sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Sandrock) (12/10/87)
I am using a Mac+ and PageMaker 2.0a to publish a small magazine three
times a year. Now that I have survived the first year (:-) and seem to
have the production end of the business down pretty well, I need to get
a handle on the subscription-management/accounting end of things (just
in time for April 15th hopefully!). My question being, is there some
sort of subscription-management software available for the Mac? It doesn't
have to be fancy, just functional. As far as accounting, In-house Account-
ant from Migent sounds very good, and for the right price, but something
that could handle accounting and subscriptions in one package would be
ideal. (This something I'm doing in my spare time obviously!)
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
Mark Sandrock
BITNET: sandrock@uiucscs
Internet: sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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> I am using a Mac+ and PageMaker 2.0a to publish a small magazine three > times a year. Now that I have survived the first year (:-) and seem to > have the production end of the business down pretty well, I need to get > a handle on the subscription-management/accounting end of things (just > in time for April 15th hopefully!). My question being, is there some > sort of subscription-management software available for the Mac? I do my subscription management with FileMaker+. It's currently somewhat primitive, but I keep an 'expires' field in the data record so I can tell who's supposed to get what. I also keep a 'last shipped' record that I use to track one time comps and other special shipments. It's awkward, but it works. My long term hope is to write a hypercard stack that'll do this for me and dump data out for various potboiler messages: mailing labels, renewal letters, pleas for money, whatever. By using HC for the data management and Word 3.01's mail merge facility, I think I can put together a good system. I don't know of any commercial system for the mac yet. chuq ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ