The complete solution, leg by leg
Dropium is not a product you install and forget. It is a system of record with a control centre and a field app, each designed for a real job.
The problem isn’t moving parcels
Anyone can move parcels. What’s hard is knowing, three weeks later and facing a claim, who held a given parcel, at what time, and with what proof.
The jumps between legs
Proof you can’t find
Incidents left open
How Dropium tackles it
With an uncomfortable but effective principle: nothing moves without leaving a trace, and the trace is captured where the work happens, not afterwards.
Captured at the point of work
One vocabulary
It survives real conditions
Regulation: what it does and does not do
Dropium does not vouch for anyone’s legal standing: it gives the operator the pieces that European transport and data protection rules ask for, and explains why each one is there.
Who answers for what
- Dropium provides the technology and does not carry goods. The operator is the transport company, and the one liable for the freight.
- Under the GDPR, the operator is the data controller and Dropium is the processor.
- Legal terms belong to each operator: their own, in their language and for their country.
A delivery note that proves the handover
- It is issued only once and never rebuilt: whatever is downloaded later is the same document.
- It carries the date in the operator’s local time, the identified parties, the weight and the declared value.
- The reservations box sits above the signature, because people sign beneath what they accept.
- The parcel-by-parcel detail goes in an annex tied to the delivery note, and a QR code opens the document.
- Deadlines for reservations and claims run from that date, as set by the CMR, Spain’s Law 15/2009 and the French Code de commerce.
The data of the people doing the work
- Location is only captured when an event is recorded, never along the route.
- Workers can object to sharing it (GDPR art. 21) and still do their job.
- The signature proves the delivery and is never matched against another: matching it would turn it into biometric data (GDPR art. 9).
- The app and its documents are written in French from the start, as the loi Toubon requires.
Dropium provides the tool; the legal obligation sits with the operator.
Four legs, one history
Most incidents don’t happen inside a leg but in the jump to the next one. That’s why all four share one record, and every handover is logged with its proof.
- 1
Pickup
Pickup routes and returns to merchants in order, each pickup closed with signature and photo, and intake with no parcel in the wrong box.
- 2
Sorting
Every parcel scanned and assigned to its route, with a scanner or a phone camera. And every departure from the warehouse, with its proof.
- 3
Delivery
A list and a map for the driver, and every delivery with an identified recipient plus a photo or a signature. Cash on delivery too.
- 4
Returns
Returns wait in the warehouse, grouped by destination, until they leave with the return driver or are collected at the dock.
Two tools, one record
The control centre for the office and the Dropium app for the street and the warehouse. Both write to the same record.
Who it’s for
And, just as honestly, who it isn’t for.
It fits if you
- Run an owned or subcontracted fleet and need to control both the same way.
- Have at least one warehouse where parcels are sorted before delivery.
- Answer to shippers who ask you for proof of delivery and data.
- Operate, or want to operate, in more than one country and language.
- Work with several transport companies and do not want a different app for each one.
It doesn’t fit if you
- Want a single-courier app with no warehouse and no sorting.
- Need inventory warehouse management rather than parcels in transit.
Shall we see whether it fits your operation?
A thirty-minute demo on your own flow: pickup, sorting, delivery or returns.