Home Delivery
Residential and office customers, start/stop handling, delivery routes, and billing.
Home DeliveryNow with Flexible Delivery Schedules: A publication can come out every day, or on a pattern as specific as the first Tuesday of each quarter. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, or any mix of those. Draws, lists, and bills follow that schedule.
Ivy Route
A web based system for publication distribution.
Home Delivery - Single Copy - Routing - Billing - Draw Management - Publication Management and more.
The Core Entities
Single Copy
Stores and racks, draw and return tracking, delivery and collection routes, and billing.
Single CopyHome Delivery, Single Copy, Routing, and Publications are equally essential parts of the work. Ivy Route treats them as such and brings them together.
Routing
Routes can include both home delivery and single-copy stops. Route lists can be printed combined or separately.
RoutingPublications
Track each publisher, then define the publications you deliver and the schedule each one follows.
PublicationsWhy Ivy Route
Modern newspaper distribution still comes down to the same core jobs: getting the right papers to the right places, keeping routes accurate, and billing correctly. Ivy Route is a web-based system built for that work.
It handles home delivery and single-copy distribution in one place. Route lists, daily activity, draws, billing, and analysis are handled together instead of across separate tools or spreadsheets. Publications can run on any schedule—daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or patterns as specific as the first Tuesday of each quarter—and draws, lists, and bills follow that schedule automatically.
The system uses the same terms newspaper distributors already use, so it is straightforward to learn. It has been refined through decades of real-world use and feedback from distributors across the United States.
Start your day with a clearer picture of your routes and accounts. Call David at 570-265-6364 to see how Ivy Route can make your dealership easier to run and more profitable.
Our History
In 1986, Brad Haven of Sunrise News Service in Merced, California needed a better way to handle home delivery and single-copy distribution and billing. He asked us to build a system for the Apple Macintosh. That first version was called Freedom.
Once it was running, Brad began recommending it to other distributors. The response was strong enough that we stopped selling Freedom and spent more than 18 months rewriting the software based on what those distributors actually needed. In October 1989 we released the Macintosh version of Ivy Route at the American Association of Independent Newspaper Distributors fall conference in San Diego.
The original Macintosh version was designed for ease of use. That same approach was carried forward when the system moved to FoxPro under MS-DOS, and again when it became the current web-based application. The goal has stayed the same: software that matches the way newspaper distributors actually work.
Ivy Route is the result of many distributors’ ideas and practical experience, refined for over four decades.
