Pricing is one of the most important, and one of the trickiest, parts of running a courier service. You want to make sure that you are not overcharging your customers so that you can bring in business, but you don’t want to set your prices too low so that you’re not making any profit. And with so many different delivery options, methods, and ranges, there are tons of different factors that go into setting pricing. With online courier software, creating surcharges based on these different factors is easy and simple!

What are Surcharge Prices?

By running a courier service, you are most likely familiar with distance and perhaps zone pricing. These types of pricing factor in the distance or areas that deliveries need to be made within, and charge a different price accordingly, sometimes also factoring in package and service type. Surcharge prices, on the other hand, are additional or different charges that focus on some of the other aspects of the deliveries. For example, you might want to increase how much a delivery will cost based on the number of packages within the delivery, or the overall weight of the delivery. These surcharge prices can also factor in service type, package type, and vehicle type, giving you freedom and flexibility to set prices exactly to your specifications!

Surcharge Options

As mentioned previously, there are a few different types of surcharge prices that you can apply to orders and deliveries. Pricing by weight and pricing by number of pieces are some common ones, but you can also set up a surcharge pricing set to accommodate for fuel usage, and you can also set up general or miscellaneous charges if there are any specific ones for your company. Again, with all of these surcharge prices, you can choose which service, package, and vehicle types they apply to, so perhaps you have a higher weight surcharge for a bicycle delivery, but a lower fuel surcharge, and vice versa for a large truck. The options are limitless, and can be adjusted and honed in to exactly what you and your company need!

Pricing Possibilities

Within these different surcharges that you can set up, you also have different options for how the pricing will be established. For fuel surcharges, for example, once you factor in the types of orders it will apply to, you can choose a flat price per mile, or can set a percentage of the base or total price. For weight and piece count surcharges, you can select a range and decide weight or count increments that will increase price, as well as choosing what that price increase will actually be. There are similar flat and percentage options for the pricing of the other general and miscellaneous charges that you can set, really allowing you to have as specific and as tailored a pricing set as possible! Online courier software should work for you, not the other way around!

Surcharge Solutions

As you can see, there are lots of ways to set up pricing options that aren’t directly tied to distance or zones of deliveries. You can have one surcharge set that is active across every type of delivery, or you can go super detailed and have a different pricing set for each individual combination of package, service, and vehicle type. Whatever kind of pricing option you’re looking for, Digital Waybill is here to help! We understand how important it is to have complete control over the most important parts of your operations, and we want to provide you with all the tools you need to do so! Schedule a demo with Digital Waybill today to see how else we can support your courier business!