Insertion Orders

The MNTN Insertion Order is a document that contains line items related to an advertising arrangement you intend to execute. It contains the specifics of the ad serving parameters you intend to communicate and agree upon with your finance team. It is the final step in the ad proposal process. 

Note that the Insertion Order is not a binding contract. The legal terms governing your use of the MNTN platform are available at: https://mountain.com/terms-and-conditions/.  In order to gain access to the MNTN platform, you must accept these terms and conditions.  Nor is the Insertion Order the source of truth regarding the parameters of a given campaign.  The MNTN platform is fully-self serve, meaning you as the customer control such parameters directly through your actions in the platform UI.  As a result, notwithstanding anything in the Insertion Order, your actions in the platform will control with respect to campaign details, including, but not limited to, start date, end date, goals, channels, and budget. You will be billed based on your actions in the platform with respect to a given campaign.  

In this article, we will go over the below:

1. Navigating through the Insertion Orders tab
2. Creating a New Insertion Order
3. Previewing an Insertion Order
4. Downloading an Insertion Order
5. Archiving an Insertion Order
   

Navigating through the Insertion Orders tab

Under My Account, you will be able to access the Insertion Orders tab to see vital information for all the insertion orders you have generated, including: 

• Status of your order (e.g. archived or active)
• Start Date
• End Date
• Prospecting Budget
• Retargeting Budget
• Who created the insertion order
  

Creating a new Insertion Order

When you select the blue icon "New Insertion Order" from the list view (above), you can fill out the form that will use your inputs to generate a PDF document that will be stored to your list with all the vital details. 

1. Select the Billing Contact
   The billing contact can be selected by the Dropdown icon. Only billing contacts that have been specified in the General section of My Account are eligible to be selected.
   
   You can edit your billing contact in the General section if you wish to make them available to add to your insertion orders.
   
   
2. Input the Start/End Date
   You can specify the start and end date for the insertion order by simply selecting the desired date using the date picker for each.
   
   *Start Date is required but you can leave the End Date empty if needed
   
   
3. Enter the Prospecting Budget/Retargeting Budget
   You can enter the budgets you wish to reflect on the insertion order for your specific marketing objective - Prospecting or Retargeting
   
   
4. Once all the fields have been filled in, you can go ahead and click save at the bottom right corner 

Previewing an Insertion Order

Once you have created an insertion order, you can quickly use the options menu to Preview any of your insertion order and you will see the below for an example:

Downloading Insertion Orders

You can select Download from the options menu to do a direct download of the PDF insertion order to your file browser on your computer.

When you select Download, it will lead to the Print option but you can “Save as PDF” as the Destination.

Archiving Insertion Orders

You can select Archive to remove your insertion order from its Active status, so you can track what insertion orders remain relevant to the orders you are attempting to fill.