Advantage manages everything you might need for subscribed
products, whether print or digital;
paid or controlled; daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually;
download or access-based; standalone or packaged with other
products. At the heart of Advantage is a single customer
record, which allows you to examine all the activity of a customer
in a 360° view. A central customer focus - driven by our
strategic product direction - shapes everything the software
is designed to do.
MAGAZINES
Advantage offers absolute flexibility in managing your magazine
business. You will not find a more comprehensive system anywhere
in the world. Advantage:
Provides powerful, sophisticated renewal scheduling and
analysis
Handles international subscriptions: multi-lingual,
multi-currency, addressing, distribution
Fully supports ABC and BPA audits, including unit audits
Unlimited discounting and promotional pricing capability
Thorough earnings reporting and analysis
Accommodates all circulation adjustments easily, including
term or frequency changes, migrations, upgrades
Allows you to package magazines (or other product offerings)
together
Administers questionnaires and captures demographic
information
JOURNALS Advantage clients include world-class journals publishers
who know that when it comes to managing journals, Advantage is the
global leader. Advantage offers:
Management of consortia deals
Membership and society management and reporting
Full supports the Ringgold Institutional identifier and
relationships
Reprints, rights and permissions
Advertising order and billing
Unlimited pricing structures
Trial subscriptions
Comprehensive gracing rules
NEWSLETTERS Print, digital or a
combination, Advantage has the tools you need to manage your
newsletter subscriptions, including:
Completely flexible pricing
Forced free trials
Publication groupings
Comprehensive demographics and
questionnaires
High volume list management
DIRECTORIES
Advantage manages your directory products whether they are
subscription based, one-off
products; print or digital.
Any frequency can be managed.
NEWSPAPERS
Print, digital or a combination
of both, Advantage has the tools you need to manage your newspaper
subscriptions, including:
Support for any frequency including daily and
weekday/weekend-only
Multiple-editions
Alternate delivery
Newsstand and bulk distribution
Variable billing and payment options
Display advertising order and billing
MEMBERSHIPS
Advantage allows you to manage your membership dues as well as the
transactions that may accompany membership in an organization,
such as subscriptions to related journals, magazines or
newsletters, attendance at organization events, or participation
in training or education classes offered by the organization.
Advantage handles different levels and types of membership, with
differing benefits and participation in special interest groups
within the membership organization.
DONATIONS Advantage allows you to solicit and track donations
either as part of a subscription or separately.
REPRINTS
Advantage provides the ability to market and fulfill orders for
copies of journal articles, including author offprints as you
publish the journal and reprints later on. Orders that are
solicited in advance of the issue's publication will allow
reprints to be created and fulfilled as the issue is produced at
the printer involved.
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:
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,