Create your delivery rounds – Growing Good

Setting Up Delivery Rounds

Before you can set up distribution methods (delivery areas and collection points), you'll need to create your delivery rounds. This ensures customers are automatically allocated to the correct round when they order.

What's a delivery round?

Think of it as a van doing a set route — it can include both home deliveries and collection points, grouped together to build an efficient run. You can create multiple rounds per delivery day, and multiple rounds per week.

⚠️ This must be done before creating distribution methods — [link]

Steps:

Go to Settings → Delivery Rounds

Click New Delivery Round

Fill in the essential fields:

Field	What it means
Name	What you'll call the round, e.g. "Thursday Deliveries"
Delivery day	The day orders reach the customer
Process day	The day orders are processed for this round (processing runs at 11pm)
Packing day	The day orders are packed for this round
Cost	The delivery fee for this round
Defer fulfilment to next week	Turn on if you want orders processed the week before delivery, on the process day set above

Click Create Delivery Round to finish

Optional fields — skip these for now

Manual Processing: Leave this off. With it off, orders generate automatically — the right choice for most setups. Only switch it on if you plan to manually trigger order generation, and if so, raise it with Martin at your next meeting first.

Activate Christmas Week Adjustments: Not needed during initial setup. This relates to managing orders over the Christmas period — come back to it when you're planning for Christmas.

📖 Learn more on delivery rounds and distribution methods.