There are a number of different sections in Consonance to tailor to your company’s precise requirements.
The Configuration section is where you define many values specific to your company.
Bibliographic
Publishers
Set up and maintain publisher names
Imprints
Set up and maintain imprint names
Categories
Set up and maintain your in-house subject category codes
In-house editions
Manage your own in-house editions, such as paperback, hardback and so on. This makes for a more flexible list than the ONIX edition codes.
In-house formats
Manage your own in-house formats, such as ePub, Mobi or spiral-bound. This makes for a more flexible list than the ONIX format codes.
Work defaults
Set up default profiles for your works
Age range codes
Set up age range codes for your works
Pricing territories
Set up the countries which use particular currency prices
Work templates
Set up templates to automatically populate data such as BIC codes and the contract to copy
Marketing
Advance information sheet templates
Define advance information sheet layouts
Catalogue templates
Set up catalogue templates
Briefing templates
Automatically create briefing templates for each new book
Sales
Channels
Set up sales channels for your books e.g. Home, Gratis
Masterchannels
Set up sales channel groupings for your books, e.g. UK, Export
Sales profiles
Set up and manage your monthly sales profiles
Returns profiles
Set up and manage your monthly returns profiles.
Returns codes
Set up and manage your returns codes
Supplier configs
Set up and manage your distribution suppliers.
Sales reps
Set up and manage your sales reps
Finance
Currencies
Set up and manage your exchange rates
Cost groups
Set up cost groups – the parents of finance codes e.g. Production, Marketing, Trade costs
Finance codes
Define your company finance codes e.g. Print, Binding, Promotional spend.
Legal
Contract clauses
Add and manage contract clauses, to be used in contract templates
Contract sets
Group contracts into sets for royalty statement purposes, when cross-accounting is not required
Production
Paper stocks
Set up and maintain paper and jacket stocks
Binding types
Set up and maintain binding types
Company
Manage company settings such as royalty periods
OAuth
Configure OAuth connections (developers only)