Increase Sales

• Increase revenue by reselling expiring ads.
• Because the time to typeset your classified section has been dramatically reduced, you can extend your classified ad deadline.
• Increase revenue with images for real estate and auto ads.
• Up sell word ads with borders, highlights, colors, font sizes, and other eye catchers.

Save Time

• Reschedule ads efficiently with a click of the mouse.
• Find ads quickly using the Find a Classified Ad tool.
• Reduce your classified ad costs by never touching an order more than once.
• Quickly calculate sales representative commissions.
• Easily export your classifieds to a series of HTML files to publish to your web site. Save the classifieds to a plain text file for quick import into your web site's searchable classified ad database
• Save time and reduce errors by scheduling multiple runs one time.

Reduce Production Costs

• Flow page ready ads directly into Quark, PageMaker and InDesign on both PCs and Macs.
• Ads are automatically classified within the categories you defined.
• By having AccountScout alphabetize the ads within each classification, your readers can find ads quickly.
• Eliminate production clean up by formatting the ad as you would like it to appear in the paper, when the order is placed.
• Create custom styles within AccountScout, for specially formatted ads that get transferred into Quark, PageMaker and InDesign.

Simplify the Collection of Payments

• Receive immediate payment by authorizing credit cards via the Internet, using the ChargeScout link.
• Utilize private party billing to send frequent bills to only classified advertisers while retaining monthly billing for commercial customers.
• Reduce mailing costs by sending private party postcard bills.
• Combine classified ad orders with retail ads to provide a single integrated statement for your commercial customers.

Demonstration Videos

• Classified Ad Overview: View a flash video demonstrating how to enter a classified ad order and flow the issue's ads into Quark.