Rates that allow for clients to ask for many deliveries at once, instead of one by one.

EXAMPLE: A service the is often requested multiple times a week to move blood and urine samples from homes for the elderly, to a laboratory and then return the package. However, there are multiple elderly homes and multiple laboratories so sometimes the task is a single pickup and a single dropoff, or it may be multiple pickups and one dropoff, or a pickup + a dropoff + a dropoff. In order to facilitate the client, we want all these possible use cases to be made in one type of purchase process.

FORMAT: A price of this type will usually have a base price per “point” (a pick-up of dropoff) with suppliments of weight or volume or urgency for each point.

When to use When you have a client with a clear set of possible deliveries, but they may change or be arranged differently in each delivery. Any one order may be between 2 and 10 points, and there is not a huge variation between the types of packages you are carrying, or the time slots in which they are being delivered. Ex. notifications, fruit boxes, moving stock between stores. Pros: Avoids clients getting annoyed at slowly making orders one at a time, clean and simple pricing rule you can explain to a client that covers a wide range of use cases.

When not to use If the client cannot use CoopCycle as they should, or if they have a very high volume of orders Cons: This pricing rule is still being developed and still cannot be used with pricing rules that are based on time like Difference (hours), Difference (days) or time range length (hours) and in no circumstances can be used with rules based on kilometers of distance.

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