Invoicing and Follow-Up
Paperwork!
Paperwork!
Paperwork!
(Computers can't do it all.)
Accounts Receivable
FEATURED
BOOKS
The
I WAS A SLAVE
Book Collection
Over 228,000
published
True life stories
in the own words
of thousands of
American ex-slaves; dictated during interviews held
in the 1930s;
includes
their photos
Book 1:
Descriptions of
Plantation Life
Book 2:
The Lives of
Slave Men
Book 3:
The Lives of
Slave Women
Book 4:
The Breeding of
Slaves
Book 5:
The Lives of
Slave Children
Book 6:
Slave Auctions
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Bookstore Collections
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Order-Taking / Fulfillment Services / Book Sales Processing
BOOK FULFILLMENT
Order-taking (also called fulfillment and order processing) is the most labor-intensive and tedious chore in the publishing industry -- but a necessary one. It is the combination of services that are rendered during and after the sale of your book. We receive the orders from your customers (individual people, bookstores, schools, and others). Then, we process their payments, mail or ship your books, and pay you.
If you're not available
from 9:00 - 5:00 Eastern Time, Monday through Friday
to take orders for your book,
let us do it for you!
A special toll-free telephone number -- not the one above -- will be given to you when you become our fulfillment client. Put it on your promotional literature and your web site. Say the number during your television or radio interviews. Include it in articles about you/your book in newspapers and magazines. Distribute it everywhere so people can call to order your book.
They can order online in our bookstore, call, fax, or mail their orders.
Keep all of the other sales processing systems that you have. You can use them in addition to using our services.
You can sit back and relax. We'll do the work for you. |
Please read all of the details:
One-Time-Only Set-Up Fee: $99
to set up your book in our inventory system
and to register your book in our national sales system
This includes a FREE basic listing
in our online bookstore.
(The set-up and listing are free
for authors who publish their books with us.)
Your customers will be able to purchase your book online
in our bookstore, by calling our toll-free number, or by mail.
Bookstores, wholesalers, other distributors, schools (public
and private grade and high schools; colleges/universities), libraries, government agencies, independent booksellers,
and specialty outlets usually send purchase orders
that are mailed or faxed to us.
Our percentage is 15%.
Authors never pay any of the costs for the mailing or shipping
of books to individual customers, bookstores, or other outlets.
Authors pay to ship their books to us -- only.
The Services that We Provide:
• Toll-free phone order-taking and online order-taking |
• Inventory management |
• Processing of payments |
• Order-taking for bulk sales |
• Supply maintenance and ordering |
• Direct sales and accompanying fees |
• Direct sales equipment |
• Warehousing and warehousing system |
• Purchase order processing and follow-up |
• Invoicing for bookstores with monthly follow-up |
• Customer services and special requests |
• Packaging (variety of sizes of bubble bags and boxes; tapes; bubble wrap; Styrofoam filling, and other packaging needs) + labor = handling costs |
• Shipping accounts from Pitney Bowes (= US Postal Service postage), Federal Express, and UPS |
• Financial records and other bookkeeping duties |
• Equipment: postage meters, scales for small packages and scales for up to 150 pounds for boxed books, computers, printers, voicemail system, order processing equipment; credit card terminals |
• Trained staff |
• Labor costs |
• Daily processing of online sales |
• Payment system for fulfillment expenditures and vendors |
• Payment system for authors |
We accept American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and VISA credit/debit cards, checks, money orders, and bank wires as payments from your individual customers and outlets.
Major bookstores and outlets usually order with purchase orders by fax or by mail. Outlets pay in 30 to 90 days, depending upon their system. On our invoices, we request payment in 30 days and most comply. Other outlets pay by check or credit card at the time of purchase.
We pay authors by checks mailed monthly or quarterly, depending upon their sales level. Payment details and payment schedules are available. Sales reports along with inventory reports are provided.
We will mail or ship to anywhere in the world that is accessible by the U.S. Postal Service, UPS, or Federal Express.
Inventory Management
 How to Submit Your Book
How to submit your book to BEGIN YOUR SERVICES
for order-taking and a listing in our online bookstore.
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Prepare your submission today. Don't put it off until tomorrow.
Now is the time for your success!
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Packaging
Accounts Payable
Client Accounts
Processing Credit
and Debit Cards
Purchase Orders
General Accounting
Payments to Authors
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