Vacation holds, title changes and monthly collections have run on memory and notebooks for a century. Keep the round. Retire the notebook.
A family leaves for two weeks, the message does not reach the boy on the route, and fourteen papers pile up announcing the house is empty.
Going door to door for last month’s dues is a second job. Some doors do not open, some dispute the count, and some just moved.
One house takes two dailies and a Sunday magazine, the next swapped papers last week. The route sheet in the deliverer’s head is the only record.
The margin on a single paper is tiny. One missed collection or one unreported hold quietly erases a street’s worth of profit.
Customers set vacation dates in the app, the papers drop off the runsheet for exactly those days, and nothing piles up on an empty porch.
Wallets are charged per delivered paper. Dues stop accumulating, the door-to-door collection round disappears, and the count is never in dispute.
Titles per address live in the system, not in anyone’s head. A new deliverer picks up the route from the runsheet on day one.
Every figure is stored to the smallest unit and the books are checked hourly. On margins this thin, correct is the whole game.
The parts of Lanemi a news agent leans on every day.
| Feature | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| Subscriptions per title | Dailies, weekend editions and magazines, per address. |
| Vacation holds | Customer-set date ranges that update the runsheet automatically. |
| Prepaid wallet | Charged per delivered paper. The collection round retires. |
| Ordered runsheets | Street order for a round done at speed, printable nightly. |
| Double-entry ledger | Penny-thin margins kept exactly right, checked every hour. |
| Reports | Titles by street, churn and where the round is thinning. |
A morning round in Coimbatore, a village agent in County Kerry, a kiosk route in Buenos Aires. Your currency, your payment methods, your rules.
Lanemi began on a farm round where the margin per bottle is small and the count has to be exact. The ledger stores every figure to the smallest unit because businesses like yours cannot afford rounding.
Read our storyHolds actually hold. No more papers piling up on an empty porch.
Collection month is gone. The wallet collects for me, to the penny.
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Yes. Each address holds its own set of dailies, weekend editions and magazines, each with its own schedule and price.
The customer sets dates in their app, or you set them on their behalf. Those papers drop off the runsheet for exactly those days and are never charged.
They can hand cash to your deliverer as a wallet top-up, and it is tracked to your books. The difference is the dues never build up and the count is never argued.
Lanemi runs the customer side, deliveries, holds and collections. What you owe publishers stays in their system, but your delivered counts give you exact numbers to check their invoices against.
The Starter plan is sized for a single round, and holds plus wallet collections usually pay for it in recovered dues alone.
Short, practical, and no filler. Leave any time.