Fulfilling Your Publishing Business Requirements With SdB

SdB EDIT RECORD TRANSACTION

The edit transaction encompasses everything from change of address requests to issue adjustments, correcting keying errors, and marking nixies. All the functions present in the new subscription entry transaction are available except the "Auto-fill term, amount due & paid" window. The fields are also identical with the exception of the memo style notes field and the "Last Effort" field.

The last effort field serves several purposes. Codes 0 through 4 indicate a current billing or renewal effort number, 5 is expired, 6 is stopped for non payment, 7 is cancelled, 8 is undeliverable and 9 is special/other. Editing this field to 6 or above will mark the subscription "stopped" as of the current issue. If an effort 6 or above is changed to 4 or lower, SdB will calculate the number of issues that were remaining and reset the expiration volume and issue appropriately. (Note that effort 5 is not mentioned, as the system would usually handle all expires processing.)

Upon confirming the changes and passing the error scan, SdB posts an account log flagging any fields that were changed. A sample of these and other logs will appear in the subscriber report detailed later.

Now that there are subscribers in the database, proceed to mailing them something on the Next page.