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10 unique features that breakfast services love about FrachtPilot!
Sebastian Terlunen
Provide private households and business customers with fresh baked goods. Many entrepreneurs have been running their own full-time or as a sideline very successfully for many years bread delivery service.
that team by FrachtPilot is delighted that there are increasingly established bread delivery services, breakfast services and start-ups for FrachtPilot as software for your delivery service or choose a delivery service.
But what makes FreightPilot so unbeatable? Why are breakfast services switching from other software providers such as SEWOBE AG, BILEICO, Regioful.de or from franchise-Providers such as Morgengold, Brötchenbursche or Express rolls?
We have this question in our customers from the sandwich service segment. Of course, we don't want to withhold the answers from you!
In this blog post, learn the 10 most common reasons why FrachtPilot According to our customers, THE software for a bread delivery service is. Unembellished. Honestly.
Existing software: In most cases, bread delivery services are also provided by the respective software provider or by the respective franchisor. However, the web shop is then usually part of the domain or Internet presence of the software provider or franchisor. The bread delivery service therefore does not have its own, freely designable website.
This makes it significantly more difficult to sustainably build up your own name and thus establish a brand with a recognition effect in the long term.
Freight pilot: Why do bread delivery services find the online shop by FrachtPilot super?
What's great about FrachtPilot is that bread delivery services immediately get their own web shop without much set-up effort. And not only that, but also your own mobile app FrachtPilot is there for the cellphones of customers. Both the web shop and mobile app can be freely designed by the respective breakfast service.
It is also great that the FrachtPilot online shop has essential software functions for a bread delivery service on board. 1) delivery area check, 2) trial orders and 3) individual AND subscription orders.
1. Automatic reconciliation of delivery areas: The FrachtPilot web shop includes areas of ZIP codes It is easy to define where the bread service delivers. Customers can then only order if they also live in the approved delivery area. In addition to the areas of ZIP codes In addition, districts or localities can be specified by the delivery service to check the approved delivery offers. For example: 48149 Münster — Sentrup district is delivered on Tuesdays and 48149 Münster — Gievenbeck district is delivered on Wednesdays.
What's more: For every delivery area AND for every delivery day, you can online shop Different products, prices and delivery fees are shown by FrachtPilot. For example, bread delivery services at FrachtPilot can offer the baked goods they can purchase from their bakeries on the respective delivery day on a daily basis. What's more: This allows automatic price changes in sales prices and delivery fees per delivery day AND delivery area.
2nd Trial orders: A marketing tool very popular and often used by bread delivery services: trial orders. With FrachtPilot, it is possible that the customer receives a discounted or free delivery of trial products when ordering for the first time. This is how interested new customers get to know and love the bread delivery service with simple and inexpensive advertising measures. It is important, of course, that trial orders do not mean any additional effort. And THAT is with Freight pilot Not guaranteed to be the case. Because with FrachtPilot, trial orders are managed completely automatically.
Freight pilot ensures, for example, that a trial order can only be placed once per customer. In addition, only baked goods that have been approved by the roll delivery service can only be purchased as a sample. This makes trial orders a piece of cake. A true marketing booster for any breakfast service.
3. Subscription and individual orders: The customers of bread services They usually buy their baked goods regularly. Mostly in the same quantities. Some customers order daily from bread delivery services. Other customers only on weekends or every two weeks. A classic subscription order! Not really unusual for a sandwich delivery service.
BUT: What if the customer wants to add an exception to their subscription order? For example, because the customer happens to be missing the spread?
Many previous software providers are failing to meet this requirement: The simple and flexible combination of individual and subscription orders. Super easy with FrachtPilot! And in fact in online shop by the customer!
An enormous part of everyday office work as a breakfast service: ordering the baked goods sold from bakeries. Extremely time-consuming and unfortunately often prone to errors.
Existing software: With many software providers, bread delivery services have to laboriously add up the baked goods sold every day after the order deadline and deliver them personally to their bakeries.
Freight pilot: In FrachtPilot, all bakeries are supplied with the necessary Delivery quantities informed. Fully automated. By email. Each bread delivery service can flexibly determine how many future order days are taken into account when ordering the bakery. Whether just the next order day or several order days in the future. It couldn't be easier!
Bakeries automatically receive an email from FrachtPilot with all baked goods that are needed. With FrachtPilot, this time-consuming work is a thing of the past! Bread delivery services from FrachtPilot often save several working hours per order day. Usually more than two hours.
Another extremely time-consuming but everyday job. Labeling the roll bags for every baked goods order from a customer.
Existing software: Many breakfast services had to hand label each sandwich bag before switching to FrachtPilot. Usually with the help of an adhesiveEtiquette. Either because the previous software did not support printing labels at all. Or because the software could only generate one label per order but not per sandwich bag.
Freight pilot: With FrachtPilot, labeling or Labeling done in no time from bread bags. It couldn't be faster or more convenient! This is because the appropriate adhesive labels are printed fully automatically.
Of course, FrachtPilot creates the necessary number of labels per order. In other words, several bags per order, if necessary. And possibly bags of different sizes per order.
Requirements for packing bread bags are also possible. For example, a sandwich service may specify that sweet pastries should not be combined with baked goods when packed in a bag.
And of course we can roll delivery services With FrachtPilot, you are also free to decide which information should be on the adhesive labels. For example, just the content of the respective packaging bag? Or any further information? For example, the total number of sandwich bags for a customer order, the tour number and the customer's position on the tour. Everything is possible and can be easily adjusted in FrachtPilot by the sandwich service.
Sophisticated software alone function Label printing is often a reason for delivery services to use their previous roll software through Freight pilot to replace. Because the time savings are enormous. Savings of 2 to 4 hours per delivery day are not uncommon.
All orders are packed and waiting to be delivered. But which customer should be delivered in which order by which driver? A question of efficient planning in daily route planning.
Existing software: Software solutions for delivery services usually only offer a very simple way to determine the route to a trip: By manually sorting a list.
It is usually not possible for orders to be automatically distributed between the available drivers in an optimal time and kilometers. And it's up to date on a daily basis!
The result: Delivery routes are usually created once. A regular check — preferably daily — of whether customers might be a better fit for other tours or whether the order of the customers on a tour is optimal is often neglected. Because continuous verification is simply too time-consuming!
Freight pilot: Not so with FrachtPilot! Because FrachtPilot produces the optimal delivery routes automatically. In addition to the available drivers, the usual delivery areas and the preferred delivery times of customers, FrachtPilot can also take into account that tours start at different bakeries and end at the drivers' home addresses. Minimum and maximum travel times as well as minimum and maximum number of customers per delivery trip can also be automatically included in the planning. It couldn't be easier!
Only the fully integrated planning The tours usually save bread delivery services 10 to 15 hours of working time per week. Not to mention the unnecessary extra kilometers. So another reason why bread delivery services Freight pilot love.
Usually, a delivery service for rolls or a bakery with delivery service has several delivery areas and delivery routes. In most cases, each tour is carried out on different days by different delivery companies.
Existing software: With software providers for breakfast services, every driver usually receives a printed list of customers to visit.
The routes to individual customers are then either already known to the driver from previous tours. Or the driver must laboriously be the customer address in navigation device enter.
Once at the customer's site, the driver must then find the right sandwich bags for the customer or for the order. Although the driver has delivered the roll order in full, customer complaints about deliveries not received are commonplace. The problem for the bread delivery service: The Evidence for successful delivery. The result: The bread delivery service is stuck on the bill.
Freight pilot: With FrachtPilot, every delivery service driver gets their own Delivery app! Before the start, the driver can download his tours, the customers arriving and all orders for the tours from the comfort of their own home.
As a digital tour guide, the FreightPilot delivery app navigates from customer to customer via Google Maps. In real time. There is no need for time-consuming manual entry of delivery addresses into a navigation system. The address data is automatically transferred to Google Maps.
The driver automatically receives information about the parking location from the customer. The driver himself can also leave a note about the customer. Of course, the driver can also view the customer's order if required. If necessary, the driver can even edit the order.
And very important. The driver can take a photo of the drop off location. The photo is automatically displayed in Freight pilot stored with the customer. This means that the bread service finally has proof and is no longer stuck with invoices!
Existing software: Franchisors for breakfast services usually take over the full billing of the respective bread services. Software providers on the market, on the other hand, usually provide functions for creating invoices.
Both franchisors and software providers usually only allow a four-week billing interval. With many franchisors, customers then pay their invoices not to the bank account of the respective bread service, but to the franchisor's bank account. The franchisor then transfers the invoice amounts received minus the agreed revenue share — usually in two digits!!!! — continue with the delivery service at some point.
Both the four-week billing interval and the usual procedure of franchisors of initially accepting all incoming payments on the franchisor bank account have two decisive drawbacks:
Freight pilot: With FrachtPilot, these are significant disadvantages for bread delivery services in reckoning Yesterday's snow. With FrachtPilot, every breakfast service can use their own bank account.
In addition, invoices can be issued at freely selectable periods of time. Daily, weekly, biweekly, three-weekly, monthly, irregularly. Completely flexible. In other words, the billing interval with FrachtPilot is freely adjustable for each customer.
The method of delivery of the invoice is also freely selectable: For each customer, either by post, by e-mail or by personal delivery.
But it goes even further! FrachtPilot supports all common Payment methods. Two benefits for the breakfast service and its customers:
Breakfast services usually write a three-digit, if not four-digit number of invoices. Every month! For each invoice, it is important to keep an eye on whether the customer has paid the full invoice amount on time.
Existing software: With previous software solutions for bread delivery services, breakfast services usually have to manually reconcile incoming payments on their bank account with outstanding invoices. A very annoying job! It is even more annoying to have to check over and over again whether outstanding invoices have finally been paid. In order not to be stuck with receivables, reminders must then be written and sent to defaulting payers frequently.
In summary, the Payment reconciliation Very often laborious and error-prone office work for a bread delivery service. An activity that usually requires several hours of work a week.
Freight pilot With FrachtPilot, the time-consuming work is finally over! No more manual payment reconciliation. Never write reminders by hand again.
Because FrachtPilot offers bread services the digital function, to automatically reconcile incoming payments with outstanding invoices. In addition, FrachtPilot independently and automatically manages payment defaults.
FrachtPilot shows every outstanding invoice. Reminders are automatically sent to defaulting payers.
Alone through the functions The automatic account reconciliation and automatic reminder system save a great deal of unnecessary office time at FrachtPilot every month.
Another advantage of the functions of automatic payment reconciliation and automatic reminder system: Payment defaults are drastically reduced.
Delivery services for bread and rolls depend on direct customer contact. Advertising through e-mail newsletters or advertising flyers is very often used by bread delivery services to regularly customer marketing to operate.
Existing software: Some software providers for delivery services do allow newsletters to be sent via serial emails. But then, undifferentiated, to all customers. And usually with very limited design and layout options.
The result: Targeted customer contact and thus effective marketing is only possible to a limited extent with existing software solutions for bread delivery services. The hoped-for marketing effect of the delivery service fizzles out.
Freight pilot FrachtPilot gives bread delivery services unprecedented opportunities. Especially in the area marketing. In FrachtPilot, customers of the bread service can be filtered according to freely selectable criteria. The selected customers can then be easily exported.
It is then possible to distribute personalized print advertising or personalized advertising flyers by mail or send them by post. For example via FlyerAlarm or We do print.
Of course, breakfast services in FrachtPilot can also write individualized serial emails and send them to customers in a targeted manner. With an attachment, of course, and above all GDPR-Compliant! With one click. It's very simple. Easy as a piece of cake.
But that's not all! FrachtPilot even allows you to write and send personalized push messages on clients' cell phones. MEGA! The content of each push notification can of course be freely determined by the bread service. And not only that, links and images can also be included in the push message. More customer-oriented marketing is not possible!
Need feedback from FrachtPilot's delivery services? Gladly: Through the customer-specific marketing Sales can be quickly increased by more than 20 percent with little effort. Super cool!
Data — that gold of the 21st century! Making data accessible in real time is the key to long-term corporate success. Because only those who know precisely and at all times what is happening in the company can act quickly, efficiently and, above all, effectively. And don't just react!
Existing software: The reality of software solutions for bread delivery services so far? Disillusioning! Evaluations are only provided to a very limited extent, if at all. Flexibly adaptable and in real time by the bread delivery service? Bad news!
Freight pilot: It's different, of course, with FrachtPilot: breakfast services can be simple, quick and independent evaluations carry out. Analyses can be displayed graphically. Completely flexible! Without fixed guidelines! Everything in real time!
Bread delivery services love FrachtPilot's real-time evaluation. Breakfast services can finally fully screen their delivery service at any time. The resulting results are worth their weight in gold!
Existing software: The current software solutions for bread delivery services are not only limited in their range of functions. Existing software solutions for bread delivery services are also expensive!
In addition to the usually high costs of a one-time set-up fee, current software providers for breakfast services often also charge monthly maintenance fees. In addition, there is usually a double-digit revenue share.
WHAT? Do previous software providers contribute to the turnover of the bread delivery service? Does the provider of the roll software earn from every euro earned by the delivery service?
YES! Means: So far, the monthly software license fee for a bread delivery service was quickly four digits, i.e. over 1,000 euros in software costs! Every month! And previous software providers for bread delivery services only issue license agreements with a minimum term of several months. A cost trap is therefore inevitable.
Freight pilot: Not with FrachtPilot! Freight Pilot is available for fixed price without revenue sharing! And there are also no long-term software contracts. FrachtPilot can be cancelled on a monthly basis.
Bread delivery services that use FrachtPilot as software for their delivery service usually save several hundred euros. And that every month! A nice dream? No! Absolute reality.
Let's keep it short and concise: Why do bread delivery services love FrachtPilot? Because FrachtPilot with its functions helps bakery delivery services generate more customer turnover and less office work. And that at an unbeatable fixed price.
Just get in touch with us and we We would be happy to advise you about that, Like the Fracht Pilot You and your sandwich service Can help. Of course she is Free and non-binding consultation. In addition, in an equally free and non-binding Test period Put the FrachtPilot through its paces!
