screens allow access to product descriptions, customer order status, course adoptions, transaction history, shipping information, backorders, invoices, packing lists, and more. Extensive product maintenance, pricing history, inventory and warehouse details can be set with various security levels and groups.
Analysis and Reporting--Bookworks includes over 100 standard reports, such as Orders by Account by Title, New Customer Report, Order Analysis by Product, Profit Margin by Product, MTD, YTD and Last YTD Sales by Customer. Bookworks also includes the tools to create user-defined reports and analysis geared to your specific needs.
Production & Job Costing--everything from scheduling to estimating to tracking costs on a book project. Fully integrated with inventory as well as general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable. Includes reports on job progress, scheduling, timesheets, and purchase orders.
Royalties (and Subsidiary Rights Management)--includes user definable contracts, sliding scale payments based on discount levels, multiple sales channels, author/agent check generation, user-defined statement generation. Automates the royalties process with logic based on list, net per copy basis with an allowance for returns. Optional subsidiary rights tools include payment terms, receipt information and rights information.
Accounting--G/L, A/R, Credit & Collections--our solution includes a full accounting package which allows you to stay in sync from sales to order entry to credit and collections, insuring that credit risks and payment information are on everyone's desktop. Click on the links to the left for more information regarding our accounting options.
Marketing & Campaign Management--track campaigns, lists and creative efforts. Up-to-the-minute reporting by keycode, customer or product. Sales and profitability analysis, including response percentages and bad debt. List merge-purge, nth select logic, customer and prospect database management with output to multiple formats, including email.
The best way to know if we're right for you is to see a demo. Call 1-800-234-4674 or email us: sales@msgl.com and we'll set up an online or onsite demo of the latest release.
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