The core feature set and functionality of DashBook is designed to easily handle the complete Sales / Orders / Shipment lifecycle, from initial customer Contact through post-sale Support.It can be used for almost any product, sales channel or deal structure.
Initially designed for the Book and eBook Publishing markets, additional features have been added that enable DashBook to be used for the Music industry. DashBook has automatic mechanical royalties as well as expiration dates for subscriptions. We have also released DashBook Lite, designed for General Sales where there is no need to calculate and track Royalties.
DashBook contains a number of features and functions designed to make it easy to handle Contacts, Products, Inventory, Sales, Orders, Shipments, Returns, Commissions and Royalties. What sets DashBook apart from other products is its ability to simplify the complex calculations and interdependent data flow involved in tiered Commissions structures and achievement based Royalty arrangements.
Comprehensive Transaction Structuring, monitoring of Key Performance Indicators, accurate control of Sales Processes, capturing Sales Trends, tracking Multi-Party Royalty Calculations and varieties of Operations, Accounting and Executive Level Reports greatly enhance the Value Propositions available to DashBook users.
DashBook has the ability to import sales data from a variety of sources and allows you to create your own import maps to your own sales reports. DashBook ships with the current maps: All Romance - OmniLit, Amazon Kindle, BookSurge, Consortium Publishing, Digital EBooks, FictionWise, ITunes, Lightning Source, Midpoint Trade Books, Mobi EBase, My Bookstore and More, Overdrive, Publisher Group West, Red Eye, Sony EBooks, and Zen Cart.
Here are some key features of "DashBook":
· Recover more net cash by staying on top of receivables.
· Discover sales trends that allow you to get your products to the right place, but also limit the costs of returns, including shipping and damages.
· Save time and improve accuracy on repetitive author work by automatically calculating royalties.
· Gain a better understanding of your customers' business practices.
· Keep track of what's going on in your business with helpful business indicators.
· Reduce errors and save time on mailing campaigns with a central location for all of your contacts.
Requirements:
· 75Mhz Pentium or higher processor
· 128 MB RAM
· 100 MB of hard disk space
· Super VGA 1024 x 768 display (1152 x 864 recommended)
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Product Levels:
· Network Level supports multiple users.
· Enterprise Level supports one or more users on Microsoft SQL Server.
New Royalty Enhancements:
· Sales channels for different royalty percents based on order or buyer.
· PayPal integration to pay authors directly.
· Royalty payment thresholds avoid small payments.
· Hold payments on royalties to postpone payments.
More Improvements:
· Contact communication history to record your emails, phone calls, etc.
· Product inactive switch removes old products from sale choices.
· Copy products, royalty agreements, orders and contacts to reduce typing.
· Extended product descriptors add more like subtitle and media type.
· Editable invoice quantities allow consignment sales of partial stock.
· Import book data from the internet based on multiple ISBNs.
· Fractions on product weight because small numbers add up.
· Social security number / tax ID numbers added to all contact types.
· AnyBook import now gets more information to s...