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New year, new features! — 01/22 — Delivery areas | Depots | English
Sebastian Terlunen
It's that time again: A new year has begun and we all have different New Year's resolutions. Freight Pilot was no slouch either, because his New Year's resolution is to help you and your direct marketing with constantly new functions to help out more and more.
In keeping with that, just yesterday morning, we had a Update Releases what has already added many useful functions to FrachtPilot. If you want to know what these features are and how they help you, read on!
In the area of delivery areas, we were finally able to release some features that have been planned for a long time with the new update! Because you can now in your shop Define areas, in To whom you deliver. Potential customers of your shop can only sign up for Register deliveryeven though they live in the delivery area.
A small practical instance: You do your direct marketing with regional delivery service in Münster. And then there is Max. Max Would like to order from your shopbecause he likes everything about it. He is delighted, packs up his shopping cart and only then realizes that you only deliver in Münster and the immediate area. The problem: Max lives in Munich. So he can forget the order.
And exactly those situations ought avoided become. Because no one has anything about that. This can also be applied to villages within Münster in order to stick to the example of direct marketing in Münster.
For example, the zip code 48149 includes both MünsterSentrup as well as Münster-Gievenbeck. Here you can say that you Sentrup only on Wednesdays and Fridays want to deliver Gievenbeck but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Your customers from Sentrup will then also only the corresponding products with the associated prices shown, which are then available for them on that day.
Since the new update, you can also select the various delivery areas Assigning different depots. This is useful, for example, if you have different locations where your goods are stored. If you have a depot that is 15 km closer to a specific customer, it may be smarter to deliver to them from that depot.
Where we are right now when it comes to distances: Imagine Max Would not be in Munich, but in Bösensell, live in a district of Senden. Not far from Münster, but not Münster anymore. Since the new update, you could now say that Max with a Can order a supplement of 4€ on the shipping costs from you.
What is there Still new in the area of delivery areas? Oh yes less work for you! With the postal code solution, you have to Don't activate new customers anymore, but that's what happens then automatically.
How do you the new features in FreightPilot unlock and can configure, you will find out very soon in our Help section. If you Questions before that In addition, you can of course also contact us directly!
We just now have the depots addressed. Practical thing, of course. But yes only if the depots are Can be easily integrated into navigation. You may have already figured it out: With the new update, it actually works. 😉
Until now, it was regulated in such a way that a tour was always on stored company location both started as well as ended has. But that would be relatively modest if you wanted to use the depots efficiently. That's why you can now also do your tours Both start and end at the depots leave.
It goes even further in the area of tours and deliveries. As you can see, your cargo pilots were studious!
Driving the goods home to people is a great service. A service that is of course suitable for you as an operator Should also pay. After all, a delivery service causes some costs.
So about the tours Design as efficiently as possible To be able can you now a Set a minimum number of orders. If it is not otherwise possible, the However, it also fell short of the set limit when optimising the route become. In addition, you can also use a maximum number of orders Set. This restriction is then also not exceeded.
If you still have a value, you can Set maximum: at the Travel distance (in km). In this way, you can for your Vehicles that limit tour lengths. A great advantage, especially if your vehicles are electrically powered.
And now let's just make a small swipe over to the depots. As you have just found out, you can no longer only start and end the tours at the stored company location, but also at a depot, for example.
As a result of the fact that you now also the Save your drivers' home address Can you can the Tours also start at a depot and end at the driver's home leave.
Many of our customers deliver their products to regional Rewe stores. If you're one of them, you'll know that Rewe special requirements for sending invoices by email has. There are specific requirements, but the FrachtPilot takes care of that! You don't have to worry about anything. You just have to unodcif it's relevant to you, in Set the central bill recipient under Invoices.
If your customers pay via SEPA direct debit, you can Now generate SEPA direct debit files directly as a SEPA batch debit leave. And that without additional online banking software. As a result, you can now swifter den Start direct debit. We have this method”Group transactions where possible“baptized and she as standard discontinued.
But lookout: It's best to work with your bank to make sure that you have your account statements as Split booking in CAMT format receives. You can find more information about this here. This is important because otherwise, upon activation, all incoming direct debits will be issued as one item in the account statement. An automated logout is not possible.
With the mentioned change of name, the SEPA direct debit mandates with all of your customers be retrieved again. But that is no big effort, don't worry! That's exactly what you'll find in the takes under the rider “Bills” a new field. You then enter a date and the stored mandates lose their validity with pinpoint accuracy.
Yours customers Must then unodc Briefly in the shop grant a new mandate. On that they will notified directly when you log in to your shop.
Since July 2021, we have been using the AWS servers for our own sites and the webshops of you and other of our customers. The result: Speed and stability I think describe it pretty well. All sites and shops run super smoothly and reliably. And do you know what the very best part is? We were able to Optimize the speed of your shop even further.
pictures Will now temporary on the Customers' devices saved and so you don't have to download them again every time. This increases the speed of the shop significantly higher!
On which you In general, you should still pay attention, is that your compressed images are. In general, this means that significantly less data has to be downloaded to the end devices. A A few small tips about thisto help your shop reach top speed:
Usually one is enough 500 x 500 pixel resolution. As file format It is best for you to choose JPG, that is best for this case.
With Squoosh Can you completely easy and free pictures compress And the Adjust size. If the pixel size is already correct and you the image Just compress Would like is TinyPNG It's also a very good choice!
If you during the entire implementation Need help, are you welcome contact us directly. We'll definitely be able to do it together! 😉
With the new update, which as you can see is pretty extensive, you can now also Attach a PDF to your bulk emails. The PDF file may up to 2 MB be.
We also have a little tip right on that: If your PDF too big Should be, are there very useful tools that Compress PDF. Just like the pictures. It works very well with this tool. Just like TinyPNG and Squoosh, this is very easy and free.
The FreightPilot is now available and understandable not only for the DACH region. As clever as he is, he can now even English. Admittedly, we did give him a hand. 😉
If you are interested, you can use it in the Change interface to English. new Freight pilotinstallations Can you directly with English as standard language invest. As a result, Content such as emails automatically shown in English. As next language By the way, is french planned.
The Freight Pilot still has a lot in the pipeline! For example, we're just about to create a automatic shipping of orders to your suppliers to develop. So become after the order deadline which Orders automatically for you produced by your suppliers.
We are also planning a very big project, but you'll probably find out more about that in one of the next update posts. A little tip: Very interesting for Operators of a Farm shop. Well, it remains exciting!
We hope you can make good use of the new features for your direct marketing. If you do this questions As I said, feel free to contact us. We're happy to help! If you still Suggestions or suggestions for improvement The same applies: Just report and we'll see what we can do! The best way is to send us an email to info@frachtpilot.de. 😊
FrachtPilot supports you with all steps involved in your delivery service. With FrachtPilot, you can get started right away. As clever software for Delivery services We attach particular importance to a simple and efficient operation laid. All your work steps are digitally supported. Regardless of whether orders are placed via webshop / mobile app, inventory management, Route planning, renditions or reckoning.
