What is Abacus and how much does it cost?
PublishDrive’s Abacus is a powerful royalty-splitting service designed to help indie authors, publishers, and collaborators manage their royalties efficiently. Whether you’re publishing with co-authors, handling contributors, or managing a publishing team, Abacus automates the process of calculating and distributing royalties.
Abacus is a separate part of the PublishDrive ecosystem to Distribution and the Publishing Assistant, you do not have to be using one of them in order to use Abacus.
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What Is Abacus?
Abacus allows you to import sales reports from different platforms, making it easy to track earnings and split royalties based on pre-agreed percentages. It’s especially useful for publishers managing multiple authors or contributors, providing transparency and accuracy in royalty distribution.
With Abacus, you can:
- Import sales reports directly from platforms like Amazon, Apple, and Google
- Automatically calculate royalties based on custom splits for each contributor
- Easily track and manage royalty payments to collaborators
- Generate detailed royalty reports to share with your team
Abacus is designed to save time and eliminate the complexity of manual royalty calculations.
Abacus Pricing
Abacus is available on a per-title subscription basis, making it a flexible solution for managing royalties no matter the size of your catalog.
| Pricing Structure | Cost |
|---|---|
| First title | Free forever |
| Each additional title | $1.49/month per title |
The first title is completely free, allowing you to use Abacus at no cost for a single project. As your catalog grows, you can easily add more titles, with a fixed fee of $1.49 per title per month. For large volume uploads, we offer custom pricing, so feel free to contact us for more details.
How Does Abacus Work?
Using Abacus is simple. Here’s how it works:
- Import sales data: Import your sales reports from platforms such as Amazon, Google Play, and Apple.
- Set royalty splits: Define how royalties should be split between contributors, based on percentages you agree upon.
- Calculate royalties: Abacus automatically calculates how much each contributor is owed.
- Generate reports: You can generate detailed royalty reports to share with your collaborators, ensuring transparency.
Abacus is designed to be user-friendly, so you don’t need any specialized accounting skills to handle royalty management.
Why Use Abacus?
Managing royalties for multiple contributors can be challenging, especially when dealing with complex contracts or large volumes of sales data. Abacus simplifies this by automating the process, ensuring that everyone gets paid fairly and on time.
Key benefits include:
- Time savings: Abacus handles the heavy lifting of royalty calculations, freeing up time for more important tasks.
- Accuracy: No more manual errors—Abacus ensures that royalty splits are calculated correctly.
- Transparency: Generate clear, professional reports that detail how royalties were calculated, keeping everyone informed.
- Scalability: As your publishing business grows, Abacus can scale with you, making it easy to manage royalties for an expanding catalog.
Start with Abacus Today
Getting started with Abacus is easy. You can try it for free with your first title, and as your catalog grows, you can add more titles for a small monthly fee by getting in contact with our Sales team (sales@publishdrive.com).