Configuring QuickBooks for Royalty Software

Do you know how to configure QuickBooks for use with your royalty software?

http://www.royaltysoftware.info/ has a free report that tells you how to do just this.

This report covers;

Configuring your general ledger to properly track royalty related assets, liabilities and expenses

Customizing your product record so that you can easily export information that includes information such as ISBN, product format (paper, hardcover, eBook, DVD) and subject area.

Customizing author records so that you can export only the author record and assign an ID number to each author vendor.

Easy Royalties Website

JDC Software's American distributor has a website: http://www.easyroyaltiesusa.com/ that provides the browser with a information about royalties and the royalty software.

Not only does it provide you with information about their software, but they also provide (in their support section) a royalty software guide that lists solutions from other vendors.

In the news section they provide links to articles about royalties - such as royalty rate announcements, author royalty audit results and sample royalty statements.

BEA 2009 Hosted Royalty Software

At Book Expo we talked to three vendors offering hosted royalty software solutions;

1. The Media Services Group
2. Klopotek
3. Publishing Technology

In summary, each vendor offers a royalty solution that can be accessed from any PC or MAC with an internet connection. Each software as a service offerings manage the software updates and data backups for you. The solutions are highly scalable and runs on an MS SQL or Oracle database engine. How do they differ?

We found the Media Service offering to be the clear leader in ease of use with its built in wizards that guide you through key functions and its intelligent search engine.

Klopotek's offering gives publishers an unmatched opportunity to add on functionality for other functional areas - such as editorial management, production management, title information management and more.

Publishing Technology's solution is provides a wide range of user customization options and powerful work process management tools.

Which to choose? All three solutions are comparably priced. We suggest that you 1) document your current and future requirements, 2) review all three solutions and 3) check references. Then select the solution that offers the best fit for your organization.

Easy Royalties & Vendor Specific Product Codes

Do you publish eBooks? If you do it's likely that your eBook resellers use their own product codes; not your ISBN's, in the sales reports they provide to you.

The latest version of Easy Royalties supports Vendor Specific Product Codes. This functionality allows the royalty software to automatically link the unique product codes used by a vendor (such as Overdrive) to the appropriate ISBN in your system.

Now your royalty staff can import distributor sales files without having to spend hours or days replacing the vendor's unique product codes with the publishers own ISBN (product code).

You can download a 30 day trial copy of Easy Royalties from http://www.easyroyaltiesus.com/.

Easy Royalties is an affordable and easy to use royalty software solution with title based pricing that ranges from $500 to $10,000 USD.

World Bank Goes Live with Klopotek Rights & Royalties Software

The World Bank Office of the Publisher went live with Klopotek’s Contracts, Rights & Royalties software in March 2008 following the successful implementation of the Editorial & Production software in February.

The Office of the Publisher, is the publishing arm of the World Bank. It handles all official publications bearing the World Bank’s ISBN and manages the World Bank’s intellectual property.

Read the Klopotek Book Publishing Software Press Release

Llewellyn Selects Elan Rights & Royalties Software

"Llewellyn Worldwide, a leading publisher of New Age books and related products, has signed a contract with The Media Services Group to implement the Élan Rights and Royalties software application. Details of the agreement will see the new system implemented alongside the company’s current Oracle financials and fulfillment software."

Read the Media Services Press Release

Dyanamics GP (Great Plains) Royalty Module

The Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System (ERRMS) is the only software solution that is totally integrated with the mid market Microsoft Dynamics™ GP ERP package.

It is designed for Publishing, Music, Entertainment, and Merchandising companies who find it costly or disruptive to manually manage low value transactions, or to deal with intrusive SOX or trademark-initiated audits by “bounty-hunting” external auditors.

For more information visit: Eclipse Business Dynamics