Our world is different now. Because of the sad COVID-19 pandemic, our lives have almost come to a stop. Even so, we have to move on with our lives and find ways.
As an online business owner, you probably sell your own products that you keep in your house or a warehouse. If this is the case, you need an app for your Shopify store that lets other companies pick up your products and deliver them to your customers.
You might also want an app that shows customers where they can pick up their order. This is a great way to help customers save money on shipping costs.
We will talk about seven of them today. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to choose one that you can use for your Shopify store.
Pickup in Store and Delivery by Zapiet
This app gives you access to a number of services, such as store pickup and delivery. It is a way for your Shopify store to offer local delivery.
Here are some of the things the app can do:
- Local Delivery And Store Pick-Ups: The app lets the customer enter delivery information or set a date for when he will pick up the item from your store.
- Limits And Control: You can limit how many items can be scheduled for delivery or pickup in a day. The app lets customers choose the date and time that works best for them.
- Conditions: Before an item can be shipped, you can set conditions, like how much it weighs or how much it costs all together.
There are three plans for the app. They are called Essential, Advanced, and Pro.
- Essential – costs $29 per month. With this plan, you can tell the app to send packages to up to three different places. You also get the option to pick up your order at a store, a shipping calendar, integration with the Shopify POS, and a way to show which products are available and how much shipping will cost.
- Advanced: This plan costs $35 per month and gives you all of the benefits of the first plan. Here, instead of just three places, you can deliver to 100 places.
- Pro: This plan costs $49 per month, which is a pro. You will get all of the benefits of the first two plans, but the app can be set up to send food to 2,000 different places. You can also set how long it takes to prepare each product and how many deliveries can be made per day. You will also get early access to new features.
For 14 days, the app is free. After that, you have to pay at least $29 a month.
Contactless Curbside Pickup is made by Cork Labs.
With this app, you can arrange to be picked up in your area. In this app, the customer chooses where to drop off the item, and you send an employee to that location to drop off the item.
Here’s what the app can do:
- Pick-Up Process: The pick-up process is to schedule a pick-up and ask the customer to show you the app to prove that he is the buyer.
- Unlimited Locations: You can set up as many pick-up spots as you want, depending on your plan.
- Easy To Set Up—you don’t have to type any code or scripts to get it to work.
- Compatibility: It works with all Shopify themes, and if you want, you can also connect it to your Shopify POS.
- Support: If you need help, you can use the live chat or send an email.
There are three plans for the app. Starter, Essential, and Professional.
- Starter: This plan costs $9.95 per month and gives you pickup verification for one location. This also includes a screen that the customer sees on their phone to confirm.
- Essential: costs $19.95 a month. Here, the number of locations goes up to three, and you can get rid of the app developer’s logo.
- Professional: This plan costs $29.95 a month and lets you add up to eight locations. You can also take the company logo out of the verification process.
At the moment, you can use the app for free for the first 30 days. After that, you have to choose a monthly plan.
Atom Yard does local delivery.
This app lets you deliver things locally, either by hand or by using a shipping courier. With the app, your customers can also choose the time and date they want you to drop off their items at their chosen delivery locations.
Here are some of the things the app can do:
- Date And Time Request: When a customer buys something from your website, he or she can choose a date for the delivery.
- Store Hours And Blackout: You can set store hours and blackout times in the app’s calendar, so customers know when you are open. You can also cross out a date on your calendar if you are closed on that date and there is no delivery date.
- Delivery Limits: You can set delivery limits in the app so that your team doesn’t get too busy. For example, you can limit the number of deliveries to no more than two per hour.
- Product Selection: You can choose products that can’t be shipped. For instance, if some of your products are like ice cream, you can decide that they won’t be delivered but can only be picked up in-store.
- Delivery Expectation: You can set a time between when the order is placed and when the item is delivered. For instance, you can make it a rule that delivery can’t happen until at least two days after the order date.
The app is free to use for only 14 days. After that, it will cost you $13 a month to use.
Order Delivery Date by Identixweb
This app is for both delivering and picking up. Your customers can choose when they want the goods to be delivered or picked up.
Here are some of the things the app can do:
- Store Pickup And Local Delivery: Give your customers an app that lets them choose when their purchase will be delivered. Customers can also choose when they want to pick up their item from your store.
- Limits: You can set a limit on how many orders you can make on a certain date. So, you won’t be too busy to handle all the orders.
- Calendar: You can add a calendar right to the product page. The customer can then see how soon he can pick up or have the item delivered.
- With Dynamic Shipping: you can change the cost of shipping based on when it is sent. For instance, shipping during the holidays can be more expensive because you have to pay your workers more.
- Google Calendar: The app can sync with Google Calendar. This way, if the schedule changes, you and your customers can still see the same things.
- Cut-Off Time: You can set a time when orders can no longer be placed. For example, orders that came in at 3 p.m. can only be delivered two days from now.
This app can be tried out for free for 15 days. After that, you have to pay $9.99 per month to keep using the service.
Mageworx No-Contact Delivery
The next free app on our list lets you add a “No Contact” button to your product pages. In reality, all it does is let your customer choose how they want their order delivered.
How does it work? Once it’s set up, your product pages will have a radio button. When the customer checks out, he has to choose “No Contact Delivery” and then tell the company what he wants. For example, he can type “just leave the item on my doorstep.”
Here are some of the things the app can do:
- Auto-Install: The app is put in place with just one click; you don’t have to add any code or script to the Shopify theme.
- Radio Buttons: The “no contact” buttons will be shown on the cart pages and the product pages.
- Descriptions: You can write your own description under the radio button to explain what this button or service does.
- Commenting: The customer can say how he wants the contactless delivery method to work.
- Languages: The app can make the message understandable in any language.
This app isn’t as hard to use as the others, but it shows that you care about the health of your customers. This app works great if you are the one delivering the item to your customers.
Postmates
With this app, you can do something called “on-demand delivery.” Don’t ship any more. Postmates will instead pick up the item from your store and deliver it to your customers. This is best for sellers in your area.
Here are some of the things the app can do:
- No More Shipping And Extra Work: Once you install the app, you no longer have to ship your product or do any extra work. People from Postmates will pick up your item and take it to the customer.
- 2-Hour Delivery: The customer only has to choose this method of delivery, and then they can wait as little as two hours for their items.
- Store Preferences: You can turn it on or off with the app, or you can set certain times when delivery is available.
- Track The Delivery. Once the item is picked up, you can see where the delivery person is. You can also give your customer the link to track the delivery.
- Cancelling A Transaction: You or your customer can do this from the app.
It’s like UBER, if you think about it. But instead of taking people from one place to another, UBER drivers pick up and deliver packages.
Getting the app is free. But you will be charged a base fee of $4.20 per delivery plus $1.20 per mile that the Postmates person travels to deliver our item.
Store Pickup Click and Collect is made by CreativeR.
If the things you sell are too heavy to ship, the Store Pickup Click and Collect app is great. Instead of you delivering the item, the customer can pick it up at your store. The app lets your customer choose a date to pick up the order.
Then, the customer checks a box at checkout saying that they will be picking up the product. From there, they have to fill out the information and choose a date for the pick-up.
Here’s what it has:
- Mandatory Pick-Up: In your Shopify store, you can choose certain collection pages where all the items must be picked up.
- Multiple Stores: If you run more than one Shopify store, you can use the app on all of them.
- Optional Fields: You can add fields for the customer’s name and phone number that they can choose to fill out or not.
- No Extra Payment: You don’t have to pay extra for other apps to figure out extra shipping costs. This app works with all of Shopify’s themes and doesn’t depend on any other shipping apps.
- Charge Customers For Pick-Up: You can charge customers for pick-up.
- Fast – Doesn’t slow down your Shopify store, and it won’t hurt your SEO either.
- Customizable: The app can be changed to match the theme, design, or colors of your store.
- Easy To Install: You don’t have to write code or scripts to install the app; all you have to do is click a few buttons on your Shopify store to get it up and running.
- Order Notes: In the order notes, the customer can make notes about the pickup. These notes will show up on your Shopify dashboard.
The app is free to download, and you can try it out for free for 14 days. After that, you pay the same amount every month, which is $11.
Summary
These apps for delivery and pick-up can help you give your customers more value. Not only will you save money, but you will also be able to give people in your area more choices.
Even though some of these apps are free, you might want to buy the ones that cost money if they have the features you want. At most, you should try out apps that let you try them out for free. If you like how they work, you can sign up for the paid version.
