With more than a third of consumers already shopping online every week since the coronavirus hit, Black Friday and Christmas look set to be 50% busier than they were last year according to ParcelHero. Efficiency will be key to businesses who wish to maintain their customer service when stretched to capacity. NetCourier v8.18 has been…
With just over two months until Britain leaves the EU, a recent government survey has found that only 24% of UK businesses are ‘fully ready’ for Brexit. Many businesses have been spending the last few months mitigating the effects of Covid-19, but it is important not to ignore Brexit and its ramifications. The global logistics…
Here’s what’s new in our latest release v8.17, which is due to be rolled out from this week. Improved driver runs We have added more functionality to our driver run sheets in order to streamline your delivery process: Extra validation has been added to ensure that jobs added to the run make sense with those…
Here at the Metafour HQ we are particularly excited about our latest update.The Development team have been beavering away for many months in order to bring our customers the latest addition to our software: Package pricing. Package Pricing If you ship pallets, you’re interested in shipping pallets, or if you want to offer your customers…
Here at Metafour, our team is our biggest asset. Between us we have 170 years of industry experience, and our people are definitely the magic that makes the company what it is. So we thought it was about time to introduce them! First off is our Director of Customer Experience, Richard Ive. Hi Richard! Thanks…
As the Metafour team has been getting used to the new ‘normal’ over the past few months, we have been hard at work to make our software offer all of the features and functionality needed to ensure our customers remain ahead of their competitors. But it’s not just software updates they have been working on.…
Stating the obvious, the effects of Covid-19 continue to be felt around the world. Although some countries are starting to ease restrictions, the pandemic is having a huge impact globally on all business sectors. The virus has also seen a massive increase in remote working, and a rapid focus on evaluating and streamlining the end-to-end…
Metafour are proud label printing partners of Menzies Distribution who are supporting emergency deliveries of essential goods and PPE for the NHS in Scotland. Menzies wanted to implement its new care homes delivery operation in a short timescale. This required a reactive pick and pack operation at local unit level to get the right kit to the right…
New Safe-Sign Technology Helps Drivers Keep Their Distance As software designers and responsible citizens, we must respond to the world around us; and at the moment that world is changing at a rapid pace. With the Covid-19 outbreak still at large in most countries around the world, the way we humans interact has changed for…
“With our NetCourier roll-out, customers have seen the value of having multiple service providers with the rates and service options varying between the providers. We are so happy with the system that there are plans in place in 2020 to extend the service to include imports.”
Cargo Sales Executive – Groupair Wholesale
