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Powerful royalty software for publishers trusted by the publishing industry
 

Handle all crucial tasks from rights acquisition, contract creation, and royalty accounting to rights selling and rights accounting with fast and intuitive cloud-based apps on STREAM

This could be your CRR workflow

Klopotek STREAM for Contracts, Rights, and Royalties

Contract Management

Reaching agreements with authors, including creating transparent contracts and making payments exactly adhering to these agreements, is a critical element of the publishing business. Is your solution fit for this? Or do you often have to search for contracts and check the details, or is processing royalty statements a lengthy process and prone to errors (your authors will complain about)?

Contract Management

Deals & their implications: choose software support for essential elements of publishing

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Makes creating, storing and handling contractual agreements easy and transparent

Cloud-based contract management is a simple task with Klopotek STREAM. Contract 360° displays all the information that is relevant to you. The Contract Manager provides a clear overview of all active projects with status information on rights acquisition, negotiated terms, and monetary aspects of a deal. And the Workflow Tracking feature of the app Contract Workflow Manager enables you to control, monitor, and document the contracting process from the first draft through approval and signature via defined workflows.        

Royalty Accounting

Specially designed to provide comprehensive royalty account information, royalty managers and publishing team members, business analysts and rights accountants can access all relevant information at one glance.

Royalty Accounting

Comprehensive royalty account information at one glance

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The Importance of Accurate Royalty Calculations & Statements - Employ Our Royalty Accounting Manager

Making payments exactly adhering to agreements with authors is a critical element of the publishing business. Is your solution fit for this? Or is creating royalty statements a lengthy process and/or prone to errors your authors will complain about?

 

Royalty Accounting Manager provides instant access to archived royalty statements and payment remittances, enabling users to easily answer author queries. Using dashboard technology, Royalty Recipient Manager helps you to handle all the details that are legally requested for calculating royalties according to the laws and rules of author associations in different countries.

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Video Contract 360° (EN)

Complete 360° view for your Editorial department on all contract information with a fully configurable, widget-based dashboard As your basic master information and control center about contracts and the associated royalties of and payments to an author, Contract 360° provides a complete 360° view of all contract information to the users in your Editorial department with a fully configurable, widget-based dashboard. It also provides seamless and fast jump-out functionality to other CRR applications (Contracts, Rights, and Royalties), but also to apps in the area of TEP (Title Management, Editorial, and Production). Contract 360° links directly to the contract and royalty information stored in the Klopotek system but can also retrieve information from third-party applications outside of Klopotek. The highly sophisticated and fast search functionality of Contract 360° is keyword-sensitive and can browse through large contract databases in a wink of an eye. Recent activities which have been done using the app are stored, and the contracts you’re working on most of the time can be bookmarked. The ‘My recent activities’ and ‘My bookmarks’ features are shared with the Contract Manager STREAM app. This application runs on STREAM, Klopotek’s cloud-based platform for optimized user interaction on computers and mobile devices. It provides direct and smooth connections to other STREAM apps as well as the Klopotek Classic Line for handling specific tasks.
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STREAM Contract Manager (EN)

Makes creating, storing and handling contractual agreements easy and transparent The Contract Manager supports the Editorial Department in the acquisition process of intellectual property – be it from authors, agencies, or other publishers. The application provides a clear overview of all active projects with status information on rights acquisition, negotiated terms, and monetary aspects of a deal. Changes in contractual terms will be tracked in the system. Follow-up tasks can be monitored using the dashboard. Communication activities such as emails, letters, notes, etc. can be stored related to a project, so staff in Editorial can get a complete overview of the negotiation process at any time. Fast and direct interaction with no loss of information or time The highly sophisticated and fast search functionality of the app is keyword-sensitive and can browse through large databases of contracts in a wink of an eye. Recent activities which have been done using the app are stored, and contracts you need to look into repeatedly can be bookmarked (this information is shared with the Contract 360° app which is seamlessly integrated). This application runs on STREAM, Klopotek’s cloud-based platform for optimized user interaction on computers and mobile devices. It provides direct and smooth connections to other STREAM apps as well as the Klopotek Classic Line for handling specific tasks. Need to quickly set up a new contract? Let the Wizard guide you Creating contracts in the app is easy and a straightforward process: The Contract Wizard guides users through all the steps that are necessary, from entering basic information to assigning the parties, specifying an agency, assigning works or product lists and confirming the contract data. Contracts can also be created for components of works or products, so making agreements for granular content is covered by the app. Edit multiple contracts and use templates to speed up processes When managing contracts, you can – among many other options – define responsibilities and edit contract parties and contract validity, assigned products or works, deliverables, payments, royalty terms, and rights. It is also possible to change the contract status at the touch of a button. There is an option to edit multi-contracts to save time if you wish to make changes to several agreements at the same time. Reduce time and effort: Contract Manager also provides the functionality of creating and editing contract templates for future use.

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Author Management

Author Management

Mutually beneficial relationships with your authors are probably the most essential part of publishing: building, sustaining and improving these relationships. Can your software efficiently support you in this? Are you able to quickly provide accurate royalty information? Are your statements clear and without errors?  
 

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The STREAM app Author 360°, which can be tailored to the various users in your organization with their different roles, is your basic information center for details about royalty recipients. Using Authors Online, you can make royalty statements and data available to authors and their agents in a secure way, so you'll save time and money. And Royalty Recipient Manager comes with dedicated a widget family for managing your royalty recipients in an optimal way.
 

Rights Sales Solution

Rights Sales Solution

Marketing and selling rights is a critical business for many publishers. To run their business in the most efficient way, rights managers require a clear overview of which rights have been acquired from an author, and which rights remain available to sell.
 

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A frequent problem rights managers face is ambiguous information about restrictions and the lack of an automated tracking system. In order to meet these challenges, the rights department should implement a solution that supports and guides rights managers throughout the sales process, from checking rights availability to sales reporting. 

Klopotek’s Rights Sales Solution covers the entire rights selling process. It consists of the STREAM apps Rights Sales Manager, Rights Accounting Manager, and Rights Sales Contract Manager, which are all seamlessly integrated. The app Intercompany / International Publishing Deals helps company groups to establish and implement a global publishing strategy, as it facilitates managing transactions between different legal entities.
 

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Rights Sales Solution: Rights Accounting Manager (EN)

Get full control of sub right claims, incoming payments and generating shares This cloud-based app supports all processes from managing sub right claims to handling incoming rights payments and generating the payment share for the authors. Sales and royalty information provided in the licensee’s statement can be stored for the regular invoice. From the landing page of Rights Accounting Manager, you can access these central functions via icons: - Contract Library - Invoice Library - Payment Library - Royalty Statements Recent activities which have been done using the app are stored, and the documents you’re working on most of the time can be bookmarked. This app runs on STREAM, Klopotek’s cloud-based platform for optimized user interaction on computers and mobile devices. It provides direct and smooth connections to other STREAM apps (such as Contract Manager) for handling specific tasks. Sales Contracts from many angles In Rights Accounting Manager, you can search for sales contracts. In addition to the basic contract data such as the contract status, in the results the app displays the rights that were sold and the installments agreed in the contract. When viewing invoices and payments related to a sales contract, the information in the ‘Invoices’ data area includes the claim and invoice status, the event that triggers payment of the sub rights claim, the due date, and the dunning level. In the ‘Payments’ data area, information includes the posting date, a checkmark for a regular or irregular payment, the gross and net revenue, and a checkmark that indicated if the payment has been reversed. The amounts and due dates for sales contracts are the basis for generating the associated invoices / claims for installments (advances) and royalty statements. Creating and editing sales contracts is done in the Rights Sales Manager STREAM app as part of the rights sales process.
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Rights Sales Solution: Rights Sales Contract Manager (EN)

Rights Sales Contract Manager stores and handles all information and contractual agreements for managing sold rights. The highly sophisticated and fast search functionality of the app is keyword-sensitive and can browse through large databases of contracts in a wink of an eye. Recent activities which have been done using the app are stored, and sales contracts you need to look into repeatedly can be bookmarked. This application runs on STREAM, Klopotek’s cloud-based platform for optimized user interaction on computers and mobile devices. It provides direct and smooth connections to other STREAM apps as well as the Klopotek Classic Line for handling specific tasks. An intuitive way of making changes to contract data Viewing and editing data in the app is easy and a straightforward process. You can define responsibilities and edit contract parties and contract validity, payments, royalty terms, and rights. It is also possible to change the contract status at the touch of a button and to view and edit linked acquisition contracts. Reduce time and effort: Rights Sales Contract Manager also provides the functionality of creating and editing contract templates for future use. Seamlessly integrated with Rights Sales Manager for contract creation Sales contracts are generated based on the Rights Sales Manager STREAM app: Once the negotiations with a licensee have been finalized in the Rights Sales Manager, a rights sales contract can be automatically generated in the app using the terms and conditions that have been negotiated. Klopotek’s end-to-end Rights Sales Solution consists of the STREAM apps: Rights Sales Manager, Rights Sales Contract Manager, and Rights Accounting Manager. Please check related flyers/brochures (accessible on the right-hand side) for more information.

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Intercompany / International Publishing Deals
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If you operate on a global scale, handling ‘mega deals’ is now easy

Intercompany / International Publishing Deals

This is a question that is very relevant to Publishing Groups operating on a global level: can you support all your business units with one single system that really centralizes your activities?
 

As an important aspect of helping to establish and implement a global publishing strategy, the Intercompany / International Publishing Deals STREAM web app facilitates managing transactions between different legal entities of your Publishing Group. Transacting business between affiliated companies becomes easy, and you can transmit rights flexibly through all legal entities and report on this to the author in one single royalty statement.

 

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