Deployment model

An installation of CityScreen Context serves one market. Knowing that is enough to read every price, fee and report in this documentation correctly.

This page is for operators, integrators and anyone reading a figure and wondering what unit it is in.

One instance, one market, one currency

Every amount in an installation — floor prices, bids, clearing prices, commissions, tariffs, campaign prices, report totals — is in that installation’s local currency.

An installation serves one country and prices and settles in the currency of that country, so amounts carry no currency code and are never converted.

Practically, this means:

  • No screen asks you to choose a currency or displays one.

  • Two installations in two countries are two separate installations. They do not share prices, organizations, inventory or reports.

Wherever this documentation writes an amount without a unit, the unit is the installation’s currency.

One instance, many organizations

An installation is shared. It holds many organizations, and an organization is the boundary: it owns its own employees, its own inventory, its own prices, its own campaigns and its own reports, and it sees nothing belonging to another.

An installation is administered by the platform operator, who provisions organizations and registers the demand partners that organizations may then enable for themselves. An organization can be switched off, and its data stays where it is.

The two kinds of account this produces, and what each can reach, are in Roles and access. The organization as an administrative object is covered in Administration.

One instance, many local times

An installation serves one market, but a market can span time zones, and a screen’s day is its own.

Every timestamp the platform stores is in UTC. Every screen carries an IANA time zone of its own, worked out from the screen’s coordinates when the catalog is synchronized. Schedules and dayparts belong to the screen and are read in the screen’s local time.

Where that distinction matters — schedules, availability, the boundary a report day is cut on — is set out in Time zones and schedules.