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General

Online Counts

List Orders

Previous Orders

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Registering

  • If you are not a registered user, go to the log in page (click the LOG IN button under the left column menu).
  • Click the "Sign Up Now" button.
  • Fill in the required information and click SUBMIT.
  • A confirmation email will be sent to you.  Please allow 48 hours for us to activate your account.
  • Please safeguard and remember your user id and password.

Editing your user information

  • Please help us keep your contact information up-to-date.
  • Click the "user info" link in the left column if you want to view your current user contact information, or if you would like to edit your settings.
  • On the User Information page, you will see the same information that you supplied when you first registered with A-List.
  • Make any desired changes and click the "Save Changes" button.

Forgot your password?

  • If you have forgotten your password, click the "Forgot your password?" link on the login page.
  • You will be prompted to enter your user id.
  • If your user id is recognized, you will be prompted to enter the secret answer to the secret question that you selected when you first registered with us.
  • If the system agrees with your secret answer, your password will be emailed to you.
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Creating an online count

  • Click the "online count" link in the left hand column menu.
  • Click the "Start an Online Count" link.
  • The Online Count application will open:

Geographical selects

  • The following geographic entities can be selected by clicking the appropriate link in the left hand column:
    • State - select any state
    • County - select any county of any state
    • City - select any city of any state
    • SCF - select one of the US Postal Service Sectional Center Facilities (an SCF is the first three digits of a ZIP Code)
    • ZIP Code - standard US Postal Service 5 digit ZIP Code.  Example: 23464
    • Geocode - a geocode is a ZIP Code plus a carrier route.  Example: 23464C020
    • Radius - establish a radius of .1 miles, .2 miles, 5 miles, etc., around a street address or geocode.

  • Some notes about Online Counts:
    • Selecting some geographic entities will result in extremely large counts; i.e. selecting the state of Alabama will yield a count of over 2 million.
    • Each time you click "Add to Count" on one of the geographic select screens, the particular selection will be added to the count selection box.
    • The system won't allow you to add duplicate geographical selections to the count selection box.
    • Each individual line in the count selection box has no relationship with any other lines.
    • When you eventually view the count results for this Online Count session, you will see that the counts for each line are returned individually.
    • You can delete any specific count selection by clicking the "delete" link next to the selection.

  • Bulk Inserting ZIP Codes and Geocodes:
    • The ZIP Code and geocode screens allow the user to type or paste several ZIP Codes or geocodes and process the entire lot.
    • The system will check for the validity of each entry:
      • The ZIP Code or geocode must be correctly formatted (5 numbers for ZIP Code, 9 numbers and letters for geocodes).
      • The ZIP Code or geocode must exist in our current count database which is updated every two months from US Postal Service records.
      • Actual ZIP Codes and geocodes will be added to the count; incorrect ZIP Codes and geocodes will be rejected.

Demographic selects

  • There are three demographics categories: Age, Education, and Income.
  • You can select a demographic and append it to one or all of your geographic selects.

Viewing count results

  • Once you have one or more geographic selects in your count (and demographics if you want them), you can view your count results.
  • Click the "Get Count Results" link and you will see the counts for each line of geographic and demographic selects.

Viewing the map

  • Click the map link and a new window will open showing the map.

Converting your online count to a list order

  • While you are at the Count Results page, you have the option of turning this count into a list order.
  • Click the "Create Order using this Count" link and the system will take you to the List Wizard Step 1, with your preselected geographical and demographic selects.
  • Since you have already made selections, you can move quickly through the List Wizard Steps 3, 4, & 5 - but you can always use this opportunity to keep refining your selections.

 

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Starting a new list

  • To start a new list, click "start my list" in the left hand column menu.
  • Enter your count file name, and enter any descriptive notes that you would like in Job Description #1 and #2.
  • Click "NEXT>>" to continue, and you will be taken to the List Wizard Step 2. Keep reading below for more information on the List Wizard.

Work in Progress

  • Click "work in progress" in the left hand column menu.
  • Your list of all current count files (any count file that has not yet been ordered) will appear.
  • Once a count file has been ordered, it will no longer appear here but will appear under "previous orders".
  • Click the "Edit" link next to your count file name to start editing your count file.
    • If your count file currently has a count of zero, when you click "Edit", you will start in List Wizard Step 1.
    • If your count file currently has a count greater than zero, when you click "Edit", you will start in List Wizard Step 7.  Why?  Because:
      • In List Wizard Step 7, you have the ability to delete individual routes and ZIP codes. When you do this, you depart from the original geographic selects and demographic selects that you originally chose in List Wizard Steps 3, 4, & 5.
      • The system saves the new settings, so each time you re-edit your count file, you are taken back to Step 7.
      • If you moved backwards in the List Wizard to Step 6 (or before 6), the system would regenerate your ZIP codes and routes based on your original geographic and demographic selects.
      • This isn't a disaster, but you will lose the changes you may have made in Step 7 (deleting routes and ZIP codes).
  • Click the "Delete" link next to your count file name to delete this particular count file.

The List Wizard

Viewing the map

  • Click the map link and a new window will open showing the map.

 

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Viewing a previous order

  • Click "previous orders" in the left hand column menu.
  • Your previous orders table will appear.
  • Once a count file has been ordered, it will no longer appear under "work in progress" but will appear here.
  • To view a summary of any particular order, click "View" next to the appropriate order in your previous orders table.

Resubmitting a previous order

  • Click "Resubmit" next to the appropriate order in your previous orders table.
  • A new screen will open, prompting you to enter a new list name.  The new name must be unique.
  • Clicking "Resubmit" will not automatically place the order again.  It merely asks for a new name and automatically creates a new list count, exactly like the old one, that can be edited in the List Wizard.
  • The new job is now viewable under "work in progress".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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