Start a Delivery Visit

Before you leave the warehouse and start a visit, complete all the Start Tour Activities. Until these activities are completed, you can't execute the visits in the tour.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions where Consumer Goods Cloud is enabled

User Permissions Needed
To begin a visit:

CGCloud Tour Driver

OR

CGCloud Retail Tour Driver AND CGCloud Retail User

AND

Direct Store Delivery for Consumer Goods Offline Mobile App

  1. To start a Visit from the Tour Cockpit:
    • On the Your Visits card, from the context menu for a visit, tap Start
    • On the View Agenda page, from the context menu for a visit, tap Start.
  2. Alternatively, to start a visit from the Delivery Cockpit:
    • On the Delivery Cockpit header, tap Start Visit.
    • On the Visit Summary card in the Delivery Cockpit, tap Start Visit.

After you start a visit, the status of the visit changes to In Progress and is shown on the Visit Summary card of the Delivery Cockpit. The visit status icon changes on Your Visits card of the Tour Cockpit and the Consumer Good Cloud app updates the Actual Start Time on the Visit Summary card. You can now execute the visit in progress by completing a delivery.

Note
Note You must complete the In-progress visit before you can start another visit for the current tour. Also, at a time, you can have only one visit in progress across multiple tours.