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Corporate and academic subscriptions

Corporate, academic and group subscriptions are the life-blood of many B2B and academic publishers. Having an experienced and knowledgeable team to help look after them is vital. And here we are.

Corporate & Academic

“I would not hesitate to recommend ESco to anyone. Their specialist high value order team are great and have come to manage the complex nature of CRU’s orders with ease.”

Meninder Kaur, Customer Service Manager, CRU Group

Multiple users with multiple product packages

ESco provides a specialist service to manage and build corporate and academic subscription packages covering multiple recipients and products. Through sustained investment in both systems and staff, ESco has a mature service allowing clients to offer product packages and bundles to organisations across multiple sites and countries.

Our team is able to tailor our solution to meet your requirements and develop new bespoke systems to help drive your business forward.

Strong financial controls and reporting

We know how important clear financial reporting is to manage your group subscriptions which is why we’ve invested heavily in our financial controls and reporting.

Using our suite of specialist reports you’ll be able to keep your finger on the pulse and have clarity on your sales, aged debt and deferred revenue.

Our specialist team are always on hand to assist with any questions you have.

Tasty takeaways

Specialist team

We have a hand-picked and highly experienced specialist customer service team to liaise with your clients to manage the whole subscription process

Specialist platform

Our platform has been built from the ground up to cover all the complexities of corporate and academic group subscriptions.

Automated billing cycle

Using our specialist systems we’ll take away the headaches of managing the billing process and automate the sending of invoices, credit control and bank reconciliation

Domain and IP based access control

Web service and API for online integrations including domain-based or IP-based access and user engagement reporting

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