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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Subscription management on Mac?
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Date: 15 Dec 87 00:11:49 GMT
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>   I am using a Mac+ and PageMaker 2.0a to publish a small magazine three
>   times a year.  Now that I have survived the first year (:-) and seem to
>   have the production end of the business down pretty well, I need to get
>   a handle on the subscription-management/accounting end of things (just
>   in time for April 15th hopefully!).  My question being, is there some
>   sort of subscription-management software available for the Mac?

I do my subscription management with FileMaker+. It's currently somewhat
primitive, but I keep an 'expires' field in the data record so I can tell
who's supposed to get what. I also keep a 'last shipped' record that I use
to track one time comps and other special shipments.

It's awkward, but it works. My long term hope is to write a hypercard stack
that'll do this for me and dump data out for various potboiler messages:
mailing labels, renewal letters, pleas for money, whatever. By using HC
for the data management and Word 3.01's mail merge facility, I think I can
put together a good system. I don't know of any commercial system for the
mac yet.

chuq
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