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Video Tutorials

October 10, 2011 By

Our first royalty software video tutorial covers how to create a new royalty database.

You can view it by going to the Support: Video Tutorials or by clicking this link: http://www.easyroyaltiesusa.com/demos/Lesson_1_CreateDatabase.htm

Our goal at Easy Royalties USA.com is to release a new video tutorial each week. Our schedule for forthcoming tutorials include;

  • October 17th: Creating a Royalty Statement
  • October 24th: Recording payments of royalty statements

If you would like to see a tutorial on a specific topic send an email to edwin@kensai.net

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QuickBooks Royalty Software Configuration

August 2, 2011 By

The 7 steps for configuring QuickBooks to work with Easy Royalties are detailed in this document.

A major advantage of Easy Royalties is that you can export products, royalty recipients, and sales from QuickBooks and import this information into Easy Royalties. You can export payments from Easy Royalties and import these payments; using a 3rd party application, into QuickBooks.

The document covers the seven steps for configuring QuickBooks for use with Easy Royalties.

  1. Activate account numbering
  2. Configure product records
  3. Activate and create pricing levels
  4. Define vendor types for royalty recipients
  5. Configure customer records
  6. Create general ledger accounts for royalties
  7. Create export report

Download: 7 Steps to Configuring QuickBooks for Easy Royalties

 

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Toy Royalty Software & Contracts

July 17, 2011 By

Toy Licensing Agreement Basics

1. Royalty is usually a percentage of wholesale sales.

2. Royalty agreements usually include an un-refundable royalty advance against future royalty earnings and a royalty guarantee. If the agreed upon level of royalties is not reached within a period, the difference is owed to the licensor.

Sample Toy Licensing Agreements

Toy License Agreement – Lucas Licensing Ltd. and Hasbro Inc.(Oct 13, 1997)

License Agreement for use of characters from Adventures of Gumby TV Series for use in Freezer Pops, Coolers, and Fruit Forms

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Change Parent Title

April 10, 2011 By

Do you want to move an edition (a product) and its related sales to another title?

You can do this from the General tab of the Title edition record. Just press the Change parent title button at the bottom of the screen and select the new parent title for this format. The edition and related sales will be transferred to the new parent title.

Move edition to a new product

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Royalty Software for Large Publishers

February 10, 2011 By

The leading royalty software solutions for large book publishers with revenue of $100M+ are; Klopotek, Publishing Technology’s Advance, VirtuSales, Royalty Tracker from Metacomet, Alliant from Real Software Systems and Intellectual Property Management from SAP. [Read more...]

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Terminal Services Setup for Remote Users

February 4, 2011 By

Users in remote offices using PCs can access Easy Royalties via Windows Terminal Services.  [Read more...]

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Royalty Software Selection

January 2, 2011 By

How do you select the right royalty software? For many royalty paying companies it is based on;

  • How much they want to spend
  • The size of their company
  • The royalty rules used in their contracts
  • Whether they are looking for a stand-alone royalty solution or an integrated royalty solution
  • References from users of the software [Read more...]
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IT Best Practices for Small Publishers

January 1, 2011 By

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Companies running royalty software from a desktop should adopt the following five practices to protect their royalty software data files and the computer that it runs on. [Read more...]

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Quickbooks Running Slow?

September 14, 2010 By

Two reasons why QuickBooks may be running slow are; insufficient memory and too large a file size for your version of QuickBooks. [Read more...]

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Backup your Royalty Files

May 11, 2010 By

A publisher contacted us with a story of woe. Someone stole their computer, and they hadn’t backed up the files on it. [Read more...]

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