Questions people ask before they try it

The Word document your editor accepted, as it arrived. It does not need to be cleaned up, re-styled or put into a template first - that preparation is the work this removes. A PDF is not enough on its own: it is a picture of a page rather than the text and its structure, and reading an article back out of one is not something this does yet.

A print-ready PDF galley set in your journal’s own design, an online version for the web, archive-ready XML for indexes and abstracting services, the deposit that registers the DOI, and a Word copy that matches the printed galley for the times somebody needs to change one word by hand.

No, and it is not meant to. The software reads the manuscript and works out its structure; a person checks that structure and approves it. Nothing reaches a galley or a deposit that an editor has not seen. The time saved is the retyping, not the judgement.

Yes. Each journal keeps its own page design, typeface, licence line, logos and citation style, so an article set here is indistinguishable from one set by your previous typesetter - because it is set to the same specification.

You send a private link that expires. The author opens the typeset article as it will be published, reads it, and leaves comments in place. Those comments come back to the editor against the part of the article they refer to, rather than as an email thread to reconcile.

Yes. One publisher account can hold as many journals as you run, each with its own design, imprint and team. Staff see only the journals they have been given.

No. Each publisher’s journals, manuscripts and files are separated from every other publisher’s, two-factor sign-in can be required for your whole team, and every action anyone takes is recorded.

You tell us about the journal and send one accepted manuscript. We set the account up for you - there is no sign-up form, because a publisher account carries your journals, their identifiers and their licence, and none of that comes out of an email address. Then you put that paper through from upload to galley. That is the whole of the evaluation: the part that is yours to do is reading the galley and saying whether you would publish it.