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OCLC WorldShare Management Services pricing
OCLC WorldShare Management Services publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
OCLC WorldShare Management Services plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| WMS Standard | On request | 5 | Entry tier |
| WMS Premium | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
WMS Standard
On requestThe entry tier. It covers worldcat cataloging, circulation management, acquisitions, basic analytics, worldcat discovery.
WMS Premium
On requestOver WMS Standard, this tier adds:
- Everything in Standard
- License Manager
- Advanced analytics
- Resource sharing
- EZproxy integration
- Priority support
What the product covers
The full OCLC WorldShare Management Services feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- WorldCat cataloging
- Circulation management
- Acquisitions and invoicing
- License management
- Analytics and reporting
- Interlibrary loan
- WorldCat Discovery
- Mobile circulation
- Request management
Integrations
- WorldCat
- EZproxy
- OCLC Interlibrary Loan
- CONTENTdm
- Campus systems
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- GDPR
- SSO
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Mobile support
- Api support
Localization
- English language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Dutch language support
People bring OCLC WorldShare Management Services in for libraries relying on the shared worldcat catalog for cataloging and resource sharing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OCLC WorldShare Management Services are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for OCLC WorldShare Management Services
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare OCLC WorldShare Management Services against the tools that do have one before committing.
OCLC WorldShare Management Services runs on web, mobile, api, and is published by OCLC of Dublin, OH. The full record is on the OCLC WorldShare Management Services review.
OCLC WorldShare Management Services pricing on the vendor's own site
OCLC WorldShare Management Services pricing questions
- How much does OCLC WorldShare Management Services cost?
- OCLC WorldShare Management Services publishes 2 tiers, from On request for WMS Standard up to On request for WMS Premium. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does OCLC WorldShare Management Services have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: OCLC WorldShare Management Services is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between WMS Standard and WMS Premium on OCLC WorldShare Management Services?
- WMS Premium costs On request against On request, and adds everything in standard, license manager, advanced analytics, resource sharing.
- What am I actually paying for with OCLC WorldShare Management Services?
- The record lists 26 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for libraries relying on the shared worldcat catalog for cataloging and resource sharing.
- Does OCLC WorldShare Management Services charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these OCLC WorldShare Management Services prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare OCLC WorldShare Management Services against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to OCLC WorldShare Management Services to make a useful price comparison.