Dashbook held private company comprised of experienced software professionals. Work on DashBook began in 2006 when they recognized the need for quality software for smaller royalty paying businesses who could not afford large, expensive systems which cost many thousands of dollars. Since then they have been improving DashBook to provide increasing functionality to handle the more complex needs of ever larger clients including book publishers, music distributors, music publishers, music labels, and more, while maintaining focus on a straightforward interface that makes the job pleasurable.