Courier company · Pricing and payment
Pricing basics
Regions, prices and delivery types you get at sign-up; districts and region numbers, the region map, price lists, the region-to-region price matrix, delivery types, customer types and assigning a price list to a customer.
Order prices are calculated from the districts, regions and price lists you define. Set them up in this order.
What you get when you sign up
If you signed up for Courino yourself, some definitions come ready so you can create your first order right away. You can change, delete or add to all of them under Settings › Pricing:
- Delivery types (every province): Normal (×1, standard), Express (×2), Normal Return (×2), Express Return (×4), Express Out Normal Return (×3), By Car (×5), Cash Transport (×5). The "Return" types are round trips. Names are created in Turkish (Normal, Ekspres, Normal Dönüşlü, Ekspres Dönüşlü, Gidiş Ekspres Dönüş Normal, Arabalı, Para Taşıma); rename them if you like.
- Customer type "Standart" (cash) and price list "Genel".
- If you chose Istanbul, 8 regions: districts and some neighbourhoods come split into the 8 regions commonly used by courier companies: 1. Şişli, Beşiktaş, Beyoğlu; 2. around Eminönü (Rüstempaşa, Hocapaşa, Mercan, Tahtakale…); 3. Kadıköy, Üsküdar; 4. the Bağdat Avenue line (Bostancı, Caddebostan, Erenköy, Göztepe, Suadiye, Kozyatağı…); 5. Fatih, Eyüpsultan; 6. Sarıyer, Kağıthane; 7. the rest of the European side (Bakırköy, Esenyurt, Başakşehir…); 8. the rest of the Asian side (Pendik, Kartal, Ümraniye, Ataşehir…).
- Price matrix in Istanbul: the "Genel" list comes with cash and subscriber prices for all 8 × 8 = 64 cells (e.g. 400 TL cash / 350 TL subscriber within a region, 850 TL / 750 TL from region 1 to region 8). These are sample prices; type your own and click Save.
- If you chose another province: districts are split into regions by distance to the province centre and the matrix is filled with sample prices sized to the number of regions (e.g. 5 × 5 for 5 regions): 250 TL within the centre, 50 TL more for each farther region; subscriber price 50 TL less. Be sure to replace them with your own prices.
- Expected delivery times: a time is ready for every region pair (210–240 minutes in Istanbul). To show them on orders, tick Expected delivery time in the General card and save; it is off at first.
- If you signed up without choosing a province, districts and the matrix are empty; add districts with Add from ready list.
- Companies moved to Courino from the old system do not get these; their definitions come with the transfer.
Step by step
- Open the Settings › Pricing tab.
- On the Districts card, click Add and enter the district's Name and Region no. Add from ready list adds your province's districts in one go. If your areas are smaller than districts, choose As neighbourhoods / villages in the same window to add a district's neighbourhoods and villages (TurkStat 2025 list).
- On the Delivery types card, define types such as Normal or Express and each one's Price multiplier.
- On the Customer types card, add your types; each type's Price tier is either Cash or Subscriber.
- On the Price lists card, create at least one list (the VAT rate and extra fees are set here).
- On the Price matrix card, pick the list, switch tiers with the Cash and Subscriber buttons, type the region-to-region prices and click Save.
- On the Customers page, open the customer, choose a Customer type and a Price list, and save.
Region map
Click Map on the Districts card to see your province's districts coloured by region number, with the region number written inside each district. The map opens on the selected branch's province (otherwise the default branch's, or else the province most of your areas are in); pick another province from the list above it.
- Click a district on the map; your areas in that district are listed on the right.
- Type the new region no. next to an area. To change all areas of the district at once, type the number in All areas of the district and press Enter.
- Changes are not saved immediately; the number of changed areas is shown at the top. Save stores them all together, Cancel discards them.
- Suggest by distance puts districts close to the province centre into region 1 and farther ones into the next regions (at most 6). The suggestion is only shown on screen; click Save if you like it.
Colours: each region has its own colour. A dashed grey district has areas in different regions (for example areas added as neighbourhoods); it shows something like "1/2". A light grey district is not among your areas; click it and use Add from ready list.
- When you add a province other than Istanbul from the ready list with Suggest by distance to the province centre selected, regions come from this suggestion; All in region 1 is also available. Adding Istanbul from the ready list still goes by side (Europe region 1, Asia region 2); the 8 regions you get at sign-up are separate from this.
- Areas you added by hand (not from the ready list) do not appear on the map; edit their regions in the table.
- When a region number changes, that region's row and column of the price matrix are used; if you gave a new number, enter its prices in the matrix. Prices of saved orders do not change.
- District boundaries come from geoBoundaries (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); they are approximate and not used for address validation.
Customer types
The customer type decides which matrix price a customer pays and how. On the Settings › Pricing › Customer types card you enter for each type:
- Code and Name: a short code shown in lists (type codes transferred from the old system stay here) and a descriptive name.
- Price tier: Cash or Subscriber. Decides which of the two prices in each matrix cell is used.
- VAT applies: when off, no VAT is added to orders paid by customers of this type.
- Pays with prepaid credit: when on, orders of customers of this type are deducted from their prepaid balance (wallet); details: Prepaid balances.
You choose the type in the Customer type field of the customer's record. Pricing always uses the type of the party who pays for the order.
Price matrix
On the Price matrix card, pick a price list and switch tiers with the Cash and Subscriber buttons. The row is the pickup region and the column is the delivery region; for example, cell 1 → 3 is the price of a job picked up in region 1 and delivered to region 3. A cell left empty or set to 0 is undefined: no order can be opened between those two regions ("no price"). Press Save after changes; the price of saved orders does not change.
Good to know
- The price depends on the district's region number, not on the district itself. Districts in the same region get the same price.
- In the matrix, the row is the pickup region and the column is the delivery region.
- A cell left empty or set to 0 is "undefined": no order can be opened between those two regions. Do not enter 0 to mean a free job.
- Every cell has a separate cash and subscriber price. The tier in the customer type of the party who pays for the order decides which one is used; the price list is also the paying customer's list.
- Roughly, the base price is region price from the matrix × delivery type multiplier. The extra district charge, night tariff, extra fees and VAT are added on top; see Pricing rules for details.
- An inactive price list is not used for pricing.
- If you have several branches, each district belongs to one branch (this cannot be changed later); a price list can belong to a single branch or to All branches. On the customer page, the Branch price lists card lets you choose a different list per branch; for a branch left empty, the branch's default list is used, or the customer's general list if there is none.
Having trouble?
- No Pricing tab under Settings: This tab requires the pricing management permission; ask your company administrator.
- My district is grey on the map: It has no area, or the area was added by hand. Click the district and choose Add from ready list.
- The matrix is empty: Define districts and regions first; the matrix only shows region numbers used by your districts.
- "No price defined" warning on an order: The cell between those two regions is empty for the selected tier (cash/subscriber). Enter a price in the matrix.
- No price is calculated: The paying customer must have a customer type and a price list selected.