Logistics
Route
Route takes the confirmed order and gets it to the customer's door.
What it does
It can plan the consignment, label the packages or load the van, hold the window you promised, track the courier, sequence a day of stops and capture the signature at the door from the driver's own screen. Field sales visits plan onto the same runs.
- Give your customers a delivery date they can plan production around, and proof of what arrived and when.
- It records every move as a scan event and books the real cost of the delivery against the job.
- Run it with couriers, with your own vehicles, or both. With Kabaido Stock on, a van is a location and a load is a transfer.
See it working
Four Route screens with demonstration data: the week's runs with a field sales visit on Friday's run beside a drop, a van part way through its load with the missing packages counted, the driver's phone at the next stop beside the signed proof of the stop before, and a consignment's drawer offering only its next moves above the trace events its scans wrote.
In more detail
Where, when and how it goes
One consignment record per order: the address, promised window, carrier or internal run, packages, tracking reference and proof of delivery.
Own van or carrier, every consignment sits on one grid with its window, packages, state and tracking.
Your own vans, stop by stop
Runs carry a day of stops for one vehicle; loading says what goes on it; the driver works from a station screen.
The driver station on a phone with demonstration data as the van gets back: the run and its van in the station bar, 4 of 4 stops done, every stop listed in its planned order with its outcome, and the buttons to open the Loading screen or close the run.
The driver works the van's day from one station screen, and closes the run when every stop is done.
A status you can trust
Every physical move is a trace event, so a status never changes without the event behind it.
Consignment DN-26-00003 from the order to the door, with demonstration data: each state, the move that put it there and the trace event that move wrote with its time. Marking it ready and sending it out are office steps and write none. Off the path, a failed delivery writes a failed event and is rebooked as a new consignment, and a return writes a returned event.
Every scan on the way to the door is an event on the consignment's code, and the office steps say they wrote none.
The true cost of delivering
Delivery and run costs are written back against the job.
Thursday's run closed with demonstration data: 233.5 km planned in a straight line at the van's cost per kilometre makes a planned cost of £79.39, shared across the consignments it carried by packages, each share on its consignment beside the order it belongs to.
Closing the run costs it and shares that cost across what it carried, and each order carries its share.
Who it is for
- Industrial distribution and MRO
- Tool servicing and regrinding
- Cutting tool manufacturers and distributors
Who uses it daily
- Transport Manager
- Despatch Supervisor
- Warehouse and Goods Out team
- Drivers
- Field Sales
- Internal Sales answering "where is my order"
Who buys it and who to involve
- Operations Director
- Managing Director
- Logistics Manager
Bring in whoever holds your carrier accounts early: the rates, the account numbers and the first integration conversation are theirs.
Every product, every plan.See pricing
Where it fits
In Kabaido
Connects to
- DPD, Template
- Royal Mail, Template
- Parcelforce, Template
- DHL Express, Template
- DHL eCommerce, Template
- UPS, Template
- FedEx, Template
- Evri, Template
- DX, Template
- APC Overnight, Template
- Template
If your system has an API, Kabaido connects to it.
Every other way it connects
Everything runs on the same open paths: the Kabaido API and MCP server, outbound webhooks, an inbound endpoint, a scheduled REST pull, CSV and Excel in and out, and Zapier, Make and n8n for anything else. Custom connections are built to order.
Template
Roadmap
Questions
- Yes. Each consignment goes by a carrier or on one of your own runs, and a workspace can use both.More on Deliveries, runs and vehicles
- The driver works from a station screen and captures the signature at the door. The proof sits on the consignment record.More on Deliveries, runs and vehicles
- No. With Stock on as well, a van becomes a stock location and a load becomes a transfer in the ledger.More on Lines, locations and the ledger
- Yes. Delivery and run costs are written back against the job the consignment belongs to.More on Costing