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Data Entry Field
The underlined (or reverse-video) area of the screen, usually following an entry prompt, that is active for data entry purposes.
Database
Basic data commonly defined and consistently organized to fit the information needs of a wide variety of users within an organization.
Day Pass
A subscription that gives the customer access to the publication’s website or replica edition for a single day. Day pass bundles can also be purchased.
Dealer
A dealer distributes the publication via a newsstand or rack. See also Carrier. Also, a distribution method in which circulation figures are included in paid circulation totals for AAM reporting purposes.
Debit Memo
A special type of open item applied to a carrier’s account during interface to an accounts payable system. The debit memo offsets the carrier credit being transferred.
Default
An entry that is automatically entered into a field. Defaults can usually be overridden by entering other values.
Delete
Completely remove; no longer retrievable.
Deliverable
A product, such as a publication, that is delivered independently. So, TM products are deliverables, but inserts are not.
Delivery Directions
Special instructions that pertain to delivering to an address.
Delivery Map
The set of routes used by a publication for delivery to subscribers.
Delivery Method
The means by which a newspaper is delivered to a customer. The two major delivery methods are route and mail. Within route delivery, there are carrier, motor, and single copy delivery methods.
Delivery Point
An addition to the Zip + 4 that allows the USPS to locate an address solely from Zip information. The delivery point has three digits. The first two digits are typically the last two digits of the house number, and the third digit is a check digit for the entire Zip (if the Zip + 4 + two delivery point digits = 57, the check digit would be 7).
Delivery Requests
Special instructions that pertain to delivering to an occupant.
Delivery Schedule
A code that indicates what days of the week the subscriber receives the paper (e.g. “7-day”, “SO” for Sunday Only, “DO” for daily only)
Demographic
A description of the characteristics of the audience of a publication, usually in terms of age, income, education, occupation, etc., and possibly lifestyle characteristics or purchasing habits.
Department
An entity such as advertising or circulation that is set up for reporting purposes. A business may or may not have departments.
Departure Sequence
Indicates the order in which trucks depart from the newspaper’s dock.
Digital Vacation Pack
Online access given to a print subscriber during a temp stopped period (see also Vac Pack).
Direct Deposit
The practice of depositing carrier credits directly into the carrier’s bank account (rather than cutting a check).
Discount
A percent or flat amount reduction off the full price given, for example, to a carrier for a particular delivery schedule.
Disk Space
The amount of room available on a computer data disk (hard or floppy disk) for storage of information and application files. Not to be confused with computer memory, or RAM. See Memory.
Dispatching
Coordinating the special distribution of newspapers and other items. In Circulation, dispatching can be prompted by a complaint, shortage, or message.
Distribution Methods
The methods of distributing a product, including all user-defined route types, all user-defined single copy types, and mail delivery.
Distribution Point
The geographic location at which your product is distributed. The distribution point can be a single copy outlet (including racks and dealers) or a home delivery route (carrier or motor-delivered). See also Route.
District Manager
In Circulation, the person responsible for managing the distribution of publications in a designated district. He or she generally is responsible for supervising the activities of carriers, dealers, and/or motor route drivers.
DM or DSM
See District Manager.
Draw
The number of papers a carrier, dealer, or motor route driver is given to deliver on a particular day or period. See also Actual Draw, Advance Draw, Projected Draw, and Pending Draw.
Draw Adjustment
An adjustment made after transaction processing for the final time to change draw history and maintain an audit trail for single copy and/or home delivery routes.
Draw Changes
Draw changes are used to adjust the future draw for single copy and/or home delivery routes.
Draw Charge
The amount a carrier is charged for the newspapers he or she delivers. Other charges, such as bond deposits, taxes, and insurance, combine with the draw charge to make up the carrier’s bill.
Draw Type
A classification of draw, based on who will receive it. The draw types are office pay, carrier collect, paid complimentary, unpaid complimentary, service, samples, single copy, and TM.
Drop Location
The designated spot where a carrier’s paper bundles should be delivered by the bundle delivery truck driver. For example, “the corner of Holly and Mackubin.”
DTI
Digital Technology International, one of the parent companies that formed Newscycle Solutions. After the merger, DTI Circulation was renamed Newscycle Circulation.
Dummy Billing
An account billing run that you UNDO later. A dummy billing is often run before a real billing to ensure that there will be no problems encountered in billing certain carriers.
Dummy Publication
A false publication that represents one or more targeted marketing products. Dummy publications are set up when the TM product delivery map does not match the delivery map of any publication—hence new routes must be set up, requiring a “publication”.
Earned Revenue
Revenue that the newspaper receives from subscriptions as the newspaper is delivered. Since most subscribers pay in advance, the payment is initially unearned, and becomes earned through delivery.
eBill
A renewal notice that is sent electronically to the subscriber, via e-mail.
Editing
The process by which the operator checks online entries for accuracy against information stored on the computer disk. For example, editing might be performed by a program to determine whether a publication ID is a valid (exists in the Publication File) before recording it as an entry in the Publication field.
Edition Model
A set of alternate editions that are used on special occasions (such as a holiday).
End Date
The ending date of a period.
Enter
To type on the keyboard in response to an entry prompt and then press the Enter key (or F1) to send the entry to the system for processing. See Type.
Error Message
A message that appears, usually at the bottom of the screen, indicating that an error has occurred. Error messages may be displayed by the application program, PROGRESS™ database software, network software, or operating system software.
Expert Code
A short series of keystrokes you can enter to access another screen directly, bypassing intermediate screens.
Expired Stopped
Status of a subscription that reached the end of its grace period and payment was not received (if the credit status indicates that the subscription should be stopped instead of turned over to carrier collect).
Field
See Data Entry Field.
File
A group of records stored as a unit on a computer system. See Record, Hard Disk.
Function Keys
Special-use keyboard keys usually labeled F1, F2, etc., or PF1, PF2, etc.
Grace Owed
The amount a subscriber owes from being in grace. This amount is deducted from the next payment received from the subscriber.
Grace Paid
If a subscriber sends a payment after being in grace, the grace owed amount is deducted from the payment. This is known as “grace paid”.
Grace Period
A user-defined period of time after the expire date during which the office pay subscriber can continue to receive the paper before the subscription is stopped (or converted to carrier collect).
Grace Write-off
An activity that involves taking grace-owed amounts and transferring them to a bad debt account. This typically happens when subscribers in grace do not make a payment within a certain time frame, and the newspaper assumes they will not make the payment at all.
Hand-Tie Bundle
A bundle below minimum size.
Hard Disk
The computer’s internal disk drive where data and application programs are permanently stored. Not to be confused with memory. See Memory.
Holiday
A day on which a publication does not publish an edition.
Home Delivery Route
A route that delivers newspapers directly to subscribers via carrier or motor delivery.
Hosted Order Page
A secure web page, existing outside of Circulation and not located on the Circulation server, where credit card information can be entered.
ID
An identification code associated with a longer value. See Code.
InsertPlus
Another software program created by Newscycle Solutions. InsertPlus is used to schedule and distribute newspaper preprints (inserts).
Interface
A hardware and/or software link connecting the computer hardware and/or software with other computer hardware and/or software.
Invoice
An account (i.e., carrier) bill, or a subscriber bill that is printed when a subscriber starts (after the initial invoice, subscribers pay in advance and are sent renewal notices). Also, an invoice is an open item in a carrier’s account created at the end of account billing, if the carrier’s charges are greater than his or her credits.
ISSN Number
An International Standard Serial Number, assigned to newspapers and other documents. An ISSN uniquely identifies a title regardless of language or country, and without the burden of complex bibliographic information.
Key Bundle
A bundle of non-standard size. For example, if a route has 50 papers and the standard size is 20, there would be 2 standard bundles of 20 and one key bundle of 10.
Label Group
A group of subscribers whose mail labels are printed together. For example, mail labels from Zip code 55114 could be printed together in one label group, and labels from Zip codes 55447-55676 could be printed as another label group.
Label Job File
Parameters that are entered for mailing labels that are designed and sorted by Postalsoft Presort and Label software.
List MatchPlus
Another software program created by Newscycle Solutions. List MatchPlus allows you to import address and occupant information into Circulation from an outside source.
Lockbox Processing
The process of reading a file into Circulation that contains payments made directly to the newspaper’s bank account. This can be done for either subscriber or account payments.
Login
The process of gaining access to the operating system or application program by entering an ID code and, if required, a security password.
Lookup
A window that temporarily pops up on the screen to display valid choices for the active data entry field (the field where the data entry cursor rests). You select an option in a lookup by pressing the Enter key while the option is highlighted, or by typing the first one or several unique letters of the option name. See Search.
Tax Authority
A geographical area, such as a city, county, state, or country, that operates a tax that applies to some carriers or subscribers.
Third Party
A subscription paid for by a third party, such as a business.
Throwoff Subscriber
A subscriber who is listed as an individual drop on the truck manifest.
TM
Targeted marketing of a publication or product to a selected group of addresses, via mail or carrier delivery.
Town of 25
A code that identifies the subscription delivery location. For publications that do AAM reporting, each delivery location receiving more than 25 copies per issue must have a separate Town of 25 ID.
Truck Departure
A set of trucks that are placed in a certain order (typically the order the trucks leave the dock).
Truck Manifest
A report that tells a truck drivers what the truck contains, the order in which it should be placed on the truck, and where each bundle of papers should be delivered for distribution by carriers or dealers. See Bundle Tops.
Truck Sequence
A set of route drops on a group of trucks. The truck sequence defines what order the routes will be dropped and by which truck.
Type
To press keys on the keyboard. (Not to be confused with “enter.”) See Enter.
Unapplied Payment
A payment that has been entered for a carrier but not applied to a specific invoice.
Unearned Revenue
Unearned Revenue includes subscriber payments that have been received and posted but for which products have not yet been delivered.
Unique City
A city listed on the post office’s list of unique 3-digit Zip code cities in Publication 65, the National Zip and Post Office Directory. Mail sent to unique cities qualifies for a presort rate, provided the unique city lies outside the mailing publication’s county.
Unpaid Complimentary
In Circulation, a “complimentary” subscription that is free to the subscriber and cannot be considered as paid circulation for AAM purposes. See also Paid Complimentary.
Update
To change the information contained in a field or record. Replacing old or inaccurate information with more current or accurate information. See Modify.
User Profile
The parameters that govern the options available to a particular user, including home menu, view/print options, valid publications, etc.
Utility
A program that performs housekeeping functions, such as purging or reorganizing records in a file.
Vac Pack (Vacation Pack)
A subscription option that either suspends the subscription(s) delivered or transfers the subscription(s) delivery to the subscriber’s vacation address (or elsewhere) for the duration of the vacation. When the vacation period is over, delivery resumes at the subscriber’s address. If the subscription delivery was suspended, various options are available for applying credits for the undelivered issues. A promotional vac pack rate may be created in which the subscriber’s expiration date is extended either the full time or half the time of the vac pack.
Walk Sequence
The order in which newspaper carriers or postal carriers deliver their routes. For example, a carrier might deliver 223 Elm St., 227 Elm St., 3170 Oak St, etc. Both carrier walk sequence and postal walk sequence can be added through a utility.
Zip Code
The Zip code was developed by the Postal Service for the delivery of mail. It contains 5 digits: (1) one 10 Postal Service delivery areas, (2) state, portion of a state, or group of states, (3) major post office location, (4 & 5) local delivery area. Four extra digits (called “Zip+4”) can also be added to the Zip code to further differentiate the address. The first two digits of the Zip+4 indicate a “block face” of a street, a building, or a floor within a building. The last two digits identify a specific address.
Zip Code Zone
The postal zone assigned to an address based on its distance from the mailing location. The post office provides postal zone information for its mailing location.
AAM
An acronym for Alliance for Audited Media, an independent agency that audits newspaper circulation figures to assure advertisers of the accuracy of these figures. It was previously known as the ABC.
AAM Zone
A user-defined designator which defines how paid circulation totals will be reported for AAM (Alliance for Audited Media). AAM zones are also known as AAM “report areas”.
Access
An access happens whenever a process touches a record in a search, read, write or other operation. For example, a process searching for a subscriber may access thousands of records in order to read or write to the one record for the subscriber.
Account
A carrier or dealer.
Account ID
The ID of the person responsible for the carrier/dealer’s bill.
Account Payment Adjustment
A credit or debit made to the an account’s balance that is not a cash transaction. For example, you may credit an account’s balance for purchasing additional papers for shortage purposes.
Accruals
The process of running a premature billing run, which is then reversed out. The purpose of accruals is to update general ledger accounts. Accruals are run when a newspaper’s fiscal periods do not match their billing periods.
Actual Draw
Draw based on papers that were actually distributed via routes or mail.
Adjustment Days
Expiration days adjusted for a subscription, if available, for payment and restart transactions or through manual adjustments.
Advance Draw
Draw estimates calculated for an advance publishing run.
Advance Publishing
The practice of distributing sections of the newspaper to carriers in advance. The carriers then insert these sections into the newspapers when they arrive.
Apply a Payment
Activate a payment toward an invoice or customer’s balance.
Apply to AR Now
Charges or credits that apply directly to an account balance, not when account billing is processed (typically at the end of the month).
ASCII
ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is an alpha-numeric format code that is used to interface data between computers.
Auto Renew
Subscriptions that are automatically renewed to the customer’s credit card or from the customer’s bank account.
Average Copy Rate
The cost of a single copy of the newspaper to a carrier or subscriber. This may or may not vary by day of the week.
Background
Data processing is performed as a “hidden” activity while leaving the terminal free for other uses.
Batch
A group of payments and/or credits that is assigned an ID. A batch allows you to have control totals for balancing purposes.
Batch Processing
Processing in which the entire program executes at once with little, if any, operator intervention.
Bellatrix
An automated rack system. Draw information can be imported into Circulation from Bellatrix.
Bill Period
The ID used for selecting carrier/dealers for account billing and applying recurring charges and/or credits to account bills.
Bill Source
The ID used to group carriers and/or dealers for billing purposes.
Billing Method
The method by which subscribers are billed for the newspaper. Billing methods include office pay, carrier collect, paid complimentary and unpaid complimentary.
Bond
Newspapers sometimes have carriers pay bond charges as security for their routes. The bond money is returned when the carrier leaves the route.
Bonus Day
A day, typically a holiday, on which a subscriber receives the paper, even though it is not a normal delivery day for the subscriber (for example, if a weekend-only subscriber receives a paper on Tuesday, January 1). See also “Premium Day”.
Bulk
A distribution method used for AAM reporting purposes in which the “bulk” paid circulation figures are reported separately. For example, “bulk” subscriptions may be delivered to hotels or to the airport, and the circulation figures will be reported as paid “Bulk” for the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Also, in relation to trucks, routes that are “bulked” get one bundle top.
Bundle Labels
See Bundle Tops.
Bundle Tops
A printed label designating the contents of a bundle of newspapers, the carrier or dealer name, the drop location, etc. It may also contain information for the carrier about subscription starts, stops, etc.
Business
The highest level in the organizational structure as it relates to financial information and reporting.
Business Rules
The set of rules you set up to control the operation of Circulation. Business Rules can control whether fields, menus, menu items and windows are active for a particular user or group of users. See the Business Rules Workbook.
Samples
Papers given to a carrier or motor route driver for “sample” purposes.
SBS
A general ledger software program, at one time sold by PBS as Financial Management. Most general ledgers records are transferred from Circulation to SBS automatically.
SCF
Acronym for Sectional Center Facility. This is a postal building where postal employees collect and sort mail for distribution to other post offices. A post office may also be designated as a Sectional Center Facility.
Search
A series of windows and strip menus that are displayed (as an extension of a lookup) to help you find and select an appropriate entry for an entry field. See Lookup.
Service
Papers given to a carrier or motor route driver for “service” purposes, such as to replace damaged papers.
Setup
The process of configuring Circulation for your company’s specific needs. See the Setup Manual.
Shopper
A publication containing only advertising. It is usually delivered by the carrier to the same route as the paper. The carrier may be paid to deliver shoppers with or without papers, on a variety of payment plans.
Short Name
An abbreviated company name used by banks.
Shortage
An error that gives a carrier too few (or too many) papers on a given day. Shortages can be recorded for audit and report purposes.
Shrink Copies
Papers unaccounted for by a single copy outlet, due to theft, damage, lost copies, or other reasons. The total draw minus copies sold equals the shrink.
Sign-on Screen
A preliminary screen that may appear after the selection of a program from a full menu but before the appearance of the main program screen. It solicits default data for use by the program during this session.
Single Copy Outlet
A route that sells newspapers from dealers, racks, newsstands, office and bulk. See Route.
Single Copy Type
A user-defined classification of single copy outlets that describes how they are delivered; for example, “dealer” and “rack”.
Software
A computer program or set of programs. See Program.
Sold Copies
Copies sold by a dealer or other single copy outlet (see also, Shrink).
Source Code
Indicates the where the information is coming from (e.g., the subscriber, customer service operator, etc.)
Special Address
An address that does not contain standard address elements (e.g., a military address).
Stacker
A machine that stacks newspapers into bundles for distribution.
Start
A transaction that starts a subscription to a publication.
Start Date
The beginning date of a period.
Start-and-bill
A subscription that has been started by the customer with the request that a bill be sent to him or her for payment at a later date.
Stop
A transaction that stops (either temporarily or permanently) a subscription to a publication.
Strip Menu
A horizontal list of options from which one option may be selected.
Subscription Payment Adjust Code
Used for any non-subscription payment.
Suffix
One or two directional letters (NE, E, W, etc.) that go after the street type on some addresses, such as the “N” in “244 8th Ave N.”
System
The combination of hardware and software that functions together to perform activities. Also, a combination of application programs and system administration programs that have been integrated and sold to function as a unit.
Mail Label
Labels printed by Circulation that are applied to newspapers for mailing purposes.
Marginal Subscriber
Has been actively receiving the newspaper for less than one year or has had a permanent stop of more than 30 days.
Marketing Term
A promotional rate that has a fixed term.
Memo Bill
A “dummy” invoice printed for customer convenience. It is so called because no database entry is made in the general ledger or accounts receivable.
Memory
Where a computer temporarily stores information while processing it. Also known as random access memory (RAM). Not to be confused with disk space. See Disk Space, Hard Disk.
Menu
A table of contents in a software program that allows users to choose program options.
Merchandise Code
A code that represents promotional merchandise awarded to subscribers who start or change their delivery schedule.
Miscellaneous Charge/Credit
A charge or credit that is irregular. For example, a carrier who is shorted may be given a miscellaneous credit.
Mix
A set of insert combinations (packages) distributed by a publishing run (advanced or regular). One mix will contain one or more packages.
Modify
To change the information contained in a record. See Update.
Motor Route
A carrier or home delivery route that is delivered by car. See Carrier. Also, a distribution method in which the circulation figures are included in paid circulation totals for AAM reporting purposes.
Multi-menu
A menu similar to a pop-up menu, but which pops up within a software program for the selection of one or more options.
Natural Churn
Churn that reflects “uncontrollable” market factors for permanent stops, such as difficult economic conditions, people moving out of the market or people dying. See also Controllable Churn, Churn.
Newsletter
A short communication, such as a sports newsletter or a weather alert, sent to subscribers who have opted in. Circulation can store newsletter preferences.
NFS Payment
A “non-sufficient funds” payment; i.e., a bounced check.
Office
A distribution method in which the circulation figures are included in the unpaid circulation totals for AAM reporting purposes.
Office Pay
A subscription for which the subscriber pays the newspaper office. A carrier whose subscribers are all office pay is an office pay carrier.
Office Pay Credit
Credit a carrier receives when the subscriber pays the newspaper (rather than the carrier directly). The office pay credit is the delivery credit minus the draw charge.
Online
Directly connected to the computer system. This also refers to activities performed by using the computer, as opposed to by some other means.
Operating System
Software that controls the computer’s operations, including the way it accepts data and manages peripheral devices such as printers and tape drives.
Option
Another word for program. Also, one of a group of selections available on a menu.
Campaign
A code which denotes a canvassing-based advertising campaign. Campaigns can be specified with starts and other transactions and can default other information.
Carrier
The person or dealer who distributes the publication to the end purchaser by foot or by car, as opposed to a dealer, who delivers via racks or newsstands. See also Motor Route. Also, a distribution method in which the circulation figures are included in paid circulation totals for AAM reporting purposes.
Carrier Collect
A subscription for which a carrier collects payment directly from the subscriber. A carrier whose subscribers are all carrier collect is a carrier-collect carrier.
Carrier Rule
Determines rates based on carrier age group (youth or adult) and contract length combinations.
Census Block
Further breakdown of a census tract to define individual addresses. They contain from 18 - 22 households.
Census Tract
Government-defined geographic boundaries used in processing the census. Each tract contains 1,000 - 2,000 households and is assigned a 6-digit number.
Check Digit
A single digit that is used for accuracy verification in information transfer. It follows a given number of integers, and its value is based on these integers in the following manner: multiply the odd positions * 2 and the even positions * 1. Separate out each individual digit (e.g., 12 would be 1 and 2), and then add all digits. The right-most digit of the total is the check digit. For example, in a string of 5468, the even/odd totals would be 10, 4, 12, and 8. The total of the digits would be 1 + 0 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 8 = 16, so the check digit would be 6.
Churn
The percentage of a subscriber base that must be replaced on an annual basis to maintain the same level of home delivery circulation. See also Controllable Churn, Natural Churn.
Code
An abbreviation that is associated with a record or longer description. The code is usually entered to save keystrokes and ensure the consistent entry of and reference to the related item. A code is sometimes referred to as an ID. Examples include reason code, source code, etc.
Combo
A group of one or more publications that can be subscribed to as a package, with a single rate.
Company
An organizational entity for financial and reporting purposes. Although usually one level lower than BUSINESS in the organizational structure, company can be the same as business.
Complaint
A transaction entered to register a customer complaint, typically a late or missed paper.
Complex
A group of buildings, sometimes part of an address, such as “233 Arrow Apartments”.
Computerized Delivery Sequence (CDS)
Data provided by the US Postal Service (usually on a tape) that allows you to assign a postal delivery sequence to your addresses (and thus get better postal rates). To qualify, you must have between 90 and 110% of the postal addresses in a 5-digit Zip code (you can have over 100% by having duplicates, or addresses the Postal Service does not recognize).
Control Total
The total amount of a batch of monies/checks/payments that an operator will enter. When the batch is applied, the total amount must equal the control total; otherwise an “out of balance” condition exists.
Controllable Churn
Churn that reflects “controllable” reasons that subscribers permanently stop the paper (such as poor service or price), representing the areas in which newspapers can make improvements. See also Churn, Natural Churn.
Core Subscriber
Has been actively receiving the newspaper for at least one year with no permanent stops of more than 30 days.
Credit Memo
A credit amount applied to a carrier’s account at the end of account bill processing, if the carrier’s credits are greater than his or her debits (typical with office pay carriers).
Credit Status
A code assigned to subscribers that determines such things as their number of grace days and whether they can have a “start and bill” subscription.
Cursor
A position indicator on a computer screen that indicates where the next character will be inserted or deleted.
Package
A unique combination of inserts distributed in a publishing run.
Paid Complimentary
In Circulation, a “complimentary” subscription that is not paid for by the recipient (for example, newspaper employees), but which should be considered paid circulation. Also, a draw type that can be counted as paid circulation for AAM purposes. See also Unpaid Complimentary.
Paragraph 3 Report
A report submitted periodically to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. This report lists each state, each county within the state, and each town within the county where 25 or more papers were delivered.
Parameter
Any of a set of entries whose values determine the behavior of a program or the contents of a report.
Password
A security code that may be required along with a login ID to gain access to applications.
PBS
Publishing Business Systems, the software company that originally created Newscycle Circulation. PBS was later merged with DTI, one of the parent companies that formed Newscycle Solutions.
Pending Draw
Draw estimate based on both processed and unprocessed transactions.
Peripheral
Hardware that is external to and controlled by the computer; for example, a keyboard, mouse, printer, tape drive, or terminal.
Pop-up Menu
A menu that pops up to allow the selection of one option.
Pop-up Window
A bounded area of the screen that pops up for you to enter information.
Postal Carrier Route
A geographical area assigned to a particular postal carrier. The routes have 4 digits (e.g.,C012, R002), with the first two specifying type of route and the last two a specific route identifier.
Prefix
One or two direction letters (N, SE, W, etc.) that go in front of the street name on some addresses, such as the “S” in “151 S Robert St.”
Premium Day
A holiday or other special delivery day for which subscribers are charged a premium. Premium day costs are subtracted in advance from payments and placed in a wallet, which is then deducted when the premium day is delivered.
Preprint
A preprinted advertisement that is typically inserted into a section of the newspaper. Also called an “insert”.
Presort and Data Label
Two software products created by Postalsoft to design and sort mailing labels, renewal notices, and vacation pack labels.
Presort Job File
Parameters that are entered to sort mailing labels, renewal notices or vacation pack labels in Postalsoft Presort and Label software.
Previous Delivery
The practice of delivering a previously published paper (typically the previous Sunday) to new subscriber with their first delivery.
Product
A product can be a publication ID, such as “tribune” or a targeted marketing product, such as “shopper” or “dial” soap sample.
Program
A set of instructions or steps telling the computer how to handle a problem or task. Also called “software” or (full menu) “option”. See Option, System.
Progress™
The database language in which Circulation application programs are written, and the software that provides access to database information using the Circulation application programs.
Progress™ Editor
The application program that allows access to and use of the Progress database development language. It is used to create and print ad hoc reports.
Projected Draw
The number of newspapers a carrier, dealer or motor route driver is scheduled to receive for delivery on a particular day or in a particular period.
Publication
A major edition of a newspaper, magazine, etc.
Publishing Calendar
All of the days, and only those days, that the publication publishes an edition.
Publishing Group
A group of products that publish together in a single publishing run.
Publishing Run
A series of options that must be run in order to distribute a publication on a given publishing day. Most options are located on the Publishing Menu.
QAS
Address correction and encoding software used to cleanse Canadian and Australian addresses.
Quadient
Address correction and encoding software used to cleanse US addresses. Quadient will compare an address that is added to USPS directories. It can also be run in a batch mode for multiple addresses.
Rack
A distribution method, or single copy route type, such as a “newsstand”, in which circulation is included in paid circulation totals for AAM reporting purposes.
Reason Code
User-defined code to indicate why a transaction is being entered.
Record
A collection of data items, or entry fields, that relate to a single unit. Fields are grouped as a record; groups of records are stored as files on the computer’s hard disk. See File, Hard Disk.
Recurring Charge
A charge that regularly shows up on a carrier’s bill (for example, an insurance charge that is applied every six months).
Resupply
Additional papers dispatched to a route due to a shortage.
Returns
Papers returned by a carrier or dealer for credit on his or her account.
Route
The geographic location where your product is distributed. A route can be a single copy outlet (including racks and dealers) or a home delivery route (carrier or motor-delivered). See also Distribution Point, Home Delivery Route, Single Copy Outlet.
Route Labels
Individual subscriber labels in route walk sequence order for the route, product and delivery day you specify.
Route Type
A user-defined classification of home delivery routes that describes how they are delivered; for example, “foot” and “motor”. See also Distribution Methods.