Courier Job Platforms in the UK, Compared

Courier job platforms in the UK are places a driver or a small firm finds paid deliveries. They are not fleet-management software. The three types are a same-day load board, a block or gig app, and a parcel-network round. Choose by whether you quote for loads, take a block, or deliver another company's parcels.

Last updated 25 September 2026. This is a comparison of job sources. Zerity is not one of them.

• What a courier job platform is
• The platforms, and who each is for
  • Courier Exchange
  • Same Day Courier Network
  • Zippd
  • Amazon Flex
  • Parcel rounds
• What every platform still leaves with you
• How this sits next to starting out
• Frequently asked questions
  • Which UK courier job platform has the most loads?
  • Is Amazon Flex a courier job?
  • Do I need an operator licence to use these apps?
  • What insurance do these platforms expect?

# What a courier job platform is

A courier job platform matches paid deliveries with a person or a firm that has a vehicle. Some platforms are membership boards where you quote. Some offer blocks the platform has already priced. Some are the carrier itself, handing you a round of its parcels.

Fleet software is a different purchase. It records drivers, vehicles, documents and, in Zerity's case, self-billed pay. You can use a job platform and a driver file together. One finds the work. The other shows an auditor who did it.

# The platforms, and who each is for

Prices and product claims below were read on the public pages linked, on 25 September 2026, unless another date is given. Confirm before you pay or sign a round.

| Platform | Best for | How work is priced | What you still have to file | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Courier Exchange | Subcontracted same-day loads for firms that already have a van | Members quote. CX sells 12-month memberships and does not show one public price. See the Courier Exchange review | Licence record, hire-and-reward insurance, right-to-work position, and the driver file if they work your rounds | | Same Day Courier Network | A lower published fee, if the loads in your area are actually there | £39 plus VAT a month on its pricing page. App Store prices have differed | The same driver file. A cheaper board does not insure the van | | Zippd | Drivers taking offered jobs, and firms booking capacity | Google Play listing says no bidding and no subscription. Confirm on zippd.com | Identity, licence, insurance. Do not assume the app has done this for your operating licence | | Amazon Flex | An individual delivering Amazon parcels in blocks, often in a car | Amazon sets the block pay. You do not quote on a board | Amazon's own onboarding, plus insurance that covers the block. It is not a depot round | | Parcel round (Evri, DPD, Yodel and similar) | A depot-style round in your van, carrying that carrier's parcels | The carrier's rate, often per drop or per day. Do not copy a rate from a forum | Your driver file, the van, and insurance that names paid delivery |

# Courier Exchange

Courier Exchange says, on its own site, that it posts more than 15,000 loads a day and has more than 10,000 members. Independent writeups still treat it as the largest UK same-day board. That is a claim about volume. It is not a promise that your vehicle, in your town, will clear a week's costs. Read the Courier Exchange review before you compare fees.

# Same Day Courier Network

Same Day Courier Network advertises a flat monthly price and no per-job commission. Use it as a fee comparison, then look at whether the loads match the van. A board can be inexpensive and still be the wrong work.

# Zippd

DeliveryApp rebranded as Zippd in April 2026. Prolific North reported the change on 17 April 2026. Zippd's public pages describe a managed network for brands, and a driver app for offered jobs, including same-day movements. It is not the same product as a member load board. Zippd's own pages make scale claims. Treat them as Zippd's claims.

# Amazon Flex

Amazon Flex is block work paid by Amazon. The driver typically uses their own car or van for a block of Amazon parcels. It is not a Courier Exchange load, and it is not the same as running an Amazon DSP, where the company owns the contract and employs or engages a depot of drivers. DSP operations are a different job. Zerity's Amazon DSP page is about that depot file, not about signing up to Flex.

# Parcel rounds

Evri, DPD, Yodel, DHL and Royal Mail service-partner work is a round: their parcels, your van, their rate. Pay is often per delivered drop or per day. Rates move by carrier, by region and by contract. This article does not publish a rate card. Use the courier driver earnings guide for how to read gross and net, and the rate per drop calculator to test a round with your own fuel, insurance and time.

# What every platform still leaves with you

The platform can introduce the job. You still hold the risk if the person or the van is not covered.

1. Driving licence. For a Great Britain licence, the driver creates a check code at GOV.UK: view or share your driving licence. You view it once at GOV.UK: check someone's driving licence information, with the last eight characters of the licence number. The code lasts 21 days and works once. Keep a record of the date and what the record showed. Zerity stores that record and the expiry. Zerity does not run an automated DVLA check.
2. Right to work. If the person is your employee, you must check the right to work before they start. GOV.UK explains the employer check. British and Irish citizens cannot use an online share code. The position for self-employed couriers is different. Read right-to-work checks for self-employed couriers before you copy an employee process onto a subcontractor.
3. Insurance. You must have motor insurance to drive on UK roads. GOV.UK sets third party cover as the legal minimum. A social, domestic and pleasure policy is for private driving. Paid delivery needs a policy that names that use, often sold as hire and reward. Get the insurer's confirmation in writing before the first round.
4. Operator licence. In Great Britain you usually need a goods vehicle operator's licence to carry goods for hire or reward, or in connection with a business, in a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes gross plated weight. Vans and combinations over 2.5 tonnes and up to 3.5 tonnes need a standard international licence when they carry goods for hire or reward to the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. UK-only use of those lighter vans does not, by itself, trigger that rule. Read GOV.UK's operator licensing guide and the van and trailer Europe guidance. The longer note is operator licensing for vans over 2.5 tonnes.
5. Hours. Van hours and HGV hours are not the same rules. Read van driver hours rules against the GOV.UK page it cites before you roster a platform driver onto a long day.
6. Pay. If you engage the driver yourself, agree the rate and the pay day in writing. Where you raise the invoice, use a self-billing agreement.

The how to onboard delivery drivers article puts those gates in order.

# How this sits next to starting out

A platform is not a business plan. Vehicle, insurance, the operator-licence boundary and tax come first. Starting a courier business in the UK is the cost-side piece. Courier businesses is the product page if you already run the depot and need the driver file.

Zerity is £6 per active driver per month, self-serve, with no contract and a 30-day money-back guarantee. It does not find loads, and it does not replace any row in the table above.

# Frequently asked questions

# Which UK courier job platform has the most loads?

Courier Exchange says it does, and independent reviews still treat it as the largest same-day board. Volume is not the same as margin.

# Is Amazon Flex a courier job?

It is block work paid by Amazon, often in the driver's own car or van. It is not the same as a depot round or a Courier Exchange load.

# Do I need an operator licence to use these apps?

Most car and van work only in Great Britain, at or under 3.5 tonnes, does not need one. Hire or reward into Europe above 2.5 tonnes does. Check GOV.UK for the vehicle you will use.

# What insurance do these platforms expect?

Cover for paid delivery, often called hire and reward. A social, domestic and pleasure policy does not pay that claim. Ask the insurer to confirm the van and the work in writing.