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Bookshop software: ISBN catalogue, publisher orders and consignment

Run ISBNs, distributor orders, returns and school textbooks without endless searching.

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The challenges of running a Bookshops business

A bookshop works on a huge catalogue managed by ISBN, with thin margins and a heavy weight of returns and consignment with publishers and distributors. Add the back-to-school textbook peaks and e-commerce, and a generic retail system no longer cuts it. We build software that starts from the ISBN and ties together orders, returns, consignment and school adoptions, integrating with the distributors and e-commerce you already use.

The ISBN catalogue is vast and its data comes from distributors: without a reliable import you spend your time fixing titles, prices and availability.

Returns and consignment are hard to track: you risk paying for returned books or keeping unsold stock that should have gone back in time.

Orders to publishers and distributors go out fragmented by channel, with no single view of what you ordered, received and owe back.

The school-textbook campaign is a chaotic peak: lists by school and class, reservations and waits managed on sheets and notebooks.

What we build

ISBN catalogue with data import

ISBN records fed by distributor feeds, with title, author, price and availability always current, fast counter search and barcode linkage.

Orders to publishers and distributors

Centralised orders with one view of ordered, received and backordered, reorder suggestions on titles that move, and supply channels in a single flow.

Tracked returns and consignment

A clear split between purchased and consignment copies, with return deadlines and reconciliation: return in time, pay only for what sold, and keep nothing past its limit.

School textbooks and e-commerce

Adoption lists by school and class, reservations and arrival alerts for the back-to-school campaign, plus e-commerce synced on the catalogue and real stock.

Custom or off-the-shelf?

For a small bookshop a ready-made trade package already wired to distributors is often the right call. Custom pays off when you have several stores, heavy consignment and returns, a structured back-to-school campaign, or an e-commerce to sync on the ISBN catalogue: there a closed package leaves you with parallel processes. We usually keep till and fiscal on certified tools and build import, consignment and textbooks to measure.

How much it costs

A solution with tracked consignment, the school-textbook campaign and synced e-commerce usually lands between €22,000 and €45,000. To start smaller, a first custom module (the ISBN catalogue with orders and returns) falls within the Gestionale Light package: €5,000–€12,000 and go-live in 8–10 weeks. We set the price after a free analysis of your volumes, stores and distributors, so you know what you are paying for and why.

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Frequently asked questions

It depends on the scope. The Gestionale Light package covers a first module (the ISBN catalogue with orders and returns) between €5,000 and €12,000, with go-live in 8–10 weeks; a solution with tracked consignment, the school-textbook campaign and synced e-commerce usually runs €22,000 to €45,000. We always start with a free analysis of your volumes, stores and distributors to give you a real quote, not a price list.

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