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5-step plan to enhance the productivity of your field agents

As on-demand services and gig work takes center stage, customers look for excellence in every aspect. Businesses are no longer competing on price. Acquiring and retaining customers through delightful experiences is the new

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Everything you need to know about delivery management technology

In the age of Amazon, are you still struggling to compress your delivery time and delight your customers? Is the process to arrange and manage deliveries turning out to be a herculean task?

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Are your delivery drivers reaching customers on time?

Happy Customers. Revenue Growth. Quick Expansion. Do these words resonate with your delivery business goal? Let’s see how fast and far you can achieve them in the existing on-demand space. Competitive options

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Introducing Insights—location intelligence for your business

Explore the wealth of data captured by the HyperTrack location logistics cloud. Use interactive explorations to optimize fleet operations

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Gig workers use location-powered Beans app for improved delivery efficiency

Last-mile location app Beans has developed a following among gig workers who use it to streamline their deliveries. We talk to Akash Agarwal to learn more.

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The HyperTrack QuickBooks app: one-click automated distance tracking and financial payouts

HyperTrack measures the actual distance traveled and the time spent at each customer location or jobsite, and adds these to QuickBooks in real time.

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How Xpheno built trustworthy field force automation

Xpheno is a Bangalore-based recruitment and staffing firm bringing sophistication to a traditionally sleepy industry. They’ve built automated field force management with HyperTrack.

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Introducing the logistics performance Scoreboard

The HyperTrack Scoreboard is a single view of what’s happening today, historical averages, and key trends in location operations

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“We can implement the flow that we want”: we talk to Goodbox

Bangalore-based Goodbox connects supermarkets with their customers, using HyperTrack SDKs and live location intelligence to manage local delivery dispatch.

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“We just implemented it.” Our Q&A with TopServe

Canadian restaurant tech firm TopServe used HyperTrack’s open source app to launch a food delivery app in one week.

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The new Nearby API: on-demand dispatch and routing just got easier

Now, it’s easier than ever to launch and run an on-demand commerce operation with the sophistication of the Bat Cave.

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September update: Nearby API, SDKs for Cordova and Ionic, partnership opportunities...

New!: Locate app users on demand and figure out which ones are closet to a location of interest. It’s a powerful tool for building dispatch and route automation.

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“It’s made a big, big difference.” Our Q&A with Groundworks

Groundworks operates basement and crawlspace repair brands across the U.S. We checked in to learn how they use HyperTrack live location intelligence.

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Let’s move up-stack

Jonathan E Cowperthwait is HyperTrack’s new Vice President of Partnerships. Why partnerships? Why now?

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Impact of iOS13 and iOS14 permissions on background location access

Consumers expect apps to access location while the app is in use in the foreground. Users have different expectations from work apps. Workforce apps stay in the background most of the time. Business uses high-frequency location for routing orders and order tracking.

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5 ways to catch no-shows before they happen

No-shows are the worst nightmare for logistics fleets. No operations manager wants to spend hours in a day finding out about a no-show from the customer, and then scramble in the moment of anxiety to rescue the situation.

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Accurate distance computation using location and maps

Distance is money. For businesses on the move, distance covered by the fleet is used to reimburse fuel, pay out contractors, charge customers, and expense workers. Inaccuracies in either direction lead to friction between the payer and payee. And yet, accurate distance computations remain evasive.

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Supply chain transformation from distribution to fulfillment

The past decade witnessed a profound shift in consumer behavior for food, groceries and medicines from in-store to at-home experiences due to convenience. The global pandemic caused an overnight shift due to compulsion. Retail chains must accelerate their transformation now.

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Introducing Playground for developers to build their live location use case

Product development teams can now build live location use cases within minutes using Playground. It brings the power of live location tracking at your fingertips. You can control tracking of devices from the cloud and get inline code snippets to copy-paste into your application.

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Helping essential service fleets respond to COVID-19 worldwide

We are committed to the safety of the essential service workforces and the communities that they service. As the novel coronavirus sweeps the world, we wanted to see how the patterns of service workforces changed with government mandated social distancing.

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Live location tracking with Node.js and Python

Product development teams around the world are creating applications powered by real-time location tracking. Now these teams have the power at their fingertips to control tracking on mobile devices with Node.js and Python code running in the cloud.

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Location history of app users as a timeline

Mobile phones have powerful sensors to log detailed information about your app users' movements with their permission. Replaying the location time-series as a polyline on the map makes the journey come to life.

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Evolution of location access on Android

As more apps started using location in the background, and sending this data to servers for use by applications outside the device, Android started setting some rules of the game to manage battery drain and user privacy. The Android platform has evolved significantly with Android 8 and onward.

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Live location dashboards for large field operations teams

Operations managers for large fleets require the proper tools to map their tracked assets, identify anomalies, and foster an efficient workforce.

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Build your own location-aware logistics app in an hour

Mobile apps are driving the digital transformation of logistics. Modern workforce and fleet automation solutions must have a location-aware mobile app for drivers as they are out and about performing their deliveries and service visits.