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RadioTraffic.com 101

Welcome to the RadioTraffic.com family. We're excited to have you on board! RadioTraffic 101 is our way to get you up and running with us as quickly and easily as possible.

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Getting started

The first step is to gather some necessary information as we begin.

Two key people need to be involved while coming on board:

Traffic and billing Manager (mainly traffic).
The station engineer responsible for the automation system(s).

Key pieces of information include:

Your active customer list.
A list of agencies you use, if separate from your customer list.
Contact info for your automation system manufacturer.
Your active contracts.
Any back balances you want to move into RadioTraffic. In order to jump start your A/R history, we can enter in outstanding balances on each customer.
Seven distinct days of current automation log files exported from prior traffic system.
The automation export/import file locations/paths (from the traffic computer perspective - the actual files, not printed).

Before you download RadioTraffic,

Minimum requirements:

Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 SP1 (requires latest service pack(s))
- See minimum requirements for specific edition of Windows using.
Microsoft .NET 4.5
- 1 GHz Processor
- 512 MB RAM
- 4.5 GB Disk

Recommended requirements:

Windows 10 64-bit
4GB+ RAM
Microsoft .NET 4.6.2

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Chapter 1

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Downloading RT

EC Must use Explorer or Edge, Other Web browsers will not work.

After you have opened your web browser. Go to Traf.com

Click on the Install Now (In Black Oval)

You will get a Security warning asking if you want to install:

Click the Install button (In yellow oval)

That box will go away replaced with a downloading box as below:

When this box is done it will go away and you will have downloaded RadioTraffic.

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Chapter 2

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Signing In

When you get through the installation process, you should have an Icon on your screen looks like this:

Clicking on this Icon above will bring up your Login window:

Type in your User Name and Password and click OK.

EC Support will send the Primary Operator their User Name and Password. If you are not the Primary Operator, you will need to contact that person for your log-in info.

Upon successful authentication, you will be presented with the RT Dashboard.

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Dashboard

The main dashboard provides an at a glance view of things that need to be done and serves as the nexus point for all activities that can be done providing currently defined roles/permissions.

In the main body of the window will be zero or more "notices." These are tasks that should be completed and serve as a reminder (and jump point) to help you work more efficiently.

The system is divided into several task based areas called modules. Each module represents a different group of similar tasks that need to be performed throughout the traffic and billing process.

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Chapter 3

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Creating Info

After you've logged for the first time or need to alter/add or Create/document stuff in Settings.

Go into Settings:

Under the Group Icon You will need to decide if you want to set up Automatic cart assignment.

Add your business Address.

Check/leave unchecked options to suit your wants/needs.

See Group for further info on this. This is something you will want to go over in your training

Under the Station Icon you should already have the station(s) you have listed.

In the stations tab you will click on the station you want and need to add your info to all the pages under that one station and will have to repeat this process for every other station you have.

See Stations for further info on this.

Under the User Icon (Administrator Only) you will add everyone who you want access, give them their user names and passwords and their Permissions.

See Users for further info on this.

Under the Commission Icon you will add your sales commission percentages and name them.

See Commissions for further info on this.

Under the Sales Person Icon you will add your sales people and their commission

See Salespeople for further info on this.

Under the Agency Icon you will add the Agencies you are working with.

See Agencies for further info on this.

Under the Agency Commission Icon you will add the Commissions you want your Agencies to have.

This works just like Commissions.

See AgencyCommissions for further info on this.

Under the Conflict Icon is where you will set up your spacing/timing of spots from other spots like it. Or spots that may conflict with other spots.

See Conflicts for further info on this.

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Chapter 4

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Creating a Contract

When you create a contract you have to go through a multi stage process to get it to completed/running status. For this process we have been given a real Order from a real Traffic Manager. We will be using this document to go through this process.

EC To protect secure information some things will be changed/altered.

With this order in hand you will have to add all of the information into the individual sections of Settings that pertain to the document.

We will start with Customer. We will have to come back to Customer in a few steps.

See Customers for further info on this.

Under the Customer Icon you will add your customer.and you don't have it listed, Under the New button is another window with many tabs that need to be filled out. Fill these out.