PRESSE MANAGEMENT - Dolibarr

Presse Management turns Dolibarr into a true, integrated management platform for a press or media company — newspapers, magazines, web-only outlets, press agencies and media groups. It covers the entire life-cycle of a publication, from editorial conception through publishing, advertising sales, circulation, subscriptions and printing, so that a Dolibarr user can run the whole business without any additional software.

Built natively on top of Dolibarr's commercial engine, the module reuses the standard Third Parties, Products & Services, Proposals, Orders, Invoices and Contracts, while adding the 20 business objects, the press-grade dashboard and the reporting suite that a media company needs day to day.

Who it is for

·       Daily and weekly newspapers

·       Magazines and periodicals

·       Web-only / pure-player news sites

·       Press agencies and syndication services

·       Media groups managing several titles

3.1  Editorial & newsroom

The editorial heart of the module manages the full content workflow.

·       Articles / content (central hub object) with an editorial workflow: idea → assigned → writing → submitted → review → validated → scheduled → published → archived

·       Content types: article, interview, report, brief, op-ed, opinion column, dossier, wire dispatch

·       Rubrics / sections (Politics, Economy, International, Culture, Sport, Science & Tech, Media…)

·       Keywords, word & sign counts, language, angle, deadlines and synopsis

·       Sources attached to each article (type, contact, reliability)

·       Editorial planning page (newsroom conference / flatplan): articles by status, editions to close, editorial load per journalist

3.2  Publishing

·       Editions / issues (daily, weekly, monthly, special, supplement, web) with print run, cover price and closing deadline

·       Summary (table of contents) lines linking articles to pages and positions

·       Media / supports: print, web, newsletter, podcast, video, social networks, with ISSN and publication director

3.3  Journalists, freelance notes (piges) & copyright

·       Journalist / collaborator directory (press card, specialties, salaried / freelance / correspondent status, rate basis)

·       Freelance notes (piges) priced per page, flat fee or per photo, with rights assignment

·       One-click creation of the related supplier invoice for copyright payment

3.4  Advertising sales

·       Advertisers linked to native third parties, by activity sector

·       Advertising spaces / formats (full page, half, quarter, banner, web inserts…) with dimensions and base price

·       Campaigns (hub) with budget and amount sold, and their insertions per edition / support

·       Quotes and invoices generated through the native Dolibarr commercial cycle

3.5  Circulation & subscriptions

·       Subscribers (individuals or companies)

·       Subscription plans (print, digital, combined) with duration, number of issues, price and tacit renewal

·       Subscriptions life-cycle: active → to renew → renewed → cancelled → expired

·       Sales points / kiosks and single-copy sales (delivered / sold / unsold returns)

3.6  Production & printing

·       Printers / subcontractors linked to native suppliers

·       Print jobs / proofs (BAT) with print run, manufacturing cost and linked supplier order

A bespoke, fully responsive dashboard rendered in a dedicated press visual identity — ink-black & anthracite, breaking-news red, newsprint background, serif headlines — organised in clear zones:

·       Editorial activity — articles published this month, in progress, pending review, overdue, journalists, editions to close

·       Circulation & subscriptions — active subscribers, new subscriptions, churn rate, subscriptions to renew, single-copy sales, unsold rate

·       Advertising — advertising revenue, fill rate, upcoming insertions, active campaigns, advertisers, freelance amount due

·       Charts (DolGraph) — publications by rubric, revenue split (ads / subscriptions / single-copy), top advertisers, subscriptions trend

·       Alert tiles — overdue articles, editions closing soon, subscriptions expiring, campaigns ending

A dedicated reporting hub produces situation reports on every press activity, each with a KPI strip, a print button and CSV / Excel / PDF export:

·       Editorial output by journalist and by rubric (published vs late)

·       Circulation / subscriptions by status and revenue

·       Advertising revenue by advertiser and campaign

·       Freelance notes & copyright by journalist

·       Single-copy sales by sales point (delivered / sold / unsold)

·       Financial summary — revenue split across advertising, subscriptions and single-copy sales over 12 months

The module never works in a silo. Each relevant record exposes a "Linked interfaces" panel that creates the native Dolibarr document, pre-filled with the right third party:

·       Campaigns → customer proposal and invoice

·       Subscriptions → customer invoice and contract

·       Freelance notes → supplier invoice

·       Print jobs → supplier order

·       Advertisers, subscribers, sales points, printers and freelancers → native third parties

·       Ad formats and subscription plans → native products & services

From the module setup page, two buttons let an administrator instantly populate a realistic, coherent demonstration dataset (rubrics, media, journalists, articles, editions, freelance notes, advertisers, campaigns, subscribers, subscriptions, sales points, single-copy sales, printers and print jobs, plus the associated native third parties and products) or purge it cleanly. The dataset is also seeded automatically on first activation and is versioned so upgrades refresh it.

·       Dolibarr v16 → v23+, PHP 7.1+

·       Depends on the Third Parties (Societe) module

·       20 business objects + dashboard & reporting tables (prefix llx_presse_*)

·       Granular permissions: 9 right groups (editorial, publishing, journalists, freelance, advertising, subscriptions, circulation, production, reporting) plus administration

·       Five complete language packs: FR, EN, IT, DE, ES

·       Self-healing schema, versioned demo dataset, GPLv3 license

Presse Management is designed, developed and published by DoliResources, which holds all authorship and copyright of the module.

DoliResources — https://www.doliresources.com