Title Management offers powerful rights and royalties solutions to satisfy the most demanding contract requirements.
The system allows full control of the contract process, including the set up of all rights details, which automatically control the subsequent set up of all the royalty rules.
For Publishers selling rights, a complete rights management system includes the control of submissions, options and bids. It tracks the receipt of rights and royalty receipts, and has a full integration to both sales and purchase ledgers for a number of optional financial systems, including Great Plains and Navision.
The Trilogy system is and end to end ERP system, and therefore has a full integration to the sales ledgers, allowing automatic processing of the royalty calculations at each day end, ensuring that up-to-date information for author’s enquiries can be satisfied in real time.
Contracts allow for both author and agent multi-title contracts, providing solutions to publishers who buy in as well as who sell rights.
For more details, please phone Alex Dare in the UK office on +44(0)1242 222132 or email alex_dare@trilogygroup.com
For North America please phone Dennis Butler at 1-888-269-0535 or email dennis.butler@pubtechconsulting.com or visit www.pubtechconsulting.com
Benefits
All of the information supporting the author contracts is located in one central integrated database. Author and contributor information is located in the central contacts database and linked to remove duplication of effort.
The contracts database covers and extensive amount of information including contract documents, duration, accounting and copyright details, contract headers and paragraphs.
The Royalties database provides great flexibility including rights scope, royalty rules (breaks and bands), Payees (linked to contacts to remove duplication), advances and ad-hoc payments.
Contracts can be generated directly from the database using the single source of data and standard Microsoft Word document merge. This reduces administration and legal expenses and drives towards a more standard approach to contracts.
Full support of multiple title contracts, rights and sub-rights, payment calculations (weekly, monthly,bi-annual etc), accruals and statements in one system provides for a fully integrated and cost effective solution.
