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Cost per delivery calculator
Add up a day’s driver pay, vehicle, fuel, tolls and overhead, take out failed attempts, then see the cost per successful delivery and break-even delivery fee.
Delivery cost per route, worked out in the open
See what each route costs, what it earns and the margin it leaves, plus its fuel and CO2, worked out from rates you set in rupees. Every figure is labelled as an estimate and shows which rate it used.
The problem
Busy is not the same as profitable
A full delivery day can still lose money. A route with many drops close together pays for itself; a route that crosses the city for three stops may not. Without a cost per route, the only number anyone sees is the monthly fuel bill, long after the routes that caused it are forgotten.
Costing a route does not need perfect data. It needs a few honest rates, such as cost per kilometre, driver time, handling per stop and the fuel price, applied the same way every day, with a clear note of where each number came from.
How Atlas costs a route
The rates live in Settings; the estimates appear on each route and in Insights.
- Rates you setRunning cost per km, driver and vehicle cost per minute, handling cost per stop, the cost of a failed stop, fuel price per litre, CO2 per litre of fuel and more, in rupees unless you choose another currency.
- Cost, revenue and margin per routeA route's estimate prices its distance, its minutes and its stops at your rates. Its revenue is your revenue per route, plus your revenue per stop for each stop, plus your revenue per km of the route, set against that cost to show a margin beside your target and minimum.
- Every figure shows its sourceBeside each estimate Atlas lists the rates it used and where each came from: your settings, the vehicle, the route or Atlas' own default. When defaults are in use, it says so and links to Settings › Rates.
- Fuel and CO2Litres come from distance and the vehicle's mileage, CO2 from litres and your CO2-per-litre rate, and idle time adds fuel at your idle rate.
- Costs over timeCosts and margin over the last 7 or 30 days show which kinds of route earn their keep and which do not.
Cost your routes
Set your rates
Open Settings › Rates and enter your own cost per km, driver cost, stop handling and fuel price.
Give vehicles their mileage
A vehicle's own mileage beats the default when Atlas works out fuel.
Add revenue rates
Enter what you earn per route, per stop and per km. Atlas adds all three and uses its own default for any you leave unset, so enter 0 for the ones you do not charge.
Read the Costs tab
Check a route's estimate and the rates behind it.
Compare over time
Use Insights › Costs to spot routes that keep missing your margin.
Honest limits
What costing does not do yet
Better to read it here than to find out on a busy morning.
- Estimates, not accountsAtlas does not read invoices, fuel cards or payroll; its costs are your rates applied to distance, time and stops.
- No separate toll lineRoute costs have no toll line yet; fold tolls into your cost per km.
- Straight-line distanceDistance is straight-line scaled by your road factor, so it can differ from the odometer.
Questions about delivery costs
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How is the cost of a route worked out?
Atlas multiplies the route's distance by your running cost per km, its planned minutes by your cost per minute and its stops by your handling cost per stop, then adds the costs you set for failed stops and for urgent, overdue or blocked work on the route.
How does Atlas estimate what a route earns?
It adds your revenue per route, your revenue per stop times the route's stops and your revenue per km times its distance. A revenue rate you have not set is Atlas' default, so set the ones you do not charge to 0. Atlas shows no margin worked out from its defaults alone.
Why does Atlas call these figures estimates?
Because they are your rates applied to an estimated distance and time, not money that left your account. Atlas shows which rates it used and whether each came from your settings, a vehicle, the route or its own default.
Can I use a currency other than rupees?
Yes. The currency is a setting that starts as INR; enter another three-letter currency code and enter your rates in it.
How is CO2 estimated?
From the litres a route is estimated to burn, its distance divided by the vehicle's mileage, multiplied by your CO2-per-litre rate. Set that rate from a published emission factor for your fuel.
More of what Atlas does. Each page names its limits.
- Route planningBuild routes with stops, put the stops in order and see distance and arrival times as estimates.
- DispatchKeep every job in one queue by status, give it a driver and a route, and act on rule-based suggestions.
- Delivery trackingFollow routes, stops and recorded positions on one live map, and see whether today is on track.
- Delivery exceptionsOne queue for late, at-risk, failed, blocked and unassigned work, promise gaps and SLA breaches, each with its reason.
- Fleet managementDrivers and vehicles in one list, with shifts, stop limits, capacity, mileage, service due and papers.
- GeofencingMark delivery areas and restricted zones as circles, and get rule-based flags for work inside or outside them.
- Load planningCheck weight and volume against the vehicle, load the last stop first, and split a route that is over.
See whether Atlas fits your delivery day. Atlas is part of Anslation One.
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