Sales Data for our publishers - https://central.bookweb.co.uk
For our publishers we provide online data showing all their sales at https://central.bookweb.co.uk.
We provide our client publishers with logins for https://central.bookweb.co.uk . If you do not know your login send an email to you usual contact and ask how you can log in to https://central.bookweb.co.uk .
There is room for confusion here as this website (www.centralbooks.com) provides sales data relating only to orders placed on this website but https://central.bookweb.co.uk covers sales generated from all sources that we at Central Books process.
If you are one of our publisher clients and have not yet visited https://central.bookweb.co.uk we really recommend looking now. There you can search sales by bookshop, look at dues (recorded orders), if you are a magazine publisher you can see who your outlets are, and more. There is a common questions and answers section at the bottom of this page.
If you are a publisher distributed by Central Books and do not know your log in details for https://www.centralbooks.com/vendors/dashboard/ and https://central.bookweb.co.uk then please get in touch with your usual contact.
Common Questions and Answers about Bookweb
| Can I use bookweb to track sales ? |
Yes, when you log in you get to see a summary of the sales in the last 8 days (clicking characters in red gives you more detail) and a total figure for activity in the month so far. If you search for a title or magazine issue you can get more detail. Clicking anying in red gives you more details.
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| Can I see the standing orders for my magazine? | Yes, you need to find the record without an issues number on bookweb and view the “dues”. |
| Can I see the stock figures for a book? | Yes, search for the book using the ISBN or title. You are looking for the words “CB Stock” or if you want to find out your Amazon consignment stock look for "Consigment Stock". |
| Can I see the stock figures for a magazine? | Yes, search for the issue using the title search . You are looking for the words “CB Stock”. |
| Can I see if a retail customer has bought my titles? |
Use the customer search . Assuming the customer has brought you titles then click on the red words like Value Life: 898.82 to get more details. Below this table there is guide to how to look at a publisher's sales to a particular shop.
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| Can I download sales data? | Bookweb allows you to down load data , you will see "Print | Spreadsheet | Close" when you look at the detailed sales breakdowns. Spress Spreadsheet to down load the data. |
| Can I view the supply and returns figures? | Sorry No, at the moment Bookweb only gives the net sales, it does not breakdown supply and returns. |
| Can I view non account holder or mail order sales? | Sorry No, at the moment Bookweb only gives data for account customers. |
If you need sales data that is not available on Bookweb you can always ask your usual contact. If it is simle for us to provice we wiling provide it.
Here is a quick 12 step guide to looking at sales at a particular shop.
- Log into https://central.bookweb.co.uk/
- Username: XXXXXX (You should know it but get this from your Central Books contact if not).
- Password: XXXXXX (You should know it but get this from your Central Books contact if not).
- In the customer data search enter ther name of the customer and click search. (in this example we are searching for "Mail Order Web").
- You should now see this (if the customer has bought your books).
- Click the Value Life in red , in this example Value Life 139.46.
- Now you should see this
- The life column is the total life sales from Central Books. YTD is sales since the last April (YTD Year to Date).
- At the top of this page there is a spreadsheet option . This will enable you to down load the data as a spreadsheet.