Hyperlocal Delivery — Delivery inside a single city, typically under 60 km and same-day — run by two-wheeler fleets like Porter, Borzo and Shadowfax rather than national courier networks.
Why it matters to your store
Hyperlocal converts better than anything else for food-adjacent, gifting and impulse categories — 'today' beats '2 days' at checkout. It's also usually cheaper per drop for light parcels.
This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.
See how →Worked example
Bandra customer orders at 11 am → Borzo rider picks up at noon → delivered by 2 pm. Price: a per-trip fare, often less than national freight.
The bottom line
Shipping jargon is really just the billing manual in disguise — every term on this list maps to a line on an invoice or a lever on your margins. Pure Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it: statuses normalise, bills reconcile, and quotes already include the surcharges.
