From its beginning in 1979, Advantage has been designed with
total integration in mind. Whether you're selling
online
content, subscriptions, books or other products, you can manage
them all in one integrated system.
Advantage offers:
order processing
inventory management
discounting structures, including volume & promotion
discounts and assorting
Electronic Data Interchange
automatic up-selling and cross-selling tools
campaign and promotion management
comprehensive sales analysis with roll-up
products, including products,
subscriptions,
digital, and other
products and conferences
ONE-SHOTS
Advantage has functionality for books or any type of 1-shot
product you sell. Features such as:
rush ships
back ordering
partial shipments
pre-publication orders
proformas
shipping & handling
taxation
can apply to any book or product. Catalog sales, packages,
retail & wholesale pricing, volume discounting and other marketing
schemes are all part of the Advantage one-shot offering.
RETAIL SALES
Advantage supports your retail sales, whether to the consumer,
business or academic markets. Features include:
Returns management
EDI
"License plating"
Back-order management
Warehouse control
Standing order sales
TEXTBOOKS
Advantage clients include many textbook publishers, who make use
of the pertinent features of the software, including:
Adoption tracking
Preview orders
Sales rep commission management
Contract pricing
Royalty management
ANCILLARY PRODUCTS
Advantage has everything you need to sell products to your
customers, including:
Inventory and warehouse management
Catalog sales support
Automatic upselling
campaign and promotion management, and
sales analysis
BOOK CLUB
The Book Club module is one way for you to offer continuity series
to your customers. With Book Club, you can define one or more
product series into which you can enroll your customers. Once
customers have become members of a product series, Advantage will
automatically select qualified customers, determine which product
or products they should receive, and generate product orders for
fulfillment. Book club provides you with absolute flexibility to
adjust product offerings and timing of order generation based on
responses, selections, tests or other factors.
The
Standing Order module offers another type of continuity series that you can
market to your customers. It's a product series driven package
that allows customers to belong to one or more standing order
groups (based on author, subject or other characteristics), and based on those groups, Advantage will automatically
create orders, according to user-requested frequencies, and update
the analysis database. Standing Order allows you complete freedom
in setting up the rules and regulations of the orders.
And then there's the Commissions module, which calculate sales
rep commissions. Commissions offers great flexibility in defining
which commission rate applies to sales made through the Product
Order and Circulation modules.
INVENTORY
Advantage offers a complete inventory tracking system with
flexible and comprehensive price discounting capability. You can
use it to:
Track inventory quantities by location (multi-warehouse
and multi-bin).
Calculate cost of goods.
Adjust inventory quantities, due to a transfer of
inventory to a different stock bin or warehouse; damage to
inventory stock; or reserving stock for future use.
Track and analyze your sales. The Inventory
Management module is fully integrated with the
Product Order and Sales Analysis capabilities in Advantage.
ROYALTIES
Advantage offers a Royalty module, which allows
you to create author, songwriter or artist contracts with rules
based on factors such as type of sale, quantity breaks, and author
advances. Integrated with product order, it automatically
calculates royalty liability, tracks adjustments, creates royalty
statements, and manages accounting entries.
ECOMMERCE The Advantage eCommerce capability allows your customers to perform online, real-time entry of orders and other self-service functions and provides the same access to customer,
digital,
subscription, order and payment data to Web users as your customer service reps have. A vast library of methods is available in the API for your webmaster and the
Web module can be run with web services. The Advantage Web module offers:
TEXTBOOKS
The
Standing Order module offers another type of continuity series that you can
market to your customers. It's a product series driven package
that allows customers to belong to one or more standing order
groups (based on author, subject or other characteristics), and based on those groups, Advantage will automatically
create orders, according to user-requested frequencies, and update
the analysis database. Standing Order allows you complete freedom
in setting up the rules and regulations of the orders.
The Advantage eCommerce capability allows your customers to perform online, real-time entry of orders and other self-service functions and provides the same access to customer,