Delivery Biz Pro understands the struggles that small and medium-sized businesses face on their journey to success. We do our best to help those businesses succeed in any way we can. As a SaaS (software as a service) provider, we are dedicated to creating the best delivery management software on the market. We do this by housing an amazing team of developers and designers that think with both their hearts and their heads, giving our clients a fully supportive team. 

Today, we’d like to share another success story with you! This time, we’re going to be talking about Farm to People, a digital farmer’s market operating out of Brooklyn, New York.

Locally Grown, Thoughtfully Delivered

Farm to People specializes in local, organic foods ranging from fresh fruits and veggies to meat, seafood, eggs, and dairy. They currently deliver fresh produce in the highly competitive market of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. In an area where people need convenience to get through their busy days, how does Farm to People beat out the competition? 

It comes down to their commitment to excellence and our customizable produce delivery software. Their fruits and veggies come from farms that are family-run, non-GMO, and dedicated to sustaining the environment. Their meat, dairy, and eggs come from animals that are treated humanely, never caged, free-range, antibiotic-free, and growth hormone-free. Their seafood is sustainably sourced and come from fishermen and women who are dedicated to improving fishing practices and increasing positive change for threatened species. In short, their products are top-tier and their customers never have to guess about the sustainability or safety of their products. They just know that the boxes of fresh food they receive are good for them and good for the environment. 

Farm to People actually goes even further than just offering fresh food to their customers. Their website also includes a large and easily navigable recipe database that shows customers how to use their produce to make healthy and delicious meals. 

With all of that amazing food, how do they get it to the dense population of major New York City boroughs? That’s where we come in. 

Delivery Biz Pro’s customizable produce management software helps CSAs and digital farmer’s markets have a seamless experience from the supplier to the delivery driver to the customer, and every role in between.

Michael Robinox, Co-Founder of Farm to People, says of Delivery Biz Pro, “We are now able to offer 200 different handmade foods and expect that number to grow to 400 by June. Without the ability to customize, forecast and manage inventory on DBP, we couldn’t do it… We love that our customers are kept in the loop and know the minute their packages have been delivered. That kind of detail helps us build a trust that’s very difficult to earn.”

Our produce delivery software doesn’t just generate routes for you from a list of addresses. It gives you the opportunity to give your customers the absolute best service from the second they enter your website. With a user-friendly website, safe payment options, automated customer alerts, and so many more amazing features, you and your customers have what you need for a positive and successful interaction. 

Let’s Grow Together With Our Produce Delivery Software

As we said at the beginning of this blog, if you had no limitations, what would you do? Where would you go?

Delivery Biz Pro is here to help you discover the answers to those questions. With our intuitive software that essentially runs the backend of your business for you, you can continue to grow and expand without dealing with common pain points such as inefficient routes or wrong orders. 

Get in touch today to get started and see how we can help your business grow!

Click here to read more about Farm to People’s journey with Delivery Biz Pro.

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What Is Last-Mile Delivery?

Last-mile delivery refers to the transfer of goods from a transportation hub to its final destination — usually a residence or business address. The goal of a business is to be able to deliver the goods as fast as possible and for the least amount of money. This results in happy customers and a happy business budget. 

Thanks to the ‘Amazon Effect,’ customers expect fast and accurate delivery. And this isn’t just for ordering things like books or clothing online! This includes recurring delivery services such as milk, meal kits, propane, oxygen, water, and the like. They want to be able to update their cart at 10:00pm and have their new items delivered the next day. 

Additionally, the ‘last mile’ can also refer to the time that a delivered good is left sitting on a customer’s porch. Even with good packaging, a box of fresh produce or milk can only last so long in the hot sun. The longer a package sits unattended on a porch, the more susceptible it might become to porch pirates. Will the customer even know it made it that last mile? 

With a local farmer delivering produce or a regional water delivery company, handling last-minute changes and still ensuring the goods get to where they need to be on time poses a major challenge. However, with a highly customizable and intuitive last-mile delivery software, even small businesses can succeed at this feat. 

Delivery Biz Pro solves a lot of these problems by allowing a set order cut-off time so customers can make changes as late as you can feasibly allow them to. Our home delivery software also allows drivers to mark when an order has been delivered and automatically send customers an update to let them know their package is on the porch. 

Let Us Help Optimize Your Last-Mile Delivery

For small- and medium-sized businesses, fine-tuning your last-mile delivery can seem impossible, but thankfully there are delivery softwares like Delivery Biz Pro that do the work for you from automated order sheets to route planning to customer communication and more. Take a look at our features to discover how our software can optimize your last mile and request a home delivery software demo today!

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By providing a service that utilizes small farmers in the area, residents can support local agriculture and those farmers don’t have to spend their resources hunting down customers. It’s a win-win-win for Skarsgard, their members, and the producers. 

More Profit, More Local Farmers, Less Work

The owner of Skarsgard Farms, Monte Skarsgard, says, “We use Delivery Biz Pro across the entire state of New Mexico to deliver 275 SKUs from micro-producers, ranging from strawberries to eggs to steak…Most of these producers are far too small to get shelf space at Whole Foods or a traditional grocer.”

On the benefits of using our CSA management software for their service, Skarsgard Farms mentions that DBP does the work of “four or five” administrative assistants while eliminating human error from the process. 

Bigger Than Just A Routing Software

DBP doesn’t simply serve as their delivery routing software, though. They also utilize DBP’s data collection capabilities to target specific customers. Because placing an order requires an email address, anyone who has ordered tomatoes, for example, will be placed into a category where they can later be retargeted with an email announcing a fresh harvest of heirloom tomatoes. 

These types of functions from our CSA software have allowed businesses like Skarsgard Farms to optimize their marketing, reach and keep more customers, and support other small businesses along the way. 

Skarsgard Farms has also found that they benefit from the automated routing features of their CSA software. The delivery routing software in our product can identify the most profitable routes so that the farm can determine where to focus their marketing efforts. 

Playing To The Market

As we mentioned above, Skarsgard Farms operates out of New Mexico, a state that is not known for producing a plethora and variety of produce year-round due to its desert climate. This provides a market area in which residents want fresh, colorful, local, and organic fruits and veggies. 

The Skarsgard Farms website addresses this, saying, “We recognize that New Mexico is not an ideal point on the map to produce food year-round, so we partner with growers in neighboring states in addition to New Mexico to fill the void in diversity and availability of produce here in the Land of Enchantment. This turns our community into a regional community, inclusive of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Mexico so that our members can receive amazing, Certified Organic produce all year long instead of being limited by the seasonality of our local area.”

Grow Your CSA With Delivery Biz Pro

Skarsgard Farms is a unique business that provides a CSA-type service that combines the produce and products of farms across multiple states. Whether you’re a multi-state service like Skarsgard or you run a small CSA farm, our software can help you grow your business.

Our CSA software allows you to focus on providing your members with high-quality, diverse products without having to worry about logistics. From intuitive route planning to an integrated website, payment, and ordering system, you can take your CSA further without having to employ a handful of assistants and an IT team. We handle that for you, so you can help your community thrive with fresh, local food. 

To learn more about how Delivery Biz Pro can help your business thrive, get in touch with our team. We’d be happy to hop on the phone and see if our product is right for your business model. 

To learn more about Skarsgard Farms’ journey with Delivery Biz Pro, check out this article.

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Thankfully, as many smaller businesses have shown, you can compete with the “Big Guys” of meal kit deliveries. Keep reading to learn more about starting your own meal kit delivery service and how Delivery Biz Pro can help.

Why Do People Like Meal Kit Delivery Services?

Meal kit boxes represent many things that people these days love. Convenience and the option to have healthy food are the two main benefits of meal kits. With a meal kit, a person has everything they need to cook a healthy, homemade meal in thirty minutes. Sure, ordering food in is convenient, but often options are less-than-healthy. Of course, a person can purchase groceries at a store, but that requires finding time to go shopping, fighting the crowds, and deciding what to actually cook. Many people who need to make quick meals on weeknights have some standard options that they cook regularly. They might stick with chicken and steamed broccoli because there’s no way they’d have time to cook a gourmet meal. Thankfully, meal kits solve that problem. They give people the best of every world: interesting meals, fresh food, thirty-minute recipes, and no hassle.

With all that said, the desire for meal kits is already there. The concept already makes sense. Now, your goal is to find your own way to do it and be successful.

The Meal Kit Delivery Business Model

The meal kit delivery business model is very straightforward and doesn’t vary much from company to company. Deciding whether or not you want to follow this standard business model is an important step in starting your own meal kit company. You might want to find a way to put your own spin on things, but keep in mind that the biggest names in meal kit delivery follow this model.

The first point in the process of meal kit delivery is having new recipes every week. The recipes should be available online and offer something for every taste. Customers will browse these recipes and choose the ones they want to have delivered to their homes. Most companies allow variations for the number of meals that can be made with the recipe as well as options for how many meals a customer wants that week.

After the customer chooses their meals, the meal kit delivery company will provide that customer with the ingredients and recipe they need to make that meal by delivering it right to their door. Meal kits come in special packaging that ensures the safety and freshness of the food inside.

What Meal Kit Delivery Companies Need

When thinking of starting your own meal kit delivery business, there are a few elements you will need to take into account. While these are just some basic guidelines, without them a meal kit delivery company cannot succeed. Of course, there are also many little details that will need to be accounted for as well.

Recipes

Recipes are at the heart of meal kits. Finding a balance between interesting, easy, gourmet, and fast is the key. If your recipes consist of meals that are too simple, customers will start to wonder why they are paying for your service when they can do all of this on their own. If they take too long to prepare and cook, customers might find a meal service that offers faster meals. In addition to keeping recipes interesting and fast, also consider offering family-friendly recipes with food that parents and children will both love.

You might also consider providing recipes that meet certain dietary restrictions. For example, you can provide certified halal or kosher recipes with corresponding ingredients. You might offer vegan recipes, gluten-free recipes, low carb recipes, or low sodium recipes.

Food

The next component of meal kit delivery is, of course, the food. Finding sources for your food is incredibly important. If you are starting small, it is a good idea to partner with local farmers in your area. Not only will this ensure the freshest food for your customers, but it will also give your company an edge that the “Big Guys” don’t have. Many people want to support local farms and businesses but don’t know how. If all of your produce and meat is coming from ten minutes down the road, capitalize on this fact.

Packaging

The packaging used for meal kit delivery boxes is essential to ensuring the food is safe and fresh. This area is often what makes or breaks a delivery business in terms of revenue. Packaging used for meal kit deliveries isn’t cheap, so you need to ensure you are finding the best bang for your buck. That might even mean following in the footsteps of the milk delivery industry.

Milk deliveries typically work by dropping off glass bottles of fresh milk and collecting empty bottles that the customer has left on their porch. Those empty bottles will then be cleaned and used for the next round of delivery. While there is a bigger upfront investment in the glass bottles, in the long run you can make that money back by not having to provide disposable bottles for every single pint of milk you sell.

The same system could work for meal kit deliveries. Each meal kit can be delivered in a plastic cooler with reusable ice packs. The customer will bring the cooler inside, cook the meals, and leave the empty cooler and ice packs on the porch for the delivery driver to collect. While this system may seem complicated, home delivery software like ours can help drivers easily keep track of these deposits and allow you to know exactly where your coolers are.  

Delivery Service

With everything above, you have your actual product. Now, it’s time to turn that product into a service. This is often where meal kit delivery companies fail. You need to be able to deliver the items to your customers on time and accurately.

As a home delivery software provider, we can help ensure this by providing you with a home delivery program that is tailored to your industry. Delivery Biz Pro offers a plethora of customizable features to meet the needs of your specific business. One of the most valuable features of our software is route management.

Our route management algorithm allows you to decide how and when your deliveries are made. You can decide how you would like your routes to be organized whether it is grouping customers by neighborhood, by day of the week their deliveries are scheduled, or by some other element.

The route management software takes the guesswork out of everything from loading the trucks to making each stop. Best of all, as we mentioned above, if you are using a reusable packaging system, the driver can easily mark who has or has not returned their deposits.

Mobile-Ready Website

While meal kits can appeal to any demographic, many of the people who utilize meal kits are the same ones who spend more time on their phones than their computers. A huge portion of your customer base will be making their orders via their smartphones, so it is important to ensure that your website is mobile-friendly.

When you use Delivery Biz Pro, we can build you a modern, sleek, and easy-to-use website that is mobile-friendly. Once you have the base of your website, our admin tools make it easy to update your website with the latest recipes, new options for your customers, seasonal promotions, new offers, and so much more.

Customer Communication

Finally, to run a successful meal delivery kit company, you want to make sure you are in frequent communication with your customers. The larger your business grows, the more difficult this will be to manage without the right meal kit delivery software. With Delivery Biz Pro, you can create settings that offer automated communication for various parts of the order and delivery process. For example, customers can receive emailed receipts when they place an order and text message reminders when their order is delivered. You can also have automated emails sent out to wish customers a happy birthday, offer discount codes, provide them with upcoming menu selections, offer seasonal specials, and more.

Start Your Meal Kit Delivery Business With DBP Today

Starting a business from scratch can be intimidating. There are a lot of elements that need to fall into place in order for your business to be successful. Thankfully, with the right tools, you can start checking off those boxes.

Our goal at Delivery Biz Pro is to provide you with all of the easy-to-use software solutions you need to run your business. While we can’t create unique recipes or grow tomatoes for you, our meal kit delivery software can handle the logistical side of things so you don’t have to worry about it.

Reach out to Delivery Biz Pro to learn more about how our meal kit delivery software can make running your meal kit delivery service easy.

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Let’s take a closer look at that question. Say that you offer farm fresh dairy deliveries to the city of Boston. A customer decides that they no longer enjoy cheap, over-processed milk from the store so they hop on Google and type in “milk delivery service in Boston” and find your website. On the surface, it might look like you have met their need. After all, they needed local dairy delivery and you can provide that.

Fresh milk in their fridge is the product that they need — but what do they need from your actual service? In today’s blog, Delivery Biz Pro is taking some time to look more closely at this concept to help you ensure your service is meeting your customers’ needs. Keep reading to learn more, or get in touch with us to discuss how our delivery management software can meet all of the below requirements.

An Easy-To-Use Website

Nothing is more frustrating for a customer than a confusing, outdated, or slow website. Imagine if a customer was standing in front of you with cash in hand. They hold out the cash to give it to you, waving it in your face, and you just stand there and stare blankly while they try to shove it into your hand or your shirt pocket. Now imagine that same scenario, but instead of staring blankly, you reach out and shake their hand, let them know what products you will provide for the money they are giving you, collect their money, write them a receipt, and double check that the order is right.

When a customer is trying to sign up for your delivery service, the last thing you want them to see is an unresponsive website. Ensuring that your website is modern, fast, secure, and easy-to-use will make more customers willing to use your service.

Customizable Options

In this day and age, your customers have a wealth of options to choose from when they are looking for a service, whether it is a daily dairy delivery or a monthly propane drop-off. The more options you can provide for your customers, the more likely it is that they’ll use your service over your competitor’s.

When you use a delivery management software like ours, you can give your customers as much or as little control over their orders as you want. They can control their order timeline, for example, and decide what day to receive deliveries on and how often. They can set recurring deliveries and add special one-time items. They can order months in advance or skip their next delivery, and so much more. With a good delivery software, your customers can have complete control over their orders without making your job or your drivers’ jobs any more difficult.

Organization

Organization is a key component of any delivery service. If your end of the business is not organized, it will show on your customer’s end in the form of late, missed, or inaccurate deliveries, overcharges, or unaccounted deposits when they have in fact turned in their items. This can be incredibly frustrating for a customer.

When your delivery management software is tailored for your specific industry and does the hard work for you, the organization factor naturally follows.

At Delivery Biz Pro, we focus on a few main delivery industries including dairy, water, produce, meal kits, and propane. Many of these industries, especially dairy, water, and propane, include a facet that many delivery softwares are not equipped to handle: bottle, jug, or tank deposits. Customers will quickly feel taken advantage of if they return a deposit yet are charged for a new one or their account lists deposits as outstanding. With our software, drivers can quickly check off who has returned deposits and who hasn’t as they make the deliveries so there is never any confusion.

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On-Time And Accurate Deliveries

Customers want their deliveries to be made on the day they have chosen and they want them to be accurate. That way there is never any hassle and they can continue using your services without any frustration. Our software does all of the difficult work for you by automatically generating order and load sheets and driver routes so your team knows exactly what needs to go in each box and each truck. It also empowers your drivers to find the fastest and most efficient routes, text customers when deliveries have been made, make changes on the road, and more.

Late Cut-Off Time

The later you can make your cut-off time, the better it is for your customers who need to make last-minute changes to their orders. To have a late cut-off time, you need to have a delivery management software that takes all of the guesswork out of driver routing and order management. Ours does just that, allowing you to decide the best cut-off time for your business.

Give More To Your Customers With Delivery Biz Pro!

Your customers deserve the very best. If your business can’t meet the above needs, then it might be time to explore better software options that can make it happen. With Delivery Biz Pro, we can help you optimize your business from top to bottom by automating the processes above and more.

Learn more about implementing our delivery management software into your business model by filling out our short application. Taking just a minute to give us some insight into your business is the first step toward giving your customers exactly what they need: a highly efficient, customizable delivery service that makes their lives easier.

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Delivery Biz Pro (DBP) is a home delivery and route optimization software that makes getting your products to your customers easy and streamlined. Wondering if our software can help your business grow? Keep reading to find out!

Who Needs A Home Delivery Software?

If your business makes home deliveries, then you would likely benefit from a delivery routing and management software. There are different kinds of software for different industries. For example, a pizza delivery restaurant is going to need a different delivery software than UPS who will need a different software than a recurring home delivery business. Delivery Biz Pro mainly provides service to the latter of that group. Keep reading to learn what type of industries and business models make a good match for our software.

Good Candidates For DBP Home Delivery Software Center Around:

Specific Industries

Delivery Biz Pro specializes in providing software to specific industries. In particular, our software is incredibly compatible with small farm deliveries who offer fresh produce, meat, and dairy products, as well as those who make regular deliveries of bottled water, propane, or ready-to-make meal kits. We have developed a wealth of customizable features to meet the intricate needs of these specific industries, meaning we are as much your dairy management software as we are your bottled water delivery software.

Recurring Deliveries

DBP is also ideal for businesses who make recurring deliveries, meaning your customer can, for example, set and forget a weekly delivery of fresh bottled water or two dozen eggs. Whether these deliveries are daily, weekly, or monthly, our software can help optimize the delivery routes for the best outcome.

Delivery Dates

Those whose delivery schedule revolves around certain days of the week based on a customer’s address can benefit with DBP. Our home delivery software can generate routes that make sense for your customers’ locations as well as their delivery preferences.

Home, Pick-Up, And Wholesale Delivery

Whether you make deliveries exclusively to front doors, prepare your customers’ orders and have them pick it up at a specific location, deliver large quantities to commercial outlets, or some combination of the three, our software can work with your delivery model.

Existing And Future Customer Base

If your customer base has outgrown your current delivery routing system or you have plans to rapidly expand your delivery base, we’ve got you covered with an easy to use routing software that can handle small and large customer bases.

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Sound Like Your Business? Let’s Chat!

If you are looking to optimize your home delivery business, we want to help. At Delivery Biz Pro, we give you so much more than a delivery routing software. We are here to help optimize the efficiency of your business from top to bottom. From the time a customer enters your website (which we can help create), makes a purchase, and schedules a delivery to when you pack up the orders and send the driver fleet on their way to make deliveries, we’ll be there. All aspects of our customizable home delivery software are integrated with one another to create a seamless customer and delivery experience. Drop us a line and we’ll schedule a time to hop on the phone and chat more about our service and see if we’re a good fit for your business.

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