Branch delivery cost.
Work out what your own delivery fleet costs per delivery, and what sending all or some of your deliveries to an outside service would change, from your own figures.
It is a model of your own figures, not a quote or a measured BuildQuick result. No price, wage, fee or other figure is suggested: every input starts empty, and the example values are round and fictional.
What it works out.
- Replace your fleet
- Every delivery goes to an outside service: the fleet costs you would no longer pay against the new delivery fees, any subscription and the cost of the change.
- Overflow only
- You keep your fleet and send only the deliveries it cannot take: the overtime, extra mileage and rentals that would be avoided against the new delivery fees, any subscription and the cost of the change.
Costs you would still pay are never counted as a saving.
How each figure is calculated.
Replace your fleet
- Your cost per delivery: your fleet’s monthly cost ÷ (deliveries a day × operating days).
- Counter time: the minutes per outside delivery, converted to hours, × the hourly cost of counter time, for each outside delivery.
- Transition and administration costs: the total ÷ the months you spread it over, counted every month of that period.
- Net avoidable cash benefit: the fleet costs you would no longer pay − the new delivery fees − the subscription − counter time − transition and administration costs. A negative figure is an additional cost.
- Retained fleet costs are on both sides of the comparison and are never counted as a saving, so the verdict, the chart and the sensitivity rows compare only the fleet costs you would no longer pay, per delivery, with the outside option per delivery: its price, counter time, the subscription and the cost of the change.
- Break-even: the deliveries a month at which the outside option costs the same as the fleet costs you would no longer pay, subscription included; your current fleet cost is held fixed only within the capacity your branch confirms.
- A year is the unrounded monthly figure for every month of the year, except that transition and administration costs count only in the months you spread them over, and then the row says the first year; where that differs from what the shown monthly figures give, the row says it is rounded.
- Amounts are rounded half-up to the cent only when shown; every total and difference is calculated from unrounded values.
Overflow only
- Your cost per delivery: your fleet’s monthly cost ÷ (deliveries a day × operating days).
- Counter time: the minutes per outside delivery, converted to hours, × the hourly cost of counter time, for each outside delivery, including each run booked one at a time.
- Transition and administration costs: the total ÷ the months you spread it over, counted every month of that period.
- Net avoidable cash benefit: the overtime, extra mileage and vehicle rentals avoided − the new delivery fees − the subscription − counter time − transition and administration costs. A negative figure is an additional cost.
- Your fleet’s cost is kept either way, so it is on both sides and is never counted as a saving.
- Released capacity (hours and the gross profit you estimate) is shown separately and is never part of the net avoidable cash benefit.
- Carrying the overflow with one more vehicle and driver is a hypothetical that uses your fleet’s monthly cost for it; your current fleet cost is held fixed only within the capacity your branch confirms.
- The verdict compares the ways to carry the overflow by their monthly cost, not your fleet’s average cost per delivery, because your fleet is kept either way.
- A year is the unrounded monthly figure for every month of the year, except that transition and administration costs count only in the months you spread them over, and then the row says the first year; where that differs from what the shown monthly figures give, the row says it is rounded.
- Amounts are rounded half-up to the cent only when shown; every total and difference is calculated from unrounded values.
Uses your inputs. Simplified rules for illustration, not BuildQuick’s dispatch logic. Nothing you enter is stored or sent; you don’t need to enter names, phone numbers or addresses.
Work it out.
Your fleet
On a normal day, with the fleet you are costing.
Lease, fuel, maintenance, insurance and staff costs that would actually end. Enter your own figure: none is suggested.
A lease you cannot end, or a driver kept for other work. Counted on both sides, never as a saving.
Optional. Break-evens above it are marked as outside your confirmed capacity.
The outside option
The price you were quoted. None is suggested.
Leave it empty if there is none: it is always shown in the verdict and the break-even.
Booking, confirming and invoicing one outside delivery.
Enter your own figure: none is suggested.
The cost of the change
Setting up the change: training, contracts, systems.
Enter your figures, or try the example values, to see the result.
The chart appears once your fleet cost, deliveries and outside price give a result.
Assumptions and sources
This tool uses only the figures you enter.