Periodical Publishing System

Urban Insight's Periodical Publishing System (PPS) is designed specifically for periodicals such as small-scale newspapers, magazines, or newsletters that want to publish and sell articles online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication. The system also provides a web-based subscriber management system that integrates print and online subscribers.

Scenario:
You publish a print newsletter or magazine with several hundred (or thousand) subscribers, and you have a modest website where you provide information on subscribing, and perhaps one or two articles from your most recent issue. Ideally, a visitor to your website would be able to perform a full-text search of all articles from your past issues, and then be able to buy articles, or subscribe to your online and/or print editions. Perhaps you are paying a consultant to update your website when you publish each new issue. Your past research has shown that a publishing and e-commerce system like this is far too expensive to justify.

Solution:
Urban Insight's open source-based Periodical Publishing System (PPS) is an affordable solution that enables you to use a friendly web interface to upload your articles and photos, then decide which articles you'd like to make available for free, and which articles will require a fee.

Visitors to your website can sign up to purchase an article with a credit card, or subscribe to an online or print version of the newsletter. All past issues are full-text searchable, so your visits can easily search by keyword or phrase.

You can also use PPS to manage your print subscriber list, including subscription expirations and payments, and cross-market to your online subscribers by sending print marketing materials.

PPS features include:

• An entirely web-based interface to perform all publishing and subscriber management tasks.
• A subscriber system that integrates online and print subscribers (or you can keep them separate);
• Ability for users to renew their subscription on the website using their existing account.
• Multiple sections (state news, local news, editorial, weather, sports, etc.).
• Multiple levels of administrative control for editors, assistant editors, staff writers
• Statistics about subscribers.
• Capability to perform full-text searches of all articles within the system.
• A photo repository to assign photos to articles.
• Ability to control the order in which articles are displayed .
• Easy integration with a merchant account for online transactions.
• Ability to display banner advertisements.