u/longunderscorestory

I have a service business and clients fill a
Jotform to request service. All are repeat customers. Right now it’s just a link to a jotform but I’d like customers to be able to login to my website for a few reasons:

1. To not have to refill their own contact info every time they fill out the form
2. Security (no spam form-fillouts or fake orders, no anonymity)
3. So the customer can view past orders.

There are currently no payments processed online (our pricing is complex and quote based and can’t easily be integrated into the ordering process/ form fillout process yet)

Just wondering if this could be a plugin solution or is a job for a developer to build custom.

Your answers as well as opinions or alternative solutions are appreciated.

I have a courier service for small things: flowers, pharmaceuticals and food (hot food/ takeout/ pizza). Profit margins are small per vehicle and commercial auto (if food delivery is included) is very expensive. I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons of limiting my hiring to those with commercial auto history.

This really narrows the "talent" pool. On one hand, I know that insurance price drops significantly after one year so maybe I should just suffer a year and this allows me to, from the start, hire the college students that I want to also hire. On the other hand.... well I actually don't know anything about this.

Feel free to answer even just one of these questions....

-if the fleet has zero infractions and I get a significantly reduced rate in year two, does the discount just reverse if I hire another student driver with no commercial auto during year two? (delivery is not a lifetime gig. lots of part-timers and turnaround after a year or two)

-will a driver's commercial auto history in something else eg. tow truck driver transfer to courier and therefore neutrally/ positively impact my premiums?

-how much difference are we talking for, let's say, an all college student fleet vs an all 50 years old fleet with 10+ year commercial insurance? is it half price?

For reference I'm in Ontario, Canada. Here, for food delivery, the only option is the Facility association which insures the DUI folks! Ridiculous. Years ago I got if for myself and it was $600 per month but down to like $370 for second year.

I figure that no delivery zones and no integration with app drivers opens up the options significantly. Sure, delivery is complex and may require working with the apps and higher costs in general but just for takeout/ pick up there must be several good options. Shopify? I don’t necessarily want to integrate POS. Basically looking for a gloriafoods alternative since they are shutting down. Besides, I don’t need delivery, and the last time i researched I did, and I ended up with Gloria, but I’m thinking if it’s pick-up-only I’m forgetting some options!

1. Can I set up toast for online ordering without it replacing my other current systems and POS? I just like their online ordering but not ready to make big changes

2. Does toast offer a feature for takeaway that we can respond to online orders with a time quote specific to that order? Like on a ubereats tablet. Not sure if this is what toast’s manual time quotes means or not

Thanks

My 2015 2.0L does urban delivery of light items (flowers, pharmaceuticals, food). The load is pretty lightweight.

It is stop-and-go constantly, and driving hard. (No highway driving at all).

I just found out that I need rear shoes and drums and my mechanic is also suggesting that he service the front calipers.

I’m wondering if instead I should do the brakes like as if I was a a fast and furious WRX and not a white cargo van. And get eg. big calipers instead of paying to service the ones I have.

Are performance shoes/ drums a thing/ worth it? My mechanic says no.

I don’t know much about cars or mods but I know it would be valuable to wait until the last moment before pressing on the brakes at a stop sign and stopping on a dime!

Have a 2009 v50 manual T5 at the end of its life and when I drove it to register my new car (I swear on my life with this timing) the starter seems to have died. My car must have thought it was its end of life! but I need move it to sell it (for 1000-2000$ sadly despite only 250k km)

If I can’t start it it’s getting sent to the auto wreckers from here.