FarEye targets 175 million online shoppers of Africa with its parcel shop technology, 'Drop&Pick'
FarEye, a digital logistics platform has unveiled a new parcel shop technology dubbed 'Drop&Pick'.
Launched in January 2017 the technology is already being incorporated by various large businesses like DHL, DTDC, First Flight and many others to facilitate paperless, high speed and secure dispatch/delivery of parcels through its parcel shop network.
FarEye's 'Drop&Pick'- aimed at major enterprises and logistics firms globally is built to fulfil the need for fast and convenient dispatch/delivery of parcels with minimal cost of infrastructure. Its successful roll out is now revolutionizing traditional dispatch/delivery processes into efficient and customer-centric approaches.
'Drop&Pick' follows a key three phased - book, manage and deliver process, which is based around a simple to use and intuitive mobile application.
The app enables any parcel shop to quickly register a parcel, and the sender's details (including capturing handwritten information), followed by scanning the shipment and adding recipient name, delivery details and parcel size. It then calculates shipping fees which the sender can pay in multiple ways - prepaid, wallets, cash or card.
The parcel shop personnel can also book multiple parcels under one sender ID. In the back end - data entry processes convert images to actual data. The parcel is then handed over to the courier and electronic proof of transfer is collected, who then delivers to the end customer and once again, receives electronic proof of delivery from the customer.
The technology is also targeted towards logistics businesses offering franchise models. While this model has been available since a long time to book parcels, the need now is to add a layer of visibility and efficiency to the processes to help businesses make real-time data backed decisions and in parallel empower the customers with easy deliveries, event alerts & notifications.
The customer gets an option of getting parcel delivered to a nearby 'parcel shop', both -during the time of order placement as well as before the actual delivery.
