We'd like to make the software more robust and increase its capacity to handle any volume of manuscripts. The current version of the software, largely due to the database, is limited in the number of manuscripts that it can handle efficiently. We're running around 100 a year now without a problem, but a volume of 1000 or more would be cumbersome to handle with the current system. A help system - so that end user can install the software and troubleshoot. We had always hoped that the software and our experience would benefit more than just one journal.
Some journals even allow the authors to check the status of their manuscripts online.
No journal that we know of has automated the entire peer review process and integrated it with online submission and publication. Conservation Ecology is interested in partnering with other societies and publishers to refine the software for our mutual benefit. The software works for our case. To make it work for other journals, we need input from other societies, and other publishers. We're interested in developing a consortium of society publishers to take the software forward.