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Delivery Time Expectations

Last updated August 24, 2025

  1. What we typically say is that for ASAP orders (where prep time is =< 20 minutes)
  1. Orders should be assigned to a driver within 20 minutes (“Assign Time”)
  2. They should be picked up within 30 minutes (“Pickup Time”)
  3. They should be delivered within 50 minutes (“Total Delivery Time”)
  1. How to get faster times
  1. Shorten prep-times in Merchant Profiles to as short as 5 minutes
  2. Tweak your dispatch strategy - you can read more on that here -  https://help.firstdelivery.com/articles/725271-what-is-a-dispatch-strategy 
  1. You may want to make you strategy fastest
  2. Or you may want to consider enabling “auto-reassign” settings

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