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VYBE Academic Journal Platform for WordPress

Run a complete peer-reviewed journal inside your WordPress website — online submission, blind review, decisions, UPI fee collection, certificates, issue PDFs, Crossref XML and Google Scholar-ready article pages. No separate journal software to host.

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  • Version 4.8.2
  • Licence key + 12 months of updates
  • Installation & training available

Licence

Price on request

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  • Licence key by email & client portal
  • Automatic updates in your dashboard
  • Email & WhatsApp support
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Overview

What VYBE Academic Journal Platform does for you

Many college and society journals run on email threads and spreadsheets, or on a separate OJS install that nobody on the team is comfortable maintaining. The VYBE Academic Journal Platform brings the whole editorial workflow into the WordPress site you already have: authors submit online, editors assign reviewers who don’t need an account, decisions and revision requests go out as letters, and accepted articles are published as proper article pages with a PDF, DOI and citation tags.

It is built for Indian journals: publication fees are collected by UPI with a QR code that carries the exact amount and Article ID, labels and Word manuscripts can be bilingual (English and Tamil), and certificates for authors and reviewers are generated automatically. Already running OJS and want to keep it? See the OJS Bridge instead.

Ideal for

  • College and university journals
  • Tamil and bilingual research journals
  • Societies and associations
  • Independent academic publishers
  • Journals moving off email and spreadsheets

Key features

Everything in VYBE Academic Journal Platform

Online submission

Multi-author submissions with ORCID iDs, an Article ID for every manuscript and an author workspace for revisions, proofs, messages and withdrawal.

Blind peer review

Reviewers are invited by email and review through a secure link — no account needed. Blind-review Word files are made automatically, with rubric scores.

Editorial dashboard

A front-end and wp-admin dashboard with KPIs, the full pipeline, search, filters, bulk actions, CSV export and decision letters.

UPI publication fees

A payment page with a UPI QR code carrying the exact amount and Article ID. Authors add the UTR and a screenshot; editors verify, reject or waive.

Issues, PDFs & certificates

Issue manager with page numbering, article and issue PDFs, “Fix & publish”, and certificates from 8 templates with QR verification.

DOI & indexing

Google Scholar citation tags, an article sitemap, OAI-PMH 2.0, Crossref 5.3.1 XML export, DOI badges and ORCID icons on every article.

Add-ons

Extend it when you need more

Each add-on is a small plugin that works with the main platform. Tell us which ones you need and we include them in your quote.

Forms & Issue Pages

A special-issue submission form builder and an issue page builder.

Author Directory

Public author profiles linked to their published articles.

Issue Builder

Assemble and order an issue’s articles before publishing it.

Scholar Indexing

Checks every article against Google Scholar’s inclusion rules, submits the sitemap through Search Console and tracks which articles Scholar lists.

Books

Edited books with chapter submissions, chapter fees and book citations.

OJS Submit

Send accepted submissions from the platform into an OJS journal.

Details

What’s included & what you need

Included

  • Submission form & author workspace
  • Reviewer invitations & review forms
  • Editorial dashboard (front end + wp-admin) and REST API
  • Journal-formatted and blind-review Word manuscripts
  • UPI fee page & payment verification
  • Issue manager, article pages & galley PDFs
  • Certificates with verification page
  • Editable email templates, audit log & system status

Who uses it

  • Editor-in-chief & editors (Journal Editor role)
  • Reviewers — by email link, no account
  • Authors — through their private workspace
  • Office staff verifying payments

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.x on your hosting (or ours)
  • PHP 7.4 or newer with the zip and xml extensions
  • An SMTP plugin for reliable email
  • Elementor is optional

Pricing

Choose your licence

One website, up to five, or installed and configured for you by our team.

Single site

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

A licence key for one website, with 12 months of updates and email support.

  • Licence key for 1 website
  • Automatic updates for 12 months
  • Installation guide & documentation
  • Email support
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Up to 5 sites

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

For publishers, groups and agencies running several journals or college websites.

  • Licence key for 5 websites
  • Automatic updates for 12 months
  • Priority email & WhatsApp support
  • Move the licence between sites anytime
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Installed & configured

Price on request

One-time payment · 12 months of updates

We install, configure and brand it on your website and train your team.

  • Everything in Single site
  • Installation & configuration
  • Your branding, pages & email settings
  • Staff training session
  • 6 months support & updates
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Tell us about your website and we will send the price and a free demo link within one working day. Prices exclude GST.

How licensing works

From order to automatic updates

01

Get your price

Tell us about your website; we send the price and a demo link.

02

Get your key

Your licence key and download link arrive by email and stay in your client portal.

03

Install & activate

Upload the plugin, paste the key — or let us install and configure it for you.

04

Automatic updates

New versions appear under Dashboard → Updates for the whole licence period.

FAQ

VYBE Academic Journal Platform FAQ

No. The platform runs the whole workflow inside WordPress. If your journal already runs on OJS and you want to keep it, the OJS Bridge connects your WordPress site to it instead.

It suggests DOIs from your prefix and exports Crossref 5.3.1 XML for each issue or article. You need Crossref membership (or a sponsoring organisation) to deposit them — we can help with that under DOI & indexing support.

Google Scholar has no submission form or API; its crawler decides. The platform adds everything Scholar reads — citation tags, a sitemap and clean article pages — and the Scholar Indexing add-on checks each article against Scholar’s guidelines and works with Google Search Console. Nobody can guarantee inclusion.

Authors pay by UPI using a QR code with the exact amount and Article ID, then enter the UTR. Editors verify the payment in the dashboard. Card gateways are not built in.

Yes. Labels and generated Word manuscripts can be bilingual (English and Tamil), and Tamil author data and titles are stored correctly.

Yes. Upgrades keep your articles, settings and shortcodes; data is migrated automatically on first load. Always take a backup first — we can do the upgrade for you on the Installed & configured licence.

The plugin keeps working on your site. Renew the licence to keep receiving new versions and support — we remind you before it ends.

Yes. Deactivate the site from your client portal and activate the key on the new one.

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