The third Advantage release for this year will be available
early next month, and brings many enhancements to the season’s hottest
module: Access Management and Billing (AMB). For instance:
- You can now impose a limit on the number of participants on an AMB
agreement. When this agreement-level limit is reached (during both
screen entry and on the Web), further participants cannot be added
unless current participants are removed or the limit is raised. This
will help you control maintenance on agreements where such limitations
are critical.
- If you have "administrative participants" on AMB agreements (that
is, people whose job it is to maintain the agreement and its
participants), you can now add them in a true administrative capacity.
Previously, these participants were automatically counted in
per-participant pricing. However, if these people will never access the
agreement's content, you can now add them to the agreement without
including them in pricing, or against the new "number of participants"
limit.
- AMB agreements can now be added as items to a promotion (along with
CIR and PRO items), and fully participate in promotional pricing and
discounting. This includes the use of agreement "choices" set up at
CPNTBL, similar to the current subscription, item, and member choices
that are available on the system.
- Support for end-user license agreements (EULA's) have been added for
AMB. You can create EULA text, display it on your website, and track on
the AMB agreement whether or not the customer has accepted the terms of
the EULA.
- An earnings table, AMBERN-S, has been added for tracking income
associated with AMB agreements. This feature, modeled on the CIRERN-S
table that is available for CIR, allows you to analyze AMB income by
access point within accounting period. The table further tracks this
income by customer and location (if there are multiple participants on
an agreement, the table uses the first participant found).
For more information on Advantage 8R3, contact your ACS Account
Manager.
