Pickup Schedule / Cut-off — The daily deadline after which booked shipments roll to tomorrow's manifest. Couriers collect in windows; missing the cut-off adds a silent day.

Why it matters to your store

TAT starts at pickup, not at checkout. A 4 pm booking with a 2 pm cut-off ships tomorrow — your '2-day' promise just became 3.

This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.

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Worked example

Move your daily manifest before the courier's cut-off → every order ships same-day → TAT claims stay honest.

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. Pakka Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it: statuses normalise, bills reconcile, and quotes already include the surcharges.