Procedures

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Your procedures will be tailored to the way you want to do things, but you can use the following as a guide or starting point.

Traffic

Billing

A/R

System Administration

Combined

Traffic

Daily

Reconcile the logs for the previous day (or weekend).

Installations using an automation system will verify the previous day’s log in the Automation Module.

Post reconciled logs, if using posting.

Enter new programs, contracts, and copy orders.

Print confirmations.

Reschedule makegoods.

Print the Schedule Discrepancy Summary. Review and correct problems.

Edit schedules, making any final changes.

Assign filler spots to logs.

Print missing copy summary and correct copy errors.

Assign copy to schedules.

Print logs.

Installations using an automation system will create schedule files in the Automation Module.

Weekly

Print Schedule Discrepancy Summary, review and correct problems.

Print Pre-Billing Analysis Report., review with Sales and Billing departments and correct problems.

Monthly

Verify all logs have been reconciled and posted for Billing department.

Annual

Billing

Daily

Weekly

Review Pre-Billing Analysis Report with Sales and Traffic departments and correct problems.

Monthly

Make sure Traffic department has completed reconciling and posting logs for the month.

You may want to separate your billing by billing group and repeat these procedures for each group.

Print a Billing Projection Report for the billing period and for the appropriate billing group(s).

Print a Pre-Billing Analysis Report and correct any discrepancies. Make sure to check the Schedule Discrepancy Report for spots that were ordered in a different month but ran in the billing month.

Compare the Billing Projection to the Pre-Billing Analysis.

Print a Posting Preview Report  for the same billing period and for the same group.  Check for errors before printing invoices.  If you do not see the spot on the preview, it won’t bill. Make sure each spot has a description, the net is correct for agencies, and the totals match the Pre-Billing Analysis.

Post Traffic to Billing.

Print an Unbilled Spots List to make sure there are no spots unintentionally left unbilled.

Print a Billing Report and compare to the Posting Preview.

Print Invoices.

Annual

Update billing history.

A/R

Daily

Enter payments. Make sure the Payments Received report matches your deposit register.

Enter trade credits. Make sure the Trade Credits Applied report matches.

Enter adjustments. Make sure the Adjustments report matches.

Weekly

Monthly

Print the Balance Summary report. Make sure the prior balance matches the new balance from last month's report.  Make sure the totals for charges, credits, etc. are correct.

Apply finance charges, if you are using this feature. Check results on the F/C Applied report.

Print Statements.

Adjust prepayments. Verify with the Adjustments report.

Print a new Balance Summary report and save for comparison to next month's report.

Annual

System Administration

Daily

Do a BACKUP! (See this FAQ for suggestions).

Weekly

Run the A/R Integrity Test.

Run a Database Inconsistencies check.

Check for Summit updates.

Do a BACKUP! Exchange with the offsite backup copy.

Monthly

Remove breaks and billed and unbilled spots.

Annual

Remove other expired data.

Combined

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Annual

 

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