Can we still deliver on Tuesday morning? With Capacity Calendar, everyone who uses Fleet Planner can answer that at a glance.

How it helps​

Before offering a delivery slot, sales and customer service need to know whether the fleet can still take it. That answer lived with the planners, so the quickest way to get it was to ask one.

Capacity Calendar publishes it instead. Each window's status updates as orders come in, so sales and customer service can see what is still open without asking, and planners can get on with planning.

How it works​

You decide what "full" means:

• Under Windows, add your delivery windows and the days they run.
• Under Rules, set when a window turns Limited or Full, for example after a number of orders or a total weight.

As orders come in, Capacity Calendar counts them against your rules and updates each window's status by itself. When you know something the rules don't, such as a stocktake or a vehicle off the road, click a cell to set the status by hand and leave a note.

A closer look​

Each row is a delivery window, such as Morning 07:00–10:00, and each column is a day of the week. Every cell shows:

• A status: Available Limited Full or Closed
• The number of orders and their total weight.
• How much is left before the next status, or the rule that set the status.
• Manual and a note when someone has set the status by hand.

"No window" means the window isn't open that day. The rows at the bottom stay in view while you scroll:

• Day pool: flexible orders that have a date but no window.
• Total orders and Total weight for the whole day.
• Areas: the places the day's deliveries go. When there are more than three, hover over the list to see them all.
• Customers: how many different customers receive deliveries that day.

Get started​

1. Open Fleet Planner → Capacity in the sidebar.

   

2. Use the week number, the date span and the highlighted today to find your place. Step between weeks with the arrows.

   

3. Hover over an area list to see every area that day.

   

You see Capacity Calendar if you have access to Fleet Planner and your location plans its own fleet.

Every planner has a few filters they set up again each morning: today's express orders, everything over two tonnes, the Norrtälje run. Saved filters keep them, and put them one click away as tabs above the order table.

How it helps​

A filter used to be something you rebuilt every time you needed it. Now you set it up once, give it a name, and it stays — for you, or for everyone at your branch. Pin the ones you use most as tabs and the order table opens straight to the orders you are after, with a live count of how many match right now.

How it works​

In Cockpit, open Filter and set it up the way you want: tags, cargo, weight, pickup or dropoff area, zip code, time window. Choose Save current as preset and give it a name.

Switch on Show as tab and the filter appears next to Unhandled above the order table. Each tab shows how many orders match.

Share with your branches​

Admins can create shared filters for the entire company or for specific branches. Everyone there sees the same tabs, and only admins can change them. Your personal filters stay yours.

A closer look​

In Cockpit 2.0 (beta), saved filters are called layouts, and they save more than the filter: the columns you show and how rows are grouped. Open Layouts to switch between them, edit one or create a new one. Tabs work the same way.

Get started​

1. Open Fleet Planner → Cockpit and set up a filter you use often.
2. Choose Save current as preset, name it, and switch on Show as tab.
3. To share it, pick the branches it should appear for — or the entire company.

Saved filters are available to everyone who uses Fleet Planner. Shared filters need admin access.

Cargo content, driver instructions and addresses rarely fit in one line. Now you decide how wide each column in Cockpit is, and which columns wrap so the whole text is visible without opening the order.

How it helps​

Every branch reads its order table differently. One cares about cargo lines, another about delivery windows, a third about tags. Until now the columns had fixed widths, so long text ended in an ellipsis and you opened each order to read the rest. With your own column widths and wrapping, the table shows what you look at most, at the size you need.

How it works​

Point at the right edge of a column header and drag it. The column follows, and the width is kept the next time you open Cockpit. Double-click the edge to reset it.

To wrap a column, open the column settings from the cog next to Filter. Each column has a wrap toggle on the right. Switch it on and the text breaks over as many lines as it needs, with the row growing to fit.

Tags wrap from the start, so a long list of tags no longer hides behind the column edge.

A closer look​

Widths and wrapping are saved per browser, so each planner can set up the table their own way. They are also part of a saved layout in Cockpit 2.0 (beta), together with the filter and the columns you show, so a shared layout gives the whole branch the same table.

Column order works as before: open the column's ⋮ menu and use Move to shift it left or right.

Get started​

1. In Cockpit, drag the edge of a column header to the width you want.
2. Open the cog next to Filter and switch on the wrap toggle for the columns with long text.
3. Use Reset in the same menu to go back to the defaults.

Column widths and wrapping are available to everyone who uses Fleet Planner.

Proof of delivery is rarely one photo. There is the pallet, the label, the doorway where it was left. The driver app now has its own camera built for that: open it once, take every photo you need, and tap Done.

How it helps​

A driver's day is a long run of stops, and the photo step is in every one of them. The new camera keeps the whole thing in one place. The shutter, the flash, the front camera and the photos taken so far are all on one screen, so a driver can shoot the pallet, the label and the doorway in a few seconds and get back to the tour.

How it works​

At a stop, tap one of the photo slots under Add delivery photos.

The camera opens. Tap the shutter for each photo. Every photo lands in the strip at the bottom, numbered, and the camera stays open for the next one. Flash and the front camera are in the top corner, and the photo button on the left opens the phone's gallery if the pictures already exist.

Tap Done. The photos are added to the stop, and the next free slot is ready in case you need one more.

A closer look​

Tap a photo in the strip to look at it or remove it before you tap Done. If you close the camera with photos still in the strip, the app asks before it discards them. From the gallery you can pick several photos at once, and they join the strip like any other.

Get started​

1. In the driver app, open a stop and go to the proof of delivery step.
2. Tap a photo slot, take your photos, and tap Done.

The new camera is in the current Alrik driver app on iOS and Android. Update the app if you do not see it.

A customer calls about order 2AACB7. Is it planned, on a tour, already delivered? Global search answers that from any page in Alrik Connect: press F, type the number, and the order is in front of you.

How it helps​

Until now, finding one order meant guessing which day and which list it was in. Global search looks across everything at once, whatever the order's status: unhandled, on a tour, with an external carrier, completed, archived, or still waiting in the inbox. Each result shows the status, so you can answer the question before you even open it.

How it works​

Click Search order at the top of the sidebar, or press F on any page. Start typing an order number, a project reference or a group reference, and matching orders appear as you type. The first few characters are enough.

Each result shows the order number, its status, the pickup and dropoff, the customer and the date.

Click a result to see the details: addresses, time window, weight, tags and cargo content. From there, Show in cockpit takes you to the order in Cockpit, already selected, and Tour opens the tour it is on.

A closer look​

Orders that are still in the inbox show up too, marked In inbox, and open in Cockpit ready to be handled. If an inbox order was deleted by mistake, search finds it as Deleted and lets you restore it.

Get started​

1. Press F, or click Search order in the sidebar.
2. Type the order number, project reference or group reference.
3. Click the result, then Show in cockpit or Tour.

Global search is available to everyone who uses Alrik Connect.

Ticking orders one by one in the table is slow when what you really mean is "everything in Vasastan". Now you draw that on the map instead. Click around the stops you want, close the shape, and every order inside is selected.

How it helps​

Planners think in areas: the city centre run, the stops south of the water, the cluster around the industrial estate. The order table does not know about areas, but the map does. Selecting on the map turns "those ones there" into a selection in a few clicks, and the selection behaves exactly as if you had ticked the orders in the table.

How it works​

Click the pen above the map to start drawing.

Click on the map to place the first corner, then keep clicking to outline the area. Click the first corner again to close the shape.

Every unhandled stop inside the shape is selected. Whole orders come along: if only the pickup was inside, the dropoff is selected with it. The shape disappears once the selection is made, and the orders are ticked in the table and shown on the map, ready to plan into a tour or send to a carrier.

A closer look​

Drawing adds to what you already had selected, so you can combine two areas, or draw one and then tick a few more orders in the table. The shape only picks up unhandled stops that are currently shown, so an active filter narrows what you select.

Get started​

1. In Cockpit, click the pen above the map.
2. Click around the stops you want, and click the first corner again to close the shape.
3. Plan the selected orders as usual.

Selecting on the map is available to everyone who uses Fleet Planner.