Magazine Manager

The Magazine Manager is a magazine publishing software solution, serving over 25,000+ publications worldwide. It is a web-based CRM built for publishers, by publishers. In a unified platform, the Magazine Manager includes a sales CRM and opportunities pipeline, a centralized ad order entry system, a built-in electronic signature system, production and project management, billing, digital pagination and editions, marketing automation, circulation, audience development, subscription management, and an email verification system.

The Magazine Manager is a web-based CRM solution designed to help digital and print publishers streamline operations in an ever-changing media environment.

Magazine Manager’s rapidly expanding product line includes a world-class customer relationship management platform, a sales pipeline opportunities module, an order management system that handles print orders, events, and digital products, a complete editorial module, the most powerful billing module in the magazine media industry, a detailed accounts receivable system, and a complete reporting suite.

Pricing is available on request and support is extended via live chat, phone, email and other measures.

The Magazine Manager's customer relationship management module enables businesses to build, categorize and search the customer database based on names, phone numbers, emails, companies and addresses, among other categories.

Through the creation of ad orders or rate cards and ad inventory management, The Magazine Manager helps publishers streamline the entire print and digital advertising lifecycles. Any type of media buy can be accurately managed, including email newsletters, website ads, events, and bulk media buys.

Created with a built-in electronic signature system, Magazine Manager helps to streamline and automate the proposal approval process by allowing sales staff to send electronic, legally binding documents to be signed and approved. Once signed and approved, the proposal will be automatically approved within the CRM.

With Magazine Manager’s collaborative production and project management module, publishers can rest assured that nothing falls through the cracks. Designed with customizable project stages and Project Timeline, any type of media buy can be accurately tracked and managed. Team members receive live production updates of ad units, submit real-time feedback, and track time estimates of ongoing projects. And, using Magazine Manager’s automation engine, the module even sends out automated notifications about upcoming material deadlines.

The Magazine Manager's reporting suite gives publishers insight into performance and profitability. Any information logged within the system can be tracked and monitored.

Additionally, it comes with an invoicing tool, which lets users filter invoices based on statuses such as open, closed, past due date and more.

The Magazine Manager facilitates integration with several third-party solutions such as Zapier, WordPress, MailChimp and more.

The Magazine Manager’s integration with QuickBooks accounting gives publishing businesses the power to perform transactions, collect payments, store invoices, and prepare custom reports based on aging A/R summaries, sales agent performance, and conversion rate analysis.

With Magazine Manager's Gmail integration, users are able to send targeted emails to groups of ten through a Gmail account. These emails are then recorded in their Gmail folder. We also have a template editor that can be used for both small batches and individual emails, so users can save email templates for sales reps to use. We’ve also created our own Google Chrome extension that connects a user’s Gmail account to our CRM allowing them to see Magazine Manager notes within their Gmail, add notes to Contact Records through their Gmail, and even copy emails into the CRM.

Magazine Manager includes Media Mate the company's AI powered media assistant which completes tasks from content creation, to website segmentation, media analytics, and automated prospecting research.

The CRM integrates with Marketing Manager, the marketing automation and audience development platform and ChargeBrite, a recurring revenue platform. The audience development platform includes a landing page management system, email marketing automation, a website visitor identification platform, competitor insights, and an email verification platform.