Royalty software solutions in this section are for companies with a limited budget. Pricing ranges from $500 to $50,000 USD.
The pricing categories for software solutions in this section are:
- Low - Less than $10,000 USD for stand-alone solution and less than $5,000 a year for hosted solutions
- Medium – $15,000 to $35,000 USD for a stand-alone solution and less than $15,000 a year for a hosted solution
- High – $35,000 to $50,000 USD or more than $15,000 a year for a hosted solution.
Vendors listed in this section have at least one customer with sales of $5 million USD using their rights AND royalties modules.
Easy Royalties – www.easyroyaltiesusa.com
- Standalone software
- Price: Low (range from $500 for a 50 title license, $800 for a 100 title license, $1,400 for a 200 title license to $10,000 for unlimited titles)
- Modules: Royalties, rights
- Database: MS Access
- Strengths: Vendor is know for zero or low cost customization services
- Clients: Book publishers, stock art provides, art museums, religous publishers, hymnal publishers
- Offices: USA, UK
Acumen Book – www.acumenbook.com
- Standalone software
- Price: Medium (about $25K for stand-alone software)
- Modules: Royalties, rights, title information, marketing, financial management & more
- Database: 4D
- Strengths: 180+ clients, standard software includes GL, AP, AR, inventory, sales, marketing and title information in addition to royalties.
- Offices: USA
Bradbury Phillips – www.bradburyphillips.com
- Hosted and stand-alone software
- Price: Medium to High
- Modules: rights, royalties, literary agents
- Database: MS Access and MS SQL option
- Clients: 200+
- Offices: UK
Elan Rights & Royalties – www.msgl.com
- Hosted software
- Price: Medium (about $650/month for hosted and $25K for stand-alone software)
- Modules: Rights & royalties, production management, financial management & more
- Database: MS SQL
- Strengths: World class hosting utilizing three mirrored data centers
- Offices: USA, UK, Brazil
Klopotek – www.klopotek.com
- Hosted solution for small publishers
- Price: Medium for hosted solution
- Database: Oracle
- Offices: Germany, UK, USA
Korrect – www.korrectsw.com
- Hosted solution for music publishers
- Price: Low (about $9,000 USD for in-house system, and $1,000+/year for hosted solution)
- Offices: UK
Musicalc – www.musicalc.com
- Modules: Music royalties
- Strengths: Designed for small music publishers
- Offices: UK, USA
Royalty Tracker – www.metacomet.com
- Hosted software
- Price: Medium ($1,000 per month for 3 users)
- Modules: Rights and royalties
- Functionality: Rights & Royalties
- Database: FoxPro and MS SQL
- Strengths: Offers royalty management service that covers 1) contract creation, 2) sales import and 3) statement generation for the publisher.
- Offices: USA
Virtusales – www.virtusales.com
- Hosted software (release 1st Qtr 2011)
- Price: Medium
- Modules: Rights & royalties, editorial management, title management
- Database: MS SQL
- Offices: USA, UK