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What sets Advantage apart as a superior subscription & product order management solution is total flexibility.
Flexibility that allows you to efficiently run your business the way you want to. And with the rapid expansion of consumer preference for access to content through subscription and membership models—whether you’re a publisher, membership organization or subscription box provider—you need a market responsive order-to-cash solution.
That’s Advantage.
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to now have Advantage running in three countries---Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Having Advantage as the single subscription system provides the efficiencies, cost reductions, and superior capabilities we need to move forward. The people at AdvantageCS are real professionals.”
Ecommerce is increasingly a critical revenue source for publishers and membership associations. But tying eCommerce into complete customer and related financial information is critical. Since Cider Plus is built on the same system logic as Advantage, you immediately realize the power of 1,000s of features.
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Beckett is a leading provider of collectible card and memorabilia services. Beckett serves a global customer base and offers grading services for a wide range of collectibles, including sports cards, coins, and comic books. The company's price guides are widely recognized as the most comprehensive and accurate in the industry and are used by collectors, dealers, and auction houses around the world.
Advantage client since 2003.
Engaged Media is a modern digital media company with roots in print media. They have 60 years of experience publishing print magazines for niche audiences and have applied what they've learned to target today's niche audiences precisely and profitably.
Advantage client since 2003.
The publishing division of Our Sunday Visitor produces six periodicals, including its flagship publication, the weekly Catholic newspaper from which the company takes its name. In addition to the periodicals, Our Sunday Visitor publishes and markets over 500 products including books, tapes, software, and education materials.
The Offertory Solutions division of the company is the nation's largest supplier of offering envelope products and services to Catholic parishes throughout the United States, manufacturing over 800 million envelopes annually.
Advantage client since 1990.
Wolters Kluwer Health provides information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, producing textbooks, reference products, and journals. Their bibliographic, reference and pharmaceutical databases, drug information software, point-of-care tools, web-based information systems and online continuing education products also support the delivery of health information via interactive formats.
The company’s relationship with Advantage is a long one, going back to when J. B. Lippincott became an ACS client in 1989. Through mergers and acquisitions, the company in turn became Lippincott-Raven, and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. More recently, Wolters Kluwer consolidated its various medical information companies into the Wolters Kluwer Health division.
Other than Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, major Wolters Kluwer Health brands using Advantage include Facts & Comparisons and several ADIS journals. In addition to many of their print and electronic media, WKH also uses Advantage for reprints, licensing, permissions and servicing societies, such as the American Heart Association (AHA).
Advantage client since 1989.
Value Line provides investors with in-depth financial information, both in print and online, plus research, commentary, price projections, and analytical tools. Value Line has published The Value Line Investment Survey for more than seven decades, and has since added numerous specialized print and online investment publications and information services covering mutual funds, convertible securities, options, special situations and more.
Advantage client since 2010.
Unity is a non-profit organization providing spiritual support to people worldwide through their prayer, publishing, and educational services and products. Unity publishes magazines, books, audio- and videocassettes, booklets, pamphlets, and other materials for spiritual growth. Unity’s daily devotional magazine, Daily Word, is sent to nearly one million subscribers each month.
Advantage client since 2005.
The Upper Room is a global, ecumenical ministry and a part of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The Upper Room offers a daily devotional guide, spiritual books, and formational programs to churches, individuals, and all who seek God.
The Upper Room was using several disparate systems and wanted to integrate everything into one system in order to offer a better customer experience. After an RFP process and software demonstrations, they chose Advantage as the solution that best met their needs. The implementation is in progress.
Advantage client since 2021.
The IET is a registered charity that is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing its members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers. It aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, and to promote engineering and the work of engineers to society. The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries.
IET products include journals, E&T Magazine, books, publications, webinars, job boards, videos and a vast digital library. They also provide services to the industry such as expert advice to the UK’s Parliament, Government and other agencies on engineering-related policy issues. The IET also awards professional qualifications to safeguard standards, manages more than 1,500 events each year, awards more than £1,000,000 in awards and scholarships each year and works with education providers to help inspire young people’s interest in engineering and engineering.
Advantage client since 2017.
Oxford University Press publishes well over 200 academic and research journals and online books, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. Subjects cover a broad range of subject areas in the fields of Humanities, Law, Life Science, Mathematical and Physical Science, Medicine, and Social Science. Oxford is the world's oldest and largest university press and has more than 500 years of publishing expertise behind them. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478.
Advantage client since 2001.
Ouest France is a large regional newspaper company based in Brittany. They publish 4 daily papers and their flagship--called Ouest France--is the largest daily newspaper in France, with 800,000 copies and 44 editions a day.
Advantage client since 2010.
Mediahuis is a newspaper publisher in Belgium which was founded in 2013 as a joint venture of two Flemish corporations---Corelio and Concerta. The company’s roots, however, date back to 1879 when its first newspaper was published. Today’s Mediahuis encompasses radio stations, television stations, websites, and classified platforms, and, with the 2015 acquisition of the Dutch Telegraaf Media Groep, it added a large group of daily and weekly publications and doubled its circulation size.
Advantage client since 2017.
The American Medical Association is the largest medical association in the world. It publishes 12 journals, most notably the flagship Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The association also markets books, DVDs and continuing education to its physician members.
AMA uses Advantage for management, fulfillment, and billing of all of their subscriptions and on-line content (AMB). They use the web module extensively to allow their members and subscribers access to their subscriptions.
Advantage client since 1997.
Mary Ann Liebert publishes more than five dozen peer-reviewed print and online journals, newsletters, trade magazines and books in the areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.
Advantage client since 2001.
Martin Media publishes around a dozen titles in the areas of education and psychology, hobbies (specifically genealogy, coin collecting and woodworking) and social work. They also publish books and teaching tools, as well as maintaining a number of websites.
Advantage client since 2010.
A-lehdet was started in 1933 with a single magazine. Today, the grandchildren of the founders manage the company which has grown into a publishing house with a portfolio of 18 magazines, covering topics from politics to gardening, with customer demographics ranging from teenagers to senior citizens.
Advantage client since 2011.
Aller Holding A/S is the parent company of a media group, which is the leading publisher of weeklies in the Nordic countries with a weekly circulation of approximately 2.7 million issues. Aller Holding A/S was started in 1873 by Carl and Laura Aller and is one of the few companies in Denmark that is still family-owned.
Advantage client since 2012.
The American Board of Surgery (ABS) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1937 to establish a certification process and national certifying body for surgeons practicing in the U.S.
Based in Philadelphia, the organization also produces educational and testing materials and administers the tests for continuous certification as well as the initial certification. Some 31,000 surgeons are currently board certified by ABS.
Advantage client since 2021.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide. Founded in 1848, AAAS serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals.
Advantage client since 2002.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation created for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. AIP Publishing's portfolio includes 17 journals and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. AIP Publishing also publishes on behalf of several of AIP's Member Societies and other publishing partners.
Advantage client since 2012.
Bayard, a press and publishing group present in 16 countries, is a major publisher in four market sectors: youth, religious, senior and nature. Through its different publishing brands, Bayard, Bayard Jeunesse, Milan and Twenty Third, the Bayard Group publishes more than 150 magazines worldwide.
Advantage client since 2006.
Duke University Press publishes over 30 academic journals and more than 100 new book titles each year. Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and issues a few publications for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine).
Advantage client since 2009.
Horizon Publishing Company, formerly known as Dow Theory Forecasts, Inc., publishes investment newsletters for individual investors nationwide, and books geared toward helping the individual investor take full advantage of the stock market.
Advantage client since 1999.
The company formerly known as Penton Media has been associated with Advantage since 1998. In that year, Intertec Publishing of Overland Park, Kansas became an Advantage client, with Duke Communications of Loveland, Colorado following in 2000. After going through several name and ownership changes in the interim, the two divisions were united in 2007 under the Penton Media brand. Another Advantage client, Farm Progress Companies was purchased by Penton in 2013. Penton Media was acquired by Informa in 2016.
AdvantageCS serves the groups that made up Penton Media---business publishing sectors including agriculture, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing and industrial design, and natural products and food.
Advantage client since 1998.
The Massachusetts Medical Society is a professional association for physicians and medical students. Dating back to 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating state medical society in the USA. The MMS publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 12 specialties. NEJM is the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.
Advantage client since 1999.
Aller Holding A/S is the parent company of a media group, which is the leading publisher of weeklies in the Nordic countries with a weekly circulation of approximately 2.7 million issues. Aller Holding A/S was started in 1873 by Carl and Laura Aller and is one of the few companies in Denmark that is still family-owned.
Advantage client since 2012.
Aller Holding A/S is the parent company of a media group, which is the leading publisher of weeklies in the Nordic countries with a weekly circulation of approximately 2.7 million issues. Aller Holding A/S was started in 1873 by Carl and Laura Aller and is one of the few companies in Denmark that is still family-owned.
Advantage client since 2012.
Altroconsumo Edizioni SRL a consumer organization which independently tests all manner of consumer products and then reports the results. Together with other organizations in Spain, Belgium and Portugal, Altroconsumo Edizioni SRL forms EuroConsumers, which is a major consumer defense organization in Europe and beyond.
This group edits a monthly magazine offering evaluations and ratings of various consumer products, and also publishes magazines on personal finance and health. Overall, about 27 print and online magazines are published in 5 languages over 5 countries and 2 continents, serving about 1.7 million subscribers.
Advantage client since 2013.
Deco Proteste Lda: Lisbon, Portugal is a consumer organization which independently tests all manner of consumer products and then reports the results. Together with other organizations in Spain, Italy and Belgium, Pro Teste - Associaçao Brasileira de Defesa do Consumidor forms EuroConsumers, which is a major consumer defense organization in Europe and beyond.
This group edits a monthly magazine offering evaluations and ratings of various consumer products, and also publishes magazines on personal finance and health health. Overall, about 27 print and online magazines are published in 5 languages over 5 countries and 2 continents, serving about 1.7 million subscribers.
Advantage client since 2013.
OCU Ediciones SA is a consumer organization which independently tests all manner of consumer products and then reports the results. Together with other organizations in Belgium, Italy and Portugal, OCU Ediciones SA forms EuroConsumers, which is a major consumer defense organization in Europe and beyond.
This group edits a monthly magazine offering evaluations and ratings of various consumer products, and also publishes magazines on personal finance and health. Overall, about 27 print and online magazines are published in 5 languages over 5 countries and 2 continents, serving about 1.7 million subscribers.
Advantage client since 2013.
Test-Achats (also known by its Flemish name of Test Aankoop) is a consumer organization which independently tests all manner of consumer products and then reports the results. Together with other organizations in Spain, Italy and Portugal, Test Achats forms EuroConsumers, which is a major consumer defense organization in Europe and beyond.
This group edits a monthly magazine offering evaluations and ratings of various consumer products, and also publishes magazines on personal finance and health. Overall, about 27 print and online magazines are published in 5 languages over 5 countries and 2 continents, serving about 1.7 million subscribers.
Advantage client since 2013.
Lee Agri-Media produces about a dozen weekly or bi-weekly print agricultural newspapers which are distributed free to qualified farmers and ranchers in the Upper Midwest. They also offer online products, such as a farm equipment search directory, and maintain a number of websites.
Advantage client since 2005.
Liturgy Training Publications is a not-for-profit agency of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and publishes materials for use in Catholic churches and in Catholic homes. Although they publish four journals, most of their products are books, which they market via direct mail, their website, major bookstore chains and some consignment sellers. LTP is the largest distributor of Spanish language titles in their field in the US.
Advantage client since 2009.
Mediahuis Nederland is the largest media company in the Netherlands, and provides consumers with high-quality, personalized and relevant news, sports and entertainment 24 hours a day via internet, mobile, film, sound, print and cross-media. Mediahuis Nederland publishes the largest daily newspaper in the Netherlands : De Telegraaf. It is fully owned by Mediahuis B.V. since 2017.
Advantage client since 2018.
Newsmax Media is an American political news media organization. It operates the news web site Newsmax.com, and publishes Newsmax Magazine, as well as a host of health and financial newsletters.
Advantage client since 2014.
The Pacific Press® Publishing Association is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Their monthly magazine, called Signs of the Times, has been in continuous circulation since the Press began in 1874. Pacific Press publishes other periodicals, produces materials used in Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath Schools and churches, distributes music through their Chapel® Music division, and produces videos, and DVDs.
Advantage client since 1997.
Egmont is one of Scandinavia's major media companies, involved with magazines, books, movie theatres, movies, TV, comic books, school books, communities, games and game consoles. Egmont Publishing AB in Denmark publishes 17 consumer magazines in the areas of house and home, car and boat, parenting, computing, sports, leisure, travel and hobby, plus general men’s and women’s titles.
Advantage client since 2009.
Air Business Subscriptions (formerly known as Quadrant Subscription Services) has more than 45 years’ experience in its field, serving many of the UK’s leading businesses across a diverse range of sectors such as publishing, memberships, associations and e-commerce. They provide an end-to-end service portfolio which includes subscriber acquisition and marketing strategy, worldwide postal and courier distribution, digital and mail fulfilment solutions and warehouse and freight logistics.
Advantage client since 2016.
HarperCollins Publishers, founded in 1817, is one of the world’s largest book publishers, publishing 10,000 new books each year. A subsidiary of News Corporation, HarperCollins has a digital and print catalog of over 200,000 titles, and 120 imprints.
Advantage client since 2020.
HarperCollins Publishers, founded in 1817, is one of the world’s largest book publishers, publishing 10,000 new books each year. A subsidiary of News Corporation, HarperCollins has a digital and print catalog of over 200,000 titles, and 120 imprints.
Advantage client since 2020.
InterVarsity Press has been publishing Christian books for more than 50 years. Their publishing program is focused on three imprints:
• IVP Books offers general-interest books in categories like Christian living, discipleship, evangelism, missions, apologetics and cultural critique.
• IVP Academic offers books designed for research and classroom use in areas such as biblical studies, theology, philosophy, science and psychology.
• IVP Connect offers study guides, multimedia curriculum and foundational resources for churches and small groups.
InterVarsity Press is a division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.
Advantage client since 2015.
eSpired is an educational marketplace that has been providing curriculum, supplements and supplies to students in public, private, and home schools for more than a decade. Their goal is to provide fun and entertaining educational content that can be enjoyed and accessed at home, online or anywhere. At er, our mission is simple. We aim to make it fun for kids to learn so they can be inspired by education. At eSped, our mission is simple. We aim to make it fun for kids to learn so they can be inspired by education.
Advantage client since 2021.
Located in the Østerbro borough of Copenhagen, Denmark, Bonnier Magazine Data ("BMD") is an internal provider of subscription management systems, CRM system functionality and related services to Bonnier companies. BMD specializes in subscription management within the field of weekly and monthly magazines, publications and other media products.
BMD is wholly owned by Bonnier Publications (“BP”) and Bonnier Magazines and Brands (“BMB”) which are also two major customers. BP has offices in Copenhagen, Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden). BMB is represented in Stockholm. Between the two publishing companies, BMD systems manage around 2 million subscriptions. These companies are part of the holding company Bonnier AB, the Swedish media conglomerate, in the Bonnier Magazine Group business area. Bonnier AB is wholly owned by the Bonnier family, which has been running it for more than 200 years.
Advantage client since 2015.
Located in the Østerbro borough of Copenhagen, Denmark, Bonnier Magazine Data ("BMD") is an internal provider of subscription management systems, CRM system functionality and related services to Bonnier companies. BMD specializes in subscription management within the field of weekly and monthly magazines, publications and other media products.
BMD is wholly owned by Bonnier Publications (“BP”) and Bonnier Magazines and Brands (“BMB”) which are also two major customers. BP has offices in Copenhagen, Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden). BMB is represented in Stockholm. Between the two publishing companies, BMD systems manage around 2 million subscriptions. These companies are part of the holding company Bonnier AB, the Swedish media conglomerate, in the Bonnier Magazine Group business area. Bonnier AB is wholly owned by the Bonnier family, which has been running it for more than 200 years.
Advantage client since 2015.
Forward Movement is an official, non-profit, publishing agency of the Episcopal Church, providing material to support persons in their lives of prayer and faith. Forward Movement publishes and distributes approximately two million copies of tracts, books, and booklets yearly—about half of which includes subscriptions to the quarterly devotional, Forward Day by Day.
Advantage client since 2024.
The Agora companies are a widely diversified group of publishing businesses, spanning 14 countries and 8 languages, employees from all backgrounds, and a wide span of publications on a variety of topics of importance. Altogether, they publish more than 300 books and 40 newsletters, reaching 1 million readers from around the world.
Advantage client since 2000.
CDS Global is a major provider of outsourced business solutions to multiple industries--including publishing--delivering a wide range of e-commerce, payment processing, marketing, order management and fulfillment solutions. CDS Global is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation.
Advantage client since 2009.
The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979, the LOA champions the nation's cultural heritage by publishing America's greatest writing in authoritative new editions and providing resources for readers to explore this rich, living legacy.
Advantage client since 2023.
CDS Global is a major provider of outsourced business solutions to multiple industries--including publishing--delivering a wide range of e-commerce, payment processing, marketing, order management and fulfillment solutions. CDS Global is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation.
Advantage client since 2024.
Human Kinetics is a global leader in providing information related to physical activity, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people worldwide. Their resources include textbooks, journals, eBooks, online courses, digital products, and continuing education programs.
Advantage client since 2023.
LRP Media Group empowers human resource professionals, federal agencies and K-12 educators in the U.S. and worldwide to stay on top of the latest legal compliance and workplace technology solutions by providing unparalleled training and professional development across media.
Advantage client since 2024.
Bonnier Publications focuses on special-interest media,
such as science and history, health and fitness, interior design and
DIY, beauty and fashion. The core products are magazines, both printed
and digital, but Bonnier Publications also offers new platforms and
formats such as book series, travels, websites, apps and other digital
services.
Bonnier Publications publishes more than 30 titles internationally. The originals are written in Danish and translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch and Finnish, while also being adapted to local circumstances and angles. By utilizing the globalization of the media landscape in this way, Bonnier Publications make the stories accessible to more people.
Advantage client since 2015.
