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Guides for running wholesale food delivery.

Practical playbooks from real operations: month end, picking, proof of delivery and customer updates.

Picking
Catch weight picking: sold by the case, picked by the pound

Meat, cheese and produce don't come in neat units. How to pick, check and record items sold by weight without guesswork.

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Order intake
From shorthand emails to clean orders

“2 cs mayo gal, limes 10#.” Every restaurant writes orders its own way. How to turn order emails into orders without retyping them.

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Delivery & proof
Delivered but disputed: how proof of delivery ends the argument

What to capture at the door, and why it turns a week of back and forth into one message.

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Reconciliation
How to reconcile a payout report against your orders

Stop matching payout lines by hand. A step-by-step method you can run today, and what changes when the matching runs on its own.

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Running a delivery business
Answer “are you cheaper?” with a savings report

Every restaurant asks it. How to compare their supplier invoice against your prices, item by item, and send a report they can trust.

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Picking
Shorts, outs and substitutions without angry chefs

Exceptions happen on every route. Here is how to mark them in the aisle, check them before the van leaves, and tell the restaurant before the driver arrives.

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Product updates
Your operational data, on your terms

Drofilla API v1 is live — read access to your orders, routes, customers, products, and staff, scoped to keys you control.

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Picking
Swarm picking explained: how multiple pickers fulfill one order in parallel

Swarm picking splits one order across temperature zones so several pickers work it in parallel, instead of one person walking the whole building.

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Reconciliation
How to automate order reconciliation for 3PL operators

How to automate payout reconciliation: match every payout line to its order, mark matched orders paid, and review only the exceptions.

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See it on your own orders.

A 20-minute walkthrough on a demo account set up like your operation. Bring a real order email and watch it become an order.