Etere Air Sales Lite is a light version of Etere Air Sales, a simple software for managing commercial events, from data entry to billing. Etere Air Sales Lite enables small companies to work more effectively, providing them with the essential modules to handle a station's most important commercial operations.
The following comparison table provides an overall summary of the significant differences between the Etere Air Sales Lite and the full version of Etere Air Sales:
MANAGEMENT features
• Centralized management of an assets repository
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• Customers' data management
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• Specific roles for customers, suppliers, agencies and account executive
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• Set of permissions and restrictions for specific functions
FULL version: ✅
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• Management of sales proposals
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Monthly budgets for monitoring revenues and expenses
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Credit agreements for limiting proposals issuance
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Support for pre-paid and post-paid orders
FULL version: ✅
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• Passage of an approval T-workflow for all proposals
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Direct entry and management of orders for commercials
FULL version: ✅
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• Possibility of assigning the same asset to different orders and lines
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Capability for deleting assets from a commercial order
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Possibility of collecting orders payments in instalments
FULL version: ✅
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• Automatic calculation of order amounts based on price-lists
FULL version: ✅
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• Complete logs for all operations performed for orders
FULL version: ✅
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• Dedicated module for the management of TV seasons
FULL version: ✅
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• Entry and management of orders for TV seasons
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
PLACEMENT features
• Commercial playlist based on a pre-configured scheduling grid
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LITE version: ❌
• Rules for scheduling at fixed times, using rotation tables and priorities
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• Advanced rules for scheduling optimized and top/bottom events
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Use of black lists for deleted and unplaced events
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LITE version: ❌
• Split networks for regional ads insertion
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LITE version: ❌
• Possibility of using different scheduling levels (alternative schedules)
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• Separate module for scheduling programs
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• Possibility of placing TV seasons over long-term periods
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• Placement and monitoring of station's trailers
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Rotating placement/replacement of commercial orders and events
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Possibility of filling up remaining spaces in the schedule
FULL version: ✅
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• Scheduling controls for runs number, product codes and intervals
FULL version: ✅
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• Scheduling controls for broadcast rights and parental guidance
FULL version: ✅
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• Automatic scheduling engine for commercial orders
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Graphical module for real-time schedule adjustments
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LITE version: ❌
• Special music formats for an automated music scheduling
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• Errors detection tool for commercial schedules
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Drag and drop insertion of top-ups for free supplementary scheduling
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Possibility of placing spots for goods
FULL version: ✅
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BILLING features
• Manual and automatic generation of invoices
FULL version: ✅
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• Generation and settlement of payment deadlines
FULL version: ✅
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• Issuance of eventual credit notes
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ✅
• Supported charges (commissions, dubbing, production, discounts)
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• Calculation, settlement and monitoring of account executive commissions
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Single and multiple invoices printing
FULL version: ✅
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• Customer's credit agreements monitoring
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• Simplified module for settling payments
FULL version: ✅
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• Transactions recorded and viewed based on a Transaction Ledger
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• Ledger cards based on a user-defined chart of accounts
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• Either common or separate accounting for different stations
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• Turnover consultation for specific customers/suppliers
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• Journal Entries reports including Sales VAT Register, VAT Return, etc
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REPORTING features
• Reporting service with more than 60 commercial-specific reports
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• Specialized reports for monitoring revenues and inventory
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• Capability of fully customizing reports
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INTEGRATION features
• Import/export of commercial structures
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Import/export of sales proposals
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ❌
• Import/export of commercial events
FULL version: ✅
LITE version: ✅
• Integration for automation systems
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