Brainworks provides a unified solution. Through a single database, Brainworks manages all of your advertising: display, classified and preprints, as well as billing, accounts receivable, contracts, layout, pagination, marketing, sales force automation and web/palm integration. Brainworks Contract Management is a component of this unified solution.

Minimize Effort, Maximize Sales Results
Build efficiency while increasing sales volume. Reduce the cost of managing advertising contracts with a system that does all the heavy lifting for you. Keeping contract advertisers on-track with their commitments is key to optimizing revenues. The result: a better bottom line for your newspaper.

Smart Integration with Ad Order Entry
Contract assignment is automatic. Brainworks locates the appropriate contract for each ad at the time of order entry without requiring operator intervention. Pricing and compliance is completely automatic. This saves valuable order entry time, and ensures that contract assignment and compliance of all ads is 100% accurate.

Bulk, Frequency, Preprint, Dollar Volume
Brainworks tracks bulk inch, insert frequency, preprint, color, dollar volume, and earned level contracts. Simply define the contract type, products, and level, and Brainworks automatically handles pricing, ad assignment and compliance.

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Support Parent/Child Contract Relationships
Brainworks allows you to define contracts which combine advertising placed by a major advertiser in one or more subsidiary locations. View compliance by each child account, as well as overall contract performance at the parent level.

Brainworks Masters Multiple Ad Types
Manage multiple ad types your way. Manage compliance for retail, classified, inserts, web, and any other ad types on separate contracts, or combine them onto a single contract. Using your predefined business rules to convert "apples and oranges" to a common measure, Brainworks makes easy work of cross-media contract compliance.

Short Rates and Rebates Give You the Edge
Brainworks performs precise calculations for each contract, to determine whether a short rate or rebate is due. Full reporting and visual review screens allow you to customize the process, eliminating ads or entire customers from consideration. Detailed short rate/rebate statements are provided for distribution to advertisers, giving your sales team leverage to generate additional advertising opportunities. Debits and credits are automatically created within the Brainworks billing/accounts receivable system. The entire process is fast, easy, precise, and helps you provide excellent customer service while maximizing your contract revenues.

Contract Compliance and Violation Reports
Summary and detailed reporting, as well as onscreen inquiry tools tell the story about each and every contract. You may track scheduled and published contract compliance levels independently. Brainworks contract management is designed to let you define the parameters, and then take care of the work for you.

Dazzle Your Advertisers With a Web Interface
Brainworks online customer service center provides a powerful inquiry tool for your advertisers. They can view their contract fulfillment at a summary and detailed level, as well as all other accounting and sales details, 24x7, from any web browser. Full security is provided at the customer level.

Reporting - Get What You Want, When You Want It!
In seconds, easily define and generate any advertising report: detailed, summary, or comparative. Quickly select the elements to include, indicate your sorting and filtering preferences, and your report appears instantly on the screen. Report on classified and display advertising together or separately. Report by salesperson, territory, division, publication, edition, section, date, ad type, advertiser, SIC code, day of week, promotion, or any user definable elements.

A Proven Track Record of Delivering Cutting Edge Technology
Since Brainworks released the industry's first Windows based advertising system over a decade ago, the company has continued a tradition of leveraging the most effective and current technologies. The corporate mission is maximizing the profitability and productivity of newspapers.

Brainworks - The Platform for Today and Tomorrow
Brainworks ROP Pagination is a cross platform solution. You have the freedom to choose either PC or Macintosh workstations. Operates on Microsoft Windows 2000¨, and Sun-Solaris™ servers. Database options include SQL Server™, and Oracle¨. One system can support multiple users in a single location, or multiple users spread over a broad geographical area using a Wide Area Network.

At Brainworks, Customer Satisfaction Is Paramount
The technical team provides outstanding 24x7 support, is highly responsive to the needs of the industry, and is proactive in leveraging technologies to keep Brainworks customers ahead of the times.

Profit from Brainworks
Find out more about how Brainworks software can make your newspaper more profitable. Online and onsite demonstrations are available upon request.