Royalty Software Guide

Royalty software solutions for book publishers, software companies, stock art houses, museums and music companies. Includes solutions for small organizations with just a few dozen titles to large multinational companies that need to generate statements for tens of thousands of  pieces of intellectual property.

Bradbury Phillips International is the publisher of the Bradbury Phillips Rights Management, Permissions, Agents’ Accounts and Authors’ Royalties software, leading the field the past 20 years, and in use at over 250 sites in the UK and North America. Bradbury Phillips software is the most widely used stand alone rights and royalties solution used by publishers. Price is based on the number of titles managed. Available as a stand-alone and hosted solution. www.bradburyphillips.com

Easy Royalties  is an affordable standalone royalty solution for publishers with complex royalty contracts. You can import authors, titles, contracts and sales and export payments due.There are no required maintenance or support contracts with Easy Royalties. Updates to your current version are provided free of charge. You only pay for updates that take you from one major release to another. Prices range from $500 for 50 titles to $10,000 USD for unlimited titles. A free 30 day demo version is available from their website. www.easyroyaltiesusa.com (Read our review)

Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System (ERRMS) is the only solution that is totally integrated with mid market leading Microsoft Dynamics™ GP ERP package. The Eclipse Rights & Royalty Management System is an automated, end-to-end royalty accounting program that includes flexible reporting solutions and an excellent audit trail to clearly demonstrate regulatory compliance and reassure rights-holders of royalty accounting accuracy. www.eclipsecomputing.com

Elan Rights & Royalties Module hosted ASP solution is designed for ease of use and easy integration with standalone accounting and ERP solutions, in addition to being offered as an upgrade to Media Services’ Bookworks, Cats Pajamas and CisPub book publishing software clients. Their hosted service utilize servers that mirror your data accross three world class hosting centers located in the USA and the UK. Prices start at $650/month for a hosted solution and $25,000 for standalone software. www.msgl.com

MetaComet™ Systems is a premier provider of royalty solutions to the publishing, entertainment and licensing industries. They have a 100% on-time, on-budget success rate, with implementations at companies such as Taylor & Francis, Rowman & Littlefield and Topics Entertainment. Clients include: Rowan & Littlefield, Taylor & Francies, Haurcourt Education and Topics Entertainment. www.metacomet.com

Musicalc royalty accounting software packageis used by more independent Record and Music Publishing companies all over the world than any other. Musicalc Systems Limited was formed in 1982 to develop and market PC based software for the Music Industry. The software design is based on an in-depth knowledge of how the Industry works with the benefit of live, in-house, record and publishing companies and has been the market leader for more than 22 years. www.musicalc.com

Orlando Products offers a suite of royalty solutions for natural resource royalties; minerals, precious metals, timber and other natural resources. www.orlandoproducts.com

REAL Software Systems, LLC provides software solutions for the management of royalty, rights, and revenue sharing contracts. RSS products are used to manage the challenges of contract complexity, uniqueness and volumes in convergent industries including Entertainment,Book Publishing & Information Services, Merchandising, Life Sciences and Technology & Industrial Products.  Clients include many large intellectual property-centric companies such as Allergan, Dell Computer, IBM, Houghton Mifflin, Getty Images, Readers Digest, MGM Studios, BBC Worldwide, Disney, Thomson Corporation, Electronic Arts, Vivendi Games, Action Performance and others. www.realsoftwaresystems.com

SAP Intellectual Property Management application helps you manage complex issues regarding your rights inventory, royalty payments, and license revenue. www.sap.com