Using Pre Production (or Editorial Workflow)
The Pre-Production area of the Production Module allows you to track a book from the germ of an idea to a possible product. Conceptually, it is a place to record manuscripts received or ideas that may never make it into reality. It is a point in the system to manage next actions, and any correspondence. This area can be flexed to include workflow and status with permission control on which staff can progress titles between which statuses. Linking these workflows into the production meetings area can make it a useful tool for tracking which titles were discussed at which meetings. It can also track orders, P&L, generate AIs and general status of the long lead of title creation. Pre-production also has comprehensive audit functionality. Please note that the first article in this section details the basic instructions for adding a new project idea to Pre-Production. Every article underneath this one then takes each tab within the system in turn. The articles therefore follow the structure of the system itself, bearing in mind that not all of the information fields available to you are mandatory, nor will they be necessarily relevant to your organisation. As with anything in the Stison system, you can make this module work for YOU. At the moment, the following articles detail the possibilities available to you.
- Setting Up Your Pre-Production Statuses
- Setting up Pre-Production Workflows
- Adding an Idea to Pre-Production
- Contacts associated with the title
- Sales Forecasts Tab
- Costing a possible project
- Profit & Loss Reporting
- Schedule of editorial tasks
- Reviewers' Quotations/Feedback
- Manipulating the Editorial Schedule
- Recording Rights Held
- Royalties
- Production Schedule Deadlines
- Move a Title to Book Production