Home Delivery
- Residential route management
- Automatic start, stop and restarts
- Integrated credit calculator
- Flexible billing modes
Ivy Route
Professional software designed to handle the repetitive day-to-day tasks of newspaper distribution, giving you an edge by doing more with less.
Single Copy
- Route, Draw and Billing Management
- Store and rack distribution
- Detailed draw analysis
- Agent accountability tracking
Common Items
- Core features for every installation
- Essential utility toolset
- Universal reporting tools
- Centralized system management
General Information
Modern newspaper distribution demands doing more with less. Today, successful distributors use computers to handle repetitive, time-consuming tasks.
Since 1986, newspaper distributors across the United States have gained a competitive edge with Ivy Route.
Ivy Route is an integrated software package designed for both home delivery and single-copy sales. It streamlines your operations with:
- Automated Route Lists
- Daily Activity Tracking
- Simplified Billing
- Delivery Analysis
- Route Maintenance Tools
New to software? No problem. Ivy Route uses industry-standard newspaper terms, not confusing tech jargon. With intuitive drop-down menus and clear on-screen guidance, it is easy to learn and use.
Built by professional developers using real feedback from distributors, Ivy Route is what we believe to be the best product on the market to assist in the distribution of printed materials.
Start your day with a distinct advantage. Call us at 570-265-6364 today to see how Ivy Route can make your dealership easier to run and more profitable.
Our Background
In 1986 Brad Haven of Sunrise News Service in Merced, California approached us with the need to develop a system for home delivery and single copy/street sales distribution & billing for the Apple Macintosh computer. This product was named Freedom. Once the system was installed Brad had so much free time on his hands he started selling the system to other distributors. Freedom was received so well we began to determine what would be needed to make the product meet all of our existing customers needs and be easy to enhance for future upgrades.
Freedom sales were halted while we completely rewrote and tested the new product. In October 1989, after over 18 months of user input and rewriting the software, we released the Macintosh version of Ivy Route at the American Association of Independent Newspaper Distributors (AAIND) fall conference in San Diego, California.
By writing the software originally for the Macintosh computer, we built in the "ease of use" of that environment into the package. We then transferred the package to FoxPro in the MS-DOS environment. Due to FoxPros windowing and pulldown menus, we were able to keep most of the user interface and thereby the "ease of use" of the Macintosh version. In addition it is a much faster running product.
To put it simply Ivy Route is the result of many newspaper distributors ideas combined into what we believe to be the best product on the market to assist in the distribution of printed materials.