C- Soft Consultants

OVERVIEW

CS:PUBLISH is an excellent Billing & Inventory module which takes care of all the Business needs. User has several options to configure the system as per his working environment.

CS:PUBLISH has the capability to handle multiple price bands, multi-branch, multi-warehouse, the data is split into yearly basis. It can be used by small to a very large organization with equal ease. It is a very comprehensive System, which can be further customized as per user requirements.

CS:PUBLISH also runs as a standalone (for the benefit of the users who want isolated solutions), the platform being MS Window, compatible with Networked environment.

It is a component of a very comprehensive software CS:PUB - an ERP-like Integrated solution for the publishing industry.

COVERAGE

• Address Master - A common pool of all possible addresses attached to the company
   • Customer
   • Supplier
   • Personal contacts

• Party Attributes
   •Parties Categorization into more than one category (Bookseller, Library Suppliers….etc)
   • Party Status (Active / Inactive)
   • Party Preferred Bank
   • Party Preferred Transporter
   • Standing Order Instructions
   • Credit Period
   • Credit Limits
   • Multi Level Discount Definition
   • Blocking for Returns at Imprint Level / Title Level

• Title Master - Comprehensive Title Master With a large number of attributes, some of them listed below:
   • Imprint
   • Sub-Imprint
   • Subjects
   • Size of the book
   • Volume#
   • Number of Pages
   • Weight
   • Reorder Level
   • EOQ
   • Active / Dormant
   • Book Bound (HB / PB / F&G… etc)

• Pricing
   • Selling Price
   • Cost Price
   • Cover Price
   • Tentative price

• Transactions
   • Orders
   • Invoicing
   • Cash Memo Sales
   • Un supplied Reports
   • Sales Returns
   • Stocks Transfers (Between Branches)
   • Stocks Adjustments
◊  Purchase of Titles (Import / Local purchase)
◊  Production (Local imprints)
◊  Purchase Returns
◊  Approval Memos
◊  Proforma Invoices
◊  Sampling
◊  Debit notes
◊  Credit notes
◊  Payment Receipt - Receipt Allocation with the invoice, debit notes credit notes for debtor aging

OVERVIEW

CS:PUBLISH is an excellent Billing & Inventory module which takes care of all the Business needs. User has several options to configure the system as per his working environment.

CS:PUBLISH has the capability to handle multiple price bands, multi-branch, multi-warehouse, the data is split into yearly basis. It can be used by small to a very large organisation with equal ease. It is a very comprehensive System, which can be further customized as per user requirements.

CS:PUBLISH also runs as a standalone (for the benefit of the users who want isolated solutions), the platform being MS Window, compatible with Networked environment.

It is a component of a very comprehensive software CS:PUB - an ERP-like Integrated solution for the publishing industry.

COVERAGE

• Address Master - A common pool of all possible addresses attached to the company
   • Customer
   • Supplier
   • Personal contacts

• Party Attributes
   •Parties Categorization into more than one category (Bookseller, Library Suppliers….etc)
   • Party Status (Active / Inactive)
   • Party Preferred Bank
   • Party Preferred Transporter
   • Standing Order Instructions
   • Credit Period
   • Credit Limits
   • Multi Level Discount Definition
   • Blocking for Returns at Imprint Level / Title Level

• Title Master - Comprehensive Title Master With a large number of attributes, some of them listed below:
   • Imprint
   • Sub-Imprint
   • Subjects
   • Size of the book
   • Volume#
   • Number of Pages
   • Weight
   • Reorder Level
   • EOQ
   • Active / Dormant
   • Book Bound (HB / PB / F&G… etc)

• Pricing
   • Selling Price
   • Cost Price
   • Cover Price
   • Tentative price

• Transactions
   • Orders
   • Invoicing
   • Cash Memo Sales
   • Unsupplied Reports
   • Sales Returns
   • Stocks Transfers (Between Branches)
   • Stocks Adjustments
◊  Purchase of Titles (Import / Local purchase)
◊  Production (Local imprints)
◊  Purchase Returns
◊  Approval Memos
◊  Proforma Invoices
◊  Sampling
◊  Debit notes
◊  Credit notes
◊  Payment Receipt - Receipt Allocation with the invoice, debit notes credit notes for debtor aging
◊  Covering Letters

As part of the marketing activities publishers send out complimentary copies of new titles to various publications - academic journals, newspapers, magazines, and lately electronic journals/publications - for favour of review in their columns.

CS-Review has been made with the motive of marketing the book in different corners of the globe.

Coverage

• Master List
   • Publication Master
   • Title Master
   • Territory Master

• Flexible Master (online creation of city, state & country)
   • City Master
   • State Master
   • Country Master

• Transaction
   • Review Entry
   • Review Printing (Label)
   • Review Receiving

Since many of clients prefer to use TALLY, as their financial accounting Software, we have provided them with provisions to export the transactions of sales and purchase which get captured in CS:PUBLISH into Tally. This not only saves them the time required to re punch the sales and purchase related data again but also helps in removing erros of manual punching of entries into the financial software.

OVERVIEW

CS:MAIL has been designed keeping in mind the mailing / promotions activity taking place in an organization.

CS:MAIL is an MS Windows based System and incorporates all user friendly possibilities supported by the Window. It is a MULTIUSER SYSTEM.

CS:MAIL is a utility that is very important for every organization and its employees.

COVERAGE

Masters

• Address List
• Private or public
• Details of the customer or person
• Other Details
• Phone / Fax: Other details like mobile, email etc
• Contacts: Contact people
• Category: Is to be defined

Category List

Generating Labels

• Section is based on groups
• Labels will be generated
• Label Printing can be according to the way the customer wants
• Views
• Customer wise view

SOME SALIENT FEATURES

• Checks for the delicacy of names during saving of any name
• Easy to Use
• Powerful
• Comprehensive MIS
• State of the Art Features
• Instant Reporting
• Flexibility
• Power Utilities
• Single-User / Multi-User
• Data Security
• Easy Operation and Integration with other C-SOFT modules
• Desired extensions in the Package can be carried out by C-SOFT's expert customization service.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Network Server

• Intel PII with min. 64 MB

Network Operating System

• MS-Windows NT
• MS-Window Workgroup

Desktops

• Intel Pentiums / equivalents with min. 32MB RAM

Desktop Operating Systems

• MS-Windows 9X and upwards

OVERVIEW

CS:PROD is an excellent Production and Costing System which takes care of all the Production and costing details of the Publishing house and provides the unit cost details of the titles printed.

CS:PROD is a stand alone system (for the benefit of the users who want isolated solutions) and also can be easily integrated with CS:PUBLISH (Billing and inventory Module).

COVERAGE

Masters

• Vendor Master
• Title Master
• Paper Size Master
• Gsm Master
• Paper Mill Master
• Service tax Master
• Temporary Title Master - Budgeted Costing of a title which has so far not been allotted an ISBN
• Miscellaneous Cost Master

Transactions

• Budgeted Cost sheet (Having multiple Impressions with a single costheets)
• Creation of Indents from Budgeted Cost Sheet
• Job orders
• Paper order (Text / Cover)
• Paper order - Bulk Purchase (Text / Cover)
• Print order (Text / Cover)
• Lamination Order (Text / Cover)
• Binding Order (text / Cover)
• Turn Key Print order
• Turn Key Print order (without Paper)
• Bills (From Vendors)
• Bills against Paper order (Text / Cover)
• Bills against Paper order - Bulk Purchase (Text / Cover)
• Bills against Print order (Text / Cover)
• Bills against Lamination Order (Text / Cover)
• Bills against Binding Order (text / Cover)
• Bill against Turn Key Print order (Unit Cost PO)
• Bill against Turn Key Print order (Unit Cost PO) (without Paper)
• Bills for Prepress Work
• Bills for Misc Costs
• Stock Adjusments Memos - Allocating Paper from bulk stock to Indents
• Closure of indents (All bills received and actual unit cost planted for that indent)

Reports

• Print Run Cost Report
• Weighted Average Cost Report
• Work in Progress Report (From Actual Bills)
• CostBook (From Actual Bills)
• Bills Monitoring Report (PO's for which Bills have not been received)
• Budgeted VS. Actual Report
• Paper Ledger - Text / Cover (Size,GSM, Paper Mill wise)
• Printer Ledger - Text / Cover (Size,GSM, Paper Mill wise)
• Paper Consumption By Printer - Text / Cover (Size,GSM, Paper Mill wise)
• Forecast of paper requirement - Text / Cover

SOME SALIENT FEATURES

• Easy to Use
• Powerful
• Comprehensive MIS
• State of the Art Features
• Instant Reporting
• Flexibility
• Power Utilities
• Single-User / Multi-User
• Data Security
• Data Report Export for MS-EXCEL
• Easy Operation and Integration with other C-SOFT modules
• Desired extensions in the Package can be carried out by C-SOFT's expert customization service.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Network Server

• Intel PII with min. 32 MB RAM

Network Operating System

• MS-Windows NT
• MS-Window Workgroup

Desktops

• Intel Pentiums / equivalents with min. 32MB RAM

Desktop Operating Systems

• MS-Windows 9X and upwards

OVERVIEW

CS:REM has been designed keeping in mind the reminder / message service in any organization. It caters to many different aspects of a messaging service like priority, search, forwarding a message etc...

CS:REM is an MS Windows based System and incorporates all user friendly possibilities supported by the Window. It is a MULTIUSER SYSTEM. It is very comprehensive and easy to use.

COVERAGE

A comprehensive search of all the messages in the inbox on the basis of:

• Unread
• Read
• Postpone
• All Messages
• From Date - To Date

The following Priority of the message can be sent for ease of reading:

• Normal
• High
• Very High
• Most Urgent

New Reminder can be made with the following parameters:

• Recipient Name to be searched from a list of users in the organization
• Subject
• Reminder
• Message
• From Date - To Date
• Priority of the message
• Recipient name from the list
• Send or print the message
• Search the reminders
• Forward a message to other users in the local network / Window Platform etc like an SMS

CS RMIS Royalty Management Information System is an exhaustive system for the Publishers and Publishing / Reprint Right Holders. It covers and tracks all the steps right from the inception of the title to calculation of Royalties and Managing the Accounts in all details . It can be further tailored as per user requirements .

CS:RMIS gives flexibility to define and change Royalty Contract. It allows multiple payees (author / proprietor / nominees) for one contract and / or multiple contracts per ISBN. It takes care of all forms of Royalty Earnings – Sales / Subsidiary Rights (Translations, Movie, Book-Club etc.), Permissions / Advances and Expenses which have to be accounted for in Royalty.

CS:RMIS and Accounts System are embedded in each other and hence no extra effort is needed for Payment of Royalty Cheques.

For computation of Royalty, it provides flexibility in the form of variable Royalties based on (Stepped) Sales Volume, Kind of Sale, Discount Percentage (thresholds), Cover Price, Sale below Cost Price and so on.

At all the stages of automation, CSRMIS provides all assistance to user by providing display/pickup of helpful and meaningful information and opportunity to Review, Backtrack and Over-ride the information sensibly.

CS:RMIS generates Prompts for Special Executive Action by the Royalty Manager to take care of Special Agreements, TDS. It generates the Royalty Accrual Advice and takes it down to the Balance Sheet.

CS:RMIS generates communications for the authors / proprietors with sales and royalty related financial data. The system also generates and posts all accounts and in an integrated fashion everything goes right up to the Balance Sheet in a best possible manner.

The CS:RMIS is divided into the following major parts:
1. ROYALTY Contract Information System
2. ROYALTY Agreements Processing System
3 . ROYALTY Computation & Transaction System
4. ROYALTY Specialized Financial Accounts System

1. Royalty Contract Information System:

It is a comprehensive system, which provides all the relevant information about the Royalty Contracts and facilities to Monitor and Review the same. It comprises of the following information blocks:
   • ROYALTY CONTRACTS
   • Publisher's (Self) PUBLISHING BRIEF
   • Rights Submission – Tracking System
   • Royalty Sub-Contracting ( to other Publishers / Agencies )
   • Comprehensive Reports and Query Screens
2. Royalty Agreements Processing System :

COVERAGE
   • Rules Based Processing (flexible - as per user needs )
   • Defining Shares of Authors / Proprietors / Nominees Registered in the Contract
   • Defining of Sales Transactions Eligible for Inclusion / Exclusion in Royalty Computations
   • Defining of Royalty Amount / Percentage on the basis of Sales Slabs
   • Defining Applicable Price on which the Royalty will be Computed (flexible)
   • Sales Returns taken into account to adjust Royalty Computation
   • Adjustments of Purchases by Author against Royalty Earned
   • Facility to View / Update and incorporate changes to cater for Special Situations
   • Incorporating payment of Advances as defined in the Contract.