CSA's Outdoor Advertising
Software is a comprehensive system that is designed to manage and control
the unique operations of an Outdoor Advertising Company. CSA's Outdoor
Advertising Software lets you track each display location, process customer
contracts, generate invoices, track leases, generate lease checks, perform
charting and scheduling functions, and produce the financial and management
reports necessary for the effective management of your company.
CSA's Outdoor Advertising Software
frees you from the tedious bookkeeping tasks that are unique to the Outdoor
Advertising industry. Contracts and leases can be automatically billed
on regular cycles, with scheduled rate changes automatically taking effect
at appropriate times. Locations reports can be easily generated for advertisers
from charting information.
CSA's Outdoor Advertising Software
also provides you with fast access to the information that you require
to run your company. With CSA Outdoor Advertising you can: Answer questions
regarding lease payments while on the phone with the lessor, easily find
available locations that meet an advertiser’s requirements, and answer
questions regarding when displays actually got posted for a contract.
CSA's Outdoor Advertising
Software also produces reports oriented specifically to the Outdoor Advertising
industry. With CSA Outdoor Advertising you can evaluate availability and
occupancy, project revenues and lease liabilities, analyze sales by markets
and advertisers, produce leading national advertiser and competitive advertiser
reports, and evaluate the true profitability of individual leases.
CSA's Outdoor Advertising
Software interfaces with the CSA accounting modules to form a complete
business system for the Outdoor Advertising Company. With CSA you can
have one fully integrated system designed specifically to meet the needs
of your company.
- Tracks information regarding
each display location.
- Supports multiple media
types (bulletins, 8 sheets, painted boards, bus shelters, etc.).
- Supports multiple markets
and sub-markets.
- Tracks line of sight information.
- Allows an unlimited number
of user-defined location characteristics (near school, inbound to vacation
attraction, etc.) to be assigned to each location.
- Prints a detailed listing
of all locations.
- Prints a summarized inventory
count by market and sub-market, with separate counts for each media
type and ethnic area.
- Prints a Location Listing
By Locale Code Report.
- Prints file labels for each
location.
- Prints a Utilities Cost
Analysis Report analyzing illumination costs by meter.
- Prints a Location Billing
Analysis Report, listing the sales generated from each location.
- Prints a Location Payments
Analysis Report, listing the payments received for each location.
- Allows TAB audit circulation
figures to be imported into the system, and produces exception reports
for unauthorized locations.
- Tracks leased property
and payment schedules.
- Allows up to 30 lease rate
changes to be scheduled over the life of the lease.
- Supports firm and projected
lease rate changes.
- Supports percent of revenue
lease payments.
- Allows percent of revenue
payments to be based on either customer billing or payments received.
- Identifies each location
covered by the lease.
- Tracks notations relating
to a lease, and stores the next contact date for follow-up with the
lessor.
- Prints the Lease Master
File Print-Out with options to print only those leases due to expire,
or with lease rate changes scheduled to occur, or with next contract
dates specified, over a user specified time period.
- Automatically produces
regularly scheduled lease checks.
- Produces the Percent of
Revenue Lease Payment register, and provides the option to automatically
generate percent of revenue lease checks.
- Produces the Percent of
Revenue Lease Payment Register, and provides the option to automatically
generate percent of revenue lease checks.
- Allows ad-hoc lease checks
to be processed through the computer.
- Provides separate options
for automatically printing company information, bank information, MICR
coding and authorized signature on lease checks.
- Allows void and manual
check payments to be entered into the computer.
- Stores a complete history
of all lease payments.
- Prints the Lease Payment
History Report.
- Provides an inquiry into
the detailed lease payment information by either lease number, vendor
name, location description, location number or vendor number.
- Automatically creates accruals
and reversals to lease pre-payment and expense general ledger accounts.
Prints the Projected Liability Report in detail or summary form.
- Prints the Lease Pre-Payment
& Liability Analysis Report, listing the current pre-payment/liability
status of each lease.
- Tracks customer contracts.
- Supports multiple media
types, markets and display periods on a single contract.
- Supports agency discounts
and other discounts.
- Allows sales and commission
for a contract to be split between as many as three salesmen.
- Tracks information regarding
the product displayed.
- For each contract, provides
the option of printing Circulation and Posting Dates on the invoice.
- Allows display periods
to be entered in months or days.
- Prints acknowledgment letters.
- Prints a Contract Expiration
Report, listing contracts due to expire.
- Prints a Billing Status
Report, summarizing the amount billed and amount remaining to be billed
for each contract.
- Produces Pre-Billing reports,
listing contracts scheduled to be billed, and contract billing exceptions.
- Prints invoices, and optionally
prints each charted location on the invoice.
- Provides the option of
aging invoices in the A/R system using either the invoice date or the
starting date of the billing period.
- Stores and prints the advertiser
name and product description as reference information in the A/R system.
- Automatically allocates
and tracks revenue for each location.
- Prints the Forecasted Revenue
Report by salesman, media type, or combined for the entire company.
- Provides a commercial invoice
routine that allows invoices to be created for goods and services other
than rental display contracts.
- Allows for the processing
of credit memos, with optional adjustment to the customer’s sales history.
- Maintains a complete posting
schedule for each location.
- Provides a Charting Maintenance
routine that allows locations to be quickly charted to a contract.
- Allows charting to be entered
in days or months.
- Supports regular reposting
cycles.
- Supports rotations.
- Tracks actual display start
and end dates for each location and contract.
- Warns of overlaps in the
posting schedule.
- Keeps scheduling information
on file for historical inquiries and reports.
- Prints a Location Schedule
Spreadsheet, summarizing the posting schedule for each location by month,
listing contracted rental rates and printing occupancy statistics.
- Prints the Charting Report
By Panel Number, providing a detail list of all scheduled and available
dates for each location, with optional print selections by location
characteristics.
- Provides detailed availability
reporting.
- Prints the Charting Report
By Date, showing the planned posting schedule.
- Prints the Location Report.
- Print a Locations To Post
Report, summarizing the current advertiser and next two scheduled postings
for each location.
- Prints the Forecasted Occupancy
Report by market and media type.
- Produces an Automatic Client
Ride List for scheduled contracts.
- Produces a Manual Client
Ride List for the generation of proposals and the creation of partial
ride lists for contracts.
- Provides the option of
including a Poster Showing Profile on the Automatic and Manual Client
Ride Lists.
- Automatically produces
posting orders to initiate posting. Posting orders may be produced in
Posting Card or Worksheet format.
- Automatically produces
posting orders for regularly scheduled repostings.
- Allows for the manual selection
of individual locations for posting order printing.
- Posting information is
recorded back into the system for proper updating of starting and ending
dates.
- Tracks last scraped date
and scraper’s initials for each location.
- Produces the Activity Report
By Market for filing Leading National Advertiser reports.
- Prints the Activity Report
By Product Type for filing Competitive Advertiser Reports.
- Prints the Panel Sales
Analysis, showing sales volume by market and media type with prior year
comparisons.
- Prints the Outdoor Sales
Summary, listing gross and net sales by media type.
- Prints the Percent Occupancy
Report, showing actual occupancy percentages by market and media type.
- Prints the Advertiser Occupancy
Report, showing locations displayed for each advertiser by market and
media type, with prior year comparisons.
- Produces the Detail Lease
Profitability Report, providing a miniature "profit and loss statement"
for each lease, including prior period comparatives.
- Produces the Summary Lease
Profitability Report, printing a single line per lease.
- Requires no special general
ledger chart of accounts or profit center structure to track lease profitability.
- Automatically tracks lease
payments as expenses to lease profitability.
- Allows labor posting time
to be entered and costed as a lease expense during posting card entry.
- Tracks direct charges to
a location through Accounts Payable. (Voucher line items may be charged
directly to a lease or a location number).
- Tracks other direct labor
and material cost processed through CSA Labor Performance and CSA Inventory
Management Systems.
- Allows any other cost entries
to be processed directly through CSA Job Costing.
- Allows detailed cost entries
to be reviewed and reported through CSA Job Costing.
- Protects against posting
incorrect dates by allowing the user to indicate which periods are open
for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable purposes.
- Allows selective printing
by Profit Center.
- Allows previewing of reports
prior to printing.
- Provides online look-ups
on validated fields.
- Restricts user access through
the use of CSA’s Application Security package.
- CSA Outdoor Advertising
interfaces with CSA Accounts Receivable, CSA Accounts Payable, and CSA
Job Costing.
- CSA Accounts Payable and
CSA Accounts Receivable are required for CSA Outdoor Advertising.
- CSA Job Costing is optional,
but necessary for Lease Profitability Reporting.
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