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Scotland on Sunday: PODFather has an offer you can't refuse
Friday, 8th February 2008
Published date: 16th December 2007
Source: Scotland On Sunday
Location: Scotland
By Douglas Friedli
AN EDINBURGH IT company has launched the UK's first pay-as-you-go software system which will enable customers to sign for deliveries by mobile phone.
The PODFather system was developed by Valley Technology with a client, Neil Williams Haulage, to provide an instant proof of delivery using standard mobile phones and writing recognition technology.
Valley worked with Thus, the telecoms firm, and O2, the mobile phone operator, on the invention and is in talks with other technology companies.
An estimated 2% of receipts go missing once they have been signed, leading to delays and lost income for hauliers, courier firms, builders' merchants and specialist
retailers.
Managing director Alastair Broom said The PODFather should help eliminate the problem of lost receipts and enable suppliers to produce invoices more quickly.
The product will compete with more expensive systems which are used by international delivery companies. Broom said: "The potential for this is very large, but we want to do it all ourselves. No one else is targeting the lower end of the market because of the presumed expense of doing
something like this."
Valley was set up in Edinburgh by Broom more than 10 years ago. Clients include Farmfoods, the frozen food retailer, and International JetClub, the aircraft operator.
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