--- title: Column Reviews meta_title: 'Column Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Column works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-24' parent_category: name: Public Sector url: https://www.g2.com/categories/public-sector --- # Column Reviews **Vendor:** Column **Category:** [Other Government Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-government-d4c8acd9-570b-4c29-a393-3556c677048d) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Column Column is a comprehensive software platform designed to modernize and streamline the public notice process for newspapers, governments, law firms, and businesses. By automating and simplifying the submission, management, and publication of legal notices, obituaries, and classifieds, Column enhances operational efficiency and improves the customer experience. For newspapers, Column offers a self-serve platform that allows clients to submit legal notices directly, reducing the need for manual data entry and minimizing errors. The platform supports various notice types, including legal notices, obituaries, and classifieds, enabling publishers to manage multiple advertising categories in one place. Features such as order tracking, multi-publication management, custom settings, and task automation help streamline operations and reduce costs. Additionally, Column provides tools for offering intuitive and modern self-serve experiences, including order templates, display ads, custom branding, and upfront proofs, which enhance customer satisfaction. Governments and law firms benefit from Column's automated placement services, which facilitate the bulk submission of legal notices across multiple jurisdictions. By integrating with Column's API or utilizing email automation, organizations can submit notices in bulk, with Column handling formatting, placement, and coordination with newspapers. This ensures compliance with publication requirements nationwide and consolidates invoicing, providing a single comprehensive invoice for all notices. Dedicated support is available to manage deadlines, affidavits, and payments, allowing organizations to focus on their core responsibilities. Column also offers an affidavit service that automates the entire affidavit process, from notarization to verification. By employing in-house notaries with remote online notary privileges, Column ensures that affidavits are signed, notarized, and delivered court-ready to clients. The platform is compliant with e-signing and e-notarization regulations across all 50 states, providing a reliable solution for publishers and their clients. For funeral homes, Column provides tools to manage obituaries with care and ease. The platform allows funeral homes to collaborate with families on writing, designing, and publishing obituaries across multiple publications. Features such as tracking dashboards, simplified billing, proof-sharing, and multi-paper posting help funeral homes strengthen relationships with families and streamline their operations. In addition to its core products, Column offers a suite of professional services designed to deliver significant cost savings to organizations. These services include order management, nationwide posting, integrations with existing ad management systems, and pagination services to eliminate manual tasks associated with pagination. Overall, Column's platform is trusted by over 1,600 newspapers and more than 30,000 governments, law firms, and businesses across the United States. By providing a modern solution for public notice, Column helps organizations automate, streamline, and outsource various aspects of the public notice process, ensuring compliance and efficiency. ## Column Reviews ### 1. Fast, Easy-to-Use Tool That Keeps Ads Organized **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristina C. | Ad Production Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** Keeps everything organized and is easy to use. It is fast and easy to use for both the advertiser and publisher. It is worth the money. **What do you dislike about Column?** not much but I would say when I advertiser has a completed table or layout of their ad, sometimes the integration into text does not work as well. And sometimes the image may not work because the client has too many spaces. So I just go into InDesign and design it myself. But its not that big of deal since I am not doing it often. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** I no longer have to cut out the newspaper and tape it to an affidavit with a wet signature. Also just dragging the clients file into the form and then getting a price is the best part. Also getting to download the list for the ads at the end of the week before we publish. Before I had to keep everything on an InDesign file myself and make sure I didn't miss an email and price it all myself by counting the lines. ### 2. Effortless Use, Professional Output **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mistee R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I really enjoy how Column is super easy to use, especially since I'm not very tech-savvy. It's user-friendly and gets the job done efficiently. It always makes my notices and agendas look very professional and presentable. I love how fast it is, which is crucial when I'm running out of time but need to get something out quickly. It's also great that Column allows me to choose the dates and adjust the column sizes, making it cost-effective. I appreciate that Column helps me by editing my content and notifying me of any edits through email, which can even reduce my costs. This feature is really cool because it catches things I might miss and enhances my workflow. **What do you dislike about Column?** I do not have anything that I dislike about Column. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column is super easy to use, fast, and makes my notices look very professional. It lets me choose dates and adjust column sizes, making it cost-effective. It edits my work, reducing costs and improving output. Overall, it's user-friendly and helps me meet deadlines efficiently. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Hi Mistee! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this thoughtful review! We’re so glad Column has made it easy to create professional, accurate notices quickly, especially when you’re working against a deadline. So happy that you're trusting Column with your notices and agendas :) ### 3. Effortless Legal Notice Publication with Column **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alcides N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I use Column to publish legal notices to creditors. It's easy to use and user-friendly, allowing us to publish notices without any mailing or additional emailing. I like that Column has preset fields, which makes filling in information for ads straightforward. They even share a publication preview for approval before directly publishing, which greatly simplifies our workflow. I appreciate that all user and payment information is saved, making it easy to log in and manage notices. It's convenient and completes the process without any intermediates, making our work and lives much easier. I also find the initial setup was quite easy, with just needing to provide basic business information. **What do you dislike about Column?** N/A **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column simplifies publishing legal notices by allowing direct posting online without intermediates. It's user-friendly, has preset fields for information, and shares publication previews for approval, making our work easier. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Hi Alcides! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this review. We’re so glad Column has made the legal notice publication process easier and more streamlined for your team. It’s especially great to hear that features like preset fields, publication previews, and saved user and payment information are helping simplify your workflow and cut out unnecessary back-and-forth. Thanks again for trusting Column with your legal notices and for sharing your experience! ### 4. Easy Column Publication User Assistance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evalyn L. | Administrative Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** As an office that requires frequent publication for clients, the column website has been very user friendly and easy to understand. They provide access to many newspaper outlets from different counties. Each publication submitted can be paid for through email invoices extremely quickly, allowing us to complete publications by the deadline. Besides the typical publication fees, it is a good price for the services require. There is always someone you can call or speak with for clarification. I also like how you are able to see all the past publications completed. **What do you dislike about Column?** The only thing we dislike is that they don't cover all the counties in Southern California for example Lake perris in Riverside california has to be done through a seperate publication. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column solves the issues and stress that come with trying to calendar and organize legal publications. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Hi Evalyn! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this thoughtful review. We’re glad Column has made it easier to manage frequent legal publications, stay organized around deadlines, and keep past publications centralized in one place. We also really appreciate the feedback about coverage in Southern California! The good news is that Column can actually help you place notices in any newspaper in the United States, even if that newspaper doesn’t use Column directly to manage its side of the process. You can still use Column to place, manage, and centralize your public notices all in one place rather than coordinating separately with individual publications. This is available through our automation product; I’ve included a link in case you’d like to learn more! Thanks again for trusting Column with your publications and for sharing your feedback. ### 5. Large Newspaper Selection and Hands-Off Ad Placement That Saves Time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara E. | Receptionist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I like the large selection of newspapers and certain BAR Associations they offer, and I appreciate that they reach out to those papers and BARs to get the advertising in motion so I can focus on other important things. **What do you dislike about Column?** Sometimes they still have papers listed that aren’t running anymore, but they get back to me as soon as they can with a different solution to where I'm trying to advertise. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are making it easier for me to put out advertisements, and pay that way, I have a running record of all the advertisements I have sent out. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Hi Sara!! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this review! We’re SO glad Column’s broad newspaper and BAR Association coverage has helped make ad placement more hands-off, so you can spend less time coordinating with individual publications and more time focused on other priorities. We also really appreciate the feedback about outdated publication listings. While publications do occasionally stop running or change their availability, our team works to find an alternative solution as quickly as possible so your advertising can keep moving forward. It sounds like your current Column workflow is working well, so there’s certainly no need to change it! But based on the volume and type of placements you’re managing, our Automated Placement product could potentially make things even more seamless by helping with publication selection and coordination. It’s typically no cost to configure an automated setup, so if it’s ever helpful, we’d be happy to explore whether it could be a good fit for your workflow. I've attached a resource link in case you want to learn more! Thanks again for trusting Column to help manage and keep a record of your advertisements! ### 6. Effortlessly User-Friendly for Payments **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I use Column mainly for paying newspaper-related things, and I find it very user-friendly. It's simple to set up and easy to use, which makes managing payments straightforward. I also like how easy it is to add a card for transactions. Overall, Column is easier to use compared to other products I've tried, even if I don't recall their names. **What do you dislike about Column?** Nothing **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Column for paying newspaper-related expenses. It's easy to use, user-friendly, and makes it simple to add a card. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Thanks Justin!! We’re glad Column has made managing newspaper-related payments simple and straightforward for you. Great to hear that setup, adding a payment method, and completing transactions have all been easy to navigate. Thanks again for using Column and sharing your experience! ### 7. Simple Interface and Fast, Self-Serve Experience! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh H. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** Simple interface to work with and I don't have to wait for someone to reach back out to me. **What do you dislike about Column?** Editing uploaded documents can be a bit finicky at times. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quicker access to public postings. This saves time and effort with is great. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Thanks so much for the review, Josh! We’re glad the self-serve experience is helping you get public notices placed quickly without having to wait on back-and-forth. We also appreciate the feedback on editing uploaded documents; we’re always looking for ways to make that part of the experience smoother!! Thanks again :) ### 8. Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donna R. | Senior Legal Secretary, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** That I can pay online and also get my Affidavit online. **What do you dislike about Column?** I wish there were more days of the week to publish on certain newspapers. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have any idea. Probably being able to download my Affidavit after publication. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Thanks so much for your review, Donna! We’re glad Column makes it easy to pay online and access your affidavit after publication. We also so appreciate the feedback about publication days; availability can vary by newspaper, but we’re always looking for ways to make the placement process as flexible and seamless as possible. Thank you so much for taking the time!! ### 9. Column Makes Publishing and Submitting Effortless **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barb H. | Administrative Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** The ease of use. I can upload my publication and change to present nicely and submit it easily. **What do you dislike about Column?** I don't have not had any issues with Column. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't had any issues with Column. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Thanks so much for your review, Barb! We’re glad Column makes it easy to upload, format, and submit your publication all in one place. It’s great to hear that the experience has been smooth and straightforward for you! Thanks for taking the time to leave this feedback. ### 10. Essential for Attorney Directories, Smooth Setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** andy S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I find the consumer-facing attorney directories in Column most visible and valuable, especially those focusing on peer recognition and achievement. I also appreciate the rating system from 1 to 10 for every licensed attorney in the US. The initial setup of Column was easy. **What do you dislike about Column?** can't think of anything **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column's directories focus on peer recognition and achievement, offering a rating for every licensed attorney in the US, which boosts visibility for attorneys. ### 11. User-Friendly Interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account added to their profile **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I appreciate how user friendly the new portal interface is. **What do you dislike about Column?** I wish the support response time were a little quicker, but I can also get help through the Q/A section when I need it. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column usually saves me from having to email back and forth when I submit an article for publication. It helps streamline my process and keeps everything moving more smoothly. ### 12. Easy Posting of Legal Notices Across Multiple Papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** The ability to post legal notices for more than 1 paper. **What do you dislike about Column?** The difference between a draft and a final prior to submission is a little strange. I'd also like to be able to post the same notice in multiple papers at the same time. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** The time taken to email back and forth a few times between the publisher and myself has dropped dramatically. ### 13. Effortless Legal Publishing for Individuals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denise H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** I like that Column is easy to navigate and access. The initial setup was extremely easy. It's also great that I haven’t run into any issues using it. **What do you dislike about Column?** N/A **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column helps me publish my name change to finalize documents, and it's easy to navigate and access. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Hi Denise!! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review! We’re glad Column made the process of publishing your name change straightforward and easy to navigate from the very beginning. It’s especially great to hear that setup was simple and that you were able to complete the process without running into any issues. Thanks again for trusting Column with such an important step! ### 14. Column Makes Public Notices Easy to Track and Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Column?** What I like best about Column is that it keeps a complete record of all the public notices I have placed. I also appreciate being able to review each notice before it is published to ensure everything is accurate. **What do you dislike about Column?** I haven't encountered anything I dislike about column. **What problems is Column solving and how is that benefiting you?** Column has been reliable, straightforward and meets our public notice needs. **Official Response from Emmie Atwood:** > Thank you so much for taking the time to share this review! We’re glad Column has made it easy to keep track of your public notices and review everything for accuracy before publication. 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