There are a number of different sections in Consonance to tailor to your company’s precise requirements.

The Settings 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

In-house subject codes

Set up and maintain your in-house subject 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.

ISBN-13s

Upload the list you buy from Nielsen, to populate the dropdown on the metadata page.

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

Supplier configs

Set up and manage your distribution suppliers.

Pricing territories

Set up the countries which use particular currency prices

Discount codes

Recipients are told what discounts should be applied to prices via discount codes, sent in ONIX. They can be added to all prices, for all suppliers and ONIX recipients, or only to particular prices, suppliers and recipients. Raise a ticket to have discount codes added to a supplier config.

Supplier configs

Suppliers who list your products are sent ordering, prices and availability updates, in ONIX messages. They can receive information about all prices, and all products, or only particular prices and products. Changing any data on this page has an immmediate effect: please raise a ticket to clarify how to achieve the outcome you require.

Legal

Contract sets

Group contracts into sets for royalty statement purposes, when cross-accounting is not required

Contract templates

Set up your usual clauses. Use them either to ensure consistency, or as a jumping off point for a new bespoke contract.

Account

Company settings

Manage company settings such as royalty periods.

Group

If you are a participant in a group, you can access the client accounts shown on this page.