A Preview of the New AdSystem

Last year we announced the next generation of AdSystem: AdSystem 8. We are continuing our work on it and are excited to share another preview with you. We’ve brought together the lessons we’ve learned over the last 36 years of managing publication advertising and put it all into the most intuitive and powerful AdSystem ever. … Continued

A New AdSystem is Coming…

We’ve been hard at work for many months on a totally new AdSystem and we are excited to share some details with you. We’re not ready to release it yet — it won’t be ready until sometime in 2022 — but we want to share a sneak preview with you while you wait. Check out … Continued

Submitting Support Tickets to Datafest

Here at Datafest we recently implemented a new help desk software to aid us in providing you the best support that we can. This help desk software will automatically convert any support requests into tickets and help us stay organized and provide quick and helpful responses to our customers. So what does this mean for … Continued

AdSystem and PCI Compliance

What is PCI Compliance? PCI, or PCI DSS to be exact, is short for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.  It is a set of rules for handling credit card transactions that apply to companies of any size that accept credit card payments.  For any business that handles credit card payments adhering to these standards … Continued

AdRep Release 6 Now Available!

We are proud to announce that a new version of AdRep is now available! We’ve completely re-designed AdRep, and we are proud to announce that it is ready for use!  Best of all, AdRep is free to all AdSystem Online Users!  Just email our support team at support@datafest.com and we’ll get you started! New Application … Continued

AdSystem Instructional Videos

We are happy to announce the release of 17 new instructional videos! Have you ever had a question about AdSystem, but didn’t have the time to call our support team?  Or maybe you hired a new employee and are looking to teach them how to use AdSystem?  Maybe you just forgot how to do something … Continued

Payment Portal Released

Announcing AdSystem Online’s new Payment Portal, which is available immediately. AdSystem has long had the ability to send invoices by email to customers, known as E-Invoicing.  However, with the addition of the Payment Portal the whole process of getting paid is even faster.  The Payment Portal provides a secure website where your customers can go … Continued

AdSystem Online Update – October 2016

AdSystem 6.1 was released in October 2016 with the following new features: Electronic Invoicing Historically the problem with emailing billings to customers has been the fact that you never know whether or not the customer received the bill.  Spam firewalls, bad email addresses and employee turnover all create a problem with emailed invoices.  If your … Continued

MailChimp Integration Added

MailChimp integration has been added to AdSystem Release 6.0.2.  You can now upload mailings lists directly to MailChimp from AdSystem. MailChimp is a leading e-commerce application that makes it easy to email your customers and prospects.  MailChimp has tools to easily create new email campaigns, send them and monitor results.  By integrating with MailChimp, AdSystem … Continued

Sales Planning Feature Released

AdSystem Release 6 has been enhanced with a new Sales Planning Feature. Designed to streamline sales reps’ plans, goals and forecasting, the new AdSystem Sales Planning Feature is the ideal tool to make your sales efforts more efficient and profitable. The Sales Planning Feature allows you to create sales plans for upcoming issues. You can … Continued