#delivery apps

[learningfromlosing]

Hey doordash drivers, hey instacart drivers, hey any voluntary delivery driver for an app, I have some news for you. Disabled people who cannot get their groceries on their own very rarely have extra money to tip, especially with all the extra fees and delivery charges they need to pay to just eat. They will tip you if they can, they literally cannot sometimes and that isn't their fault. They still deserve their groceries. They still deserve their food. They still deserve help. If you're voluntarily driving for an app when you can easily get another job and you're complaining about the people who literally cannot get a job, or go outside, or drive, or see needing to get their food no matter how little they have, you should think about who really needs this more. They have no other option when they don't have help. They have no other option when they can't do it themselves. If you're voluntarily doing this job, and blaming the people giving you the orders that you already get paid for anyway, just because they literally do not have the money does not mean they aren't deserving. That they're doing it on purpose. That they're taking advantage of you. That they're doing it maliciously. You need to understand some people have no other option even if you do. Be more considerate. You have no idea what people are going through mentally, physically, financially, medically. Everyone deserves food. Everyone deserves help. Everyone deserves comfort. Even if they can't spend another 5/6 dollars of their limited disability funds. Sometimes it's not about you. Sometimes people aren't after you. Sometimes people aren't trying to hurt you, but trying to survive themselves.

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In an era where convenience reigns supreme, food delivery has become an integral part of our daily lives. The rise of busy lifestyles, coupled with advancements in technology, has led to an increasing demand for quick and efficient food delivery services. However, it’s not just the speed of delivery that matters; the packaging of food products plays a critical role in ensuring quality, safety, and overall customer satisfaction.

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How Medicine Delivery Apps Work Behind the Scenes

The rise of medicine delivery apps has revolutionized the healthcare industry, providing patients with easy access to their medications without needing to visit a pharmacy. These apps offer convenience, efficiency, and often lower costs, making them an essential tool for many people. However, the process from the moment a prescription is entered into the app to when the medication arrives at a customer's door is complex and involves several critical steps. This article takes a detailed look at the logistics, technology, and processes involved, shedding light on how a medicine delivery app development company brings this convenience to life.

The Role of Medicine Delivery Apps in Modern Healthcare

Medicine delivery apps have emerged as a crucial component of modern healthcare, especially in a world where digital services are becoming the norm. These apps bridge the gap between patients and pharmacies, ensuring that medications are delivered promptly and safely. They cater to various needs, from routine prescriptions to urgent deliveries, and have become particularly vital during times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

For patients, these apps offer the convenience of ordering medications from home, saving time and reducing the need to visit crowded pharmacies. For healthcare providers and pharmacies, they streamline the prescription fulfillment process, allowing for better inventory management and improved customer service.

How It Begins: Prescription Entry and Verification

The process starts with the patient or healthcare provider entering a prescription into the app. In some cases, this might be as simple as uploading a photo of a handwritten prescription or choosing a previously saved prescription from the app's history. 

Once the prescription is entered, the medicine delivery app's system needs to verify its validity. This involves several layers of checks, including:

Prescription Verification 

The app cross-references the prescription with databases to ensure that it’s legitimate and complies with local regulations.

Doctor and Patient Authentication 

The system verifies the credentials of the prescribing doctor and ensures the patient is who they claim to be. This step is crucial for preventing fraud and ensuring that the medication is appropriate for the patient’s condition.

Compliance Check

The app must ensure that the prescribed medication is not contraindicated with other medications the patient might be taking, a process often aided by integration with electronic health records (EHRs).

The Role of Technology in Medicine Delivery Apps

The backbone of any successful medicine delivery app is its technology. A well-developed app requires robust backend systems to handle the complexities of prescription management, customer data, payment processing, and logistics.

User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX)

The front end of the app must be intuitive and easy to navigate, allowing users to quickly upload prescriptions, select medicines, and place orders. The UI/UX design is crucial in ensuring a seamless experience, from login to checkout.

Database Management

A medicine delivery app development company needs to create a secure and scalable database to store patient information, prescriptions, and transaction histories. This data must be encrypted and comply with regulations like HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) to protect patient privacy.

Payment Gateway Integration

Secure payment gateways are integrated to facilitate smooth transactions. These gateways must support multiple payment methods, including credit/debit cards, digital wallets, and sometimes even insurance claims.

AI and Machine Learning

Advanced apps often incorporate AI to predict medication needs, offer personalized recommendations, and optimize delivery routes. Machine learning algorithms can analyze user behavior to improve the app’s service over time, making it more efficient and user-friendly.

Order Processing and Pharmacy Coordination

After prescription verification, the app’s system processes the order. Here’s where coordination with local pharmacies comes into play:

Pharmacy Selection

The app’s algorithm selects a pharmacy based on factors like proximity to the customer, availability of the prescribed medication, and the pharmacy’s ability to fulfill the order within the desired timeframe.

Inventory Management

The selected pharmacy’s inventory is checked in real-time to ensure the medication is available. If the medicine is out of stock, the app might suggest alternative pharmacies or notify the user of a delay.

Prescription Fulfillment

Once the order is confirmed, the pharmacy prepares the medication for delivery. This might involve packaging the medication in tamper-proof packaging and including any necessary documentation, such as usage instructions or warnings.

Logistics: From Pharmacy to Doorstep

The logistics involved in getting the medicine from the pharmacy to the customer’s door is perhaps the most intricate part of the process. A medicine delivery app development company needs to ensure that this aspect is handled with precision to maintain customer satisfaction.

Delivery Partner Integration 

Many medicine delivery apps partner with third-party delivery services. These partners are integrated into the app, allowing for real-time tracking and efficient routing. Some apps may have their fleet of delivery personnel, especially in urban areas with high demand.

Route Optimization

Using GPS and AI algorithms, the app calculates the fastest and most efficient route for delivery. This is especially crucial for time-sensitive deliveries, such as urgent medication or temperature-sensitive drugs that need to be delivered quickly.

Real-Time Tracking

Customers can track their orders in real-time, knowing exactly when their medication will arrive. This transparency helps build trust and keeps customers informed throughout the process.

Ensuring Safety and Compliance During Delivery

Safety and compliance are paramount in medicine delivery, given the sensitive nature of the products being handled.

Temperature Control

Some medications require specific temperature conditions during transit. The app’s system must ensure that these requirements are met, often by working with delivery partners who have the necessary equipment.

Verification Upon Delivery

Upon arrival, the delivery personnel may need to verify the recipient’s identity, especially for controlled substances. This step ensures that the medication reaches the intended patient.

Feedback and Support

After delivery, customers can provide feedback on the service, and any issues can be addressed promptly through customer support. This feedback loop helps the app improve its services continuously.

The Role of a Medicine Delivery App Development Company

Behind every successful medicine delivery app is a dedicated medicine delivery app development company that understands the nuances of the healthcare industry. These companies are responsible for building and maintaining the app’s infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, reliable, and scalable.

Customization

A good development company tailors the app to meet the specific needs of pharmacies, healthcare providers, and patients. This might include integrating with existing pharmacy management systems or creating features that cater to specific patient demographics.

Compliance and Security

Ensuring that the app complies with healthcare regulations and protects patient data is a top priority. Development companies must stay updated with the latest legal requirements and incorporate them into the app’s design.

Innovation

The best medicine delivery apps are those that innovate, offering features like telemedicine integration, AI-driven recommendations, and personalized care plans. A forward-thinking development company will constantly look for ways to improve the app’s functionality and user experience.

Conclusion

Medicine delivery apps have made obtaining necessary medications easier and more convenient for millions of people. However, the journey from prescription to delivery involves a complex interplay of technology, logistics, and compliance. A reliable medicine delivery app development company plays a crucial role in ensuring this process is smooth, secure, and efficient. By understanding the behind-the-scenes workings of these apps, we can better appreciate the technology and expertise that make modern healthcare more accessible.

[fat-wallet-annex]

Applying for Delivery Apps

Now that I have gotten my car and I have insurance, I can start applying for work. I am starting by applying for delivery apps widely used in the gig economy. Depending on success rate I may also apply for more traditional jobs. I found some helpful advice from reddit users who directed me to the Express website. I also have a list of local employers that may be willing to hire me. I will add…

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[croftersforlife]

*eating takeout*

Sara: What does your fortune cookie say?

Wanderlust, with the whole cookie in his mouth: My what?

[pivsketch]

"i cant believe my Long Lost Rival is driving around as some sort of FOOD COURIER instead of FIGHTING ME TO THE DEATH IN THE WRESTLING RING!!!" <- light novel title

this is (probably) not canon but the set up for a meetcute amused me enough to fumble through drawing a comic on my phone. help ive forgotten how to draw my guys!!!

[stellaralignment]

After reading @kira-serialfaggot 's post about inaccessible menus and @butterfly-sapphire post about non-customizable menus figured I now had sufficient excuse to rant about how I hate how every big restaurant's ""solution"" to these two problems is somehow always the worst fucking app I've ever had to use in my life.

So, to clarify real quick. I agree with both previous posts. Places that serve food should have their menu easily accessible somewhere if they have an online presence, and places that let you customize your order need to have that as a feature of any digital ordering solution they implement. Good? Good.

So, a lot of places I've seen (Wendys, Taco Bell, and McDonald to name a few) Have tried to get around how fucking horrible the DD app itself is by making their own apps with DD integration for the actual ordering/serving of delivery orders. Great, this lets them provide their own menu customization options, serve discounts/coupons, and generally have more control over the user experience. Fantastic. As a bonus, this usually also allows you to just look at the menu whenever you want.

Small issue. All of these apps were written by the worst fucking programmers I have ever witnessed in my life. I havn't gotten angry enough to de-compile or try to reverse engineer one yet, but my user experience has been so consistently bad and I've encountered issues that, as a software engineer, I honestly could not tell you how fucked their system has to be in order to allow that to happen.

Allow me to tell you the worst of these. I'm trying to order delivery from a store. It's late, like 7pm, but I know the place is open till 10. I can confirm this on their website (I do later for reasons that will become apparent) and google maps. So I punch in my address, make my order, and go to checkout. Unfortunately, the app tells me "Your payment method failed. Please select a new method and try again". Which was odd, but not unimaginable. I've had issues with my bank in the past. So I swap cards and try again, thinking nothing of it.

Except, my other card doesn't work either. Nor does using PayPal, or Google Pay, or any of the other payment options I tried. I'm getting desperate. I buy some games on steam just to make sure some of these are working, which they are. I was worried, but now that I've confirmed all my money hasn't been siphoned away somehow, I'm just confused and getting annoyed.

So I start going insane. I buy digital gift cards from several different sites and try using them. No dice, payment failed. I try using the website instead of the app, on my phone and PC. Payment failed. I boot up an android studio instance with a brand new virtual phone, install the app on it, and try to order. Again. Payment failed.

I'm starting to wonder if their servers are just completely down. A friend in a different state can order with no problems. A friend in the same town can order with no fanfare.

But my roommates can't. They have the same issue

Payment failed.

So. I'm going insane. I've now spent almost 3 hours attempting to order food, and I'm starving. It is at this point that my anger finally overcomes my social anxiety, and I do the one thing I never thought I'd do.

I call the store in question.

Now, in all of this there was one crucial mistake I made. See, that friend in the same town? Lived on the other side of town. And there's 2 different stores of this franchise in town. We didn't control for this, because the app doesn't let you pick a store anyways when doing delivery. It's hard locked to whatever one is closest, which isn't a terrible thing to do. You need to get the delivery address anyways, and you know where all your store are, so it cuts out a step for me. But having to choose a store might've clued us in to what was going wrong.

Because the store? Was closed. Not just closed, like mega closed. It was being shut down. It hadn't been open for two weeks, and would never be open again. The order was failing because they'd already taken all the computer systems out, and it couldn't confirm to have received the order.

So there was nothing wrong with the payment. Literally nothing I could have done about this. I am just barred completely from ordering because the app defaults to the nearest location for orders, and my nearest location didn't exist anymore.

And you'd think that there would be some way to communicate this to the user when making the app. But for reasons I can only assume are profit motivated (Though I have no idea how the fuck this is more efficient/profitable), the app just defaults to saying the payment failed.

Now, I wouldn't be this mad if this was just "oops edge case lol" where I suffered the unfortunate consequences of some procrastinator forgetting to do the thing that removes stores from the database. Unfortunate but not really anyone I can blame for it. But no. This is just the most extreme example, and it's not even confined to the one app.

Almost every single app like this I've used defaults to saying the payment failed and to try a new payment method when anything goes wrong. No drivers out on DoorDash to actually move the order? Payment failed. You're trying to order a seasonal item that got dropped today? Payment failed. The companies servers actually are down? Payment failed. You're not connected to wi-fi like an idiot and there's actually something you can do to fix the issue that's not related to payment whatsoever? Payment failed.

What the fuck is up with this lazy ass programming? I seriously doubt there's enough technical debt from these apps to justify not having a robust error catching system that communicates with the user what the issue is. By the fucking stars these people love collecting intrusive data, I'm surprised they havn't used this as an excuse to harvest everyone's fucking location at all times and send "error data" back to central.

But just don't tell me my debit card was declined when I'm trying to order a burger and you closed that store two weeks ago.

[fat-wallet-annex]

Looking for Work

This past week, I have been applying to many delivery apps to see who will hire me. Since I will not be attending any classes for the summer semester I am now hoping to get employed for the season and start making payments on my auto insurance policy. I found some initial success with an approved application for the Tonquin app. I have not had any success yet with doing any orders for them. I…

[reasonsforhope]

Across New York City, delivery drivers are a ubiquitous sight: congregating outside big restaurant chains waiting to collect orders, zooming through the city streets with orders in tow. “The most chaotic time for deliveries is easily during lunch time,” says Elijah Williams, who delivers food for both Uber and DoorDash. “I’ve had up to four orders at one time.” 

Mayor Eric Adams recently announced a major change that will deeply impact busy workers like Williams: app-based delivery workers will be paid $17.96 an hour starting July 12th — and nearly $20 an hour by 2025 — marking the nation’s first minimum pay for such workers.

“Our delivery workers have consistently delivered for us — now, we are delivering for them,” he said. “They should not be delivering food to your household, if they can’t put food on the plate in their household.”

The Background

Mayor Adams made the announcement at City Hall, surrounded by delivery workers as well as members of the nonprofit organizations, Workers Justice Project (WJP) and Los Deliveristas Unidos.

Ligia Guallpa, executive director of WJP, expressed her excitement and gratitude.

“This first of its kind minimum pay rate will uplift working and immigrant families,” said [Ligia Guallpa of Workers Justice Project (WJP)] alongside Gustavo Ajche of Los Deliveristas Unidos. “[It will] ensure that workers who keep New Yorkers fed, are able to keep also their families fed too.”

WJP was founded in 2010, and coordinates numerous worker-led programs, including Los Deliveristas Unidos, that aim to improve conditions for low-wage immigrant workers across the five boroughs.

The Details

The current minimum wage in New York is $15 an hour. On average, service workers are paid $7.09 an hour, excluding tips. The new wage is in keeping with a law passed by the City Council in 2021, which requires the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to set a standard minimum rate for delivery workers.

App-based delivery workers are classified as “independent contractors,” which means they’re not entitled to the standard minimum wage that applies to salaried employees’ pay. Instead, delivery workers who work for the big food delivery services, like Uber Eats and Relay, are entitled to just $2.13 an hour before tips — a so-called “tipped sub-minimum wage.”

Research has shown that getting rid of tipped sub-minimum wages benefits not just the workers getting the raise, but the economy as a whole. A 2021 analysis found that states without a tipped sub-minimum wage saw 29 percent growth in their leisure and hospitality sectors, compared to just six percent in states that used the federal tipped sub-minimum wage of $2.13.

...For many of the workers who face hostile roads and unpredictable weather conditions to get New Yorkers their ordered goods, this is a life-changing development.

“This is my full-time job. I get up every day and do this,” says delivery driver Justin Martinez outside the Chick-Fil-A in Washington Heights. 

Martinez, 30, is originally from the Dominican Republic. His commitment to completing deliveries, he explains, is fueled by his love for his family.

“This is my way to contribute. I go out, 9, 10 hours a day, do deliveries, and then I can come home,” he says. Martinez first started driving for Uber in 2019 before transitioning to delivering food for Uber Eats and other apps in 2021. He’s excited for the pay wage increase: “Maybe now, I only [have to] go out for 6 hours.”

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, June 30, 2023