Create your own delivery fleet with Scan App Pro

16th February 2021

Expanding your last mile delivery options to include your own fleet of vehicles doesn’t have to be a huge investment.

Consignor’s new Scan App Pro gives you the tools to do this, so you can gain more control and visibility across your whole network and provide an even better delivery experience for your customers – all from your smartphone.

Expanding your delivery fleet to include your own vehicles usually means investing in new hardware. Traditional PDA devices for parcel scanning are expensive to purchase and difficult to use. With Consignor’s Scan App Pro for smartphones, you get PDA functionality right in your pocket.

By downloading Scan App Pro on their Android or Apple device, your drivers are able to scan parcels to update their status and through an online, cloud-based portal, you can see where drivers are and if they are active or off duty.

“Scan App is flexible and independent of hardware, which is highly significant for us, as we use many external drivers to deliver parcels and goods. With Scan App we can provide track & trace on all parcels. Track & trace is absolutely vital in the distribution industry!” says Thomas Wallin, CEO at BFT Logistik.

By expanding your delivery fleet to include your own vehicles, you gain many benefits and competitive advantages. A multi carrier strategy enables you to reduce shipping costs and provide even more convenient delivery options to your customers.

Through Consignor’s new Scan App Pro with enhanced features, it has never been easier to create your own delivery fleet and provide an even better delivery experience for your customers – just by using your smartphone and our cloud based portal.

How to create your delivery fleet

With just a click of a button you can start expanding your delivery fleet, as all it takes is an invite you send from Consignor to the drivers you want to add. Once your drivers have downloaded the app via the link in your invite, they are ready to start scanning parcels.

Through Scan App, your drivers are able to upload information such as the delivery status, signatures and photo capture which can be viewed by your customers and the end recipient via a cloud based portal.

Recipients can also be automatically notified about key events so they are kept up-to-date at every stage of their parcel’s journey.

New Pro feature: Optimize the work flow

Updating each individual shipment in the van with a new status such as “Delayed” is a time consuming process.

With the Container feature in Scan App Pro, you can consolidate all shipments in one master container which acts as the parent to all the children. This then allows you to automatically update the status for all shipments at the same time through scanning and updating the master container.

New Pro feature (coming soon): Generate the best delivery route

It can be difficult for your drivers to manually work out the best route when delivering parcels to multiple locations.

Scan App Pro solves this problem, by taking the master container, and automatically calculating the fastest delivery route of all the contained shipments, providing expected drop off times, showing the distance between each drop and displaying the optimized route on Google Maps.

Learn even more about how Consignor’s new Scan App Pro enhances your delivery and click & collect capabilities here.

How to get started

To learn more about Scan App Pro and have a walkthrough of its functionality, please request a demo with one of our sales team.

Existing Consignor customers

Existing Scan App customers will be migrated within the next 6 months to Scan App Pro. Both applications work in parallel and there’s built in support in the Scan App Pro for existing customers to easily migrate all their settings when installed. You can read more here.

However, in order to gain access to the new Pro functionality discussed in this article, you will need to upgrade your subscription plan. Please contact your account manager to arrange this.