Small Company

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 Royaltieswww.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 Bookwww.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 Phillipswww.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 & Royaltieswww.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

Klopotekwww.klopotek.com

  • Hosted solution for small publishers
  • Price: Medium for hosted solution
  • Database: Oracle
  • Offices: Germany, UK, USA

Korrectwww.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

Musicalcwww.musicalc.com

  • Modules: Music royalties
  • Strengths: Designed for small music publishers
  • Offices: UK, USA

Royalty Trackerwww.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

Virtusaleswww.virtusales.com

  • Hosted software (release 1st Qtr 2011)
  • Price: Medium
  • Modules: Rights & royalties, editorial management, title management
  • Database: MS SQL
  • Offices: USA, UK