Music publishers
Hire out performance material, settle rights – open.junixx maps the music publishing business in its own logic.
What counts for music publishers.
The music publishing business follows rules of its own. Most of the income today comes from collecting societies and from hiring out performance material, not from the classical sale of printed music, which has been declining markedly for years. An administrative system designed for the book trade passes this business by.
Rental maps what actually brings in revenue: quotes, hire cases, performance uses and reports to collecting societies as one case, instead of spread across several tools. Contracts & royalties addresses the second pillar – with reporting to collecting societies and period-accurate billing runs, distributions become traceable. Just now that is more than accounting: GEMA's distribution rules are up for reform, and anyone with their own distribution logic in the system can work through what a change would mean before it takes effect.
A sideshow becomes the foundation here. Since collecting societies have been acting successfully against the unlicensed use of repertoire in AI training, it is the quality of the work data that decides whether rights can be enforced. The catalog of works, the instrumentation and reporting to collecting societies sit in open.junixx in the Work module – not listed as a core module on this page, but part of the same application.
These modules play to their strengths here.
These modules address the challenges of music publishers directly. The full range of open.junixx features is always included – every other module stands beneath.
Rental
Performance material as the main source of revenue: a quote, a hire case, a performance use and the report to the collecting society as one case.
- Quotes & hire cases
- Performance uses
- Invoices & dunning
- Reports to collecting societies
Contracts & royalties
Keep distributions traceable – with reporting to collecting societies and period-accurate billing runs, even when the rules change.
- Contracts for buying & selling
- Royalty scales & collective statements
- Billing runs per period
- VG Wort, GEMA & license revenue
Every other module
- CRM
One central record of addresses and customers, linked into every publishing process.
- Correspondence
Email and letter templates with a complete history – straight from the contact.
- Calendar
Appointments in one place – and as an iCal subscription in Outlook, Apple Calendar and Google Calendar.
- GDPR
Data protection documentation in one central place – ready for inspection as a complete file.
- Title data
ONIX 3.0 title management as your central product database.
- Work
Maintain contributors, texts and music metadata once – for every edition beneath.
- Manuscript review
Pre-screen submitted manuscripts – with a recommendation, a fit assessment and editorial notes.
- Production
Costing, unit cost and carbon footprint – the whole production in one project.
- Media (DAM)
Digital asset management for covers, images and documents – centrally linked.
- Media Cockpit
Posts, press and advertising on one timeline – planned, approved, measured.
- Complimentary copies
Handle complimentary, voucher and legal deposit copies cleanly.
- Orders & invoices
From quote to payment – for books, subscriptions, advertising, rentals and events.
- Advertising
Sell ad space – from booking to invoice.
- Incoming invoices
Capture documents, assign accounts, approve – and export as a DATEV batch.
- App orders
A back-office inbox for orders from the sales rep app, with an approval workflow.
- Warehouse
Stock levels, reorder points and goods receipt under control.
- Procurement
Supplier orders in the third-party title business.
- Reporting
Revenue, budget and previous year side by side – without the detour through Excel.
- Subscriptions
Subscriber management, invoicing included.
- Agency
Service business with time tracking and invoicing.
- Events
Seminars, training courses and conferences – from registration to certificate.
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