A multi-drop round, priced as a round.
Fleetable runs scheduled multi-drop rounds for London food operations: the same sites in the same order, a set driver who knows the sequence and a named backup who knows it too. The round is priced as one route — per mile, with door time and the return leg on their own lines — not as ten courier jobs. We prove it on one route first, alongside your current provider.
The problem
Ten drops is ten windows.
A round is not one delivery ten times. It is ten windows, ten door policies and ten chances for the sequence to slip, and the site that gets missed is always the one at the end of the run. So the round is built around the windows rather than the mileage, sequenced to land before service, with a set driver who runs it week after week and a named backup who has run it too.
How it works
Proven on one route first
Send the round as you actually run it — the sites, the order, and the time each one has to be served by. We price it per mile as a multi-drop route with the door time itemised, then run it in parallel with your current provider for a week. You judge it on your own sites before anything switches.
Also
What a round costs, and why.
A multi-drop round is priced as its own route type. Mileage and the return leg price the driving; the door time prices the stops, with 15 minutes of loading and 15 of waiting included and £0.45 a minute after that; and the round carries a 10% route-type adjustment over a straight scheduled run, shown on the estimate as its own line. That adjustment is the sequencing. Ten drops in the right order is a different job from one drop done ten times, and pricing it as though it were the same is how a round gets under-priced and then rushed.
Density is what makes a round worth running. The miles between your sites are the cost, so ten sites inside a postcode come out cheaper per drop than five spread across London, and adding a site to a round that already runs almost always costs less than opening a new one. Where those sites belong to one group, that is one standard to every site — multi-site food delivery on one contract, with one named contact.
The difference
Own vans, a courier, or Fleetable
| What matters | Your own vans | A courier | Fleetable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set drivers for your routes | Yes | Shared | Yes, committed |
| A backup on every route | Your problem | Rarely | Always — primary and backup |
| Live tracking you can check | Manual | A tracking number | Live, auditable per drop |
| Reports for finance | Manual | No | On time, proof and cost |
| No idle-van cost | You carry it | Yes | Pay for delivery, not idle vans |
Proof
Reliability you can check.
A backup on every route
Primary and backup, always. A sick day never leaves a site short.
Chilled, checked before each job
Food-safe vehicles, kept to temperature the whole route.
Live tracking and proof of delivery
Time and temperature at every drop, with proof your finance team can check.
One named contact
One person who knows your routes — not a call centre.
Drivers checked to your standard. Chilled, food-safe vehicles. Proof at every drop.
Accreditations added as contracts require.
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FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is a multi-drop round priced per drop?
Can the order of the round change?
What happens if a site is shut when the driver gets there?
How many drops can one round take?
What if a driver does not show?
How is it priced?
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