Welcome to Aquira Help

This Help guide contains most of the information you'll need to successfully work with Aquira. For suggestions on how to use Help while working in Aquira^®, see

To use Help.

While working in Aquira

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Click on a link below to see an overview of the Aquira main areas. Note that your Aquira security settings will determine which areas are available to you.

The Sales area is where you manage your Proposed Contracts and perform your Avails and Yield Analysis.

Avails are the Spot positions in a program on a specific Station, which are available for purchase by an Advertiser. Avails may also be used to refer to the entire Station's available Spot inventory.

Use the Proposed Contracts window to enter and approve Proposed Contracts.

The Traffic area is where you manage your Clients and Contracts and schedule your daily Logs.

Use the Clients window to manage your existing Clients and create new Clients.

Use the Contracts window to manage existing Contracts and create new Contracts for your Advertisers.

The Logs window is where you schedule your commercials, announcements, promos, and other information to create a daily Log for each Station.

Use the Creative window to manage your Copy Scripts and Media.

This is where you create a commercial narrative, assign a Voice-Over Artist or an Automation Code (sometimes known as a Cart number) to interface with a playout system.

The Media defaults are setup in Setup > Global Settings > Global Settings > Media.

Use the Accounting window to manage your accounts receivable.

This is where you work with:

Transactions - the components of a system that keep track of revenue. All Invoices, Credit Notes, Payments and Journals must be entered and each record is called a Transaction
Payments - Cash, Credit, or Direct Banking entries
Post Invoices - itemised bills showing money owed for Advertising sold
Journals - records of internal Transactions

You can also:

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Access to Utilities is controlled through Setup > Users > Users Role > Application Security.

In Reports, you can:

Run Reports specific to your Job Role within your Organisation
Search for a Report using Quick Search.
Type one or more characters into the Quick Search field and click Search to populate a list of Reports with names containing those characters.
Toggle Show All to display all Reports in your Quick Search or just your Favourite Reports.
Expand or Collapse the Report accordions.
Example
Use the built-in Report Builder to create, run and save any number of custom Reports
Use the Copy tool to copy and customise an existing Report to your needs.

Note:

When you first open Reports, Loading ... will display until the available Reports are displayed in the Browse screen.

You can also:

export all Reports to Microsoft Excel or print them to paper.
print specific Reports directly from the Account Transactions, Clients, Contract, Log or Proposed Contracts Browse grid.
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For information on how to setup and run Direct Reports see Direct Reports in the latest Aquira Setup_Rev.