Klopotek’s Contracts, Rights and Royalties is among the four royalty solutions that we recommend most often to medium and large publishers.
Why?
- It’ a total end to end royalty solution. It tracks everything from the editorial acquistions and contract creation through the royalty generatation stage of a book.
- Klopotek has a large client base of publishers that use their software. More medium and large publishers use Klopotek royalty software than any other royalty solution.
- 100% of Klopotek’s development effort is focused on publishing.
- Klopotek has a history of continually improving their software.
- Management is focused on rapid implementations.
- The software is powerful.
Large Client Base
Klopotek software is used by 300+ publishing firms in Germany, Belguim, UK, the USA, France and Canada. This large client base gives them the resources required to rapidly update the software to meet new user requirements. It also means that they are financially stable.
Publishing 100%
You can purchase royalty software from a company that is 100% focused on publishing or you can purchase it from a vendor that spreads their development effort over industries. Kloptek is 100% focused on publishing.
Continuous Improvement
When we evaluate software we look for a track record of continuous improvement. We want to see major enhancements every year, and Klopotek provides this.
The latest update added an accountant navigator (which provides a view of an authors contracts, payments, products, and documents) but also support for new royalty rules and an user improved interface.
Rapid Implementations
Today, Klopotek is focused on rapid implementations. A number of years ago it was not uncommon to see a Klopotek project take 12 months or more to complete. In 2010 they were completing projects in under six months and in 2011 they are aiming for implementations of 4 to 5 months.
PS: The royalty software company known for the fastest implementations among large publishers is Metacomet. Their royalty software; RoyaltyTracker, is not as powerful as Klopotek’s but they can implement it faster.
Powerful and Easy to Use Software
Klopotek’s new Microsoft based redesign has made the software easier to use while maintaining the functionality that makes it so powerful.
Competitors
Who are Klopotek’s main competitors for contracts and royalty software sales to book publishers? In our view they are; Publishing Technology, Virtusales, and MetaComet.
- Publishing Technology’s Advance software is more user customizable; however, it is relatively new and has a very small customer base.
- While MetaComets’s royalty software can be implemented faster it offers less functionality.
- Virtusales offers a less complex product with faster implementations; however, it is relatively new and has a very small customer base.