Schilling

Name

Schilling

Legal name

Schilling ApS

Website

https://schillingpublishing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Publishing Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

akta.pro primary industry

Author Business Tools & Analytics (Royalty Tracking, Pricing, Keyword/Market Research) (MPAJAJAO)

Keywords

• Publishing software solutions
• Royalty management software
• Rights management software
• Author portal software
• Publishing lifecycle management

Headquarters

HQ city

Ishøj

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription-based Publishing Software Licenses: Schilling operates on a subscription/SaaS model, offering its publishing software modules (Royalty, Rights, Author Portal, Subscription, Publishing Lifecycle, Editorial Desk, Asset Management) as recurring licenses. Pricing is quote-based with multiple price tiers designed to fit publishers of different sizes. The company offers implementation and consultancy services alongside the software.
2. Professional Services and Implementation: Schilling provides consultancy services and flexible collaboration models including automated plug-and-play solutions and fully tailored integrated setups. Implementation is delivered by Schilling consultants and is described as being completed in as few as three months (e.g., Res Publica implementation).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Schilling develops and licenses Schilling Waves, an integrated SaaS platform for book publishers covering royalty management, rights and contract management, author/agent self-service portals, asset rights tracking, subscription accounting, end-to-end publishing lifecycle management, and AI-assisted editorial intake. Modules are sold individually or as a fully integrated suite to Nordic trade, educational, journal, and university press publishers on multi-year subscriptions, with implementation and consulting delivered by Schilling's own team.

Product overview

Schilling is a specialized publishing software company that develops business-critical publishing solutions exclusively for book publishers. The company offers Schilling Waves, a unified platform-plus-modules architecture that integrates all core publishing functions. The product portfolio includes Royalty Professional (for standard and growing publishers), Rights Management, Author Portal (and Author Portal Professional for growing publishers), Asset Management, Subscription Management, Publishing Lifecycle Management (PLM), Editorial Desk, and Editor Portal. These modules work both as standalone solutions and as an integrated end-to-end system, with data flowing automatically across all modules to eliminate duplicate entry and ensure consistency.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Schilling Waves: The core software platform encompassing all Schilling publishing solutions including royalty management, rights management, author portal, subscription management, and publishing lifecycle management.
• Royalty Professional
• Author Portal Professional
• Editorial Desk
• Editor Portal

Products and services

• Schilling Waves Unified software platform that integrates Royalty, Rights, Author Portal, Asset Management, Subscription, Publishing Lifecycle Management, and Editorial Desk into a single publishing ecosystem for book publishers, with design and workflows kept simple and intuitive and native support for Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and English.
• Royalty Professional Royalty management software that automates royalty calculations, settlements, and reporting across multiple formats and royalty recipients, with edition/impression control, multi-author tracking per ISBN, barcode-based returns, flexible pricing groups, and interactive dashboards.
• Royalty Professional for Growing Publishers An affordable, standardised royalty management solution tailored to small and medium-sized publishers, with essential automation, simplified setup, and the ability to add modules as the business grows.
• Rights Management Comprehensive rights and contract management software covering acquisition to sales, with contract generation, conflict/collision checks, digital signing, revenue and cost allocation, and API/out-of-the-box integration with SSO (OKTA-compatible).
• Author Portal Online author relationship management platform providing authors and agents 24/7 access to sales figures, royalty settlements, contracts, payment schedules, and personal data, with online contract signing and DSM directive compliance; the portal records over 125,000 author logins per year.
• Author Portal Professional Standardised version of the Author Portal designed for growing publishers, providing a welcome page, sales figures visualisation, and settlement PDF downloads at an affordable price point.
• Asset Management Asset management software that tracks rights and permissions for images, illustrations, quotes, videos, audio, and documents used in publications, with automated validation before print orders and notifications for expiring rights to prevent use of unlicensed assets.
• Subscription Management Subscription accounting software that automates billing, renewals, and delivery for digital platforms, websites, educational platforms, podcast platforms, and physical publications, with differentiated pricing, automatic account termination/reopening, accrual functions, and webshop integration.
• Publishing Lifecycle Management End-to-end publishing lifecycle management software providing full visibility from idea to publication to reorder, with a single point of entry, project templates, budgeting, royalty calculation, automated workflows, metadata management, and profitability calculation at title, ISBN, and impression levels.
• Editorial Desk Unified, role-based editorial workspace that brings together manuscripts, review, assessment, workflows, metadata, and AI-assisted reading, with structured editorial assessment, stage-based workflow control, AI-assisted metadata enrichment, and full audit trail.
• Editor Portal Complementary solution to the Author Portal that gives editorial staff direct access to author data, contracts, sales figures, and royalty information, enabling editors to guide authors without relying on finance departments as intermediaries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 25% average improvement in operational efficiency for Royalty Professional customers
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration32 records

AI capability2 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Klopotek: Klopotek is a Germany-based SaaS provider serving publishers with royalty, rights, contract, production, and analytics solutions. It is Schilling's closest international direct competitor, with broader European geographic reach but lacking Schilling's Nordic vertical depth and native MitID/BankID integrations.
• Publishing Technology (Marisiti): Publishing Technology (now part of Marisiti) provides subscription, access management, and content delivery platforms for academic, journal, and trade publishers - serving a similar buyer to Schilling but with a stronger journal/scholarly tilt and weaker book-trade royalty workflows.
• MetaComet Systems: MetaComet provides royalty accounting, statements, and contract administration software to book and music publishers globally. It directly overlaps with Schilling's Royalty Professional and Rights Management offerings but operates primarily in English-speaking markets rather than Nordic localizations.
• BiblioCRM (Virtusales): Virtusales' BiblioCRM is a UK-built publishing CRM and rights platform providing contact, rights, contract, and offer management for publishers. It overlaps with Schilling's CRM-style author/agent relationships and Rights Management modules, competing for the same publishing-buyer persona.

Broad incumbents

• Atex: Atex provides CMS, advertising, and digital media workflow solutions across news and publishing, including subscription management via its Paywall and MyNews products. It serves a broader media/publishing audience than Schilling and overlaps primarily in subscription management rather than royalty/rights workflows.
• HighWire (Inera): HighWire, part of Inera, delivers hosted publishing platforms, content management, and analytics for academic and scholarly journal publishers. Overlap with Schilling in subscription management and publishing-lifecycle workflows for publishers, though focused on scholarly rather than trade/educational book publishing.
• PubFactory: PubFactory provides a SaaS publishing platform with search, reading, and subscription tools for journal and book publishers. Adjacent to Schilling's content and subscription capabilities, with less depth in royalty accounting and rights licensing.

Others

• Aptara (Integra Software Services): Aptara is a publishing services and technology provider offering content conversion, production, and learning content platforms. It complements rather than directly competes with Schilling, but intersects at publishers managing production-to-distribution pipelines where content services overlap with software.
• BookNet Canada: BookNet Canada operates the ONIX, BiblioShare, and ServiceSphere standards and services used by publishers for metadata and order management. It is a standards and data infrastructure provider that Schilling's customer-facing systems integrate against (ONIX 3.0/3.1) rather than competing with directly.
• EDItEUR: EDItEUR is the international book and serial publishing standards body stewarding ONIX, Thema, and other identifiers referenced directly in Schilling's integrations. It functions as an ecosystem enabler rather than a software competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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