Community Advertising System
A complete managed service advertising and
production solution, for one low monthly price

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Fits your business
Retail and classified order entry, accounts receivable, display ad dummying, classified pagination, ad production management and news pagination management for QuarkXpressTM, Adobe InDesign® and free Scribus, plus numerous add-on modules including ones supporting web-based self-service.

Fits your budget

• Software as a Service with no capital expenditures to minimize up front costs.
• Tiered product configurations so you can get the level of functionality you need at a price you can afford
• Managed services including remote system and application support
• Includes next generation appliance hardware, complete with installed OS, high-availability redundancy and all necessary free and open source software
  

Fits your culture

• US-based developers, sales and support staff
• Family-owned and actively run by family members
• Dedicated to serving newspapers
• Over 37 years of successful system development, delivery and support
• Thousands of publications at over 300 organizations on support
• "We have your back" service, the best in the industry

Sales uses the Community Advertising System to:

• Access current and past information about ads and advertisers allowing sales reps to create customized presentations for their customers
• Sell premium positions and show advertisers that there is demand for the space
• Take ad orders on any mobile device without having to come into the office
• Upload finished ads via the web without having to come into the office
• Monitor the status of ads sold and get information about advertisers from anywhere on a smart phone, tablet or laptop
  

Accounting uses the Community Advertising System to:

• Schedule ads (insertion orders) and manage run agreements/contracts
• Produce electronic run lists of ads and send them to be dummied
• Print invoices or send them to the web for advertisers to review and pay
• Post A/R payments and handle all credit matters with customers
• View which positions are sold/unsold for upcoming publications
• Review previously dummied products
• Generate electronic tearsheets to be sent to advertisers
• Audit final pages in minutes instead of hours
  

Production uses the Community Advertising System to:

• Build ads while managing the components of each ad
• Make the ad layout plan/dummy and place display ads on pages
• Produce instructions to generate pages in Adobe InDesign® or another pagination system
  
• Create editorial pages that have ad stacks in place, place finished ad images inside the ad blocks
• Paginate classified line ads
• See a dashboard-like summary of editions as they are being built to get a real-time view of the production process

Advertisers use the Community Advertising System to:

• Place their own classified ads online 24/7/365
• Review account information and make payments online 24/7/365
• View and reserve available premium positions online 24/7/365
• Upload finished ads, graphics and text for ads online 24/7/365
• Proof and make comments about their ads online
• View their advertising history online and request to re-run an ad
• Review tearsheets online instead of getting them in the mail