Does Market Run do payroll?

No. Market Run does not run payroll, calculate PAYE or pension contributions, or issue payslips. It holds the hours worked against each round and which drops were made, and connects that record to whatever payroll system is already run.

Does Market Run do HR for food distribution businesses?

No. It does not hold employment contracts, absence records or HR files. It is order-to-cash software for a wholesaler - reading orders, pricing, buying, routing, proving delivery and invoicing - not a human resources system.

Does Market Run manage driver hours or tachograph compliance?

No. It is not a tachograph analysis or drivers' hours compliance product, and DVSA's own guidance is the current, authoritative source on the rules. It records the round, the start time, the stop times and the proof of each delivery, which a compliance system can be checked against.

Does Market Run track vans, like a fleet management system?

No, not in the live GPS sense. It knows where a round is up to because the driver's app reports each drop as it is made, which shows delivery progress rather than a vehicle's live position on a map.

Back office

We don't run payroll. We hold what your payroll system needs.

Payroll, HR, driver hours, fleet tracking - real questions from a real trade. This page says plainly which ones Market Run answers, and which ones it does not.

Back office software for wholesalers usually means payroll, HR, driver hours and fleet tracking, alongside the order-to-cash system. Market Run does not do payroll, HR, tachograph compliance or van tracking. It holds the hours worked against each round, who drove what, and proof of every delivery, and connects to whatever payroll or fleet system the wholesaler already runs.

These are separate, honest categories of software with their own specialists and their own rules: a payroll provider that gets statutory deductions right, a tachograph and drivers' hours system built for legal compliance, a telematics product that tracks a vehicle for insurance or security. Market Run is none of those. It is wholesale order-to-cash software: reading orders, pricing them, buying and stocking against them, routing and proving the drop, invoicing and chasing the money.

What it does hold, because the round already runs through it, is real and useful to those other systems: the hours a driver was on a round, which van and which drops, and proof each delivery actually happened. The three pages below take each question on its own terms, answer it properly, and say plainly where Market Run stops and where the reader's existing system should carry on.

A closed shutter at the back of a kitchen with empty crates stacked against it. — The night the back office bills for

The three questions, answered honestly

Not usPayroll for wholesalersWhat payroll for hourly warehouse staff and drivers on different rates actually needs, and what Market Run holds for it.Not usDriver hours and tachograph rulesThe general shape of the UK rules, where to check the current version, and what Market Run records about a driver's day.Not usFleet and van trackingLive GPS position against delivery progress, told apart honestly, and which one Market Run actually gives you.

Plainly

What it will not do on its own

It does not run payroll, HR records, tachograph compliance or live vehicle tracking, as a product, anywhere on this site.
It does not replace a payroll provider, an HR system or a telematics product - it connects to whichever ones a wholesaler already runs.
Nothing on this site is legal or regulatory advice - driver hours and employment rules should be checked against the current official guidance, not a software company's website.

Questions people ask

Does Market Run do payroll?: No. Market Run does not run payroll, calculate PAYE or pension contributions, or issue payslips. It holds the hours worked against each round and which drops were made, and connects that record to whatever payroll system is already run.
Does Market Run do HR for food distribution businesses?: No. It does not hold employment contracts, absence records or HR files. It is order-to-cash software for a wholesaler - reading orders, pricing, buying, routing, proving delivery and invoicing - not a human resources system.
Does Market Run manage driver hours or tachograph compliance?: No. It is not a tachograph analysis or drivers' hours compliance product, and DVSA's own guidance is the current, authoritative source on the rules. It records the round, the start time, the stop times and the proof of each delivery, which a compliance system can be checked against.
Does Market Run track vans, like a fleet management system?: No, not in the live GPS sense. It knows where a round is up to because the driver's app reports each drop as it is made, which shows delivery progress rather than a vehicle's live position on a map.

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