Custom systems for courier, postal and logistics companies, from the counter where a shipment is handed in to the door where it is signed for.
One system, built around your network
Every shipment is one record, whoever is holding it.
Courier and logistics software has to follow a parcel through many hands: the counter, the warehouse, the vehicle, the driver and the recipient. When each of those runs on its own tool, nobody can say where a shipment is without making a phone call.
We build one system for the whole route, made for the company that will run on it. It is custom work every time: your offices, your routes, your price lists and your way of closing the day. What we have built before is in the case studies below.
What we build
The parts of a courier or logistics system, as we have built them. You may need all of them or three.
- Client portal
- Business clients book shipments, print their own labels, follow every shipment and see their invoices and what they owe.
- Counter and offices
- Staff accept a shipment, price it, print its label and take the payment. Each office closes its day with its own cash and shipment report.
- Scanning
- Every handover is a scan: at the counter, into and out of the warehouse, onto a vehicle and at the door. The system always knows where a shipment is and who has it.
- Warehouse and transfers
- Shipments are received, sorted by destination and route, stored and loaded. Transfers between cities are tracked as runs of their own.
- Trip sheets and drivers' apps
- Each driver's route list comes from what was loaded on the vehicle. Native iOS and Android apps record every delivery outcome and every payment at the door, and print labels and receipts on portable printers.
- Tracking
- Senders and recipients follow a shipment by its number, with a status from every scan along the way.
- Fleet
- Where every vehicle is and how much fuel it uses, for the whole fleet.
- Invoicing and collection
- Invoices go out on their own. Clients who don't pay can be blacklisted automatically, and unpaid invoices passed on to collection without anyone chasing them by hand.
- Administration
- Head office runs the network: offices and cities, users and roles, price lists, vehicles and reports across every office. In a multi-tenant system a new office is a setting, not a project.
How a system like this gets built
First, we walk the route.
We follow a shipment through your company with the people who handle it, before anyone writes code.
Then one part goes live.
We start with the part that hurts most and put it in real use, next to what you have today.
Then the rest, weekly.
A demo every week. Each part joins the same record, so the picture fills in as we go.
Then we run it.
The same team stays on after launch for changes, new offices and the busy season.
Systems like this that we built
- One system for a whole postal company Ten offices and five to ten thousand transactions a day, in our engineers' hands for more than seven years.
- Logistics, down to the last unpaid invoice A multi-tenant platform for a company with three offices, with invoicing, blacklisting and collection that run on their own.
The services behind it
Every service in detail- Custom Software DevelopmentSoftware built around the way your company works, for the problems off-the-shelf products don't cover.
- Mobile App DevelopmentNative iOS and Android apps, from the first sketch to the store and the releases after it.
- Cloud Solutions & MigrationCloud systems designed, migrated and run on AWS, Azure and GCP, sized for the load and with costs you can predict.
- Data Engineering & DatabasesFast queries, clean schemas, and data you can actually trust. We design, optimize, and manage database systems at any scale.
Questions courier companies ask us
- Do you sell a ready-made courier system?
- No. We build each system for the company that will use it. What you get fits your network and your rules, and the code is yours.
- Can you replace our current system part by part?
- Yes. We usually start with one part, such as the client portal or the drivers' apps, run it beside what you have, and move the rest over as each piece is ready.
- Are the drivers' apps native?
- Yes. We build them as native iOS and Android apps, because they have to scan quickly, work a full shift and talk to portable printers.
- Can it connect to our accounting and other tools?
- Yes. Connections to accounting, payment providers, marketplaces and client systems are part of the build, agreed at the start.
- What is it built with?
- The systems in our case studies use Laravel, React and AWS, with native iOS and Android apps. For a new system we choose with you, based on what your team can maintain.
- Who looks after it once it is live?
- We can. One of the systems in our case studies has been run by our engineers for more than seven years. You can also take it over; you get the code, the documentation and the keys.
Apps we build and run ourselves
The same team that builds for clients ships these. Open any of them today.
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