New Castle, PA. January 4, 2010 – OBITMAX Newspaper Obituary System provides newspapers with pre-paid, pre-formatted obituary orders directly from funeral homes while automatically providing online obituary hosting. This revolutionary new web based system reduces labor costs, significantly improves cash flow, and opens new revenue streams for newspapers – all at no cost.

“We’re very excited about everything that OBITMAX does for the newspaper industry” said Thomas Kempf, President of Clearinghouse Technologies LLC. Since May of last year the New Castle News has been using OBITMAX to receive their obituary orders. In January of this year, the New Castle News stopped using Legacy and went with OBITMAX as their online obituary content provider.

OBITMAX is an easy-to-use, web-based system where funeral homes fill in a simple obituary form, select the newspaper(s) they want to send the obituary to, and click “submit”. A small processing fee is added and the funeral home credit card is charged for the order, the obituary is formatted to each selected newspaper’s standards, and then the obituary order is delivered to each selected newspaper’s OBITMAX account. When the newspaper obituary staff logs in, the obituary order is waiting for them to process. Once the obituary order is processed, it is automatically available on the newspaper’s obituary web page. If a photo was sent with the order, the image is included on the online obituary. There is no cost to the newspapers for the OBITMAX service. Advertising space is provided on the newspaper’s obituary web page and the newspapers retain all advertising revenue. OBITMAX provides online remembrance/guestbooks for the family for a small fee. The revenue generated from the online remembrance is shared between the newspaper and OBITMAX.

Newspapers receive their obituary fees once a week via electronic bank transfer. The OBITMAX system includes an accounting system that enables newspaper administrators the ability to track their past and present orders and fees.

To date, the New Castle News, is using OBITMAX with approximately 100 funeral homes. For more information about OBITMAX, visit www.obitmax.com