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You didn't buy a franchise to spend Sundays on wages.

The rota's in WhatsApp. The stops are in the DPD portal. The deductions are on scraps of paper. Every week it's on you to stitch it all together without a single mistake. Depot Desk puts it in one place and works out every driver's pay for you.

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Week of 5 OctStops per day
RouteMonTueWedThuFriPay
FD1001ALEX909710411183£485.00
FD1002BEN107114868390£480.00
FD1003CHLOE898693100107£475.00
FD1006£0.80FARID92968810194£376.80
Pay sheet ready for 4 drivers£1,816.80
Why Depot Desk exists

Wage day used to take our whole weekend.

My father runs a DPD franchise. For years, wage day looked the same every week.

He'd sit with the DPD portal open, going route by route and day by day, reading out stop counts. Our admin manager typed every number into a spreadsheet. Then came the hard part. Who actually drove that route when someone logged in as somebody else? Which deduction did we agree three weeks ago? Who's owed a top-up to the day rate?

It took the whole weekend. Every weekend. And one wrong number meant a driver's pay was wrong, and an awkward conversation on Monday.

So I built the thing we needed: one place where the rota, the stops, the extras and the deductions all live, and every driver's pay works itself out. Then we tested it against the pay sheet we'd made by hand, line by line.

Now wage day is a quick check, not a lost weekend. If wage day looks like that in your depot too, it doesn't have to.

Amaan BhanaFounder, Depot Desk

Sound familiar?

None of these feel big on the day. Added up, they cost you hours every week and money you never get back.

  • Who actually drove FD1095 on Tuesday?Swaps happen at 7am on WhatsApp. By wage day nobody remembers, and the portal shows whoever's login was used.
  • Stops copied across by hand, FD by FD.Every number typed twice is a number that can be typed wrong, and drivers notice before you do.
  • Deductions on scraps of paper.A late start on Monday, a wing mirror on Thursday. By the end of the month half of it is forgotten.
  • Day rate top-ups worked out in your head.Short routes, small vans, a driver on two FDs in one day. Every one is a judgement call, made differently each time.

What is wage day really costing you?

Move the sliders to match your depot. Be honest: nobody's watching.

Time spent in a year260 hours
That time costs£433 a month
Pay mistakes cost£50 a month
Doing it by hand costs you about£483a month, or £5,800 a year
Depot plan: £79 a month
It pays for itself if it saves just 16% of that.

An estimate from your own numbers, not a promise. The free trial shows you the real figure.

Now picture next week with Depot Desk.

A couple of minutes a day while it happens, instead of an evening of catching up at the end.

Sunday nightTomorrow's rota goes out. Every driver gets their FD, route and van on their phone.
MondayDrivers tap "I'm out". You can see who's on the road without ringing round.
TuesdayTwo drivers swap routes at 7am. Change it in two taps. Pay follows the rota, not the login.
WednesdayA parking ticket from three weeks ago lands. Pick the van and date, see who was driving, log it.
ThursdayDrop in the DPD stop file. Every stop lands on whoever actually drove.
FridayPay day. Run the pay check, download the pay sheet, send the slips. Done before your first coffee goes cold.
See the full routine

Tested against our own hand-made pay sheet: 212 of 219 driver-days matched to the penny.

The other seven were one-off top-ups the owner decided on the day. Depot Desk now has a "skip the day rate" switch for those, so the decision is recorded instead of remembered.

Everything wage day needs. Nothing it doesn't.

A rota that pays

Drivers, vans and routes for every FD, every day. Usual drivers fill in with one click.

Stops matched to who drove

Drop in the DPD files. Stand-in logins and swaps are sorted, not guessed.

Extras and deductions on the day

Log a rescue or a PCN in seconds, with manager approval if you want it.

Pay check before pay day

Every place the stops and the rota disagree, shown before anyone is paid.

A driver app

Drivers see the rota and their own pay, tap out and back, and message you. No access to anything else.

Tomorrow's rota on every phone

Drivers are told the night before, and again if anything changes.
See every feature
No risk

Try it on a real pay period. If it doesn't match, walk away.

Run Depot Desk next to your spreadsheet for a full pay period. If the numbers don't match to the penny, or it doesn't save you time, stop. It's cost you nothing.

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  • If you stop paying, nothing is deleted. It just goes view-only

Get your weekends back.

Add your FDs and drivers, and you'll have this week's rota in front of you in about twenty minutes. Or we'll do it with you.

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