Today MarketingPilot Software LLC announced MarketingPilot 7.0. MarketingPilot 7.0 includes powerful new features:
Production/Project Management MarketingPilot 7.0 includes a number of usability enhancements:
Performance Improvements speed up the Job dashboard.
Enhanced filtering and grouping functions for the Job Dashboard.
Task 'breadcrumbs' that facilitate navigation from Tasks to Projects.
Media Planning MarketingPilot 7.0 includes powerful new media planning features:
Create integrated plans for print, online and broadcast in a single plan.
Plan plan cost and price.
Create customized proposals.
Set goals; track plan versus actual.
Import media plans from spreadsheets.
Mass update feature facilitate changes to large plans.
Plan Wizard enables users to quickly build complex plans with minimal keying.
Work with plans using print or broadcast formats.
Fully integrated with MarketingPilot's media buying, campaign management and production functions: go from plan to buy without rekeying any information.
Complete integration with expense management and billing.
Designed to handle large complex plans including hundreds of elements.
Integration with ad sales and inventory management.
Web Portal users can view plans.
Route plans for client approval and review via email; track approvals and comments.
Media Buying
MarketingPilot 7.0 includes new features for media buyers:
New Media Buying functions facilitate placement of large buys with minimal keying.
Powerful New Tearsheet management features facilitate reconciliation and tear sheet management for complex print buys.
Support for multiple vendors for each Media Outlet.
Improvements to media specification management and rate cards.
New Media Outlet dashboard improves media management.
Powerful new discounting/surcharge support.
New order page provide new flexible customization options.
Enhancements for newspaper and print buyers.
Financial Management MarketingPilot 7.0 includes many new financial management enhancements:
Enhancements to Orders, Expenses and Invoices
Customizable item grid.
Improved vendor management
Vendor setup restrictions
Place Vendors on payment hold
Set AP priorities
Support for multiple AP and AR accounts
1099 Vendor management
Contract management
Support for user defined fields (Enterprise Edition only).
Advanced discounting
Setup complex order discounts and invoice surcharges.
Set standard discounts for each client/vendor including multiple 'sub' discounts.
Setup percent discounts, flat fee discounts and item caps.
Apply discounts to service and media invoices and orders.
Apply discounts and surcharges to gross or net costs/prices.
Automatically post discounts and surcharges to the appropriate general ledger account.
Use discounts and surcharges in Media Plans.
Enhancements to Contact Management Features MarketingPilot 7.0 includes major enhancements to its Contact Management function:
New Contact dashboard provide flexible customization options and new filtering and grouping options.
Store pictures of each contact; store company logo.
Integration with Google, Linked In and Facebook.
Improvement to contact roles and teams.
Opportunity management
Support for user defined fields (Enterprise Edition only).
Digital Asset Management/Files MarketingPilot 7.0 includes a number of improvements to Files and Digital Asset Management:
The performance of the File Profile has been improved.
New multi-file upload feature enables users to upload several files in a single operation.
New Reports
The Report dashboard has been reorganized and streamlined to make reports easier to find. The following reports have been added:
Billboard Invoice
Billboard Order
Campaign Listing
Campaign Report
Category Listing
Component Request Summary
Component Request Listing
Component Usage Summary
Deposit Slip
Email List Order
Email List Invoice
Estimate Listing
Estimate Report
Event Listing
Event Report
Expenses Bar Chart
Expense Listing by Job
Insert Order
Insert Invoice
Invoice
Job Listing
Job Time Billing by Contact
Job Time Billing by Service
Job Time by Contact
List Order
List Invoice
Magazine Order
Magazine Invoice
Media Traffic
New Contact Assignments
New Contacts by Month
Newspaper Order
Newspaper Invoice
Opportunity Forecast
Opportunity Listing
Purchase Order Listing
Purchase Order
Pro-forma Invoice
Program Listing
Radio Order
Radio Invoice
Request for Quote
Task Listing
Task Time Listing
TV Order
TV Invoice
Web Order
Web Invoice
Performance Enhancements
We continue to focus on improving the speed and performance of MarketingPilot and taking advantage of advances in the Microsoft ASP.NET platform that have been recently released. System-wide performance improvements make MarketingPilot 7 faster than ever. Plus, we've tuned several key areas to improve performance:
Jobs
Digital Asset Management
On Demand or Licensed Users can subscribe to MarketingPilot on demand or purchase licenses for installation on an in-house server.
Prices Contact Sales for a price quote.
Availability MarketingPilot Release 7.0 is available now for new customers. The upgrade for existing customers will be available in early February. Visit the Support Download Center.
