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Simply Publishing features

Forms and workflows

Public forms, internal steps, approvals, registrations, and record updates that move work forward.

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What’s included

Contributor information review

Contributors provide the details a publishing team needs to connect names, roles, and edition context before a release review.

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  • Contributors complete the flow on their phone; the publishing operations team sees the structured record immediately.
  • If the edition review fills or needs review, the submission can move into a clear follow-up list instead of an inbox.
  • Confirmation messages, tasks, and record updates can happen from the same submission.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Author document requests

Authors can submit a focused request that routes to the right title and relationship record instead of an untracked inbox thread.

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  • Authors complete the flow on their phone; the publishing operations team sees the structured record immediately.
  • If the author-document workflow fills or needs review, the submission can move into a clear follow-up list instead of an inbox.
  • Confirmation messages, tasks, and record updates can happen from the same submission.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Production handoff checklist

A production handoff captures the edition, format, milestones, and attached evidence that need review before the next step.

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  • Production partners complete the flow on their phone; the publishing operations team sees the structured record immediately.
  • If the production handoff fills or needs review, the submission can move into a clear follow-up list instead of an inbox.
  • Confirmation messages, tasks, and record updates can happen from the same submission.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Metadata correction requests

A title or distribution partner can flag a metadata issue with the identifier and edition context attached for review.

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  • Publishing partners complete the flow on their phone; the publishing operations team sees the structured record immediately.
  • If the metadata review fills or needs review, the submission can move into a clear follow-up list instead of an inbox.
  • Confirmation messages, tasks, and record updates can happen from the same submission.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Reader support routing

A reader support request can reach the right publishing queue with title and format context instead of becoming a disconnected message.

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  • Readers complete the flow on their phone; the publishing operations team sees the structured record immediately.
  • If the reader-support workflow fills or needs review, the submission can move into a clear follow-up list instead of an inbox.
  • Confirmation messages, tasks, and record updates can happen from the same submission.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Public forms that write to the right records

Put the form where authors, readers, and publishing partners already are, then write the answer to the right record.

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  • Authors, readers, and publishing partners can submit from a phone, and the answers land on the right record instantly.
  • Nobody retypes email or paper submissions into the database again.
  • Every submission can trigger a confirmation and a follow-up task automatically.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Applications and intake

Collect structured application or intake data and move it into review, records, and follow-up without retyping.

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  • An application can collect exactly the fields the decision needs, files included.
  • A review queue can track every application from submitted to decided.
  • Applicants can move through stages with the full history kept.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Registrations and signups

Run signups for events, programs, memberships, services, or any other participation workflow.

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  • A signup can cap at capacity and close itself when full.
  • Registration answers can drive rosters, name tags, and follow-up lists.
  • Payment can happen inside the same registration flow.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Self-service updates

Let people update the records they are allowed to touch instead of sending changes through email.

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  • Authors, readers, and publishing partners can confirm and correct their own details through a secure link.
  • The annual information refresh can stop being a season of phone calls.
  • Changes can wait in review before touching the live record.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Capacity and waitlists

Set capacity, collect waitlists, and keep signup pressure visible when a session, room, event, or service fills.

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  • When capacity fills, the next signup can join a waitlist automatically.
  • An opened spot can go to the next person in line without a scramble.
  • Capacity rules stay honest — no accidentally overbooked lists.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Shareable workflow pages

Give any wizard a clean hosted URL so it can stand alone, be shared, or sit behind a branded website link.

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  • A form can live at a clean, branded, shareable link with no website changes needed.
  • A QR code, email, or text can point straight at one specific flow.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

Review workflows

Turn submissions and changes into reviewable steps before the system treats them as final.

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  • A submission can require review before it becomes a live record.
  • Approvals can route to the right person with everything they need to decide.
IncludedIncluded on every plan, including Free.

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