For newspaper and magazine rounds

The oldest delivery round, finally off paper.

Vacation holds, title changes and monthly collections have run on memory and notebooks for a century. Keep the round. Retire the notebook.

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Vacation holdsPer-title billingOrdered runsheets
Round · street orderSorted
Oak Street 4Daily Herald + Sunday mag2 titles
Oak Street 6Financial daily1 title
Maple Court B-302Herald · on hold 18–24Hold
212 papers · 3 routesPrint
Sound familiar?

The daily grind of a paper round.

The hold slip that never arrived.

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.

Collection month.

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.

Title tangles.

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.

Margins measured in coins.

The margin on a single paper is tiny. One missed collection or one unreported hold quietly erases a street’s worth of profit.

A calmer way to run a paper round.

Holds that actually hold.

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.

Vacation hold
18–24 Aug
MTWTFSS
Hold for 7 days
Never delivered, never charged
Wallet balance
$6.20
$5$10
Recent activity
Top-up · cashto your deliverer+$10.00
Daily HeraldDelivered Mon−$0.85
Sunday magazineDelivered Sun−$2.50

Collection month becomes a top-up.

Wallets are charged per delivered paper. Dues stop accumulating, the door-to-door collection round disappears, and the count is never in dispute.

Every house, every title, written down.

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.

Maple Court B-302On record
Daily HeraldMon–Sat$0.85
Sunday magazineSundays$2.50
Vacation hold18–24 AugSet
In the system, not in anyone’s headHandover-ready
August · booksChecked hourly
Papers delivered5,842$164.90
Collected via wallets$164.90
Difference$0.00
Stored to the smallest unitBalances ✓

Coin margins, penny accounting.

Every figure is stored to the smallest unit and the books are checked hourly. On margins this thin, correct is the whole game.

Everything a paper round needs. Nothing you don’t.

The parts of Lanemi a news agent leans on every day.

FeatureWhat it does for you
Subscriptions per titleDailies, weekend editions and magazines, per address.
Vacation holdsCustomer-set date ranges that update the runsheet automatically.
Prepaid walletCharged per delivered paper. The collection round retires.
Ordered runsheetsStreet order for a round done at speed, printable nightly.
Double-entry ledgerPenny-thin margins kept exactly right, checked every hour.
ReportsTitles by street, churn and where the round is thinning.

Wherever you deliver.

A morning round in Coimbatore, a village agent in County Kerry, a kiosk route in Buenos Aires. Your currency, your payment methods, your rules.

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Built for thin margins

We respect a round that runs on coins.

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.

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photo: bundled papers before dawn
What vendors say
Holds actually hold. No more papers piling up on an empty porch.
Placeholder nameMorning paper round
Collection month is gone. The wallet collects for me, to the penny.
Placeholder nameNews agent, 3 routes

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Questions from news agents.

Can one house take several titles?

Yes. Each address holds its own set of dailies, weekend editions and magazines, each with its own schedule and price.

How do vacation holds work?

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.

My customers are used to paying monthly at the door.

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.

Publishers bill me separately. Does this handle that side?

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.

Is this overkill for a paper round?

The Starter plan is sized for a single round, and holds plus wallet collections usually pay for it in recovered dues alone.

One good idea for your round, once a week.

Short, practical, and no filler. Leave any time.

Ready to retire the collection notebook?

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