Run the paper round and let the billing add itself up.
Lanemi runs a separate subscription for every title, the daily paper, the Sunday edition and the monthly magazine, each on its own schedule. Customers set their own holiday stops, top up a prepaid wallet, and your carriers leave before dawn with a sequenced sheet. In your currency, wherever you deliver.
The round is out before dawn, and the billing waits all month.
A paper round is a business of small, repeating decisions. The delivery is the easy part. It’s the titles that change, the readers who travel, and the money owed on trust for a whole month that eat the evenings.
The month-end count.
Dozens of titles, a reader who joined on the 9th and dropped the Sunday on the 22nd, and one long evening working out what each house actually owes.
Titles that come and go.
A reader drops the daily, keeps the Sunday, adds a monthly magazine. That change has to land on tomorrow’s round and this month’s bill.
The pre-dawn window.
The round has to be planned, put in order and out the door before 6am, whatever the weather and whatever the network is doing.
Chasing the dues.
Papers delivered on trust all month, then a fortnight of knocking to collect, and a few who never quite pay.
The round stays early. The billing stops being a chore.
One subscription per title.
The daily paper Monday to Saturday, the Sunday edition on Sundays, the magazine once a month. Each title is its own subscription with its own pattern. Add or drop a title and both tomorrow’s round and this month’s bill update on their own.
Readers set their own holiday stops.
Going away? A reader picks a date range or skips a single day from their phone, and those papers drop off the round on their own. No note through the letterbox and no call to you.
Prepaid or month-end, without the chase.
Readers who prepay top up a wallet, online or in cash, and every delivered title charges against a balance you can see. Readers who bill monthly run on an account: deliveries post as they land, the statement writes itself, and anyone who slips behind is flagged before the debt grows teeth. Both kinds sit on the same round and the same books.
An early round that sorts itself.
Runsheets order every stop by street and house number, or in your own order for a scattered round, so a carrier takes the sheet and goes. Print it the night before, because the network can drop at 5am and the round still has to leave.
The bill reconciles as it goes.
Every delivered title, top-up and credit is written down twice in an append-only ledger and checked to balance every hour. Month-end is a report you open, not an evening with a calculator.
Made for the way a paper round actually works.
| What you get | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| Per-title subscriptions | Every title is its own subscription with its own schedule |
| Flexible schedules | Weekday-only, Sunday-only, weekly or monthly patterns per title |
| Self-service holiday stops | Readers stop for a trip or skip a single day themselves |
| One-time orders | A special edition or single copy without a standing subscription |
| Prepaid wallet | Readers pay ahead and delivered titles charge against the balance |
| Monthly accounts | The trade’s month-end billing, with statements and overdue accounts flagged |
| Nightly forecast | Tomorrow’s round, per title, built and locked before dawn |
| Ordered runsheets | Stops in order with per-stop titles, and a printable backup |
| Disputes and credits | “The paper never came” handled with a fair credit, revenue kept whole |
| Cash custody | For rounds still collecting cash, tracked to your books, shortages flagged |
| Double-entry ledger | Every title, top-up and credit reconciled and checked hourly |
| Any currency and method | Your currency, and the payment methods your area uses |
A morning round is a morning round, anywhere.
The job is the same in every town, and the titles are yours to name: local dailies, weekend editions, monthlies, in whatever language they print. Choose your currency, set up how your readers pay, and store any distributor or trade documents your region asks for.
Built by people who deliver.
Lanemi came out of running a recurring round ourselves, planning it the night before, delivering it at dawn, and making the money reconcile afterwards. A paper round with many titles and monthly billing is exactly the shape it was built for.
The things news agents ask us first.
Can one customer take several titles on different schedules?
Yes. Each title is its own subscription. A weekday daily, a Sunday-only edition and a monthly magazine can all sit under one household, each on its own pattern, and they update together when they change.
How does month-end billing work?
It reconciles as you go. Put a reader on a monthly account and every delivered title posts to it the day it lands. The statement at month end is a report you open, not a night with a calculator, and what each household owes is computed from the ledger itself, so it is always exact.
Can I stop chasing monthly dues?
Mostly, yes. Readers on a monthly account get their statement and a reminder without you knocking, overdue accounts are flagged on their own, and you can choose to pause deliveries for anyone too far behind. Or move readers to a prepaid wallet and end the chase altogether.
What if a reader goes on holiday?
They set a stop date range or skip a single day from their app, and those papers drop off the round on their own. No call to you and no missed message.
What if the network is down at 5am?
Confirm and print the runsheet the night before. The round goes out on paper on time, and you update deliveries when you’re back.
Can I handle a one-off special edition or back copy?
Yes. Add a one-time order for a single title to any household without starting a standing subscription.
One good idea for your round, once a week.
Short, practical, and no filler. Leave any time.
Ready to run the round on rails?
Book a demo and we will set it up with your titles, your schedules, your wallet and your currency.