Plays in a digital loop and positions on a scroller or tri-vision are counted where you price and book them. A campaign with several flights, each with its own screens, dates and creative, stays one proposal, and the price you quoted holds when the price list changes.
The context
A shared site is sold in parts: plays in a digital loop, positions in a scroller’s or tri-vision’s rotation. A CRM that counts whole faces cannot hold those parts, so the count moves to a spreadsheet beside it, or replaces the CRM altogether. The spreadsheet is where a part gets sold twice.
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“With this much inventory, finding what is free now costs a lot of time.”
What happens todayOn a large estate the saturation view is too much to read, so the planner works from memory.
Filter the saturation view to the screens that still have room, and read only those.
How it works, from the documentation
Saturation state — free or saturated. Use this to show only displays that have available capacity, or only displays that are fully occupied.
Availability and saturation“2 weeks in the city center in March, 3 more on the ring road in May, a different creative in each, all in one proposal.”
Each flight is its own period in the same proposal, with its own screens and prices. Each creative carries its own dates, so every flight can run a different one.
How it works, from the documentation
A proposal is divided into one or more placement periods. Each period defines a date range and carries its own inventory selection and prices.
Periods within a single proposal must not overlap on the same inventory item — the same display cannot appear in two periods whose date ranges intersect. Different items in overlapping periods are allowed.
Multi-flight campaignsA creative is a collection of media files (images or videos) attached to a deal and bound to specific displays from the deal’s proposals. Creatives define what content plays on which screens and when.
To create a creative, provide:
“We published a new price list and every open proposal in the pipeline changed price underneath the people who negotiated them.”
What happens todayWhat a customer was quoted last week is not what the system says today, and nobody was told.
Saving a proposal keeps the prices your team saw and agreed, even after the price list behind them has changed. The new prices apply to what you price next.
How it works, from the documentation
The system does not recompute the price from the price list when the proposal is saved. The values the user sees and edits are what get persisted.
Digital airtime pricing“When the sync does not run, there is no information at all about what is wrong or why.”
What happens todayYou find out because a screen you expected to sell is not in the list.
The sync settings show when the last run happened, whether it succeeded and how many screens it brought in. If something looks wrong, start a run yourself at once.
How it works, from the documentation
Each run writes a log entry visible under Settings → Sync → Synchronization logs. The log shows the start and end time, whether the run succeeded, and the count of displays created and updated. Only the most recent run is retained.
To pull the display list immediately, click Synchronize on the CMS integration section in Settings → Sync. This triggers an immediate pull. If another sync is already in progress, it is canceled first.
Screen catalog from CS PlayBefore you start
What you doWhy, from the documentation
Bring your screens in from CS Play, or enter them yourself
Digital display records are pulled from CityScreen Play into the Deals inventory on an hourly schedule. This keeps the display list current so that proposals are built against real screens.
Screen catalog from CS PlayWorking with digital displays:
Creating a digital display. If CS Play sync is not enabled, create a digital display from the inventory list. Fill in the shared fields (name, address, coordinates, dimensions) and the digital-specific fields (resolution, operating schedule).
Digital screensSet each screen's on-air hours
The operating schedule controls what hours are available for booking. Proposals can only occupy slots within the operating hours.
Digital screensKeep a price row for every play frequency and spot length you sell
When you add a display to a digital proposal and set the frequency and duration, the system looks up a matching price in the display’s price list.
The lookup requires an exact match on three values:
If the exact combination is not present as a price row in the price list, the display gets no price — the cost shows as empty. There is no interpolation, rounding, or nearest-match fallback.
Digital airtime pricingConnect CS Context, so programmatic buyers get only what your team has not reserved or booked
CityScreen Deals pushes three data feeds to CityScreen Context so that what is reserved or booked in Deals stops being available for programmatic sale.
CS Context feedInventory & availability
Price lists & pricing
Proposals & quoting
Integrations
Other scenarios
Proposals priced from your own price lists and sent in your own layout without creating a deal first, sites picked by the places around them, sites shown on a map without prices, and a discount limit enforced on save.
ExploreRegional teams, an agency desk and finance in one system: deals open to the teams they are shared with, fields hidden from a group, a list of who may start each process, and a deal history whoever takes it over can read.
ExploreMalaysian e-invoices sent through ClearTax with the QR code attached to the invoice, a contract pack filled from the deal, and approved invoices posted to the ledger.
ExploreTwo-step verification you can require, a password policy, blocking of repeated failed sign-ins and an exportable sign-in log, a leaver cut off in one action, and a service account for each of your own systems.
ExploreYour administrator defines the documents you keep, their fields and calculations, and changes them as the business needs; each comes out in a layout you author, and the record types and fields you checked on a test organization reach production in one file.
ExploreOne sync turns a booked deal into a live CS Play campaign, a changed flight or price on a proposal already sent to CS Play is flagged for another sync, and the screen list arrives from CS Play every hour.
ExploreProcesses drawn in the product create and send the documents, each with its own list of who may start it; a failed step is marked on the diagram, and a new version leaves running work alone.
ExploreProof of posting for every face on one link for the advertiser, printing and installation sold in the same deal as the space, the free boards exported as a presentation, and lease dates a process can watch.
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