Update for your food retailer - parcel delivery and many more - 03/23

Which retailer or direct marketer does not know it: Customers do not live in the immediate vicinity for delivery by you or to pick them up themselves at your farm shop or shop. However, customers would like to buy your regional products from you. The solution? Clearly Parcel delivery!

Parcel delivery in food retail stores

With our Update From 3/23 you finally have Parcel delivery fully integrated in Freight pilot on board. Read below how FrachtPilot will help you send parcels and what other features the new update has in store for you blog-Contribution.

Anyone who has ever sent a package knows how much additional work shipping requires. Among other things, it must:

• The appropriate shipping labels for the shipment with or within the sender Order portal be bought
• The shipping label with ASender and recipient address data be labelled
• The package for Post office counter ofthe shippers be brought
• The customer who Tracking number be notified of your shipment for the package (tracking number).

In summary, package delivery means for you and your direct marketing: Many small-scale processes. And even worse: The processes must always be carried out manually by you...

Until today! Because with the new update from Freight pilot Does he get done Parcel delivery almost all by itself. In a matter of seconds and without errors.

From now on offers Freight pilot You have the option to automatically buy and label shipping labels. About our new interface toward Shipcloud. This is how you can turn off at the push of a button when picking Freight pilot Find out the necessary postal label (s) for your order from a shipping service provider buy of your choice. Freight pilot automatically fills the postal label (s) with the necessary shipping information. Means:

• all Sender information — even with a freely stored logo
• all Recipient information,
• all required shipping instructions,
• all required bar codes for the transport service provider

In addition, FrachtPilot transmits all Shipping/tracking information to your customer via e-Mayl. Completely automatic. Of course, he can statuses every order can also be viewed at any time. Both by the recipient and by you. This means that everyone involved always knows what is happening with the order and where the order is currently located. No more unnecessary and time-consuming queries or agonizing uncertainties about the status of the order.

And who doesn't love it? The eternal boring in the queuing in front of a post office to be able to drop off mail. Well *sorry* over from now on.

As a small but nice additional feature, FrachtPilot now allows you to order the collection of your parcels from your shipping service provider with one click (currently available for DPD and UPS).

Too bad, as of today, you will no longer spend hours of your life in the branch of a parcel service provider. Starting today, the parcel service will come to you at your preferred times. A completely new way of life - When the postman rings twice.

Of course we have from team FrachtPilot the new shipping route Parcel delivery not only in the interface of backend fully integrated. Even in online shop as well as in the Order app Mail delivery is now fully integrated. There have been extensive changes to our web shop framework for this purpose:

For each product, you can now define the possible delivery methods (post delivery, self-collection, delivery) and shipping days. If there are now restrictions on a shipping method or delivery day for a product, this is now shown on the product tile.

What's more: If a product is unintentionally added to the shopping cart with restrictions on the selected delivery method or the desired delivery day, a message appears that the selection must be corrected. After correction, the products can then be pre-filtered for the desired delivery day and the desired shipping method. This means that only valid products are displayed.

And what else is included in the Update been packed?

• Expanded Delivery rates and Minimum order values: Within the individual shipping methods (parcel delivery, self-collection, delivery), it is now also possible to set specific delivery rates and minimum order values. Delivery fees and minimum order values for each shipping method can now also be defined for each customer group.
• Brief description of the product in online shop: For products in the shop, a short description can now be added to the product tile:
• Signature of self-collection person: Self-collection orders can now be placed in Freight pilot be documented with the customer's signature. As in the Delivery app The signature is automatically printed on the delivery note.
• Addresses without a house number: Until now, it was more common for customers in the shop not to enter a house number or house number in the additional address field. These errors came primarily from AutoComplete-Features of browsers that have incorrectly used saved inputs from other forms. Improved test logic systems have now been installed for this purpose.
• Performance by forms: The performance of forms has been improved. From now on, required data for form fields will be loaded iteratively. Especially in large FreightPilot installations with many customers, the charging time drops drastically in some places.

Unsubscribe links in promotional emails: All mass emails with the purpose of “advertising” contain an unsubscribe link that customers can use to unsubscribe from the newsletters with one click.

And do you want more information about our update 3/23? Then just follow this link!

Currently in development

The FreightPilot has, of course, other super cool features in the pipeline. Be excited! For example, we are currently in the process of significantly simplifying the creation of company holidays and extraordinary order days. Well, it remains exciting. Super cool functional enhancements are available on the runway!

Conclusion

We from team FrachtPilot hope you're excited about the new update. We definitely are! ;-)

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