Batching: announcing a trip
Announce a journey you were making anyway and sell seats on it, rather than waiting to be asked.
Two words worth keeping straight
- Stops
- The people on a trip. Each is a separate buyer.
- Legs
- The shops on a trip. Up to four.
Announcing a trip
Say where you are going and when, and how many people you can carry for. Buyers join it. Nobody has to be persuaded to make the journey — only to sell seats on one you were making anyway.
A trip can also come into being the other way around: you claim a posted job, and a trip is created around it with one seat, already full. Same object, both directions.
How the money works on a batch
A trip is logistics; it never holds money. Every stop settles on its own, exactly as a single job would.
That is what makes an abandoned trip harmless: the stops you delivered are settled and paid, and the ones you did not simply cancel and release their own holds. There is nothing to unpick.
The one composition rule
Multi-shop pricing
Each shop's items are priced against that shop, because the same product sits on two shelves at two prices.
If any shop on the route has no exact location pinned, the whole route's distance counts as unknown rather than being added up from the parts. A partial total looks right, comes out short, and underpays you.