Magazine distributor Network Services has joined other magazine distributors and decided to drop paper based magazine returns forms for newsagents with compliant software and business practices. This move is most welcome. It gets newsagents closer to genuine time savings from returns scanning. The less newsagents hve to interact with the Network website for tasks their sofwtare can transact automatically through to Network the better.
The company has also announced a move to weekly returns from January 1, 2009 – again for compliant newsagents.
These moves reinforce the need for newsagents to have up to date magazine distributor approved software and that its use is based on compliant business practices. The benefits for newsagents, beyond time savings, are more accurate allocation, faster credits for returns and better business data on which to make decisions.
All of this is further evidence that DOS is dead when it comes to newsagency software.