If you work in a public library, most likely you are approaching the time of year that your library works on the renewals for your magazine and periodical subscriptions.  For school libraries, many of you are hustling making last minute preparations before summer.   It’s the natural time in the subscription cycle to reevaluate your collection and make additions and deletions to what you currently subscribe to.  When I worked with another subscription vendor I was constantly asked the question “can’t the renewal process be easier???”  I even recall someone telling me they wanted to bang their head against a brick wall when it came to dealing with their magazine renewals each year.

Well, now it can be easier! Easily managing your renewals is one way we shine at Rivistas Subscription Services.

At Rivistas Subscription Services, your renewals are processed internally about six months prior to the earliest start date and are both emailed to you in a PDF format and are available online in PDF and excel formats. This may seem early, but we know that it takes a few months for some libraries to go through the red tape that may be involved.   From our online system, customers also see their renewal in an online shopping cart format, allowing customers to easily add and remove titles from our catalog of available titles.  We are trying to cut down on the absurd amount of paper that has typically been used in this process through the years.  Plus, it’s just easier!

Customers can also email us the changes that need to be made to the renewal and we will gladly make the changes.  We like to provide the option for each library to make the changes quickly online for yourself or send the changes to us and let us update your collection.  Either way, we are simplifying the process for you.  And of course, you can still submit your renewal form the “old fashioned” way by marking the changes on your printed or electronic forms.  We’re flexible…and we’re fast!

After all of the changes have been made you are able to download a PDF version of your renewal and an excel version of your renewal.  We’ll even be happy to email a copy to you.  From there, you can hit submit online to place your order or you can go through your normal purchasing procedures.  We’re flexible and want to make sure we’re making this aspect of your job nice and simple.

Once your magazine order is received, we send a confirmation email to you letting you know that your order has been received.  We’re a subscription agency that communicates well and keeps you in the loop along the way.

It’s just that simple!