Know where every cylinder is, full or empty.
Lanemi runs your cylinder rounds: standing refills for steady customers, one-tap orders for everyone else, full-for-empty swaps at the door, and a deposit ledger that counts every cylinder against the right name. Cash, online or monthly account, in your currency.
The gas is the easy part. The cylinders are the business.
A cylinder is an asset that leaves your yard every morning and is supposed to come back. Multiply that by every kitchen you serve and the real work is not delivering gas. It is knowing who holds what, collecting what you are owed, and getting a refill to a stove before it goes cold.
Cylinders that never come back.
Fulls go out, empties trickle in, and after a year the yard count and the register disagree by more than you like to admit. Each missing cylinder is real money.
“We’ve run out.”
The call always comes at cooking time. An urgent refill has to jump onto a round that was already planned, without wrecking it.
The deposit ledger nobody trusts.
Deposits taken years ago, on paper, by someone who has since left. When a customer closes their connection, the argument starts.
Hotels that pay at month end.
Commercial kitchens burn cylinders fast and settle monthly. Tracking their tally on trust is a slow leak until the day it is a real hole.
The rounds keep rolling. The counting stops.
Every cylinder counted against a name.
Take a deposit when a connection starts, swap full for empty on every delivery, and refund when the cylinder comes home. The system keeps a live count of how many cylinders each customer holds and what deposit sits against them, written straight into your books. Lost or damaged cylinders are written off cleanly instead of argued about.
Standing refills for the regulars, one tap for the rest.
A hotel kitchen takes four cylinders every Monday. A family orders when the stove sputters. Both fit: standing orders on an interval you agree, and one-time orders that drop onto the next round. Nobody has to catch you on the phone.
Empties collected, refills returned.
Some rounds swap at the door. Others collect empties for refilling and bring them back another day. Both are real flows here, pickup and return tracked as legs of the same order, so an empty in your truck is never an empty forgotten.
Cash at the door, or a monthly account.
Households pay cash to the delivery crew or top up online through your own payment account. Commercial kitchens run on a postpaid account with a credit limit, a month-end statement and a proper tax invoice. Every route the money takes ends in the same books, and doorstep cash is tracked until it is counted in.
A heavy round in the right order.
Cylinders are the heaviest thing anyone delivers, so the order of stops matters. Runsheets sequence the round by building and street with swap counts per stop, and print the night before, because a dead signal cannot be the reason a kitchen goes cold.
Built for a business where the container is the asset.
| What you get | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| Cylinder custody and deposits | A live count per customer, deposits refunded on return, write-offs handled |
| Full-for-empty swaps | Every swap recorded at the door, against the right connection |
| Pickup and return flows | Collect empties for refilling and return them filled, tracked both ways |
| Standing refills | Interval-based refills for homes and commercial kitchens that burn steady |
| One-time orders | “We’ve run out” orders that join the next round without a phone call |
| Monthly accounts | Postpaid terms for hotels and restaurants, with statements and credit limits |
| Consolidated tax invoices | One numbered tax invoice per commercial account per period |
| Prepaid wallet and online top-ups | Households pay ahead, online through your own payment account |
| Cash custody | Doorstep cash tracked from the crew to your books, shortages flagged |
| Ordered runsheets | Heavy stops sequenced sensibly, with a printable backup |
| Delivery slots | Morning and evening windows, each with its own cut-off and run |
| Double-entry ledger | Deposits, swaps, refunds and refills all balance, checked every hour |
A cylinder round works the same in any market.
Swap, deposit, refill and collect: the mechanics are the same whether the cylinder is 14 kilos or 45. Choose your currency, set up how your customers pay, and keep your distribution licences and safety certificates on file, with a reminder before any of them lapse. The licences and the safety rules stay your responsibility. The counting is ours.
Built by people who deliver, and count what comes back.
Lanemi began on a farm round where the glass bottles mattered as much as the milk in them. A cylinder business is that same truth, heavier: the container is the asset, and the business lives or dies on knowing where it is. That is why custody and deposits sit at the centre of the product, not in an add-on.
The things cylinder businesses ask us first.
Can I track deposits and how many cylinders each customer holds?
Yes. A deposit is taken when the connection starts, every swap keeps the count current, and the refund on return posts to the same ledger. When a customer closes their connection, the record settles the conversation.
How do urgent “we’ve run out” orders work?
The customer places a one-time order from their phone, or your staff place it for them, and it joins the next available round. Standing refill customers are unaffected, and the plan stays locked once the round is confirmed.
My commercial customers settle monthly. Can it handle that?
Yes. Put a hotel or restaurant on a postpaid account with a credit limit you set. Every delivery posts to the account, a statement goes out at month end with a numbered tax invoice, and any account past due is flagged for you.
We collect empties and return them refilled two days later. Does that fit?
Yes. Pickup and return are legs of the same order, so collected empties are tracked in your custody until the filled cylinders go back, and nothing is lost between the truck and the yard.
What about the cash my crew collects?
It is tracked from the doorstep to your books and reconciled, with any shortage flagged the same day. Customers who prefer to pay online top up through your own payment account, and it credits itself.
Does this handle the safety and licensing side?
No, and we are plain about that. Safety, handling and licensing stay with you as the licensed distributor. Lanemi stores your licence documents and reminds you before they expire, but the regulatory duty is yours. What we handle is the scheduling, the counting and the money.
One good idea for your round, once a week.
Short, practical, and no filler. Leave any time.
Ready to know where every cylinder is?
Book a demo and we will set it up with your cylinder types, your deposits and your currency.