ADvendio Preview Version 2.175 - Spring 2025
Welcome to our Spring 2025 update! This release is packed with new features, UI improvements, smarter automation, and performance upgrades – all designed to make your daily work smoother, faster, and more intuitive.
Preinvoice generation has been updated to version 2.173! During the Delta pre-invoice generation development, we have cleaned up and enhanced the basic (legacy) pre-invoice generation. It has an impact on the whole PreInvoice generation.
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Installation links for version 2.175
It's important to ensure you are not logged into a Salesforce org where you don't wish to install ADvendio. We recommend either an incognito window of your browser or a different browser altogether to install new versions.
Please find the latest installation links for this version below:
Installation link 2.175.2 for your production environment (org) or
Installation link 2.175.2 to update your sandbox
If you need help during the installation, please see our upgrade tips.
A brief overview of version 2.175
📊 Campaign Builder Enhancements
More precise pricing with up to 9 decimals for AdServer prices.
Bulk keyword pasting & breadcrumb navigation in targeting.
Cleaner UI, faster availability checks, and improved error handling.
A wide range of fixes to Net Calculator, targeting, publication dates, and performance.
🎥 AI Video Creatives
Create video ads in seconds! Our new integration with Waymark allows you to generate professional video creatives directly in ADvendio (contract required).
💡 New Optimization PDF
A fresh, configurable layout for Optimization PDFs, auto-attached with each Optimizer Version. Cleaner design, error-proof setup, and optional hiding of non-optimized items.
💼 Media Buying Improvements
Submit directly from the campaign screen.
Support for longer names, positive match targeting, multi-AdTypes, and more.
Future-proof your setup! A new structure for Media Buying is coming—reach out if you're using it in production.
🌐 New Integrations & Upgrades
✅ Google Ad Manager
Support for Service Accounts
Enhanced delivery reports, pricing precision, audience import & archive support
✅ Xandr
Better targeting, support for daily impression budgets, and more stable delivery reports
✅ Freewheel
Support for Inventory Packages, forecasting for PG Deals, and enriched targeting
✅ Facebook, DV360, Pinterest, Adswizz
Multiple enhancements for campaign management, targeting, and delivery syncing
✅ Vistar Media Integration
Unlock new omnichannel capabilities with our extended integration into Vistar Media’s DOOH ecosystem.
🧾 Finance & Invoicing
VAT Types 3 & 4 are now supported
More robust Delta and Pre-Invoice generation
Automatic Flexible Payment Plan Adjustments: Your flexible payment plans now update automatically when campaign amounts change, making invoicing smarter and more accurate.
Flexible Pricing: Invoice performance-based campaigns with greater accuracy using a monthly average sales price based on actual media spend and delivered quantities.
A detailed summary of version 2.175
🧩 Module: Campaigns
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Accounts | Changes and Optimizations |
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Ad Material Management | New Feature | We added a preview feature to Ad Material Management, allowing users to View native ads. Native ads use uploaded HTML/CSS templates with mapped variables for accurate previews, replacing the old file upload preview with a more dynamic and user-friendly experience. |
Booking Calendar LWC | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed the following issues:
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Campaign Builder | Changes and Optimizations | This release includes a wide range of improvements to the Campaign Builder, focused on boosting performance, UI consistency, targeting capabilities, data accuracy, and error handling. Below are the key enhancements and fixes delivered: 🎯 Feature Improvements🔢 Enhanced AdServer Price Precision
📍 Streamlined Postal Code Validation
🎨 Improved UI Alignment
🔡 Bulk Keyword Input Support
🧭 Breadcrumb Navigation in Search Trees
🚀 Dynamic Preloading of Regional Settings
📊 Check Availability Improvements
🛠️ Fixes in Campaign Builder and Related Features🔁 Item Configuration & Save Behavior
🧩 Tab Rule & Field Behavior
🧮 Net Calculator Fixes
📆 Publication Date Fixes
🎯 Targeting Component Stability
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Campaign Creator/CampAIgner BETA | New Feature | Introducing the CampAIgner – Smarter, Simpler Campaign Creation We've completely reimagined the way campaigns are built. The CampAIgner combines a redesigned, intuitive user interface with the power of AI-driven recommendations to help you build better campaigns—faster. ✨ Whether you're setting objectives, selecting products, or refining targeting, every step has been streamlined to save time and reduce complexity. The result? A smoother, smarter, and more user-friendly campaign setup experience that puts intelligent insights at your fingertips. 👉 More information will follow. |
Check Availability | Changes and Optimizations | We have implemented the following fixes:
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Check Availability | Changes and Optimizations |
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AI Video Creatives | New Feature | 🎬 AI Video Creative Integration with WaymarkWe’ve partnered with Waymark to introduce a new Lightning Web Component that enables AI-powered video creative generation directly within ADvendio. Through a guided flow, users can easily create and download videos for use in their campaigns.
🧹 Creative Management Enhancements
More details will follow. |
Dynamic Pricing/Price Rules | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue related to the Dynamic Pricing query limit error |
Email-Notification | Improvement | We updated Gateway Result Emails to use Salesforce My Domain URLs for job ID and Campaign Item links, ensuring compatibility with Salesforce's API changes by the June 14, 2025 deadline. |
EventDates | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed issues in the exclusivity check / booking calendar service, where availability checks were not providing the right results if contents were not used. |
Inventory Setup assistant | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed two issues in the Inventory Setup Assistant.
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Key Values | New Feature | We developed a new global setting in the administration settings that disables the ability for users to create custom Freeform key-values in the targeting screen. When enabled, users can only select from pre-defined key-values, ensuring consistency and preventing unintended targeting or errors. We also fixed an issue in the Freeform Key Value Feature for Xandr, where the submit to AdServer process crashed if key values contained leading or trailing whitespaces. |
LicenseModule | Changes and Optimizations | We introduced the following License Module enhancements:
Fixes:
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Lightning Experience | Changes and Optimizations | We removed the 'CMS-Key-Value' Picklist Reference from Related List Filters on the Lightning Record Page. |
Lightning Flow | Improvement | We renamed the "Save and Back" button to "Save and Continue" and implemented logic to save availability results and navigate users to the next screen upon clicking. |
Media Buying | Improvement | 💼 Media Buying EnhancementsWe’ve introduced several improvements to streamline and expand the capabilities of our Media Buying features:
⚠️ Important Note:
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Media Campaign | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue where the Campaign item related list main list of items did not update after adding or deleting items. |
Media Configuration | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue where an error appears in the console when attempting to add Creative Targeting in Media Configuration. |
Media Search | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue with Non-Removable Fields in Media Search Results. |
Publication Date Wizard | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed the issue related to the Publication Dates Wizard Skipping July When Using "Create Series of Dates." |
Rate card | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue related to the Copy rate card feature failure due to the number of records. |
Targeting Sets | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an error in the Targeting Sets Wizard where clicking the "Unselect All" button caused issues, whether or not any targeting was selected. |
We enabled the Advanced Targeting for Freewheel to be used in Targeting Sets. |
🌐 Module: Connections
Components | Issue Type | Description |
Integration / Vistar | New Feature | ADvendio now offers seamless integration with Vistar Media, empowering users to manage their digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns more efficiently. This integration enables the submission of media campaigns and retrieval of delivery data—all within ADvendio. With automated data syncing and real-time performance insights, advertisers gain better visibility and control, streamlining campaign execution and enhancing reporting accuracy. |
Check Login / Authentication | Changes and Optimizations | We’ve improved our messaging in the Check Login functionalities, to communicate authentication problems in the third party integrations in a better way. |
Delivery Data | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed a problem with our delivery reports feature. The imported metrics were doubled if the same Ad ID was used across multiple Campaign Item Records. This problem was more prone to happen if you were using scheduled delivery reports and a high number of active Campaign Items (4.000+) |
Buying Delivery Data | Changes and Optimizations | We've resolved an issue in the Buying Delivery Data feature that caused exceptions when processing GMS responses after job completion |
Submit Buying Order | New Feature | We made the Buying Submit process available for flows, so you can create custom automation, which handles the Media Buying submit. |
Programmatic Media Campaign Generation | Improvement | We gave flexibility to the customer to consider a new parameter when creating a Programmatic Media Campaign. This new parameter is the “partner name” which is managed through a Feature Setting and will allow to create Programmatic Media Campaigns separated by partner name which will be part of the current unique Key differentiator used for this purpose. |
Integration / Facebook | Changes and Optimizations | We updated our Facebook Integration to the Facebook Marketing API v.21 |
The 'Set Budget Order Level' checkbox in our Facebook Integration now functions correctly, allowing users to control budget prioritization between Buying Orders and Buying Items. We updated our token generation process to include the new permission budget_management in the new tokens generated for the Facebook Integration. | ||
Integration / Freewheel | New Feature | For customers that were using the partner module (that's going to be deprecated in March 2025) or want to start using the Marketplace capabilities our Freewheel Integration now supports the new Inventory Package targeting from the Freewheel Marketplace module 🧠 1. Inventory Package TargetingADvendio now supports Freewheel Inventory Packages (IP) for both:
You can now:
📦 2. Forecasting & Availability Check for PG DealsUsers can now run Availability Checks for Programmatic Guaranteed (PG) deals, with real-time feedback from Freewheel's forecasting API.
⚠️ Freewheel’s response times can vary (~3–30 mins same as doing it directly in Freewheel), so async handling and retry logic have been added.
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Integration / Google AdManager | New Feature | ✅ Service Account Authentication SupportADvendio now supports connecting to Google Ad Manager using Service Accounts as a secure alternative to standard user-based authentication. This improvement offers more flexibility for managing GAM access, allowing customers to choose between:
This simplifies authentication management and ensures long-term maintainability of your GAM integration. 👉 Learn how to set it up: 🛠 Fixes in GAM Integration
🚀 New Functional Capabilities
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Integration / Google Display & Video 360 | Improvement | We made the following enhancements:
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Integration / Google Display & Video 360 | New Feature | We developed enhancements to the DV360 integration in ADvendio, allowing users to create and submit Buying Campaigns directly from the UI, link them to Buying Orders, and manage Advertiser consistency between the two objects. |
Integration / Pinterest | Changes and Optimizations | We've updated the Buying Delivery Data feature to match Pinterest's native 90-day data retrieval window for buying items, ensuring seamless and accurate data synchronization. |
Integration / Xandr
| Improvements | We've introduced several updates to enhance targeting flexibility, error handling, creative support, and reporting stability within our Xandr integration: 🎯 Targeting & Campaign Configuration
📈 Budget & Scheduling Enhancements
📦 Creative & Delivery Reporting
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Integration / Adswizz
| Changes and Optimizations
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Integration / Adswizz | Improvement
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Gateway Microservice Architecture | Improvement | Architecture Improvements for our Snapchat Integration, Broadsign Integrationton, Google Campaign Manager 360 Integration, AmazonDSP Integration, increase stability and performance. |
💸 Module: Finance
Components | Issue Type | Description |
Optimizer | Improvement | We enhanced our Optimizing Version Activation feature to make sure delivered quantity is updated automatically in pre-invoices generated for new Campaign Item versions. |
Pre-Invoice generation | Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issue where after the refinement of the code in the version 2.173 Total Pre-Invoices created incorrectly due to very old accounting date logic. |
Taxes (GST, HST, VAT) | New Features | With version 2.175, we’ve extended our VAT handling capabilities by introducing support for VAT Types 3 and 4, offering greater flexibility for region-specific tax needs. What’s new:
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Invoicing / Billing run | Improvement | With the release of Invoice Wizard (Lightning) – Aura and Invoice Wizard (New), checkbox fields were converted to picklists value field with a default value of blank. With this version Checkbox Values introduced as Picklist in Finance Feature Settings(Invoice Wizard (Lightning and New), and PreInvoice Wizard Lightning). |
Changes and Optimizations | We fixed an issues in the New Invoice Wizard where:
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Media Buying - Invoicing enhancements
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| ADvendio’s Flexible Pricing feature enhances invoicing flexibility by enabling actual monthly media cost and delivered quantity to dictate invoice amounts. This is a major upgrade for agencies and publishers aiming to invoice clients based on real-time campaign performance which now also includes Quantity information.
📌 Billing Categories Supported✅ Supported: CPM, CPC, vCPM, CPCV ❌ Not Supported: Fixed Price, Budget and others
Discounts, Surcharges & PDFs
Validations & Restrictions
🔍 Use Cases Enabled
❌ Accounting Records do not support Flexible Pricing More details here |
New Optimization PDF / Landscape PDF | New Feature | ADvendio introduces a fully revamped Optimization PDF to improve configurability, document consistency, and PDF generation logic for optimized media campaigns. Optimization PDFs are automatically generated and attached when you activate an Optimizer Version — ensuring traceability and saving time 🧷 New Preference Object & UI
📤 Automatic Generation & Preview Behavior
🔍 Error Handling & Feedback
👁️ Hide Non-Optimized Campaign Items (Optional)
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Delta invoicing - Flexible Payment Plan creation | New Feature | We’ve streamlined how Flexible Payment Plans (FPPs) adapt to campaign item changes — making your invoicing process smoother and more accurate. ✅ Automatic AdjustmentsFlexible Payment Plans now are automatically recalculated when a Campaign Item's amount is changed. Whether you’re using percentage-based or absolute FPPs:
🧮 Smart DistributionRemaining percentages or amounts are split proportionally across open FPPs, keeping invoices aligned and accurate without manual edits. 🗓️ Avoiding Errors with Duplicate DatesThe system now detects conflicts when a new FPP shares the same date with an existing one and automatically shifts to the next available date — ensuring pre-invoice generation works seamlessly. 🔁 Pre-Invoice Generation on OptimizationThe Optimizer Activation now directly triggers pre-invoice generation for Campaign Items with FPPs, eliminating manual steps. We’ve also removed outdated warning messages from the interface for a cleaner user experience. |
Improvement | We enhanced the delta invoicing by following:
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