Changing or Deleting Trafficked Insertions

Order Flag Clarification

What you need to know about changing your order flag to either Next Revision or Latest Revision.

There are several types of changes that you might need to do for a trafficked insertion.

  1. Change Order Flag on buyline.

  2. Change Date. When you save the new date, the old insertion is deleted and the new buyline retains the original material type, space description, and market code. The Insertion Order Number and Revision become blank.

Deleting a Buy

You may delete a buy by changing the status to Delete or using the Delete function from within the worksheet or by using Import Buys to import changes or deletions from a spreadsheet. Untrafficked insertions may be changed or deleted at any time with no other requirements, but if you change or delete a trafficked insertion, use these steps to ensure that the change or deletion is properly tracked.

  1. For Interactive or Traditional Print buying using Insertions with Revisions, assign an Order Flag before changing or deleting a trafficked insertion. (For imported changes/deletions, you may select the Order Flag after importing the change).

Note:  For Out-of-Home buy deletions, do not change the order flag, because deleted buys do not print on the OOH contract.

  1. When deleting an insertion, enter an R comment explaining the deletion. If you delete an insertion from within the worksheet, the Comment dialog box displays automatically. See Entering Targeted Comments for instructions for entering and saving comments.

  2. After changing or deleting a buy, save the worksheet.

Note:  After deleting the buy, you will receive an error message if you try to change the deleted buy.

  1. For deletions and for changes that require trafficking, request an insertion order for the buy to traffic the change. See Insertion Order Processes.

  2. If the buy was paid, a debit or credit adjustment is created that must be applied to an invoice in Match Vendor Invoices and cleared in Clear Matched Invoices or applied to a cash receipt in Clear Cash Receipts. Buys that were cleared but not yet paid may not be deleted.

  3. If the buy was billed, an billing adjustment is created that must be collected for billing and billed to the client.

Note: To show deleted buys on the worksheet, click the Deleted status check box on the Start Up tab before retrieving the worksheet.