- Brand or marketing managerraises the spend against the marketing budget
- First approverapproves within your approval limits, never their own request
- Second approverapproves above the limit, where your limits ask for one
In-house marketing teams
Know what you approved, and what it cost.
Marketing departments that brief agencies, run a studio of their own and hold the marketing budget. Spend is checked before it is approved, and artwork and plans can reach you one version at a time, through a link.
Campaign artwork
Packaging and point of sale
Media plans from your agency
Agency and production spend
The route
Where the spend goes
Routed by your own approval limits: cost centre, amount band, person or role.
Why it fits
Built for in-house marketing teams
The last of a budget, spent once
Two approvals against the last of a campaign budget cannot both pass: the second finds too little and stops, and the money is committed when the first is approved.
More on thisYour approval, pinned
When artwork or a media plan reaches you through a link, your answer is recorded against the exact file you were sent, with the address it went to and the time.
More on thisBills you can read back
When your agency books media through Media Bookings, each bill is per booking order: net, commission, gross, VAT and total, worked out to the cent.
More on thisWhich services
4 of 9What in-house marketing teams runs on it
One platform, one sign-in, one trail. Start with one and add the next as a line on the same subscription.
Spend RequestsOperations
The marketing budget by cost centre and category: checked when a request is raised and committed when it is approved, with the agency’s quote and invoice on the request.
Artwork ApprovalsCreativeFor an in-house studio: each version signed off by your art director, then approved through a link by the brand owners you make it for.
ProjectsProject managementCampaign tasks in columns, with who moved each card on the trail.
LeaveHuman resourcesTeam leave as a ledger, on your own leave cycle.
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Where to next
Try the spend rule
Lines with VAT against a budget line, routed by your approval limits and committed on approval.
Signed off by the client, on the record.Full-service work, from the studio to the media owner. Artwork approved against the exact file the client saw, and media plans booked as the client approved them. Clients, suppliers and media owners answer through an emailed link, with no account to set up.
Every version kept. One of them approved.Design, illustration and packaging studios. Every upload is the next version, a studio lead signs it off before the client sees it, and the approved file goes to the printer or to the client as files.
Book what was approved. Bill what ran.Media agencies and the media desks of full-service agencies. The client approves the exact plan version, each media owner confirms its insertion order by link, and every invoice is checked against what was booked before the client is billed.