💡 Introduction

Out-of-home delivery offers clear advantages for both merchants and consumers. It provides greater flexibility, allowing customers to collect their parcels whenever it best fits their schedule. It also supports more sustainable logistics by reducing failed delivery attempts and enabling more efficient delivery routes, which helps lower CO₂ emissions. In addition, out-of-home delivery enhances security, as parcels are delivered to secure lockers or parcel shops rather than being left unattended at the doorstep.

However, offering carrier-specific pick-up and drop-off (PUDO) locations across multiple markets and carriers introduces technical complexity. Each carrier provides different data formats, APIs, update cycles, and location attributes, making integration and maintenance resource-intensive. Our PUDO Locator service handles this complexity for you!

The 7S PUDO Locator enables merchant to access out-of-home delivery locations across our carrier network through a single, standardized API integration. Instead of integrating individually with each carrier’s PUDO endpoint, merchants connect once and gain scalable access to a continuously maintained and harmonized location database.

We handle:

1. Carrier integration and data harmonization
2. Hourly/daily location updates
3. Ongoing maintenance and
4. Performance optimization and monitoring

As with our carrier integrations, success is defined not only by coverage, but by performance, reliability, and operational quality. We evaluate each carrier’s technical capabilities and select the optimal integration method, whether API-based or EDI-supported, to ensure fast implementation and long-term stability.

With the PUDO Locator, you can enable out-of-home delivery at scale without increasing integration overhead, operational risk, or technical maintenance effort.