Nestor automates many of manual processes that currently consume staff time. As a result, error rates significantly decline, productivity increases and valuable resources are freed up to focus attention on more strategic activities such as optimizing program costs.

Enjoy comprehensive, real-time visibility into your program accounting data on a current, historical and accrual basis, all from one trusted source.

Store and Organize Your Data

•         Contract terms and rate structures for the life of agreements
•         Channel lineups, tiers and subscriber history
•         System merges, splits, divestitures and acquisitions
•         By Division, Region, System and Joint Ventures
•         Historical Data Management
•         Audit Tracking

Nestor’s contract calculation engine was designed exclusively to address the complexities of cable programming contracts. Replace your manual processes and spreadsheet calculations with this automated solution.

Perform these Processes and More

•         Prior Period Adjustments
•         Calculate and process payments for even your most complex contract terms
•         Manage accruals separately from payments
•         Launch new programming services
•         Determine exactly how subscriber counts are tracked and billed
•         Import and Export Data

Nestor includes a multitude of specific rates, discounts and special handling contingencies designed specifically to manage cable programming agreements.

Seamlessly interface with your subscriber management and channel line-up systems as well as A/P, G/L and data warehouses. Nestor subjects the data to a variety of validation rules for accuracy, alerts the user to potential anomalies and provides mechanisms for correcting issues before problems occur.            

Recalculating payments to programmers because of changes to contract terms, incorrect subscriber counts and channel lineups is a challenge that requires countless hours of manual rework to adjust. Nestor can now automate this process for you.

Nestor will recalculate all payments back to the appropriate date and make all necessary payment adjustments.

•         New contract signing with retroactive rates
•         Subscriber counts or channel lineups adjustments
•         System acquisitions or divestitures

In situations where there are multiple changes during the same month, Nestor will take all changes into account and calculate the overall adjustment.

No need to worry about the expense of building and designing reporting software and functionality. Nestor provides the robust and flexible analytical and vendor reporting needed.

Analytical Reporting Including

•         Trending and Variance Summary and Detail
•         Accrued and Actual Expenses
•         Contract Expirations
•         Monthly Payment Summaries by Contracting Party

Vendor Reports Including

•         Payment summary and detail
•         Splits/merges, acquisition and divestiture
•         Custom invoices