Kensai Supports Easy Royalties
December 27, 2008
Kensai International Ltd. now offers implementation and technical support to Easy Royalties users in the United States.
Easy Royalties is an affordable royalty software; priced at $500 to $10,000, that is designed to meet the needs of small publishers.
This past summer Kensai assisted a major art museum in evaluating their royalty options. After selecting Easy Royalties they hired us for a rapid implementation project. The project took 100 hours and left us quite impressed with the potential that Easy Royalties had for meeting the needs of smaller publishers in the United States. The developer; JDC Software, was impressed with the success of our rapid implementation.
The result was an agreement for Kensai International Ltd. to market and support Easy Royalty clients in the United States.
Kensai International is working with JDC Software of the UK; the developers of Easy Royalties, to improve the software. Kensai will be providing North American users one-on-one on-line tutorials and interested clients on-site training and implementation services.
Kensai will continue to help our clients identify and evaluate all the software options available to them. Why? As publishing consultants we recognize that publishers need to select the software that best meets their current and future needs. There is no one software solution that can meet the needs of all publishers.
Example 1: Easy Royalties vs DashBook. Both solutions are priced for small publishers (with Dashbook being priced lower), both are from relatively small companies and both calculate royalties; however, Easy Royalties can handle much more complex royalty contracts. One example is that Easy Royalties allows one to pay no royalties on below cost (i.e. remainder sales) and to calculate different royalty rates based on sales type (Example: Foreign Sales vs Domestic Sales). Dashbook functionality supports only a single royalty rule.
Example 2: Easy Royalties v.s. the Media Services Group hosted solution. Easy Royalties costs a lot less than the MSG’s solution; however, Easy Royalties is a relatively new firm with just 3 employees and MSG has been around since 1988, has over 60 employees and their royalty solution is a lot more powerful. A medium sized publisher would likely select the MSG solution while a publisher more concerned about cost is more likely to select the Easy Royalties solution.
