Bonus Day Delivery

Due to changes in your router, your bonus day setup, or for other reasons, you may want to update bonus day transactions for all subscribers and create new transactions for the correct days and routes. This is the purpose of the Bonus Day Delivery utility. See Bonus Day Setup for more information about bonus days in general.

When a subscriber is flagged for bonus day papers as part of a new start or billing change, a bonus day transaction is created. Separate transactions are created for each bonus day, and the transactions include the delivery route valid for that delivery date (based on the router). If the subscriber permanently stops or changes delivery schedules, the bonus day transactions are removed automatically. In addition, deleting a start transaction that is flagged for bonus days will also delete the bonus day transaction.

When this utility is run, Circulation creates bonus day transactions for all subscribers who should receive a bonus paper on the specified bonus day. If a bonus day transaction already exists for a subscriber for that bonus day, a new bonus day transaction will overwrite the old one. Also, the delivery schedule can be set up to specifically include opt-out subscribers. bonus day transactions will not be created for temp-stopped subscribers.

Note:

• Before running the utility, you must set up at least one reason code for bonus day transactions (Transaction Type is “BonusDay”).

• If the Business Rule “Do you bill subscribers in advance for premium days?” is set to “Yes”, bonus day transactions will only be created for subscribers with rates that support premium days (i.e. are not marketing terms, balance forward rates, or rates that have Include in Bonus Day Adjustment unchecked).

To run the Bonus Day Delivery utility:

• Select Bonus Day Delivery from the Subscription/Address menu in Graphical Utilities to display the Bonus Day Delivery screen.

  
• Click Add and complete the following fields.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  PRODUCT, DELIVERY SCHEDULE	setup	Enter the publication and delivery schedule for which to create bonus day transactions. You may enter “*” to multi-select delivery schedules.
  BONUS DATE	date	Enter the bonus date for which bonus day transactions should be created. This date must be defined as a bonus day in advance (see Bonus Day Setup).
  SOURCE, REASON	setup	Enter the source and reason codes for creating the bonus day transactions. The reason code must be specifically set up for bonus days.

• Click OK and then Continue to run the utility.

• Once processing is completed, a processing report will display any errors that occurred. The standard view/print options are available.