Software for UK courier and same-day companies
Lodway is the operating system for courier companies. Quoting, dispatch, drivers, compliance, tracking and invoicing in one place — under your name, at your web address. Your customers never see ours.
Dispatch board
LiveLU4 → MK9
Harlow Print · Reo T.
pays
£148
costs
£96
MK1 → B18
Vale Medical · Subcontract
pays
£210
costs
£188
LU2 → CV1
Atlas Parts · Unallocated
pays
£96
costs
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Everything switched on, no card. You are signed in and booking jobs in about a minute — nobody approves anything.
Already a customer? Sign in at your own address, the one ending in .lodway.com
Real screens from Lodway, recorded on a demo company. Leave it running for the whole job, from booking to invoice, or pick a step.
1. Customers quote and book online
Your prices, worked out on the spot from your own rate card. Guests can pay by card before it's booked; business accounts book on credit.
The driving is the part your firm is good at. Everything that costs you money happens in the hour either side of it.
The phone goes all morning and every call takes a dispatcher off the board to look something up.
Every job gets a tracking link the moment it is booked, and the customer is emailed or texted as it moves. The answer arrives before the question.
The quote depends on who picks up the phone. New staff undercharge, and nobody finds out until the month is over.
Your rate card prices every quote — vehicle, mileage bands, waiting time, surcharges, fuel, VAT — and shows its working.
Especially subcontracted work: the price came in over the phone and the cost turned up on someone else's invoice three weeks later.
The board shows what the job pays and what it costs before you allocate it. Covering a job becomes a decision, not a hope.
Nobody noticed until something happened. The certificate was in an inbox, and the reminder was in somebody's head.
Documents sit against the driver with expiry dates, and an out-of-date one blocks allocation outright. A gate, not a report nobody reads.
Then a phone gets replaced, or the group is cleared, and the proof for a £900 consignment is gone.
Signature and photo are captured in the driver app, attached to the job, and stay there. Six months later you send the proof in a minute.
Somebody rebuilds the month from a job sheet, a diary and a bank statement. Things get missed, and some get billed twice.
Invoices are generated from the jobs you actually delivered, on each client's agreed terms. Nothing retyped, so nothing missed.
From the phone ringing to the invoice going out — one system, so nothing is retyped between the steps and nothing falls between them.
Quoting
Your own rate card does the arithmetic — vehicle class, real drive time, tapered mileage bands, waiting time, congestion and fuel. Customers can quote and book themselves on your site, and the number they get is the one you would have given them.
Quote
from your rate cardTotal ex VAT
£120.36
The same answer whoever picks up the phone.
Drivers
Your drivers install one app, choose your company once, and see only your jobs. Status updates, photos and signatures are captured at the door and queue on the phone when there is no signal, sending themselves the moment there is.
On duty
Job 2 of 5
Collect · LU4 9AA
Harlow Print, by 10:30
Proof of delivery
signed + photo
Saves offline. Sends on signal.
Your customers
Every job gets a tracking page the moment it is booked, in your name and your colours. It updates as the job moves, and it never reveals who actually drove — which matters on the work you subcontract.
Your delivery
NC-2026-K7M4QP
Your company's name and colours. Never ours, and never the subcontractor's.
Getting paid
Invoices are built from the jobs you actually delivered, on each client's agreed terms, with the proof of delivery attached. Nothing is retyped, so nothing is missed and nothing is billed twice.
Vale Medical · March
18 delivered jobs · 30-day terms
Invoice total
£2,356.80
Built from the jobs themselves. Nothing retyped, so nothing missed.
The phone, WhatsApp, route planning, the Courier Exchange, Xero and QuickBooks — the rest of what a courier office runs on, in the same place.
Quotes and bookings
One price from your own rate card, wherever the booking comes from.
7 features
Dispatch
Who's doing what, where they are, and whether the job makes money.
7 features
Drivers and the driver app
One app, your jobs only, and nothing lost when the signal drops.
7 features
Your customers
They know where their delivery is before they think to ring.
3 features
Phone, texts and WhatsApp
Talk to drivers and customers from inside Lodway, on your own numbers.
4 features
Getting paid
Invoices built from the work you actually delivered.
4 features
Your name, your control
It looks like your company, and you decide who sees what.
6 features
See every feature
The full list
Nothing here is exotic. It is the ordinary day of a courier firm, with the retyping and the ringing round taken out of it.
Quoting a job
Today: From memory, or a spreadsheet on one person's laptop
With Lodway: Your rate card, on every quote, showing its working
Knowing where a driver is
Today: Ring them
With Lodway: On the map, while they are on shift
Telling a customer where their parcel is
Today: Ring the driver, then ring the customer back
With Lodway: They already have the link
Knowing if a job made money
Today: After the subcontractor's invoice arrives
With Lodway: Before you allocate it
Driver insurance and licences
Today: A folder, and someone's memory
With Lodway: Expiry dates that block allocation
Proof of delivery
Today: A WhatsApp group
With Lodway: On the job, forever, sent in one click
Invoicing a month
Today: A week of retyping
With Lodway: Generated from delivered jobs
The decisions that are easy to get wrong when you are the one selling the software.
Your customers, drivers and B2B clients see your company and nothing else — the portal, the tracking page, the emails, the invoices and the PODs. We are not mentioned anywhere they can reach.
Most systems assume every job goes to your own driver. Yours don't, so cost and margin are first-class on subcontracted and exchange work, and your customer's tracking page never reveals who actually drove.
One app on the Play Store serves every company here. Your drivers install it, pick your firm once, and are working — no per-company build, no waiting on us.
Support access is something you grant, for a set time, with a reason, from your own settings — and it appears in your own audit log. Nobody here can open your jobs on a whim.
There is no implementation phase, no data migration and no training day.
Company name, your name, a password. You get your own web address and you are signed in — nobody approves anything.
Your vehicle rates and mileage bands. Everything quotes from them: the website, the client portal, and the phone.
They install the app and upload their documents. Anyone missing one cannot be allocated work until it is there.
Book it, allocate it, watch it move, capture the POD, invoice it. Most operators do this on day one.
Not per job, and not per user in your office. You should be able to have a busy month without it costing you more, and put a dispatcher on the system without thinking about it.
Starter
Up to 5 drivers · 1 GB storage
£41 / month, ex VAT
£488.04 a year · save 17%
An owner-driver or a small team still doing the dispatching themselves.
Standard
Up to 20 drivers · 5 GB storage
£107 / month, ex VAT
£1,284.84 a year · save 17%
A firm with an office, B2B accounts on credit, and work it subcontracts out.
Scale
Up to 75 drivers · 5 GB storage
£248 / month, ex VAT
£2,978.04 a year · save 17%
A multi-depot operation integrating with customers' own systems.
Every account starts on a 14-day trial with everything switched on
No card until you decide. The jobs, clients and drivers you set up during the trial are still there afterwards — it is your account, not a sandbox. More than 75 drivers, or several depots? Talk to us.
Including the one most software companies leave off their website.
It does not do payroll. It is not a telematics system — it tracks a driver while they are on shift and not otherwise, deliberately. And it puts a multi-drop round in a sensible order, but it is not a full fleet-planning tool that juggles dozens of vans at once.
No, and we would not recommend it. Start booking new work in it from a Monday and let the old system finish what it has. Nothing needs migrating for you to be using it properly by the end of the week.
It is yours. Every list in the product exports to CSV, and your invoices and PODs are downloadable. We do not delete an account that stops paying — access stops, the records stay, and paying again restores them exactly.
Yes, into your own Stripe account. You connect it in your settings and the money goes straight to you — it never passes through us.
Yes. You get one the moment you sign up, and you can point your own domain at it later from your settings — one DNS record, and the screen tells you exactly what to type.
Strategro Ltd, a UK company. The product was built for a working courier firm before it was sold to anyone, which is why it argues with you about driver compliance.
14 days free, everything switched on, no card. About a minute to set up, and nothing to uninstall if you do not get on with it.
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