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View Rejected Quotes for an External Delivery Request

Last updated August 24, 2025

External delivery fleets can reject quotes for a wide range of reasons. When an order fails to get assigned to an external fleet, this triggers an "auto-route failure", where you will receive an email with the error.

When this happens you will want to take the following steps:

  1. Open up the merchant app or web-dashboard, and attempt to assign to an external fleet
  2. If the fleet you want is not available for assignment, there will be an error message written on the bottom of the assign modal.
View Rejected Quotes for an External Delivery Request
  1. click the BACK button and edit the order request to fix the error based on the error message.

Common fixable error messages:

  • "The due time cannot be in the past"
  • change the request from a scheduled order to an "ASAP" order in the modal.
  • "Delivery instructions exceed 280 characters"
  • delete unnecessary text and special symbols in the delivery instructions field.
  • "Phone number is not valid"
  • double check that the number is correct; enter yours if you do not have the customer's phone number and are unable to get it. Note: the diner will not receive the tracker link.
  • "Address is not valid" - select the drop-off address that autofills from Google when you type it into the drop-off address field. If it doesn't verify address information and input it accordingly.

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