Focus on Publishing Software is the first complete Accounting and Management Software Solution for Publishers to bring you:
1. An accounting system UNIQUELY designed for the publishing industry
2. A system that ENGINEERS all your departments to work together
3. A fully INTERGRATED software package for publishers
4. A system that holds ALL your information in ONE DATABASE.

Who developed Focus on Publishing System?
Why should you choose Focus On Publishing System?

The Focus on Publishing system seamlessly integrates the various departmental functions such as:

Financial Modules
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1. Sales Ledger (with Batch.co.uk support)
2. Purchase Ledger
3. Nominal Ledger
4. Cash Book
5. Sales Order Processing
6. Stock Control and Product information (ONIX version 2.0 compliant)
7. Job Costing
8. Purchase Order Processing

Publishing Modules
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8. Productions and Scheduling
9. Author Royalties
10. Rights Management
11. Marketing
12. Subscriptions
13. Cataloguing
14. Consignment Control
15. Returns Processing
16. Standing Orders
17. EDI/XML Electronic Document transmissions.
18. Journal review management.
19. Import Despatch Information
20. Publishers' Management Account
21. Importation of orders from your E-commerce website.

Who developed 'Focus on Publishing System'?

Focus on Publishing is developed by Focus IT Services Limited - a highly proactive British software developer based in London. Focus IT Services Limited has been providing consultancy and developing systems for the book industry since 1993.

§ In the past 10 years, Focus has implemented projects for Causeway Press, Cavendish Publishing Limited, Cork University Press, Trentham Books Limited, Macmillan Publishers (Nig) Limited, Trade Counter (Distribution), Schofield and Sims, David & Charles, and The Chartered Institute of Bankers.

§ We are unrivalled in the implementation of publisher's accounting requirements be it where the publisher has:
a. In-house invoicing, customer services, cash collection, and fulfillment or
b. In-house invoicing, customer services, cash collection, and outsourced fulfillment or
c. Outsourced invoicing, customer services, fulfillment and cash collection.

§ We believe in forging long-term relationships with our customers through openness, honesty and total commitment to their business objectives.

§ With the support and commitment of our existing customers and our highly dedicated team of employees, we aim to make 'Focus on Publishing system' the standard software in the publishing industry.

§ Our customers treat Focus as an extension of their own business - key members of the Focus team may be reached outside working hours Monday to Saturday only.

§ We actively subscribe and attend all publishing meetings so that Focus on Publishing system is always up to date with industry changes, and our staff can offer in-depth advise to publishers.

§ We are supplier member of the UK Independent Publishers Guild and an associate member of Business Application Software developer Association (BASDA).

Why you should choose Focus on Publishing System

A Direct Publishing Solution
Focus on Publishing systems is uniquely developed for the publishing industry to meet their accounting, administrative and electronic data requirements.

Fully integrated
Focus on Publishing system seamlessly incorporates both publishing management and accounting modules into a powerful and comprehensive database solution.
It brings together all aspects of the publishing business by means of shared files. The Contact, Customer and Suppliers share the same database thereby eliminating data duplication and enhancing data integrity. The Production module feeds into Job costing and Stock ledger. The Purchase ledger feeds into the Nominal and Job costing modules. The Royalty module analyses sales transactions and updates authors' Purchase accounts. Marketing module presents information filtered from sales transactions and customer interests.

Performance
With our highly dedicated team of employees, we have consistently implemented Focus on Publishing system on time and within budget. This can be attested to by Cork University Press, Trentham Books Limited, Macmillan Publishers (NIG) Limited and Cavendish Publishing Limited.

Remote invoicing
If you are a Publisher who does invoices and customer services in-house, but outsource the fulfillment process to a third party, focus on publishing can output your invoices which can be sent to a remote warehouse for local printing. This process can print the invoice along with your logo on plain paper.

Standard and secure technology
Focus on Publishing Systems runs on Windows 2000, NT, 98 and 95. It utilises Microsoft technologies such as Outlook 2000, MS Office 2000 suite etc. It uses MS Access or MS SQL server 7 as database engines. This means that the data remains your property and can be accessed using third party products.

Future oriented technology
Focus on Publishing Systems offers as standard, XML and EDI data interchange formats. XML is an integral part of data exchange within and outside the system. Daily invoices can be created in XML format and can be read back into the system in XML. XML is the Microsoft and Sun Microsystems preferred standard for data interchange between computer systems.

Flexibility and user friendly
Focus on Publishing Systems utilize parameters, which the user may change to reflect current business rules. The system has a comprehensive easily accessible online help facility.

Extensive Features
Focus on Publishing Systems is multi-currency, multi-location, multi-company, and can operate in real time or batch mode.

In-Built Sales Reporting Tool
Focus on Publishing has an integrated data manipulation tool for producing user definable report.
Profit and Loss per title or group or series
Focus on Publishing produces a Gross Profit report per title or series, from the sales, purchases and from various costs accumulated in the system.

Software Updates
Modifications requested by our customers are made to the standard Focus on Publishing software and it is automatically offered under the maintenance program. This means that all our customers use the same standard program around the world. We promise to reflect changes in the industry affecting your purchased modules, through our yearly maintenance support scheme.