Overview

The StudyBooks system is arranged into four main stages. Click on any of these in the diagram below to learn more about it.

StudyBooks can offer a solution to both for student associations as well as for students at universities, schools or other learning institutions.

For student associations

The StudyBooks system ensures that student associations can both help their students find low cost, good quality books as well as providing a source of funds for future activities.

The StudyBooks system provides a sustainable income to numerous existing student associations at universities throughout Australia. By using the StudyBooks booksale system you can ensure a service that both benefits your students, provides a sociable and fun income stream and allows for the means to forward other activities.

For your students

Your students get to sell their books for exactly the price they ask, no more no less. If a book doesn't sell they simply get the book back to keep or donate it to the next booksale for your association.

Students are always guaranteed a good deal with StudyBooks. Sellers get the price they ask and buyers get good quality second hand books which they in turn can sell on to the next generation.

Pre-checkin

This is an optional stage you can apply to ease the process of check-in.

Pre-checkin allows your students to register their books ready for your booksale.

They do this by specifying the ISBN, barcode or title of the books they wish to sell and nominating a price.

If they are really generous they can also opt to give any unwanted books away for free - in this case the student association stores the book in the pool to be sold at a low cost with the student association making all the profit off the sale.

The students then bring their books they have registered into the booksale office for the check-in stage.

Check-in

In this stage the books being sold by the students are brought into the student association for sale.

If you are running the optional pre-checkin stage at your booksale the students may have already registered and nominated prices if not, this is where you check the books in and do it on their behalf.

The student is asked for their student number and the books are checked in by simply zapping them with our StudyBooks barcode readers. These barcode readers print out a numerical sticker which is applied to the spine of the book which is then shelved in the booksale office for later sale.

You can have an email sent out to all your students to inform them of the items they are checking allowing them to login to the StudyBooks website at any time to check how they are selling.

After the check-in process comes the actual booksale itself in the exchange stage.

Exchange

The exchange stage is the main point of your booksale. This is where students come into your booksale office with a list of books needed for that semesters tutorials and hopefully go away with the books they are after.

During this stage the booksale cashiers will search for each item on the students list and retrieve the recommended item from the booksale shelves.

While the cheapest items sell first (so everyone gets a good deal) the student can chose any checked in item for that book that is in stock. This means that if the student does not wish to buy the cheapest (such as the cover being slightly damaged) they can optionally chose whichever version of the book thats available.

Books in the pool are striped amongst the available stock to ensure that the pooled books sell equally as well as student provided books. This means that the student gets a good deal and the student association gets paid a fair price for any pooled books.

When the order is complete the student pays the money owned to the cashier.

After the booksale the booksale operators can monitor their finances or move onto the collection stage.

Collection

The collection is the mirror opposite of the check-in stage. This time instead of giving you books the student receives any unsold books back along with any money made from the sale of sold books.

If the student wishes he or she can also donate the books to the student association to add to the pool for next time.

After the collection stage the booksale operators can monitor their finances or move onto the pooling stage.

Pooling

The booksale pool is the collection of books owned exclusively by the student association itself.

In this stage any and all money made from the sale of a book goes to the student association as it would to a student if they were selling the book themselves.

In order to ensure a good price, any pooled books sold in the booksale are striped along with books sold by students.

For example if Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens was up for sale from 2 students offering the prices of $10 and $20 respectively, and you had 2 pooled copies of the same book the purchase options during the exchange stage would look like this:

• Student copy @ $10
• Pool copy @ $10
• Student copy @ $20
• Pool copy @ $20

Under this system everyone gets a good deal. The students get the lowest price books available and the student association sells its pool copies for a good profit.

After the pooling stage the booksale operators can monitor their finances or repeat the pre-checkin stages in the next semester.

Monitoring

The StudyBooks software includes sophisticated financial and activity monitoring and analysis.

Financial performance can be compared to previous years and graphed to show how you are growing with StudyBooks.