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Accounting Distribution Quantity Type*
on the Ad Spec level gives the logical information on how the Distribution, deferral, or accrual records on the Campaign item for Fixed price* billing categories should be calculated, for example, if for fixed price item the quantity is 1 but the revenue schedule has 10,000 delivered AIs, the logic needs to know if that this should be calculated by impressions, clicks, video impressions etc. When this is not filled in for the “*Other ones, Fixed Price, CPD” billing categories there will be an error in distribution record creation and no record will be created. This quantity type error will never be a problem for CPM because the Billing Category itself already defined the quantity type, e.g. for CPM it would be impressions. This field will be ignored for the Budget billing category.When AdSpec has to be accounted for (distribution, deferral, accrual records) linearly and delivery data records should be ignored, the user can enable AdSpec for “
Linear Accounting Calculation
". This means that when When this checkbox is enabled, Accounting Records processes will ignore the delivered quantity from a connection.
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