Water and beverage delivery on a route that repeats.
Bottled water, kegs and cases are a route business: the same customers, on a rhythm, with heavy loads, empties to collect and money to take at the door. PrivateMile plans the round and records all of it.
Why beverage & water delivery teams pick it
Built for the way your deliveries actually go.
Capacity that is respected
Weight and volume limits are part of planning, so a round is one a van can physically carry — and a reload at the depot is part of the plan rather than a surprise.
Money taken at the door
Cash, card or cheque recorded the moment it is collected, with the amount and method on the order and in the day's reconciliation.
Rounds that re-plan
Add a call-in order to today's round and re-optimize; completed stops stay done and the driver's phone updates without anyone rebuilding the run.
Empties and returns on the record
A collection is recorded on the same stop as the drop, with a photo and a count, so bottle and keg balances stop being an argument.
A round is not a route
Route businesses are different from on-demand ones in a way software often misses: the customers repeat, the driver knows them, and the value of a round is partly in that familiarity. Planning that ignores it — reshuffling territories daily for a marginally shorter distance — costs more in service time than it saves in miles.
So zones matter here more than raw optimization. Keep a round with the driver who knows which house has the side gate and which restaurant takes deliveries through the back, and use optimization to sequence within the round rather than to redraw it.
Heavy loads change the plan
Water and beverage delivery is one of the few local delivery categories where the van genuinely runs out of space before the driver runs out of day. Capacity as a planning constraint is not a nicety here: a round planned without it is a round that gets rebuilt at the loading bay.
The money and the empties
Two things happen at these doors that do not happen at a parcel drop: money changes hands, and containers come back. Both are recorded on the stop — payment with the amount and method, returns with a photo and a count — so the day reconciles from what drivers actually did rather than from what everyone remembers on Friday.
Also in the box
And everything else, on every plan.
COD & payments
Collect cash, card, or cheque on delivery. Nothing slips.
Zones & warehouses
Multi-depot operations with geofenced service areas.
Proof of delivery
Photo, signature, notes — and QR-verified parcel handoffs.
Live GPS tracking
Every driver on one map, updating in real time.
Can we plan repeating rounds for the same customers?
Yes. Orders can be created ahead by import or API for future dates, then planned and optimized as a normal day. Zones keep each round with the driver who knows it.
Does it handle vehicle weight and volume limits?
Yes — capacity is a constraint on planning, so a proposed route is one the van can actually carry, and depot reloads can be built into the day.
Can drivers take payment?
Yes. Cash, card and cheque are recorded at the door with the amount and method, and reconcile against the day's completed orders.
How do we track empties?
Record the collection on the stop with a photo and a count. It stays attached to the order, so the running balance with each customer is evidenced rather than remembered.
Other industries
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