Publishers' Assistant Product Features Comparison

Publishers' Assistant is a full featured business management system.  Compare our list of features to any other publishing business software.  We think you'll find Publishers' Assistant to be an exceptional value!

Features Edition
Sonnet Lyric Epic
Price $495 $1495 $2245
Mail List x x x
Keep all contacts in one place! x x x
Data entry screen minimizes entry of duplicate contacts x x x
Separate courier and postal addresses for each contact x x x
Associate multiple book retailers with a single billing contact x x x
Scan, adjust, and eliminate duplicate contacts x x
Unlimited assignment of customer codes x x x
Print mailing list reports and labels x x x
Export mailing list for use by other applications x x x
Customer Invoices & Returns x x x
Inventory and non-inventory items x x x
Add special "open" items to an invoice on the fly x x x
Backorder Processing x x x
Subscription Processing x x x
Standing Order Processing x x
Search by customer PO# x x x
Add new titles while invoicing x x x
Unlimited assignment of marketing codes x x x
Returns logged against account  or against individual invoices x x x
User-definable shipping services x x x
Customer Payments (Receipts) x x x
Logged against invoice or account x x x
Assigned to individual items x x x
User-definable types of payment x x x
Search for existing payments by several methods, including 
credit card number
x x x
Financial Accounting x x x
Historical tracking of receivables x x x
Historical tracking of liabilities and payments x x
Handles even complex royalty, consignment, and commission agreements x x x
Royalty, Consignment, and Commission statements x x x

Billing Statements

x x x

Ability to automatically charge back authors for warehousing

x x
Inventory x x x
Historical Tracking--Know what you had in inventory back on December 31st x x x
Consignment Inventory Tracking x x x
Purchased Inventory Tracking x x x
Damaged inventory tracked separately x x x
Multiple warehouses x x
Purchase Order entry x x x
Order quantities normalized to carton counts x x x
Reminder of price breaks when entering PO items x x x
Receive partial shipments x x x
Book Requirements Forecasting x x

Search for PO's by title ordered, or supplier

x x x
System Maintenance x x x

Any existing transaction can be modified

x x x
Archival of old data x x
Data Integrity Testing/Correction x x x
File packing and re-indexing x x x
A utility to help repair damaged database files x x x
User-defined default settings on all data entry screens x x x
Users initials and last update captured in all transactions for tracking purposes x x x
Export Data to other applications
Excel x x x
ICVerify x x x
PCAuthorize x x x
Quickbooks or Quicken x x x
Outlook Express x x x

Reports
Over 150 reports to choose from! x x x
All reports can be viewed, printed, or saved to a file.
Reports can be created, modified, and reorganized in the menu by the user! x x
Data from any report can be saved to a comma delimited file for use by other applications. x x x
Network - Simultaneous access x
Easy to read documentation x x x
Context-sensitive help x x x