[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":354},["ShallowReactive",2],{"products-accountscout":3},{"id":4,"comparisonSection":5,"extension":39,"faqSection":40,"finalCta":64,"heritageSection":70,"hero":81,"meta":103,"modulesSection":104,"painSection":149,"paymentSection":171,"platformIntroSection":184,"platformTilesSection":189,"rolesSection":245,"seo":296,"stats":308,"stem":321,"testimonialsSection":322,"trustedHeading":336,"workflowSection":337,"__hash__":353},"productsAccountscout\u002Fmarketing\u002Fpages\u002Fproducts-accountscout.yml",{"eyebrow":6,"title":7,"items":8,"footer":38},"A NEWSPAPER AD SALE IS NOT A GENERIC CRM DEAL","Generic tools weren't built for the way publishers actually work.",[9,16,23,30],{"title":10,"bullets":11},"Generic CRM",[12,13,14,15],"Tracks contacts and deals","Doesn't understand rate cards or run schedules","No production or billing connection","Requires duplicate entry",{"title":17,"bullets":18},"Billing-Only Software",[19,20,21,22],"Sends invoices","No view of ad orders, proofs, or sales history","Limited pipeline visibility","Disconnected from production",{"title":24,"bullets":25},"Production-Only Tools",[26,27,28,29],"Manage creative work","No view of advertiser history or balances","Another silo to maintain","Disconnected from billing",{"title":31,"recommended":32,"bullets":33},"AccountScout",true,[34,35,36,37],"Publisher-native CRM and order entry","Rate cards, schedules, contracts, proofs, and pagination","Billing, payments, and advertiser portal","Reporting across the full workflow","The value isn't one feature. It's the connection between departments.","yml",{"title":41,"items":42},"Common questions.",[43,46,49,52,55,58,61],{"question":44,"answer":45},"How is AccountScout priced?","AccountScout doesn't charge per seat - create accounts for your whole staff without paying for every name on the list. A three-person weekly and a twelve-title group don't need the same system, so we scope pricing to your operation during a consultation rather than publish a number that would be wrong for both. As Jim Goodlett, President of Morris Technology - a customer and technology partner - puts it: \"their products deliver at speed for a price that makes the others seemingly laughable.\"",{"question":47,"answer":48},"Is SalesScout a separate product?","No. SalesScout is web and mobile access to AccountScout - same data, same system, cleaner interface for reps in the field. It's included with every AccountScout subscription.",{"question":50,"answer":51},"Can we run AccountScout in the cloud?","Yes. AccountScout is delivered from the Fake Brains cloud, so there is no server to run or maintain in your building.",{"question":53,"answer":54},"How does AccountScout connect to InDesign?","AdScout and PageScout work inside InDesign - designers build ads and lay out pages without leaving the application. Orders, specs, and assets flow in from AccountScout automatically.",{"question":56,"answer":57},"Do I still need QuickBooks for advertiser billing?","No. Invoices, statements, payments, and aging sit on the same record as the order that created them, so there is nothing to sync. Everyone else syncs accounting to QuickBooks, which turns taking payment at the moment of sale into a round trip between two systems that don't share state — and invoice-later becomes the default.",{"question":59,"answer":60},"Can advertisers pay online?","Yes. The Advertiser Portal lets advertisers view invoices, pay by card or ACH, and approve proofs. Payments auto-credit in AccountScout.",{"question":62,"answer":63},"What's included with every subscription?","Sales & CRM, SalesScout (web + mobile), Order Entry, ProofScout, Digital Asset Manager, PageScout, AdScout, Reporting, and Marketing tools. Advertiser Portal, ClassifiedScout, and Foundry are add-ons.",{"headline":65,"body":66,"ctaLabel":67,"ctaHref":68,"phone":69},"See AccountScout running on your workflow.","We'll walk you through a live demo tailored to your publication - your data, your workflow, your questions. No generic slide deck.","Book a Free Demo","\u002Fcontact","Or call 303-791-3301",{"title":71,"body":72,"badges":73,"image":77},"We've been doing this since 1991.","Fake Brains has built newspaper software, and only newspaper software, since 1991. AccountScout is what more than 35 years of listening to publishers looks like.",[74,75,76],"Colorado-based","Built in-house","Real humans on the support line at 303-791-3301",{"src":78,"alt":79,"caption":80},"\u002Fimages\u002Fabout\u002Fpfeifer-1993.jpg","Pat and Lisa Pfeifer at their Fake Brains trade-show booth in 1993.","Pat and Lisa, 1993 — the year a trade magazine ran the headline \"There's nothing artificial about Fake Brains.\"",{"eyebrow":82,"headline":83,"subheadline":84,"primaryCta":85,"secondaryCta":87,"workflowChips":90,"cardImage":99,"cardPlaceholder":102},"THE ACCOUNTSCOUT PLATFORM","Manage Every Dollar You Sell.","AccountScout by Fake Brains is the newspaper advertising software that runs the entire revenue workflow - CRM, ad sales, order entry, production, billing, collections, and reporting - so your team works from one source of truth instead of juggling disconnected tools.",{"label":86,"href":68},"Book a Demo",{"label":88,"href":89},"Explore AccountScout","\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout#platform",[91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98],"Prospect","Quote","Order","Proof","Publish","Invoice","Payment","Renewal",{"src":100,"alt":101},"\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout-sales-dashboard.png","The AccountScout Sales Dashboard: a year view pacing at 87% of goal, with booked revenue charted month by month against goal and target-to-date lines, beside a rail breaking out print, classified, and digital revenue, open price quotes, expiring orders, dormant advertisers, and activity, email, and deal counts.","[AccountScout Sales Dashboard - revenue pacing against goal, booked vs. future by month, expiring orders, dormant advertisers]",{},{"eyebrow":105,"title":106,"subtitle":107,"items":108},"PART OF ACCOUNTSCOUT","The modules that make it whole.","Some are included with every subscription. Some are add-ons. All of them share the same data.",[109,120,131,140],{"title":110,"headline":111,"description":112,"placeholder":113,"image":114,"imageAlt":115,"imageWidth":116,"imageHeight":117,"href":118,"linkLabel":119},"SalesScout","Your Sales Team, Untethered.","Web and mobile access to AccountScout built for reps and sales managers. Included with every subscription.","[SalesScout on a laptop, tablet, and phone - rep dashboard and deals pipeline]","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fsalescout-devices.png","SalesScout on a laptop, tablet, and phone: the rep dashboard with color-coded print advertising goals pacing for the month and the year, sales metrics, proof counts, and today's follow-ups, beside the Deal Maker pipeline moving deals from new inquiry through verbal commitment to signed.",2400,1800,"\u002Fproducts\u002Fsalescout","Explore SalesScout ->",{"title":121,"headline":122,"description":123,"placeholder":124,"image":125,"imageAlt":126,"imageWidth":127,"imageHeight":128,"href":129,"linkLabel":130},"Production Suite","From Sales Order to Print-Ready Page.","ProofScout, AdScout, PageScout, and DAM working as one pipeline from order to InDesign to press.","[The ProofScout queue - status tiles, proofs by advertiser, and a proof preview]","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fproofscout-queue.png","A ProofScout queue: six status tiles counting new ads, ads in composing, ads awaiting the sales rep, ads awaiting the advertiser, ads needing changes, and ads ready to publish; a table of proofs by advertiser, description, status and sales rep; and a preview pane showing one ad proof with buttons to request changes or approve it.",1536,1024,"\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout\u002Fproduction-suite","Explore Production Suite ->",{"title":132,"headline":133,"description":134,"placeholder":135,"image":136,"imageAlt":137,"imageWidth":116,"imageHeight":117,"href":138,"linkLabel":139},"Advertiser Portal","Let Your Advertisers Help Themselves.","Self-service invoices, payments, and proof approvals. Embedded on your site. Payments auto-credit in AccountScout.","[The Advertiser Portal on a monitor and two phones - invoices, payments, and proofs]","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fadvertiser-portal-devices.png","The Advertiser Portal on a desktop monitor and two phones: an account overview flagging a past-due balance with quick actions for invoices, payments, and proofs, beside a card payment screen and a proof approval screen.","\u002Fproducts\u002Fadvertiser-portal","Explore Advertiser Portal ->",{"title":141,"headline":142,"description":143,"placeholder":144,"image":145,"imageAlt":146,"imageWidth":116,"imageHeight":117,"href":147,"linkLabel":148},"ClassifiedScout","Classifieds, Online, On Your Site, On Autopilot.","Self-service classified ordering and presentment that syncs live to AccountScout. No CSV. No re-entry.","[The ClassifiedScout marketplace - category rail and live classified listings]","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fclassifiedscout-marketplace.png","The ClassifiedScout marketplace on a desktop monitor: a Local Marketplace directory with a category rail down the left listing categories and their ad counts, and classified listings with photos, prices, and locations.","\u002Fproducts\u002Fclassifiedscout","Explore ClassifiedScout ->",{"title":150,"subtitle":151,"items":152},"Sound Familiar?","If any of this rings a bell, you're not alone - and you're not stuck.",[153,156,159,162,165,168],{"icon":154,"text":155},"ClipboardList","Your reps say \"I'll do it when I get back to the office\" - and then they don't.",{"icon":157,"text":158},"Search","Your sales manager has no idea what the team actually did today.",{"icon":160,"text":161},"Palette","Designers are hunting for ad specs and assets instead of building ads.",{"icon":163,"text":164},"PhoneCall","Your billing clerk spends half the day chasing down payments over the phone.",{"icon":166,"text":167},"FileSpreadsheet","Classifieds come in by CSV and get manually imported - if they come in at all.",{"icon":169,"text":170},"Unplug","Every department uses a different tool, and nothing talks to anything else.",{"title":172,"subtitle":173,"cards":174},"You decide when you get paid.","Most systems make billing the last step. 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Instead of stitching together a CRM, billing database, payment processor, classifieds vendor, proofing tool, page layout workflow, and email system, AccountScout gives your team one source of truth around the advertiser account.",{"items":190},[191,200,209,218,227,236],{"icon":192,"title":193,"bullets":194},"ChartNoAxesColumnIncreasing","Sales & CRM",[195,196,197,198,199],"Sales Dashboard with color-coded goal tracking","Lead and prospect pipeline management","Activity manager with call\u002Femail\u002Ftask scheduling","Dormant account and expiring order alerts","SalesScout - full web & mobile access for reps on the road",{"icon":201,"title":202,"bullets":203},"FileText","Order Entry",[204,205,206,207,208],"Retail, classified, legal, digital, and miscellaneous orders","Combo\u002Fpackage rate cards across publications","Quotes that convert to orders in one click","Copy changes, holds, and deadline controls","Contract tracking and credit limit enforcement",{"icon":210,"title":211,"bullets":212},"PanelsTopLeft","Production",[213,214,215,216,217],"ProofScout - electronic proofing with designer swim lanes","Digital Asset Manager - organize creatives by advertiser","PageScout - automated page layout, exports to InDesign","AdScout - build ads to exact specs inside InDesign","PDF Builder for classified display ads",{"icon":219,"title":220,"bullets":221},"ReceiptText","Billing & Collections",[222,223,224,225,226],"Invoicing, statements, and batch processing","ePayments - credit card and ACH with surcharge compliance","Payment scheduling and auto-pay (AR Zero)","Electronic tearsheets for faster collections","Aging, interest calculation, and credit controls",{"icon":228,"title":229,"bullets":230},"MailCheck","Marketing",[231,232,233,234,235],"Bulk email marketing with segmentation","Personal Email Tracking - opens, clicks, last URL","Campaign segmentation by section, history, or status","Email templates with merge fields","Store 'N Send document manager",{"icon":237,"title":238,"bullets":239},"ChartPie","Reporting",[240,241,242,243,244],"300+ built-in reports with drill-down and filtering","Year-over-year revenue comparisons","Sales rep dashboards for weekly meetings","Memorized reports and scheduled delivery","Company-wide and per-publication views",{"eyebrow":246,"title":247,"subtitle":248,"linkLabel":249,"items":250},"BUILT FOR EVERY SEAT IN THE BUILDING","One platform. Six very different jobs.","AccountScout gives every role what they actually need - not a stripped-down version of someone else's tool.","See solution ->",[251,259,266,273,281,288],{"icon":252,"title":253,"href":254,"bullets":255},"Building2","Publisher \u002F Owner","\u002Froles\u002Fmanagement",[256,257,258],"See the full revenue picture without chasing reports","Standardize workflows across every publication","Spot dormant advertisers and missed renewals",{"icon":192,"title":260,"href":261,"bullets":262},"Sales Manager","\u002Froles\u002Fsales",[263,264,265],"See rep activity without asking","Track pipeline, quotes, and goals by rep and team","Spot at-risk and expiring orders before they slip",{"icon":267,"title":268,"href":261,"bullets":269},"Smartphone","Sales Rep",[270,271,272],"Pull up any account from a phone, tablet, or laptop","Log calls, visits, and follow-ups in seconds","Convert quotes to orders without a desktop",{"icon":274,"title":275,"href":276,"bullets":277},"ClipboardCheck","CSR \u002F Ad Entry","\u002Froles\u002Fproduction",[278,279,280],"Enter retail, classified, legal, and digital orders in one screen","Apply rate cards and combos automatically","Stop hunting for advertiser history",{"icon":282,"title":283,"href":276,"bullets":284},"PenTool","Production \u002F Designer",[285,286,287],"One queue of ads with status, specs, and assets","Proof approvals tracked from markup to sign-off","Pagination and InDesign export without scavenger hunts",{"icon":289,"title":290,"href":291,"bullets":292},"BadgeDollarSign","Bookkeeper","\u002Froles\u002Faccounting",[293,294,295],"Invoices and statements from the same order data","ePayments auto-post and auto-release holds","Lock periods, reconcile, and close the month cleanly",{"title":297,"description":298,"ogImage":299,"ogImageAlt":300,"keyFacts":301},"AccountScout: Newspaper Advertising Software","AccountScout by Fake Brains is the newspaper advertising software for ad sales, order entry, production, billing, and collections - one connected platform for publishers.","\u002Fimages\u002Fog\u002Faccountscout.png","AccountScout by Fake Brains - newspaper advertising software",[302,303,304,305,306,307],"Built for newspaper and media publishing since 1991","No per-seat fees — accounts for your whole staff","300+ built-in reports","Includes SalesScout, ProofScout, AdScout, PageScout, DAM, and Reporting","Cloud-delivered SaaS - no server to run in your building","Built in-house in Colorado",[309,312,315,318],{"value":310,"label":311},"35+","Years building software for publishers",{"value":313,"label":314},"100s","Publications running on AccountScout",{"value":316,"label":317},"8","Connected modules sharing one database",{"value":319,"label":320},"Included","SalesScout web and mobile access","marketing\u002Fpages\u002Fproducts-accountscout",{"title":323,"items":324},"What publishers are saying.",[325,329,332],{"quote":326,"name":327,"title":328},"Fake Brains has surpassed all the others we have worked with, as their team understands the meaning of partnership, and their products deliver at speed for a price that makes the others seemingly laughable.","Jim Goodlett","President of Morris Technology, a customer and technology partner",{"quote":330,"name":331,"title":268},"I only use the AccountScout Mobile app. I don't have time to go into the office. I drive 1,000 miles a week, I use it everyday. It's Fake Brains at your fingertips.","Calvin",{"quote":333,"name":334,"title":335},"This sounds like it would solve so many problems for so many people.","Dawn","CSR","Trusted by publishers across North America since 1991",{"eyebrow":338,"title":339,"caption":340,"steps":341},"HOW THE WORK ACTUALLY FLOWS","One record, start to finish.","Every step feeds the next. Nothing gets re-keyed, nothing gets lost.",[342,343,344,345,346,347,349,351],{"title":91},{"title":92},{"title":93},{"title":94},{"title":95},{"title":348},"Tearsheets",{"title":350},"Bill",{"title":352},"Renew","YBfB9wteJsbwHdUfpMSFsgfKxxjs3KRT8lSlpzypHMk",1791331520281]