Magazine Ad Scheduling

[Celulloyd]

I'm new to this forum, so I'm not sure I'm in the right place, so forgive me.

I own and publish a few small magazines. I'd like to either create or find a Filemaker database in which I can schedule advertising (name, size, run dates, etc.) and be able to print a report of which ads are to run in any given issue; for example, when I am about to begin work on the July issue, I'd like to be able to print a list of all the ads that will run in that issue and their pertinent information (size, color, etc.) so I can map out the magazine. I've been doing this manually until now. I know this can be done because we paid big bucks for a customized database program in the early '90s ($10,000 and NOT FM-based) at a newspaper at which I worked.

Does anyone know either where I should look for "how-to"s for something like this or for existing apps? I did a search on this site but came up empty.

I appreciate the help.

Lloyd

[Fitch]

I would start by checking out SmartPublisher from Pre1 Software. It's in use at hundreds of publications. (Disclaimer: I used to work at Pre1.)

[Celulloyd]

Thanks for the tip. I checked it out and it's way more than I need right now. I guess I'll try to set up a database myself for now.