Reimagining Delivery.
Insights and advice for your growing delivery business.
The GetSwift App is now Integrated with Cloud Workforce Scheduling and Payroll
Handle Drivers Schedules, Payroll, and Task Management with Our New Integration with GetSwift Scheduling.
How GetSwift Helps Your Small Business Start Home Delivery, And Nail It
Want to streamline your whole delivery operation with powerful delivery management software that gives your customers a simple, reliable experience, while offering you and your team a host of next-generation features, all through the cloud? Create a new win-win-win...
GetSwift introduces the Next Generation of On-Demand Dispatching
Getting dispatching right can significantly reduce your time to deliver, which is one of the best ways to keep customers happy and coming back, and keep them from leaving. And so we’re proud to introduce the beta version of our next generation dispatching algorithm,...
The Difference Between Route Planning and Route Optimization
In today’s on-demand marketplace, it’s the very last step of the logistics process that is the most critical. The journey from warehouse, restaurant, or store to the final destination is what’s referred to as the last-mile of order delivery, and how you manage this...
Using Software To Improve Driver Retention
Whether you employ a large fleet of cross-country drivers or a small number of local couriers, driver retention is a top priority for many business owners. Experienced drivers are usually capable of delivering more goods in a shorter period of time, increasing your...
What You Need To Know About Reverse Logistics
If you’re in the last-mile delivery business then you know how important it is to optimize each step in the process to keep costs down. The combination of multiple stops and potentially smaller order sizes can create significant inefficiencies compared to a more...
3 Cures To Your Last-Mile Delivery Headaches
A focus on the last mile of delivery — the final leg of shipping your product to the buyer’s door — has been a growing trend for businesses for several years, but there are challenges. It’s expensive and there are lots of inefficiencies to overcome. In fact,...
AI Expert Explains: How Does Artificial Intelligence Work To Improve Logistics and Delivery?
What exactly has AI’s impact on logistics been, and where will AI continue to improve the last mile? And what does this innovation mean for a company like yours, involved in delivery? Luckily, we have our resident AI expert, Jim Barnebee, who is also our VP of...
Tips For Bringing Restaurant Delivery In House
As the pandemic continues, the restaurant industry is, of course, not back to business as usual. Although many establishments have been allowed to open for on-premise dining, limitations that support social distancing have meant that customers have looked to delivery,...
Five Ways GetSwift Helps You Manage Drivers
Just about every business from the largest to the smallest wasn’t prepared for the monumental shift that has been occurring in delivery due to COVID-19. Food delivery was 300 times more popular in April than it was just a month prior. Another report looking at the...
GetSwift introduces major feature, Fleets, to allow businesses to share a driver fleet among all their merchant locations
You may have many locations--whether it's a group of Italian restaurants, Jewish delis, or roti shops--under your brand and want to be able to use your drivers among all of them. Previously, you just weren’t able to. Now, with the introduction of Fleets, you can do...
Five Things You May Not Know Delivery Software Can Do
The demand for delivery of goods and services has been steadily rising over many years, long before the tumultuous times of 2020. But there has also been a steady shift in customer expectations of the quality of their delivery experience. Luckily, for years we’ve been...
Four Ways To Use GetSwift To Communicate With Your Customers
Effective customer communication is at the heart of any successful business, but it’s especially important for those in the delivery business. Last-mile delivery has been expanding over the past few years, and with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, even more people are...
Canada’s Hoot Company Launches Busy Restaurant Delivery Service In Days
As the pandemic erupted, restaurants in Canada and across the world have had to turn off dine-in service and figure out how to get up and running, fast, with delivery. In a new case study, we interviewed Edmonton, Alberta’s Hoot Company, which operates five...
How Restaurants Can Compete In a World of “Take-Out or Delivery Only”
Over the past few years, many restaurants have started offering delivery as a way to boost sales and to meet the demand for more convenient food options. However, there are still many restaurant operators who have held off and stayed firm to their dine-in culture. But...
