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How To Use The Marketplace

Allowing drivers to view and grab available jobs

Written by Fin
Updated this week

The Marketplace feature enables you to post jobs from your Detrack dashboard directly to the Detrack Driver App, allowing your drives to view and grab available jobs in real-time.

This feature is designed for businesses that handle ad-hoc deliveries or operate courier services where jobs need to be distributed flexibly among available drivers. It creates a private, Uber-style marketplace exclusively for your team.

Once a job has been grabbed by a driver, the Detrack dashboard will auto update the Assign to field based on the driver/vehicle. For each job, you can also set a job offer fee so that drivers can see the compensation before claiming it. name.

Steps

Firstly, you will need to enable the marketplace feature from the Settings page:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Delivery > Fields.

  2. Enable Open To Marketplace > Save.

  3. Go to Vehicles, click on the vehicle that you allow to grab marketplace jobs.

  4. Click on Show Advanced Details and enable Can grab marketplace jobs. Click Save.


  5. Go to Jobs > Calendar > click on date.

  6. Click on Deliveries or Collections tab. Click Add Delivery or Add Collection form to appear.

  7. Enable Open to Marketplace and Click on Save.

Ensure that the job is not assigned to any Driver.

The job will now appear on the Driver’s app under marketplace for the drivers to grab.

Importing Jobs Into The Marketplace

For importing Marketplace jobs via Excel / CSV, create a column named “ Open to marketplace” and input value of 1 or Y for jobs that you wish to open to drivers to grab and 0 or N for jobs that you do not want to open up to the marketplace.

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If you wish to import the job fee for the marketplace jobs, create a column named Marketplace Offer and input the amount corresponding to the job. Note that once the Excel or CSV file is uploaded with marketplace jobs, the jobs will immediately be sent to the drivers’ smartphones, hence the timing of the uploading needs to be considered.

Enabling Marketplace For All Jobs

For default enabling of the marketplace feature for all of your jobs, navigate to Settings > Delivery/Collection > Scroll down to the bottom of the screen > Switch on Open To Marketplace > Save.

Update Jobs to The Marketplace in Bulk

For updating jobs to be available in the marketplace in bulk, you can follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the Jobs > Bulk Update

  2. Enter the D.O. numbers along with the date and job type

  3. Select Yes or No to update the marketplace in bulk

  4. A preview will appear. If everything is already correct, click confirm to update

How to Restrict Jobs Visibility in the Marketplace Based on Assigned Groups

You can control which jobs your drivers see in the Marketplace based on their assigned groups. When you enable group restrictions, drivers will only see jobs that belong to their designated group,

  1. You can navigate to Settings > Job > Options

  2. Scroll down to Job Options and enable the option below:

Once enabled, drivers can only see jobs that belong in their assigned groups.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us via support@detrack.com or through the Live Chat feature.


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