| Field | Type | What to enter |
|---|---|---|
| REROUTE TYPE | predefined | Indicate whether to reroute subscribers, addresses, or both. |
| APPLY TO ALL PRODUCTS / PRODUCT | yes/no setup | Indicate if all products should be rerouted. If not, enter the product for which addresses and/or subscriptions should be rerouted. |
| REASSIGN RATES | predefined | If you are rerouting subscribers, indicate whether and when the subscriber rate should be reassigned if rerouted (subscriber rates can change from route to route). If you enter immediate (a rate change will be created immediately upon rerouting) or on expire (a future rate change will be created that will be effective as of the subscriber’s expire date), a warning message appears that all rates (including promotional rates) may be changed. You are then prompted to continue. If you enter no, subscriber rates will not be reassigned. |
| REASON CODE | setup | If Reroute Type is “subscribers” or “both”, enter a reason code indicating why this rerouting is to be done. The reason code will be used for rerouting and billing change transactions created as part of the rerouting process. |
| TRAN DATE | date | Enter the transaction date for this rerouting activity. Subscriber rerouting goes into effect as of this date. Address rerouting goes into effect immediately, using this date to determine route boundaries. |
| UPDATE BILLING METHOD | yes/no | If you are rerouting subscribers, indicate whether subscriber billing methods may be changed, if needed. For example, a carrier collect subscriber may be rerouted to a route that accepts only office pay subscribers. If this checkbox is selected, a billing change transaction would be created when the reroute is processed in Transaction Processing, changing the subscriber from carrier collect to office pay (If this field were set to “no”, the carrier collect subscriber would not be rerouted). Billing change transactions created by rerouting will not be printed on bundle tops. |
| UPDATE ROUTES | yes/no | Indicate whether addresses and/or subscribers should actually be updated. You may want to run rerouting with this checkbox deselected, study the Unroutable Address Report to make sure the rerouting is what you expected, and run it again with this checkbox selected. |
| REROUTE BY | predefined | You have the choice to reroute only certain geographical areas. Or, you can reroute using router changes made within a certain date range. Indicate whether addresses should be rerouted by Zip code, map, route, district or date. Enter all to reroute all addresses. |
| ZIP CODE ZIP EXTENSION | open (10) | If rerouting by Zip code, enter the Zip code for which to reroute. Enter an asterisk (*) in order to specify multiple Zip codes (a window will open, described below). You can optionally include the Zip code extension. When rerouting by Zip code for a subscription that has multiple delivery addresses and routes, only the delivery addresses that meet the selected Zip criteria are updated. If one delivery address is rerouted and another delivery address remains unchanged, the unchanged delivery address will retain its existing Route ID. |
| STREET NAME | open (22) | If rerouting by Zip code, enter the name of the street for which to reroute. Do not enter suffixes such as RD, Dr, etc. If you do not enter a street name, all streets in the selected Zip code will be rerouted. |
| STARTING HOUSE NUMBER, ENDING HOUSE NUMBER | open (10) | If you entered a street name, enter the house number range that should be rerouted. If you do not enter house numbers, all houses on the selected street will be rerouted. |
| STREET SIDE | predefined | If you entered a house number range, indicate whether houses with odd or even house numbers should be rerouted, or select both to reroute both odd and even addresses. |
| MAP | setup | If rerouting by map, enter the delivery map here. Rerouting will only be done for router segments defined for this map. |
| DISTRICT | setup | If you are rerouting by district, enter the (new) district for which rerouting should be carried out. |
| ROUTE | setup | If you are rerouting by route, enter the (new) route for which rerouting should be carried out. |
| START DATE, END DATE | date | If you are rerouting by a range of dates, enter the date range here. The rerouting will only take into account changes in the router that occurred within these dates. |