The Magazine Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

The Magazine Manager

4.8

(348)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About The Magazine Manager

The Magazine Manager is an all-in-one CRM and publishing platform designed specifically for print and digital media companies. From ad sales to billing, editorial planning to audience development, The Magazine Manager consolidates your most important workflows into one powerful, easy-to-use system—helping teams improve productivity, streamline operations, and grow advertising revenue.

Comprehensive CRM for Media Sales
At its core, The Magazine Manager features a powerful CRM that enables publishers to organize and search contact databases by name, company, category, email, phone number, and more. The built-in Sales Pipeline Opportunities Module gives complete visibility into deal progress, helping teams manage their pipeline, forecast revenue, and close business faster.

Streamlined Order Management for Every Ad Type
Manage all types of media buys—from print ads and digital placements to events, newsletters, and website ads—with our fully integrated Order Management System. Centralized rate cards, ad inventory tools, and cross-product workflows ensure consistency, accuracy, and faster turnaround times.

Built-in E-signature & Proposal Automation
Speed up the sales process with leg...

ally binding, trackable proposals using our E-signature System. Sales teams can send proposals directly from the CRM, and once signed, orders flow automatically into production and billing—eliminating redundant data entry and shortening the sales cycle. Collaborative Project Management & Flat Planning Designed with custom project stages and timelines, The Magazine Manager’s Project Management Module ensures production workflows stay on track. Track ad status, assign tasks, and send automated reminders for material deadlines. Team members can review proofs, submit feedback, and update timelines in real time. Publishers can also paginate issues, manage flat plans, and finalize ad layouts with drag-and-drop ease. Advanced Reporting & Real-Time Analytics Gain insight into performance and profitability through a customizable Analytics Dashboard. Choose from over 300 data tiles to build dynamic reports on sales, campaign performance, account aging, rep productivity, and more. Track KPIs, monitor pacing against goals, and optimize based on real-time data. Industry-Leading Billing & A/R System The Magazine Manager offers one of the most advanced Billing & Accounts Receivable Systems in publishing. Batch billing, auto-pay, Quick Pay, and PCI-compliant payment processing help companies improve cash flow. Integration with QuickBooks allows users to manage invoices, track payments, and build custom financial reports without switching platforms. Gmail Integration & Chrome Extension Our Gmail Integration and Google Chrome Extension allow users to work directly from their inbox. View CRM notes within Gmail, add activity logs, copy emails and attachments to the CRM, and send targeted messages to contact groups—without leaving your email. AI-Powered Media Assistant: Media Mate Included with The Magazine Manager is Media Mate, an AI-driven media assistant that enhances productivity across departments. From generating content and performing segmentation analysis to automating prospect research and analyzing media trends, Media Mate helps publishers make smarter, faster decisions. Integrated Marketing & Subscription Tools The platform seamlessly integrates with Marketing Manager, our email marketing and audience development solution, and ChargeBrite, our recurring revenue platform. Marketing Manager includes website visitor tracking, campaign automation, landing page builders, email verification, and competitor monitoring. ChargeBrite simplifies subscription billing, renewals, and member management for publishers offering print or digital access.

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The Magazine Manager Pricing and Plans

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The Magazine Manager Features

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Activity Dashboard
Appointment Scheduling
Interaction Tracking
Task Management
More features of The Magazine Manager
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity/News Feed
Activity Tracking
Advertising Management
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval Process Control
Assignment Management
Booking Management
Calendar Management
Calendar/Reminder System
Calendar Sync
Call Logging
Campaign Analytics
Campaign Management
Campaign Scheduling
Catalog Management
Circulation Management
Client Management
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Commission Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Content Management
CRM
Customer Database
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Document Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Electronic Signature
Email Management
Email Marketing
Email Templates
Engagement Tracking
Event Triggered Actions
File Sharing
Forecasting
For iPad Devices
For Startups
Goal Setting/Tracking
Kanban Board
Layout & Design
Lead Capture
Leaderboards
Lead Generation
Lead Management
Lead Qualification
Lead Scoring
Live Chat
Magazines
Marketing Automation
Mobile Access
Mobile App
Monitoring
Newsletters
Newspapers
Opportunity Management
Performance Metrics
Process/Workflow Automation
Promotions Management
Prospecting Tools
Quotes/Estimates
Real-Time Analytics
Referral Tracking
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Revenue Management
Sales Forecasting
Sales Pipeline Management
Sales Reports
Sales Trend Analysis
Search/Filter
Segmentation
Subscription Management
Tagging
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Visual Analytics
Website Analytics
Workflow Management

The Magazine Manager Integrations

Mailchimp

Integration rated 4.1 from 13 reviews

Gmail

Integration rated 4.9 from 11 reviews

QuickBooks Online Advanced

Plug'n Pay

authorize.net

CardConnect

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The Magazine Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

79%

18%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.6

April B.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Magazine Manager My Sales Partner

I use Magazine Manager everyday. I would be lost without it. I love having everything I need at my fingertips. And if I am not in front of my laptop I have the app on my phone as a back up!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

My favorite thing about Magazine Manager is that it keeps me organized and makes sure that I will not miss a call back or a sale!

Cons:

I can't really think of anything I don't like.

Robyn L.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Grateful for Magazine Manager

Excellent experience and appreciate all of the support from the Magazine Manager staff!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Super intuitive and user friendly. Amazing customer support and quick resolutions to any questions or issues. Highly recommend this CRM to any magazine or publication.

Cons:

Can have some challenges with integrations with Outlook.

Reasons for choosing The Magazine Manager

Recommendations from colleagues and our demo

Reasons for switching to The Magazine Manager

It wasn't tailored to advertising sales and they had terrible customer service

Vendor Response

Thank you for the amazing review, Robyn! We're grateful for you, too!

Replied October 2024

Verified

Reviewer

Publishing

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

The Magazine Manager: Making a Master of Management

The Magazine Manager is great for dealing with clients and overseeing production. Overall, I'm happy to recommend it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 3

Customer support

Functionality

Previously 4

Pros:

The Magazine Manager is a highly-customizable program that allows you to keep track of clients, create proposals and contracts, and oversee production of your publication. It comes with plenty of default operations and devices to help the publishing process, but Mirabel Technologies, the parent company, is happy to create other functions for your benefit. The design is sleek and simple, as long as you keep track of which functions don't get used and remove them as needed. Many aspects can be edited on your end through HTML, making quick fixes easy.

Cons:

Technically it's still in beta, and the updates are a bit slow, but the customer support is fantastic, and any problems we've had have been resolved very quickly.

Teresa M.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Great All Around Program

Great. The program works all the time, the support staff are kind and extremely knowledgeable, and our rep [sensitive content hidden] is the BEST!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has allowed us to put all our AR in one place. So, when we pull revenue numbers, everything is included without extra work.

Cons:

I wish there were secondary sorts for reports. And that I had more control how reports come directly from the system.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the great review, Teresa!

Replied December 2025

Monica S.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Features galore and easy to use

You get out of it as much as you put into it. It can be a simple client and contract tracker or you can use it for every little thing. So robust!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Magazine Manager is very robust while being user friendly! You can easily track everything you need to. Software updates take user feedback into account and improve the software year after year.

Cons:

It won't make the calls for me! Just kidding. I don't have any cons at this time.

Reasons for choosing The Magazine Manager

didn't have to start from scratch, already fine tuned for magazines, cheaper

Vendor Response

Thanks for the amazing review, Monica. We appreciate you!

Replied December 2024

Janice L.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Magazine Manager is a great tool.

Magazine Manager has been extremely accommodating to our team and helping us come up with solutions for integrating data into the program.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Magazine Manager is a robust tool that has allowed our publishing organization to manage multiple aspects of our magazine publishing in one central source, saving us precious hours of duplicated efforts. We have been able to combine sales, sales marketing, editorial, magazine layout, and buyers guide data together. The buyers guide content integration has saved our team countless hours of review and manual updates of our buyers guide data.

Cons:

The email build function can bit difficult to use. There have been a lot of updates recently so there has been a bit of a learning curve.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the great review, Janice! We appreciate you!

Replied June 2025

Brett F.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

So glad we moved to The Magazine Manager

Overall, I'm so glad we joined The Magazine Manager. It's amazing that it's all on the cloud. We joined The Magazine Manager in January and it took us a couple of months to transition fully. I'm so glad we made the change. It really has solved a lot of our problems as a business and The Magazine Manager seems committed to constant improvement.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Their customer service is phenomenal. I love having a dedicated CRM rep, who feels like she is part of our team. I also love the fact that the software seems to be at a level that is equivalent to the major players in the CRM industry, but yet the company is tailored to the media industry and the customer service feels like we're working with a boutique firm.

Cons:

When we suggest changes, we're just one of many clients, all using the same software. So, their triage system feels a little opaque. We have one small but annoying issue that we've been nagging them about since we joined and I just don't know where they are in addressing it and why it's taking so long. I say this hesitantly, as their software is still lightning years ahead of who we left.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review, Brett! We appreciate you!

Replied June 2025

Susan Y.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Mag Man Review- S Yost

I have used a number of systems and this is by far the most extensive and easiest to use. There are updates always happening to improve the use, some I like better than others. But overall it's easy to use and I like the reporting options and displays. Even if I have trouble or need to figure something out, I immediately get help by using the chat feature.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The system is easy to navigate, clear on screen display and fields. Multiple reporting options to choose from.

Cons:

Some little changes, just aesthetic - for example, the 'drop down' options - prefer to have them as set on screen options (ie Sales Runsheet). Otherwise nothing to complain about. I get help immediately when needed.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review, Susan! We are so glad that you are happy and seeing the benefits of using Magazine Manager. We appreciate you!

Replied July 2025

Cecile S.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

You really can’t go wrong with Magazine Manager — it’s easy to use, intuitive, and does exactly what you need it to do.

I really love it — I’ve tried other CRM systems, and they’re often far too overcomplicated for what you actually need. Magazine Manager strikes the right balance: it’s powerful, but simple and straightforward to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What really stands out is how effortlessly you can find everything you need — the system is intuitive, well-organised, and simply works the way you expect it to.

Cons:

Sometimes I find there’s a bit too much information, or I’m not always sure how to use certain features. But I know this mainly comes down to a lack of training on my side, which is why I try to join the webinars each week. I know you bring out a lot of updates but it would be great if you could possibly include a back-to-basics segment as well — just to cover things I might have missed along the way.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the amazing review, Cecile! We appreciate you!

Replied June 2025

Valerie R.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

A Great Tool that impacts positively the experience of our clients and facilitates the process to the team as well.

My experience has been enriching, I like how customized it is and how easy process like contracts and billing have been. Being a topic that usually is a bit complicated due to so many different situation of each client. But they make it clear and facilitate the process wich impact the experience of the client in a positive way.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I was recently introduced to Magazine Manager, and has been a smooth and friendly use tool. The trainings also have help me understand how to deliver solutions to my clients and costume my communication. Also to keep track of my workflow and keep myself organized. During the trainings, the organizer are friendly and clear.

Cons:

Overall for me is a new tool, I love that even though is great, they constantly keep updating and improving, if I could add something, would be adding text as a form of communication with the clients so it can count as activity.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the great review, Valerie! We appreciate you!

Replied December 2025

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