Will-call trips
Return legs with no fixed time: how to create them, and how activation works.
- Written for
- Dispatchers
- Reading time
- 1 min
- Last reviewed
- August 2, 2026
A will-call is a return trip whose time is genuinely unknown when it is created — the rider goes home when the clinic is finished with them. Treating it as a normal trip with a guessed time produces a plan built around a number nobody believes.
Creating one
Create the trip as usual but mark it will-call and leave the pickup time empty. It sits outside the scheduled plan, visible in its own list, and is not placed onto any vehicle's timeline.
Activating one
- The rider or facility calls to say they are ready.
- Open the will-call and activate it. The pickup time is set to now.
- Recommended drivers are offered, ranked by who is genuinely closest and free, taking the required service type into account.
- Assign one. The trip joins that driver's route and behaves like any other trip from that point on.
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