From the inception of the idea
The coordination of internal and external processes can be streamlined by centrally managing information. The entire process - from planning to production - is transparent, and you have constant access to the information you need for making critical business decisions.
The very earliest stages of a product idea can be used as the platform for all of the following steps. The extensive correspondence during rights negotiation and contracts, the expert reports and management decisions are saved in a clear and comprehensible form. All the detail is immediately available for automated contract generation. When you hold the signed contract in your hand the information required for the royalty statement already exists in your database.

Planning and production
Schedule status is constantly available from the product information. Planning and production issues become apparent, without the need for further data input and file updates as you work. Numerous user-friendly tools have been developed to meet the particular requirement of each department, such as list development, production, publicity, rights sales and marketing.
Rich editorial tools allow you to successfully negotiate the best deals, finding the right author, agreeing on the optimal conditions. Controlling in-time manuscript delivery - even on contribution level -, editing and forwarding to the production department is a basic. Automated contract creation and printing in a Microsoft WORD document is a result.
New title information and update information for catalogs and online bookshops can be completely automated and adapted to suit your needs. As with online catalogs, print catalogs and other printed advertising material are also kept up-to-date using product information. In this way, you can ensure optimal market presence.
Fixed royalties, impression royalties, and royalties on sales can be calculated automatically on the basis of the current print runs and sales figures. Advances can also be settled automatically. Joint accounting, multi-title contracts, foreign currency agreements, no level of complexity that isn’t possible to create. You can link rights revenues to contracts, and the system takes care of allotting the revenues to the correct recipients. And whenever you are missing payments, the system will send reminders to your licensees. Royalties are calculated, the royalty accounts are updated, royalty statements are generated and the results are transferred to the accounting system. And the reserves for future returns help you control your payments efficiently.
Through close integration to your accounting system or software, PPM streamlines your publishing operations while avoiding duplication of data maintenance efforts. Calculation of profit and loss settlements on a product basis, as well as a fully automated detailed cost estimation using supplier price lists are integrated into the business modules. Parallel estimation of hardcover and paperback, or even independent titles accomplishes the sophisticated financial functionality. Purchase order management, closely connected to the delivery functionality in your warehouse, allows for full overview and planning of payment liabilities. These modules also offer an extensive range of statistical reports to aid evaluation.

All the way to marketing
The marketing tools within Klopotek‘s Publishing Solution can be used in conjunction with your telephone system to process information and provide customer care, giving a definite competitive advantage. Online stock information, the right prices, and the ability to send customer specific title lists as emails even while you speak to your customer on the phone, give you a new quality of customer relationship. The XML-based catalogue tool supplies you with web and print catalogues on the run.

Product Planning and Management:
PPM - Product Sheet 10.2 [PDF, 3.1MB]
PPM - Product Sheet 9.8 [PDF, 5MB]
PPM - Product Information 9.8 [PDF, 500KB]
PPM - Description [PDF, 40KB]
Information ViewPoint - Product Information [PDF, 600KB]
Information ViewPoint - Flyer [PDF, 400KB]

Contracts, Rights & Royalties:
The Author is the Focus: Klopotek Contracts, Rights & Royalties [PDF, 580KB] (May 2010)
CR&R - Rights Package [PDF, 440KB] (August 2010)
CR&R - Rights Solution [PDF, 433KB] (April 2010)
Highlights of the Release of the Klopotek Contracts, Rights & Royalties, Version 9.6 [PDF, 1.7MB] (October 2009)
Authors Online - Product Information 8.2 [PDF, 40KB]
Authors Online - Flyer [PDF, 1,2MB]

Production:
Production Cockpit - Product Information 9.2 [PDF, 140KB]
Production Cockpit - Introduction [PDF, 600KB]
Production Cockpit - Flyer [PDF, 400KB]
Business Objects Universe for Production [PDF, 500KB]