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"So many companies have 30 day trial periods, where, if the software is complex, just setting it up can use up much of the evaluation time. The people at Dashbook didn't even wait for me to have questions. They contacted me right after downloading to ask if I needed help setting it up so I could get at the task of evaluation. They were not empty words. They had me up and running and answered all my emails promptly.
The software itself? As an iPhone app developer with many project partners all with different royalty rates with each product paying 7 different foreign currencies our monthly royalty inputs and calculations (after setting up) went from 4 or 5 hours to 15 minutes. Happy is an understatement."
Eric Speier, Managing Partner, 5 Elements Entertainment
"After spending several months looking for a suitable software solution for my
growing publishing company, I was pleasantly surprised to find DashBook
literally at the last minute, just before I was set to buy another piece of
publisher software. I was immediately impressed by DashBook’s clean and modern
user interface. Within 15 minutes of trying out the trial version, I knew this
was exactly what I was looking for. Once I purchased the full version, I was
able to setup my products and was up and running with the application within a
day. DashBook has greatly simplified our business operations, especially with
regard to royalties. The software is laden with rich features, many of which we
haven’t even started using yet. The ability to manage musical rights for CD and
digital music products enabled us to create and seamlessly manage new product
lines we didn’t even have before.
The software comes with an impressive array of reports, including great-looking
royalty statements that can be emailed to clients from within the application,
and support for this product is quick and responsive. An extensive help file is
available for all parts of the software, and can be displayed from any screen in
the application. I would highly recommend DashBook to any-sized publisher
looking for a powerful, yet easy to use software solution that can be deployed
in little time.
What a great product!"
Jude Odu, Founder and CEO, Decent Hill
Publishers, LLC
"I've found that one of the most challenging and time-consuming aspects of running a publishing company is tracking sales and managing royalty payments -- particularly when those sales are being made in multiple currencies and coming from various sales channels. I have tested several far more expensive packages, but I am not aware of any other publishing software that can do what DashBook can. The ability to import monthly print-on-demand sales reports from companies such as Lightning Source has been especially helpful and saves me untold hours of re-entering sales information and doing currency conversions."
Rob Clements, Clements Publishing
"Dashbook must be the most cost effective system in the World for the Small to
Medium size Record or Music Publishing Company! With its ability to import
Data or Generate Sales Invoices and integrate them into its Royalty Programme,
which can also take into consideration Royalty Advances etc., it has rapidly
become an extremely efficient Time Saving Tool for us, and you wonder how you
could have possibly managed in the past without it. Combined with an excellent
Customer and Technical Support Service it’s unbeatable in our view."
Terry King, Managing Director, Aristocrat Music Ltd.
"I'm a small publisher and I hate accounting. My books were in a tizzy and, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't straighten them out. In desperation, I downloaded a trial version of Dashbook and went to work. I was amazed at how simple and straightforward the software works! All these years I've been trying to "force" other software tools to calculate royalties, keep track of my inventory, and create invoices. I wish I had come to Dashbook sooner! It does all that and more! I purchased a copy, and now I use it for all my authors. Now, accounting is a snap!
Thank you Dashbook!"
Skip Coryell, Second Amendment March
"As a multi-faceted audio production and distribution company translating and producing music for the latest gaming devices, our needs for royalty accounting go well beyond straight percentages and mechanical royalties. After searching for the best software to meet our requirements, we chose DashBook which already had much of what we needed. The team at DashBook responded to our needs by extending their system to handle the nuances of our business, and their support is amazing!"
Will Littlejohn, WaveGroup
“Thanks to the people at DashBook we now have a wonderful streamlined system for reporting all of our sales and royalties. Reasonably priced and easy to use while providing in-depth detail of sales and royalties -- couldn't have fit our company's needs better! We greatly appreciate their excellent customer service and continuous improvements to this fantastic system.”
RJ Morris, The Wild Rose Press
"Dashbook is a wonderful program, and I
can't say enough about the friendly helpful staff. This program is an evolving,
living thing, changing with the needs of the modern e-publication. Despite some
growing pains, this program has proved invaluable in producing easy to read,
clear and concise statements from the jumble of input that some 3rd party
sellers provide. Payouts are ridiculously easy, and the authors really
appreciate the rapid processing of their royalties. I would not go back to the
old days of spreadsheets and manual reports for all the bytes on the 'net."
Heather Vince, Financial Officer, Extasy Books
"DashBook is an excellent system for managing inventory, tracking sales and calculating royalties. What once took weeks to prepare for quarterly reports now takes a very short period of time. Best of all, no more spreadsheets and manual calculations.
DashBook does it all!"
J. Ellen Smith, Champagne Books, Carnal Passions
"DashBook is what we've been looking for... efficient, affordable software with tech support that actually has a pulse. We're sold!"
Barry Gibons, The MT Pit
"Virtual Tales is a 100 percent royalty-based small press, so we needed a financial program with maximum flexibility in assigning royalty percentages - not just for printed works but also for eBooks and eSerials. Our royalty percentages vary between print and e-versions of the same title, and we also have to factor in payments for authors and co-authors, editors and co-editors, etc. We tried a number of financial programs for publishers and found that DashBook gave us the most flexibility. It was also extremely easy to use and is very affordable. DashBook helped us convert our complicated, manual royalty calculation process into a fully automated system. We no longer dread the end of each quarter because calculating royalties is now a breeze."
Sheri Gormley, Virtual Tales and Promotions
“We use DashBook to manage our orders, print invoices and packing slips, and most important to us, calculate royalties and produce royalty statements. DashBook exceeds our expectations, and the support the DashBook team provides is amazing.
Keep up the great work!”
Steve Hoberman, Technics Publications
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