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- Publishing House ERP
- Who it's for
- Independent press
Independent press
A small press may have the same people handling several parts of a title. The project record still names an owner; manuscripts still identify an editor; content items and tasks keep their own due dates. Rights terms and file approval deserve an explicit reviewer even when the team is small. Project costs can then be read against the title budget with their draft, approved and paid states kept distinct.
How Publishing House ERP is set up for you
Editorial intake
Keep the author name, submission date, editor and manuscript decision together so the next handoff starts from the accepted record.
Production ownership
Give content and tasks separate owners, statuses and due dates under the title project.
Rights decision
Review the agreement term and allowed uses before approving a content file version.
Edition identity
Link the ISBN and edition details to the manuscript that the team actually plans to print.
A small press may have the same people handling several parts of a title. The project record still names an owner; manuscripts still identify an editor; content items and tasks keep their own due dates. Rights terms and file approval deserve an explicit reviewer even when the team is small. Project costs can then be read against the title budget with their draft, approved and paid states kept distinct.
Pilot one title with an editorial submission, a production task, a rights agreement and a cost entry. Decide who has the approval authority and bind that person to a user record. Walk from the Content Items board to the selected item, its file version and agreement. Review the print-edition record separately before sending facts to a printer or distributor.
During setup, agree the meaning of project budget and print quantity for this operation. Those entries are useful only when the people preparing and reading them use the same convention. Finance Lead can compare categorized project costs with the recorded budget; Production Lead can identify work still open against the title. A rights agreement and a content version decision remain separate records, so a change in the agreement term should prompt a fresh review before the next approval.
Review the pilot with the people who will change these records every week. Ask each person to find their next task in a working list, open the linked title and explain the decision they are making. Then confirm the next owner sees the result. See [implementation](/publishing-house-erp/implementation) for the staged setup and [data model](/publishing-house-erp/data-model) for the linked records.
Features to start with
Roles on the team
- Publishing Director
- Owns publishing project decisions and reviews the portfolio.
- Managing Editor
- Assigns editors and manages editorial and content progress.
- Production Lead
- Coordinates project tasks, content files and edition records.
- Rights Reviewer
- Checks agreement coverage and decides content version approval.
- Finance Lead
- Maintains project cost entries and reviews budget exposure.
Set up Publishing House ERP your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.