Delivery Capacity & Couriers Calculator
Couriers needed and in-house vs last-mile cost.
Salary, benefits, contributions and vehicle allowance
42 local deliveries · 16 per courier
5 extra: cover them with last-mile companies
- Cost per delivery with your own couriers
- $ 8.791
- Monthly cost with your own couriers
- $ 9.600.000
- Monthly cost outsourcing everything
- $ 9.828.000
- Daily deliveries for your own courier to be cheaper
- 13,7 o más
- Cost recommendation
- Mensajeros propios
Short answer:the couriers you need are your local deliveries of the day divided by the deliveries one courier makes per shift (hours on the road × 60 ÷ minutes per delivery). Having your own couriers pays off when their monthly cost per delivery is lower than a last-mile company's rate, which usually happens with high, stable volume.
Also calculate your peak day (special dates such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or Colombia's Love and Friendship Day), when it usually makes sense to combine your own couriers with last-mile companies. For a courier's cost, use the employee cost calculator, which includes benefits and contributions.
When to use this tool
- Before hiring one more courier.
- To prepare for peak dates such as Valentine's Day or Mother's Day.
- When comparing your cost per delivery with a last-mile company.
- To define how many deliveries each route should make.
How to calculate how many couriers you need
- 1Enter your orders on a normal day and on your peak day.
- 2Enter what percentage of those orders is delivered in your city by courier.
- 3Enter how many hours a courier spends on the road and how many minutes each delivery takes, including travel.
- 4Add the total monthly cost of a courier and the per-delivery rate of a last-mile company.
- 5Compare the cost per delivery and decide the mix.
Your own couriers and last-mile companies from the same dashboard
In Katuq you assign each order to one of your couriers, who sees the day's deliveries in the delivery app, or to last-mile companies such as Mensajeros Urbanos, Pibox, 99minutos or Rappi Cargo. That way you combine both on peak days without losing track of what went out and what was delivered.