Vendors can offer additional disc duplication features to enhance your CDs or DVDs as well as services to help you track sales and promote your offerings. Some of these may be included in package deals, but vendors typically charge extra fees for each option. (See Pricing for more detailed information.)

• Enhanced CD services: Enhanced content (or E-CD) is a disc duplication feature that uses the remaining space on audio CDs to include multimedia features like short video clips, screensavers, and interactive games.
• CD Mastering: This is the final step in the recording process for music CDs. Vendors can balance the sound, fade in and out of tracks, and add sound effects to give audio recordings a professional feel.
• DVD Authoring: Similar to CD mastering, DVD authoring adds region encoding, menus, chapter points, and background video clips. You can also add extra features like links to your web site, screensavers, and PDF documents.
• Inventory Tracking: If you are going to sell replicated CDs and DVDs, you can track inventory and sales by printing a bar code on the back of the packaging.

• Fulfillment Services: Instead of shipping the discs to you, some vendors offer drop shipping, where they house the inventory and ship directly to customers as orders arrive. You pay a fixed shipping rate (typically $4 to $5 per unit) plus actual postage costs. While this reduces your overall profits, it saves you time and overhead costs and allows you to quickly get product out.
• Other disc duplication services:
  • To protect your material against unauthorized duplication, you can order copy protection for audio CDs and video DVDs.
  • A set of promotional tools such as posters, flyers, and order cards can be packaged with your discs to further your brand and encourage future purchases.
  • If you want a truly unique look for your media, a vendor can customize the size and shape of your media with mini DVDs, business-card shaped CDs, or unusual die-cut shapes.
  • If you do your own duplication, you may want to use print only services that will print your custom artwork on blank discs before you record them.

Most vendors do the reproduction, print work, and packaging in-house. This assures better quality control and faster turnaround. While outsourcing does happen, the vendor should stay involved in the entire quality assurance process to ensure your project goes smoothly.