Notes from the round
What we have learned from businesses running deliveries every day — and what the software does about it.
Water Delivery Software in the UAE: A Buyer's Checklist for 5-Gallon Suppliers
Eight questions to put to any water delivery software before a UAE supplier pays for it — starting with whether it can say, today, how many 5-gallon bottles each customer is holding.
Bilty Software: How a Goods Transport Company Runs on It, From Counter to Delivery
Bilty software books every consignment from one station to another, loads it onto a vehicle on a challan, collects To-Pay at the far end and keeps each station's cash — this is how the whole day runs on it.
5-Gallon Bottle Deposits and Coupon Books: How to Keep Both Counts Straight
A 5-gallon customer carries two balances: bottles of yours they are holding, and money they have paid you ahead. Mixing the two is how a supplier loses both.
What Is a Bilty? Copies, Charges, Paid and To-Pay — Explained
A bilty is the receipt a goods transport company writes when it takes your goods: proof of what was handed over, where it is going, what the freight is and who pays it.
Water Delivery Software in Saudi Arabia: What to Check Before You Choose
Long drives, villas a district at a time, a summer that doubles the load — and a tax system that wants e-invoices. What a Saudi water supplier should ask of delivery software.
Loading Challan Explained: Kiraya, Advance and the Driver's Balance
A loading challan lists the bilties on a hired vehicle and settles what the driver is paid: kiraya agreed, advance at loading, balance at unloading. Here is how to keep it straight.
Gas Cylinder Delivery Software for LPG Distributors in the Gulf
A cylinder round is an exchange business: a full one out, an empty one back, a deposit on each. What software for an LPG distributor in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or Oman has to get right.
To-Pay Freight: How to Collect Every Rupee Before the Goods Leave the Godown
To-Pay freight is earned by one station and collected by another, which is why it goes missing. Five rules that keep it where it belongs.
How to Reconcile Driver Cash Every Day in a Delivery Business
Cash collected on a round is the largest uncontrolled sum in most delivery businesses. A five-step daily close that finds a shortfall the evening it happens.
What we write about
Delivery operations, specifically — not software marketing. Everything here comes out of running rounds and out of what suppliers tell us goes wrong: bottles that do not come back, cash that reconciles a month late, monthly bills that take four days, and customers who quietly slip to ninety days overdue.
The writing is organised around four problems, and most suppliers arrive with one of them:
- Bottles and deposits. Tracking returnable containers as a per-customer balance, sizing deposits against actual holdings, and cutting losses that most suppliers have simply accepted as normal. Start here.
- Routes and riders. Why density beats distance, when to split a route, and what a rider's day has to look like for the plan to survive contact with it. Read the route guide.
- Money. Working out a true cost per delivered bottle, setting rate tiers that hold, and collecting what you are already owed before it ages past collectable. Pricing and recovery.
- Starting out. What a water delivery business in Pakistan actually costs to open, in what order to spend, and the three mistakes that close most new suppliers inside two years. The startup guide.
If a term in any of these is unfamiliar, the glossary defines the vocabulary of a delivery round properly. If you would rather ask a question than read one, the FAQ answers the twenty-three that come up most, and we answer email.