Summer 2009 news from Courier Systems
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New XtraVan 2.0 - Earn money from your empty vans!
For many years Nigel has been intrigued by the fact that up to 50% of all sameday courier vehicles are unloaded. Think about it; a typical courier delivery leaves the office, picks up at point A, delivers to point B, and returns empty back to the office. Up until now, all those empty vehicle movements were a wasted valuable resource, thousands of unloaded miles each day traveling our roads.
Now, just imagine if you could access a database of empty vehicle movements, moreover, what if other courier companies could provide you with a return-load?
XtraVan is currently a free upgrade for Controller users. Some of our clients have been testing the new XtraVan over the last few months, and it has already saved them £££££'s AND that is with the few are who are testing XtraVan. Just imagine how many empty vans are going to be filled once all our clients are using it. To read more about please go to the XtraVan part of our web site
Invoice analysis sheet
An analysis sheet has been added to the invoices. The analysis sheet provides a method for your customers to analyse their invoiced bookings. To enable the analysis sheet, you need to change 3 settings on the customers account (use BackOffice>Customers and Invoicing)Setting #1: Change the 'sort order on invoice' to a number between 1 and 9 as follows: (Note the titles may be different on your system if you have changed the names on the fields)
- 1=Date
- 2=Service
- 3=Order
- 4=Ask for
- 5=Booked By
- 6=Cost Code
- 7=Purchase order
- 8=Consignment Note
- 9=Serial Number
Setting #2: Enable 'SubTotal sheet when invoicing' Change this to 1 from 0
Setting #3:Subtotal order Set the Subtotal order on subtotal sheet to the SAME number as step #1
Note: You must do this BEFORE raising any invoices for the sub totalling to work correctly
Do you or do you want to work for TNT (UK) PLC?
Do you work on behalf of TNT UK PLC?. If you do, you'll know that they have recently changed their T&C's which require you sending a text message (SMS) to them whenever you collect or deliver on their behalf. No a problem if you are doing 1 or 2 pickups a day, however if you work for them on a regular basis, it can become tiresome and time consuming sending texts every 5 minutes.If you use the texting feature built into Controller to text drivers, you can use the same feature to text pickup and delivery confirmations to your customers. See System>Configuration>SMS Layouts and click Help for instructions.
Changes to pricing screen
When you press F2 on the booking screen to modify the customers charge or drivers payment (pricing), the input will now automatically start on the QUOTED field. Subsequent presses of F2 will toggle between the QUOTED field of the driver and customers side of the pricing screen. If you want the input to start on the first charge units (usually mileage on the top left) then go into System>Configuration>System Settings>Booking screen and change the 'Start pricing input on 'Quoted' Field from Yes to No