Customizations & Rates

Configured for your newspaper.

Enjoy flexible settings for rates, notice types, billing rules, schedules, formatting, customer accounts, and local requirements.

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Trusted by 1,600+ newspapers across the U.S.

Why Customizations Matter

Public notice is not one-size-fits-all. Your software shouldn’t be either.

Every newspaper manages public notice differently. Column helps publishers modernize operations while preserving control over the rules that matter.

Flexible rate structures

Support rates by line, word count, column inch, flat rate, folio, and more.

Flexible rate structures

Support rates by line, word count, column inch, flat rate, folio, and more.

Flexible rate structures

Support rates by line, word count, column inch, flat rate, folio, and more.

Customer-specific rules

Apply different rates or billing settings to specific customers or organizations.

Customer-specific rules

Apply different rates or billing settings to specific customers or organizations.

Customer-specific rules

Apply different rates or billing settings to specific customers or organizations.

Notice-type workflows

Customize notice types with templates, schedules, rates, payment rules, and affidavit settings.

Notice-type workflows

Customize notice types with templates, schedules, rates, payment rules, and affidavit settings.

Notice-type workflows

Customize notice types with templates, schedules, rates, payment rules, and affidavit settings.

Feature Breakdown

Flexible settings for the details that make your newspaper unique.

Rate settings

Create and manage line rates, word-count rates, column-inch rates, flat rates, minimums and fees.

Notice settings

Set up categories like Name Change, Notice to Creditors, Public Hearing, Request for Bids, and more.

Customer settings

Assign custom rates or billing rules to repeat advertisers, agencies, law firms, and organizations

Publication schedules and deadlines

Control eligible dates, required runs, spacing between runs, and notice-specific deadlines.

Design and layout settings

Configure templates, column widths, display/liner settings, and
formatting rules.

Billing and affidavit settings

Adjust upfront payment, auto-invoicing, affidavit requirements, mailing rules, and templates.

How It Works

Set the rules once. Let Column apply them across the workflow.

Configure your settings

Column is set up around your rates, schedules, notice types, billing rules, and local requirements.

Customers follow the right workflow

Column applies the right template, schedule, estimate, payment rule, and affidavit setting.

Publisher teams review and confirm

Your team can confirm details, review pricing, and adjust invoices when needed.

Settings carry through the order

The notice, invoice, payment, proof, schedule, and affidavit stay connected.

Update settings as things change

Adjust rates, deadlines, billing rules, or requirements as your business evolves.

Why Customizations Matter

Flexibility helps publishers modernize without losing control.

Column allows newspapers to move more of public notice online while preserving control over rates, schedules, customer relationships, billing rules, and local requirements.

Preserve publisher control

Review notices, confirm details, and adjust invoices when needed.

Preserve publisher control

Review notices, confirm details, and adjust invoices when needed.

Preserve publisher control

Review notices, confirm details, and adjust invoices when needed.

Reduce manual exceptions

Configured rules help teams spend less time remembering special cases.

Reduce manual exceptions

Configured rules help teams spend less time remembering special cases.

Reduce manual exceptions

Configured rules help teams spend less time remembering special cases.

Support local requirements workflows

Reflect the counties, publications, deadlines, formats, and notice categories you serve.

Support local requirements workflows

Reflect the counties, publications, deadlines, formats, and notice categories you serve.

Support local requirements workflows

Reflect the counties, publications, deadlines, formats, and notice categories you serve.

Create a better customer experience

Guide customers to the right notice options from the start, reducing confusion and follow-up.

Create a better customer experience

Guide customers to the right notice options from the start, reducing confusion and follow-up.

Create a better customer experience

Guide customers to the right notice options from the start, reducing confusion and follow-up.

Make changes easier to manage over time

Update settings as pricing, policies, or workflows change, keeping your notice process flexible.

Make changes easier to manage over time

Update settings as pricing, policies, or workflows change, keeping your notice process flexible.

Make changes easier to manage over time

Update settings as pricing, policies, or workflows change, keeping your notice process flexible.

Rates & Notice Types

Set pricing and build workflows that make sense for your publication.

Rates

Column supports multiple public notice pricing
models, including default rates, notice-type rates,
and customer-specific rates.

Line rate

Word-count rate

Column-inch rate

Flat rate

Folio rate

Minimum charges

Additional fees

Per-run pricing

Future rate updates

Customer-specific rates

Notice Types

Create custom notice types with their own pricing,
schedules, formatting, payment rules,
and affidavit settings.

Create custom notice types with their own pricing, schedules, formatting, payment rules,
and affidavit settings.

Notice to Creditors

Name Change

Fictitious Business Name

Public Hearing

Request for Bids

Foreclosure

Probate

Storage Lien

Other Public and Legal Notices

Connected Features

Customizations are just one part of Column’s platform.

Explore everything Column can do for your public notice workflow.

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Online Payments

Let customers pay invoices from the same account.

Explore Payments

Automated Affidavits

Generate affidavits within 1-2 business days after publication.

Explore Affidavits

Digital Search Sites

Improve access to digital public notice.

Explore Search Sites

Frequently Asked Questions

Need answers? We’ve got you covered.

We’ve collected some of the most common questions people ask us. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to reach out!

Can Column support our existing rate structure?

Can we set different rates for different notice types?

Can we set different rates for different customers?

Do publishers still control the final invoice amount?

Can we require upfront payment for certain notices?

Can Column support custom notice templates?

Can we adjust schedules and deadlines?

Can settings vary by publication?