Most people who want to start a courier business in Pakistan assume it means buying vehicles, hiring riders, and negotiating directly with national carriers before they can take on a single client. There is a second way in: reselling courier capacity you do not own, through a franchise model, to merchants who need booking, tracking, and settlement handled for them. Logistaan's franchise system is built for exactly this.
How Do I Start a Courier Business in Pakistan Without Owning Vehicles?
Merchants can onboard sub-users through a built-in franchise system, fully manageable from the merchant portal. In practice, this means you set up sub-merchant accounts under your own franchise, and those sub-merchants book and manage parcels through the same platform, under your arrangement, without you needing your own courier fleet or your own booking software.
How do I make money if I do not own the couriers?
You assign custom rate cards directly to your sub-merchants from the franchise module. That means you set the rate your sub-merchants pay you, while Logistaan handles the underlying courier booking, tracking, and COD settlement in the background. The margin between what you charge your sub-merchants and the underlying courier rate is your business. [NEEDS DATA: minimum shipment volume or account tier required to open a franchise account]
Do I need to manage the day-to-day bookings for every sub-merchant myself?
No. Once a sub-merchant account is onboarded, that sub-merchant can book, track, and manage their own parcels from the portal, using the three available booking methods, bulk, single, or fully automatic. Your role is setting the rate cards and overseeing the accounts, not manually booking every parcel for every sub-merchant.
Can I control what each sub-merchant can see or do?
Role-based access management lets you define what different users can access inside the portal. For a franchise operator, this means you can give a sub-merchant access to book and track their own parcels without giving them access to your rate card settings or your own account's financial data.
What about getting paid and keeping records straight?
COD payments are disbursed on the standard twice-weekly cycle, with a PDF or CSV-based reconciliation report, and the Early Payment feature is available if a sub-merchant or you need funds released sooner. If you are also running the bookkeeping side of a growing franchise, LedgerBook, one of the free business suites included with Logistaan, is built for tracking payments and financial records, which is useful once you are managing more than one account's cash flow.
Do I need a separate business card or way to look established to sub-merchants?
Logistaan includes dedicated digital business cards with QR code scanning as part of its business identity tools, which is a small but practical detail when you are signing up sub-merchants who want some sense that they are dealing with an established operation, not an informal side arrangement.