Public Notice Software

Public Notice Software

Public Notice Software

Streamline public notice,
end to end

Streamline public notice,
end to end

Streamline public notice, end to end

Manage and optimize every part of your public notice business in one flexible system.

Manage and optimize every part of your public notice business in one flexible system.

Manage and optimize every part of your public notice business in one flexible system.

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

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

Platform Philosophy

Built for the way public notice actually works

Column gives publishers a flexible, easy-to-use platform that fits their business while making public notice easier to place, manage, and access.

Column gives publishers a flexible, easy-to-use platform that fits their business while making public notice easier to place, manage, and access.

Modern for customers

A simple online experience for placing notices, paying invoices, retrieving proofs and affidavits.

Modern for customers

A simple online experience for placing notices, paying invoices, retrieving proofs and affidavits.

Modern for customers

A simple online experience for placing notices, paying invoices, retrieving proofs and affidavits.

Flexible for newspapers

Configurable rates, notice types, schedules, templates, billing rules, and workflows.

Flexible for newspapers

Configurable rates, notice types, schedules, templates, billing rules, and workflows.

Flexible for newspapers

Configurable rates, notice types, schedules, templates, billing rules, and workflows.

Reliable for the industry

Digital tools that support transparency, access, and public notice modernization.

Reliable for the industry

Digital tools that support transparency, access, and public notice modernization.

Reliable for the industry

Digital tools that support transparency, access, and public notice modernization.

Core Platform

Everything your public notice business needs in one place

Column brings the core pieces of public notice management together, so your team can reduce manual work, consolidate processes, and keep every notice moving.

Column brings the core pieces of public notice management together, so your team can reduce manual work, consolidate processes, and keep every notice moving.

Column brings the core pieces of public notice management together, so your team can reduce manual work, consolidate processes, and keep every notice moving.

Let customers place notices online, anytime.

Give notice placers a guided online experience to submit notices, preview content, choose dates, and track everything in one place.

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Make payment easier for customers and cleaner for your team.

Column gives customers clear invoice access and online payment options, while supporting your newspaper’s billing preferences.

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Configure Column around your newspaper’s rules.

Set up notice types, rates, schedules, templates, billing preferences, and customer settings to match how your publication operates.

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Make public notices easier to find online.

Column helps publishers support public access with searchable digital notice pages — giving your community an easier way to find notices and your staff a simpler way to upload them to the statewide site.

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Let customers place notices online, anytime.

Give notice placers a guided online experience to submit notices, preview content, choose dates, and track everything in one place.

Get started

Make payment easier for customers and cleaner for your team.

Column gives customers clear invoice access and online payment options, while supporting your newspaper’s billing preferences.

Get started

Configure Column around your newspaper’s rules.

Set up notice types, rates, schedules, templates, billing preferences, and customer settings to match how your publication operates.

Get started

Make public notices easier to find online.

Column helps publishers support public access with searchable digital notice pages — giving your community an easier way to find notices and your staff a simpler way to upload them to the statewide site.

Get started

Let customers place notices online, anytime.

Give notice placers a guided online experience to submit notices, preview content, choose dates, and track everything in one place.

Get started

Make payment easier for customers and cleaner for your team.

Column gives customers clear invoice access and online payment options, while supporting your newspaper’s billing preferences.

Get started

Configure Column around your newspaper’s rules.

Set up notice types, rates, schedules, templates, billing preferences, and customer settings to match how your publication operates.

Get started

Make public notices easier to find online.

Column helps publishers support public access with searchable digital notice pages — giving your community an easier way to find notices and your staff a simpler way to upload them to the statewide site.

Get started

How It Works

One workflow for the full public notice lifecycle

Step 1

Customers submit notices online

Notice placers submit content, choose dates, and provide required information.

Step 2

Your team reviews and confirms

Publisher teams review details, make edits, confirm dates, and prepare orders.

Step 3

Invoices and payments stay connected

Customers receive clear payment instructions and can track invoices from their account.

Step 4

Notices move toward publication

Use Column tools to organize, export, and prepare notices for print or digital publication.

Step 5

Customers receive proofs and affidavits

Proofs, invoices, publication details, and affidavits stay attached to the notice record in your account.

Step 6

Published notices become easier to access

Digital search sites improve access to public notices for communities, making them easier to verify and find.

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Flexible by Design

Flexible by Design

Flexible by Design

Set up Column to match how your newspaper operates

Column can be configured around your publication’s real requirements, so you can modernize without losing control.

Column can be configured around your publication’s real requirements, so you can modernize without losing control.

Column can be configured around your publication’s real requirements, so you can modernize without losing control.

Rates

Rates

Support line, word, column inch, flat rate, folio, and other rate types

Support line, word, column inch, flat rate, folio, and other rate types

Support line, word, column inch, flat rate, folio, and other rate types

Notice types

Notice types

Create custom categories, templates, rates, and publication rules.

Create custom categories, templates, rates, and publication rules.

Create custom categories, templates, rates, and publication rules.

Publication schedules

Publication schedules

Configure run dates, deadlines, and rules for recurring notices.

Configure run dates, deadlines, and rules for recurring notices.

Configure run dates, deadlines, and rules for recurring notices.

Billing settings

Billing settings

Support upfront payment and customer-specific billing.

Support upfront payment and customer-specific billing.

Support upfront payment and customer-specific billing.

Customer settings

Customer settings

Manage repeat customers, accounts, permissions, and workflows.

Manage repeat customers, accounts, permissions, and workflows.

Manage repeat customers, accounts, permissions, and workflows.

Design & layout

Design & layout

Standardize formatting and layout from submission to publication.

Standardize formatting and layout from submission to publication.

Standardize formatting and layout from submission to publication.

Why It Matters

Lead the next era of public notice

Meet and exceed your customers' expectations with online access, clear updates, simple payments, searchable records, and fast, friendly human support.

Meet and exceed your customers' expectations with online access, clear updates, simple payments, searchable records, and fast, friendly human support.

Meet and exceed your customers' expectations with online access, clear updates, simple payments, searchable records, and fast, friendly human support.

Deliver a better customer experience

Make it easier to place notices, pay invoices, and retrieve records.

Deliver a better customer experience

Make it easier to place notices, pay invoices, and retrieve records.

Deliver a better customer experience

Make it easier to place notices, pay invoices, and retrieve records.

Reduce manual work and operational strain

Move away from email threads, phone calls, spreadsheets, and payment follow-up.

Reduce manual work and operational strain

Move away from email threads, phone calls, spreadsheets, and payment follow-up.

Reduce manual work and operational strain

Move away from email threads, phone calls, spreadsheets, and payment follow-up.

Preserve the newspaper’s role

Modernize public notice while keeping newspapers at the center of trusted public information.

Preserve the newspaper’s role

Modernize public notice while keeping newspapers at the center of trusted public information.

Preserve the newspaper’s role

Modernize public notice while keeping newspapers at the center of trusted public information.

Finally, public notice built for the modern world.

Automate your process

Finally, public notice built for the modern world.

Automate your process

Public notice built for the modern world

Automate your process

Connected Features

Simplify public notice work

Our public notice platform works seamlessly with our whole suite of services.

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Order management

Let customers pay invoices from the same account.

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Automated affidavits

Retrieve digital affidavits in 1-2 business days.

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Pagination

Eliminate manual pagination work and reduce burden on production.

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Frequently asked questions

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