The delivery app can share where a delivery guy is while they are delivering, and it receives a notification whenever there is work for them. Neither has a switch in your shop settings.
Live location
While the agent has deliveries in progress, the app can send the agent's position and heading to the platform.
- The position is saved against each order the agent has accepted that is not yet delivered or cancelled. With no order in progress, nothing is saved.
- It can be read back for one order at a time, and only by that order's customer or by a delivery agent allowed to act on the order.
- It stops being updated for an order once that order is delivered or cancelled.
The shop panel has no live map of your delivery guys. To see who has which order, filter the orders list by Delivery Assigned to. See Assign orders to a delivery agent.
To give a customer a page where they follow their order's status, see Share tracking.
Notifications the app receives
| When | Who gets it | Default title |
|---|
| You accept a delivery order | Every delivery guy of the shop who works at the order's location | "A New Order is Waiting !!!" |
| You assign an order to an agent | That agent | "A New Order is Waiting !!!" |
| An assigned order is cancelled | The assigned agent | "Order has been cancelled" |
| You record a cash hand-over | That agent | "Your Delivery Collection is Collected" |
| You give an agent a return pickup | That agent | "New return pickup" |
| A return the agent was to collect is cancelled | That agent | "Return pickup cancelled" |
| You send a message from Send Notification | The agents you choose | The title you type |
Notes on the first row:
- If marking orders ready is enabled for your shop, the notification is sent when the order is marked ready, not when it is accepted.
- It is not sent for self pickup orders.
- It is not sent while your pickers assign the delivery guy. See the picker pages.
The app also keeps a list of the notifications an agent has received, newest first.
To write your own message to one agent or the whole team, see Send a notification to delivery agents.
If agents get no notifications
- The agent must be signed in to the app on the phone. The phone registers for notifications after sign-in.
- Registering a phone for notifications needs the Delivery app feature in your plan. See The delivery app.
- Order notifications are switched on for the whole platform, not per shop. If nothing arrives for any agent, ask support.