AdMAX 11.49 (January 20, 2025)

Ad locked message

• Include the ad number so that a user running discrepancy processing or ad posting knows what is locked.

Ad Posting

• Ignore dummy only insertions for posting on expiration. Once the last billing insertion has passed, the entire ad is posted.
• Performance improvements.

AdMAX XML Interface

• Support autofilling the number of affidavits for new ads.
• Fixed double charset conversion of ad text.
• Attempt to remove a prepayment if the ad cost is changed to zero.
• Added configuration type for specifying whether to greyscale images.
• Fixed importing total cost overrides when they already include extra charges (i.e., tax).

Affidavit Forms

• Support longer ads on the first page of affidavits.
• Add a configuration option to specify whether the pattern file supports multiple columns of ads.

Batch List

• Added the actual total in the information window above the list of batches.

Batch Transactions List

• Added control amount and actual total to the window above the list of transactions.
• Support printing receipts for credit card refunds.

Customer Inquiry

• Payment List Changes
  • Use the original timestamp for the payment entered date instead of the time the record was created by posting.
  • Include the payment ID as a column in the list of payments.
  • Consolidate check / CC info into a single column.
  • Add posting date and change the header for the existing "Date" column to "Entered Date".
  • Added the ability to print a receipt from the credit card log.
  • Payments without a type are hidden by default. There is now an option to toggle viewing these.

Customer Maintenance

• Make the invoice notice required.

Custom Sales Report

• The posting date is now derived correctly for pending insertions depending on the posting behavior.
• Fixed a bug when filtering by a specific customer

Disputed Transactions

• Improvements to searching to allow search by account number or ad number.
• Add pub date and posting date to the transaction list.
• Allow multi-select for disputing and undisputing.
• Removed category filter so that any transaction can be marked as disputed.
• Sort transactions by posting date first.

Discrepancy Processing

• Honor the new pagination override flag to avoid false positives.
• Check PCAB outext files if available to get more accurate page information.

eInvoice

• Send individual emails for each invoice.
• Do not force a product if the site does not invoice at the product level.

eStatements

• Fixed check for current period activity for sites that invoice at the product level.

External Customer Interface

• Added credit information to customer lookup.

External Payment Interface

• Set payment source to "ONLINE" for payments that come through eBill.
• Unapplied payments from eBill are now marked as hold by default.
• Store credit card info using the same rules as if it were entered in AdMAX payment entry.

GAM Interface

• Added the ability to associate GAM Line Item ID with an existing AdMAX ad.
• Added submission functionality for GAM ads through QOE

Generic GL Export

• Joined the revenue and payment tables so that more fields are available.
• Added support for multiple field maps.
• New Fields:
  • Ad Number
  • Bill To Number
  • Revenue Category
  • Card Type
  • Invoice Product ID
  • Is Payment Transaction
  • Payment Source
  • Journal ID
  • Journal Sequence Number
  • Transaction Sequence Number

GL Assignment

• Fixed a bug with using classification codes to assign GL accounts.

HTML Forms

• Ignore disputed transactions.
• Do not print zero balance statements if the only activity is applied credits or payments.
• Generating statements now also makes a CSV report file.

Lockbox Interface

• Set payment source to "LOCKBOX".
• When paying by ad, make sure the billing customer on the ad matches what is in the lockbox file.
• Fixed how invoices are paid. We now use the current total, not the total as of the date in the lockbox.
• Added a boolean option for whether to hold unapplied credits.
• Use the default payment description if one is set.

Order Entry

• For new customers, set their approval date to today's date.
• Loosen rules slightly on reusing order numbers. Reusing is now allowed as long as there is no other live ad using the same order number.
• Added a button to prefill the customer info from a highlighted ad (New w/ Cust).
• Changing salesperson, ad taker, or district now generates revenue adjustments for posted insertions to reallocate the revenue.

Payment Adjustments

• Only adjust where a payment is applied and not other payment adjustments.
• Allow adjusting payments when the only activity is prepayment/prepayment adjustment transactions.
• Fixed an issue with saving a description for the adjustment.

Payment Entry

• Use the original timestamp when showing payments instead of the time the record was created by posting.
• Do not attempt to save credit cards with no information.
• Do not set the approval code if the user cancels the manual approval dialog.
• Set the approval code in the dialog to the preauth approval code if we are using a non-Monetra payment processor.
• Added a parameter for a default payment description.

Payment Reconciliation Report

• Set batch description correctly for refunds. It was showing the name of the original batch.
• Including refunds now also includes any adjustments that move that payment back to unapplied credit. Otherwise, it gives a false impression that a payment was refunded.
• When including refunds, we now also include prepayment adjustments.

Payment Refunds

• Fixed the calculation of the payment amount. Payment adjustments were sometimes missed.
• Added payment ID to the list of payments to refund.
• Added a payment description column next to the type. It shows the check number or credit card info.

Payment Mapping

• Allow setting the payment source.

Queue Routing

• Support routing ads that do not have a queue assignment.

Standard internet dump

• New field - AdType.
• Improved support for specifying hidden fonts. This allows symbol fonts to be stripped out when converting to plain text.
• Fully handle dynamic modes used by composition when converting ad text.
• Correctly calculate depth for liners.

Zoho Export

• Fixed an issue where preprint information was not included.
• Fixed mapping of revenue category for extra charges to honor GL lookup settings.
• Include posting journal values.
• Include Invoice and statement information in the customer list.