ROYALTIES STANDARDIZED RULES

June 1, 2016

 

Ø  On the first day of every month, all orders for the previous month are released onto the RATS website for certification.

 

Ø  You have three (3) business days to certify all orders.  After the deadline, all orders not yet certified will be ‘force-certified’.

 

Ø  You have the option to zero out a job not used or a portion of a job, edit route quantities actually mailed, before final certification approval.

 

Ø  All jobs must be certified, even the edited orders and orders zeroed out.

 

Ø  Any jobs that were certified by mistake or force-certified that were not actually mailed can be credited the following month upon written notification via email to judkins70@gmail.com and lynn@compactlists.com.

 

Ø  ROYALTY is the revenue paid to the owner of the territory used.

 

Ø  BOUGHT COST is the amount the renter pays for the use of the list.

 

Ø  PROCESSING Fee is $0.50/M.

 

There is an incentive plan in place for customers who order more than 5,000,000 records per year.  [To receive the incentive rate, you MUST email judkins70@gmail.com and lynn@compactlists.com with the customers six-digit Customer ID number]  

NOTE: These prices do not include Processing Fees.

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§  The Royalty for such customers, those who order over 5 million records per year, is $1.40/M.

 

§  The Royalty, for all other customers, is $1.90/M.

           

§  The Bought Cost, for customers who order over 5 million records per year, is $1.70/M.

 

§  The Bought Cost, for all other customers, is $2.20/M.

 

§  The difference between the Royalty and the Bought Cost, $0.30/M, is retained by NAAD.

 

 

Ø  The following table best explains Royalty and Bought Cost for basic NRD list rental:

 

Cust. Yearly Volume               Bought Cost         Total Cost to Renter                Royalty

                                                                         (incl. Proc. Fee)                     to list owner

Over 5 million                          $1.70/M               $2.20/M                                   $1.40/M

Under 5 million                         $2.20/M               $2.70/M                                   $1.90/M

 

 

Ø  The Premium, or supplemental fee for RESPlus orders, is $1.00/M, no matter how many records have names appended. 

 

Ø  NAAD pays a royalty of $0.50/M to Compact Information Systems for the actual number of RESPlus names used.

The residual is used to cover the cost of merging the CIS Consumer data each month.

 

Ø  Descriptions of columns in Bought Reports:

o    Total Count Used = RESelect Count + RESPlus Count

o    RESelect Count = Count Used (RESelect orders)

o    RESPlus Count = Count Used (RESPlus orders)

o    RESelect Cost = RESelect Count x (Royalty Fee + Processing Fee) / 1000

o    RESPlus Cost = RESPlus Count x (Royalty Fee + 1.00 + Processing Fee) / 1000

o    Names Bought = Count of Actual Names received (in a RESPlus order)

o    Net to Names Broker = Count of Actual Names received  x 0.50 / 1000

o    There is no Bought Cost or Royalty paid for Simplified records.

o    Unused Counts = Counts zeroed out in Certification step

o    Unused Processing Cost = Counts zeroed/1000 x 0.25

NOTE:  There is NO Royalty paid for Unused Counts

§  The $0.25 is a discounted Processing Fee

§  The decision for Unused Processing Costs was made at the NAAD meeting in July’02

§  This applies to ‘Type A – Reports Only’ orders that are zeroed out as well.

§  ‘Type A – Reports Only’ Cost = Unused Count/1000 x 0.30 (.25 to CIS, .05 to NAAD)

 

Ø  Net Usage Orders – When only a portion of an order was actually mailed.

 

§  There will be a Processing Fee of $0.25/M for the unused portion.  This is a discounted Processing Fee.

 

Ø  There will be no Processing Fee for the second and subsequent usage of a Multi-use order.

 

Ø  There will be no FTP fee for Multi-use orders placed by a Resident List customer.

 

Ø   NO RESPlus orders will be accepted for Net Names.

 

Ø  There will be no Bought Cost or Royalty paid for Simplified records.