Media accounting

Billing clients and paying suppliers

With integrated media buying and finance, you can bill clients and pay media suppliers seamlessly. You can approve or hold bookings for billing, and hold, amend and query payments. There are numerous onscreen and offline summaries for monitoring activity. You can pay by either BACs or cheque.

Meeting your needs, and your clients'

You can bill and pay in any currency, and there's a wealth of ways to customise your bills to fit your clients' requirements.

Integrated and accurate media billing and paying from DDS are essential to the smooth running of our business.

David Hughes.
Finance manager, OMD Group

Features & benefits

Client billing & vendor payment integrated with media buying software (iDesk & MediaExplorer)
Consistent, accurate and timely financials
Draft, hold or approve bills; hold, amend and query payments
Complete control of what's billed and paid and when
Any currency
Suitable for agencies with business in more than one country
Payments by BACS or cheque
Choice of payment styles
Onscreen and offline summaries
Monitor cashflow and more
Change history
Full audit trail
User desktops maintained remotely
Saves your IT staff time – they don't have to visit every desk

Before & after

Before

High transaction volumes, proliferating media and constantly evolving terms of business require an automated response if bills are to go out on time and payments made accurately.

After

Media bookings pass seamlessly from media department to finance department within the same system. Bills and payments for different media and client needs are managed and analysed.

Results

Clients and suppliers are happy and the agency's cashflow is secure.