Start a Local Delivery Business using Tonquin
Start an Independent Delivery Business servicing Auto Part Suppliers.
O’Reilly Auto Parts, Advance Auto Parts, NAPA, AutoPlus, Auto Zone, and more want your service. The Tonquin platform gives you the tools to allow these auto part stores to request your delivery services per delivery, hourly or per route.
create unlimited customers
starting platform costs are $0
work when you want and when your customers need you
It’s like Shopify for last-mile delivery. Create, sell, and manage your delivery business.
You generate revenue when:
Your customer uses your service (i.e. you do a delivery or you work a two hour gig for your customer.)
Your customer uses a marketplace provider (i.e. Jane Smith does a delivery or two hour gig for your customer.)
Get access to the Tonquin Delivery Provider App where you’ll be able to seamlessly sign up customers and give them access to Tonquin’s Vendor Logistics Dashboard (the tool your customers will use to interact with you). It’s that simple. Sign up, get customers, and service them to earn.
Tonquin will provide support, a suite of tools and resources so that you can build a customer base and grow your delivery business quickly!
It’s your car, your phone, your business.
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Getting Started
Step 1.
Create your account by signing up above. Get complete access to Tonquin’s marketplace tools to help you get started.
Step 2.
Get Customers. Find Customers using your Delivery Provider app. It’s pre-populated with all the best brand names. Get them setup using your unique Vendor Creation link.
Step 3.
Start earning. Your Customers will have immediate access to send you delivery requests, request to book you for hourly blocks, and more.
How it works
Visit your local auto part Stores
Go visit your local auto part stores. This is the best way to market your delivery services and find potential customers.
Find a location that needs your service
Talk to store managers, associates, or anyone that works at the location to get an understanding if they need help with deliveries. It may take a few tries! We can help with marketing your services. *link below
Get your customers setup.
Your new customers will need to be setup with their logistics dashboard. This can all be done through the Delivery Provider app.
Tap on their pin
Click create customer
Enter an email to have the setup info sent to them
The Tonquin Vendor Logistics Dashboard
Your new customers will now have access to their Vendor Logistics Dashboard. This will give them all the tools they need to work with you and other marketplace providers.
Have a plan
Your new customers will use their logistics dashboard to work with you on a per delivery, hourly (Charters) or scheduled route (Shuttles) basis. It’s important to work with them to determine at what capacity and when they need your services.
The day to day
Your customers will use the Vendor Logistics Dashboard to assign you deliveries for per delivery and hourly work. You will use the Delivery Provider App to work day to day fulfilling your customers deliveries.
Access capacity
As a marketplace, your customers will be able to work with other independent delivery providers on the platform. And as the Managing Provider, you will be able to assist your customer in doing this so that they continue to increase their utilization and your managing provider earnings.
Grow your delivery business
As the Managing Provider for your customers, you will earn two ways.
Payments for your services
10% on all transactions made by your customer
As a marketplace, your customers can work with other delivery providers on the platform. Any services they fulfill for your customer will earn you 10% of the cost to your customer.
A Marketplace Trusted by the Best
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70+ Auto Part Suppliers
Advance Auto Parts, Napa Auto Parts, Auto Plus, and more use the marketplace enabled services of their independent delivery provider’s businesses everyday.
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1000+ Independent Delivery Businesses
Thousands of everyday people have chosen Tonquin to build their independent delivery businesses servicing auto part suppliers and are generating thousands in revenue for their businesses.
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9 Markets and Growing
Want to build a delivery business in your city but it’s not listed? Contact us by going to Tonquin.com/support and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
What you need to know to get started
Before beginning your journey of creating an independent delivery business, here is what you need to know about the very unique auto part suppliers you will be working with.
First, how does an Auto Part Suppliers business work? Auto Part Suppliers under the brand names that you likely see and recognize every day have another piece to their business that everyday people don’t see. These Auto Parts Suppliers have business (commercial) customers that they sell parts to everyday all day (typically 9-5 that is).
These commercial customers do a lot of business with them and are also names you probably recognize (Mavis, Midas, Monroe Muffler). It is industry standard to get them the parts they need as soon as possible. This is where you come in.
Why is your Independent Service better?
Now that you know why Auto Part Suppliers need deliveries done, let’s take a look why they need you specifically. Traditionally, Auto Parts Suppliers would hire delivery drivers (sometimes as many as five per store) to do their commercial deliveries. This cost them a fortune and it was not flexible.
It costs them a fortune because they don’t when their customers will call needing their parts. So that requires Auto Parts Suppliers to staff enough delivery drivers so they can always have someone available. Alternatively, if they are understaffed, the parts don’t get delivered on time and their customers are unhappy.
There are two reasons your marketplace enabled services are a better solution.
Cost savings through service flexibility
Better, more consistent service
You can work for as many Auto Part Suppliers as you want. Which allows your delivery business to grow and allows Suppliers to only call on you when needed, saving them money and keeping their customers happy.
Acquiring Customers - Part 1
Now understanding who, what, and why, we’ll explain how to best go about getting an Auto Part Supplier as a customer of your delivery business.
Do these steps (perhaps with your own unique approach), put in the time, effort, and you will find Auto Parts Suppliers that will become trusted and fruitful customers.
First, it all starts with a visit. Auto Parts Suppliers are old school. They like to shake hands (metaphorically considering covid protocols) and build a relationship with those that they work with. So pay a visit to your potential customers to begin the conversations.
Once you’ve arrived, it’s important to find who to talk to. Typically at the major brand Auto Part Suppliers, you’ll want to talk to people in this order of priority from most likely to approve to least likely to approve depending on who you’re talking to: Store Manager, Commercial Parts Manager, Assistant Store Manager, Associate.
Acquiring Customers - Part 2
Once you’re talking to the right person, it’s important to be clear and concise with your sales pitch. They want two things.. they want happy customers (which means getting them their parts on time) and less headaches (which means not having to fuss over staffing). Lean into the ways your service solves these two things (explain above in “Why is your Independent Service better?”) and you’ll be half way there.
Secondly, they will want to know how much it costs. You will be provided rate cards as a resource for setting up Customer in your market. This will show how much it will cost them to book you per shipment, per hour, or per route (depending on the market). It’s also important to note that the Vendor Logistics Dashboard is completely free, they only pay for your services. And market prices are typically competitive if not cheaper to other rideshare and delivery marketplaces that they have tried and likely failed with (because it’s not designed for their needs!)
Now that they’re sold on how it will help them personally (less headaches), their location (happy customers), and the cost is approved, all you have yet to do is get them signed up.
Click on their pin in the app and click “Create Customer”. This will make a link appear. Give this unique link to your potential Customer and it will bring them to a form. All they need fill out is their Company name, their name, email, phone number, and address. It’s that simple.
You have a Customer! 🎉
As soon as they sign up and we do a quick approval of their account, they will have immediate access to their Vendor Logistics Dashboard which they will use to request your services and you will automatically become a Managing and Preferred Provider of this Customer.
What does that mean?
You will earn 10% on all Customer transactions.
While your Customers will be able to assign you deliveries to do and book you for blocks of time, they will also be able to use other Delivery Providers on the Tonquin marketplace to conduct services (because you’re only one person and maybe they need more help!).
So if your Customer uses the Tonquin marketplace to book a Delivery Provider (that isn’t you) for 40 hours next week at $26/hour, you will earn $104 of passive income for the week.
This means that the more your Customer uses the Tonquin platform, the more you’ll earn a passive income.
2. You will earn 5% on top of normal market rates for any shipments your Customer assigns to you.
Since Tonquin is a marketplace, you have the freedom to take any delivery requests you want, but with your Builder Account and a created Customer, they will have access to directly assign you shipments when you’ve made yourself available in the app and you will receive 5% extra on the take rate for those shipments.
The Size of the Opportunity
Endless. By having complete control of the tools that most marketplaces keep away from the people actually performing the services, this creates a range of opportunities. From becoming a true independent business and having the freedom to manage your schedule, to the obvious financial opportunities to do more than just support yourself but build a self sustaining business.
There are between 20-50 Auto Part Suppliers in most cities that do anywhere from 500 to 1000 commercial auto part deliveries a month. Yes, a month.
These Auto Part Suppliers are trying to get more sophisticated with how they handle these deliveries from both a service perspective and cost perspective, which means it’s your time to shine.
And there is more to come…
Soon Tonquin will be releasing a third account type, Fleets. This account type will come with all the tools necessary for anyone to build a fleet of their own. Streamlined marketplace resources and integrated products that allow anyone to build a fleet delivery business with ease. Move on to fulfilling bigger requests like contracts for set delivery capacity and mechanism that hold both parties accountable like Service Level Agreements. All to be utilized as tools in the pursuit to create, grow and compete as an Independent Fleet Provider.