2024 was a busy year! We:

🌟 Managed 1.3 million products.

📎 Sent 85,000 ONIX files on behalf of our clients to 100+ recipients containing 175 million ONIX product updates.

🚀 Supported existing and new clients with their ambitious strategic developments, e.g. Liverpool University Press’ Distributed Press initiative.

⚖️ Supported emerging legislative requirements e.g. GPRS, EUDR.

💰 Funded half a million pounds’ worth of development, from user licence revenue, in our bid to make Consonance.app the best-maintained publishing management system available.

Some of the developments we shipped:

✅ Upgraded all our settings pages: lists of publishers, imprints, in-house subjects, formats and editions, AI templates, briefing templates, catalogue templates, sales channels, discount codes, supplier configs, contract sets, contract templates, and groups management (phew!)

🔄 Upgraded existing features: briefings, pipelines, batches, issue management, series, custom reports, advanced pricing and ONIX management.

🎭 Added automated accessibility testing and visual regression tests, powered by Playwright, to our already robust testing suite.

🔎 Shipped our incredibly powerful new Search, allowing users to join up and report on their data in unprecedentedly powerful ways.

📊 Shipped Plans, our forecasting performance tool.

🏭 Shipped Grids, our bespoke reporting filter.

📨 Shipped Notifications, to make comms with clients available in-app and on email.

🦾 Upgraded core libraries such as React, Rails and their dependencies.

📐 Upgraded to the latest industry standards such as ONIX 3.1.2, and Thema and BISAC upgrades.

✨ Retired legacy code libraries to keep our codebase maintainable and secure.

💖 Welcomed a rich array of new clients to Consonance.

A wonderfully busy year, all in all! Jolly well done to our hard-working team for such fruitful productivity, and thank you to our clients for making our work so meaningful: it is a privilege to support you.

And now we’re back with big expansion plans for 2025. It’s the time to join our roster of progressive, growthful clients, to take advantage of the best publishing management system on the planet, and it’s more achievable to switch than you’d think. Get in touch!

Are your current systems sabotaging your growth ambitions? Are you hungry to implement new business models, but concerned you lack the strong administrative foundations needed for innovation?

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