Benefits & services for publishers
Easy handling , clear data structure, fast performance, secure working.
Discover why publishers in numerous countries use the IDNV system!
Your benefits and services as IDNV participant
Technology for data management and communication:
Participating publishers gain access to the high-value and user-friendly IDNV software IDNV-Master and/or IDNV-Sales.
- Administrate and publish your catalog data conveniently and promptly every day
- Retrieve orders from retailers and transfer order information into your in-house system with the integrated data interface - at no additional cost
- Research the IDNV database as retailers and libraries do and check how your items are presented in the IDNV general catalog
Editorial services:
Professional data management and qualified consultation through our editorial team are the heart of the IDNV services for publishers.
- Daily survey of incoming data by the IDNV editorial staff
- Up-to-date publishing of new and changed items for all participants
- Continuous updating of editorial norms and reference lists
- Direct contact to support team via email or telephone
- Free monthly newsletter with tips and tricks
Benefit from further advantages:
- Allow your editions to be found easily in the ISMN central registry
- Reference price function
- Registration in the participant and industry directory
- Free software updates
- AODP ready (from Version 3.0)
Optional services for your individual needs
- Catalog listing of distributors
- Data interface for in-house systems including import function for image files
- Data service for your own homepage
- Specialised data services for other catalogs and systems
- Import of larger amounts of data (e.g. new price announcements for your complete catalog)
- Editorial full service
- Editorial service order retrieval for publishers
- Scan service for cover and example pages with direct import into IDNV system
- Scan service for the full digitalisation of editions with direct import into AODP hosting server
- Multi-user version
- Next biggest version of IDNV-Master when the data limit is reached
- Hosting services and hosting software for AODP
- ERP Mapping System for efficient and comfortable data mapping
- Training for data management with IDNV-Master (Group and individual training)
- Training for the use of AODP in the IDNV (Group and individual training)
- Additional individual data services upon request. Together we will find a solution to your problem. Just drop us a line!
IDNV-Master - Software for catalog and product data management
With the powerful software system IDNV-Master, you can manage your catalogs in a flexible database and publish them into the system with the quick and secure data exchange facility on a daily basis. You can enter your information, changes and new items once and send them with one click of the mouse to all your customers without delay. In IDNV-Master you can manage small catalogs as well as large ones. The program is made available with participation (depending on the group) or it can be hired at a reasonable cost. With the optional data supply facility, you can also use the IDNV item data for your stock control system or company website.
Some IDNV-Master functions
- Easy creation of item data in entry masks
- Convenient import of image files
- Functions for mass-editing of data
- Various editing and selection possibilities
- Integrated sending facility for changes and new items, secure data exchange
- Flexible data import in text format
- Reference lists and codelists
- Searching possibilities in the IDNV main databases
- ISMN support (as well as barcode formats: ISBN, EAN, UPC), with check-sum calculation
- Separate single titles database, creation and management of content information
- Sales and hire material management
- Separate price management (countries, currencies, VAT)
- Proir notice of prices changes with automatical display of the new price on the effiective date.
- Definition of distribution in different countries globally as well as for individual items
- Maintenance of several editions / distributions in one system
System requirements
- Standard PC with Microsoft® Windows® XP upwards
- Internet connection for Online update
IDNV-Sales - Software for order processing
With IDNV-Sales it is possible to receive and process orders sent by retailers via the IDNV ordering system. You can connect the software to your stock control system via interfaces.
- An interface for searching just like in the IDNV-Catalog software
- Receipt of orders
- Online data update of master data (complete catalog, participants, code lists)
- Secure and efficient data transmission
- Flexible export interfaces for electronic order processing
- Customer identification with up-to-date IDNV participant database
- Possibility of entering internal customer numbers in the local IDNV participant database
- Order history in the integrated database
- Practical printouts with barcodes (for checks or manual order processing)
- Possibility of complete automation with data exchange at regular intervals
- Possibility of starting an external program after reception and export via interface
System requirements
- Standard PC with Microsoft® Windows® XP upwards
- Internet connection for online update