More selling. Less admin. The CRM your reps will actually use.
Generic CRMs make your reps the data-entry team. Magazine Manager handles the publishing-specific work — rate cards, insertion orders, agency commissions, tearsheets — so reps can focus on advertisers, not on feeding the system.
What your ad reps actually deal with every day
If your team is using Salesforce or spreadsheets, these are the friction points killing your sales velocity.
Reps spend more time updating CRM than selling
Logging calls, manually entering rate-card pricing, copy-pasting agency commissions, generating proposals from Word templates. The more “process” you add, the less your reps sell.
Proposals take 30+ minutes to build by hand
Reps copy rate cards into Word docs, calculate frequency discounts manually, paste in agency commission terms, save as PDFs, email them, then re-do it when the advertiser asks for changes.
No visibility into what’s actually happening
Sales managers ask “where are we for next issue?” — and nobody knows without a 30-minute call. Pipeline lives in three reps’ heads and four spreadsheets.
Pipeline that thinks like an ad rep — not a software engineer
Every advertiser, every deal, every stage organized the way ad sales teams actually work. Reps see what to do today; managers see what’s pacing for next issue. No custom field setup. No three-week training program.
- Pre-built pipeline stages: Discovery → Proposal → Negotiating → Closed
- Drag-and-drop deal cards organized by issue or quarter
- Auto-assigned probabilities and forecast contributions
- “Stale deal” alerts when no activity for 7+ days
- Filter by rep, advertiser type, ad size, or issue
- Mobile-friendly — update deals from your phone between meetings
A typical Tuesday — before and after
The same rep, the same advertisers, the same goals. Different tooling.
Generic CRM + spreadsheets + Word docs
- Open Salesforce, fight with picklists that don’t match publishing terms
- Open Excel rate card to look up frequency discount, copy values manually
- Open Word, build proposal by hand — paste rate card line by line
- Calculate agency commission yourself, double-check the math
- Save as PDF, email to advertiser, hope they don’t ask for changes
- Update Salesforce stage manually after every email or call
- Search inbox to find the last note about this advertiser
- Pull tearsheet PDF from production folder, attach to email manually
- Re-enter the order details into the billing spreadsheet
Magazine Manager
- Open one platform that already speaks publishing
- Rate card, frequency discount, color surcharge auto-applied at order entry
- Click “Generate Proposal” — pre-formatted with your branding, ready in seconds
- Agency commissions calculated and applied automatically per advertiser
- Email proposal in-platform; recipient open and click events tracked automatically
- Pipeline stage updates as activities log themselves
- Full advertiser history visible on one screen — every call, email, and order
- Tearsheets generated and sent automatically when issue closes
- Order flows directly to billing — zero re-entry, zero reconciliation
Build proposals in seconds, not in 30 minutes
Skip the Word docs. Pick the issues, pick the ad sizes, click send. Magazine Manager pulls from your live rate card, applies frequency discounts and agency commissions automatically, and sends the proposal with built-in e-signature.
- Drag-and-drop line items from your live rate card
- Frequency discounts and agency commissions auto-calculated
- Branded proposal templates — no copy-paste
- Built-in e-signature — close deals from the proposal itself
- Email open and click tracking on every proposal sent
- One-click conversion: signed proposal → ad order → invoice
The tools your reps actually need
Everything an ad sales team uses every day — built natively, no integrations to maintain.
Activity Tracking
Calls, emails, meetings, notes — log them once or have them auto-captured from your inbox and calendar. No more Friday-night CRM-update marathons.
Quota & Commission Tracking
Real-time quota progress per rep. Commission calculations baked in. Reps see exactly where they stand against goal — without managers running reports.
Lead & Account Management
Capture web leads, route by territory or product type, and assign automatically. Every advertiser’s full history visible in one screen — calls, ads, invoices, notes.
Contracts & E-Signature
Generate insertion orders from approved proposals in one click. Built-in e-signature means signed contracts come back the same day.
Mobile Access
Update deals, log calls, and pull up advertiser history from your phone — between meetings, in the parking lot, on the road.
Stale Deal Alerts
Deals with no activity for 7+ days surface automatically. No more pipeline that “looks great” on paper but hasn’t been touched in three weeks.
After two years of fighting Salesforce
“As a past Salesforce user, this is SO much easier to use, and because it is made for ad sales, the company deeply understands the details of exactly what we need from this software. Magazine Manager is specifically designed for those of us in the print and digital publishing industry and it is crucial to our sales success.”
See it with your sales team — not a generic walkthrough
Book a 30-minute demo. We’ll set up sample accounts, pipeline, and proposals using your publication and ad categories. Your reps decide if they’d use it.