For affiliate networks
Farm-out with a compliance gate, not a group text.
Operators who move work through affiliates need three things the category rarely gives them: a roster with approval and insurance dates, a gate that refuses dispatch to a lapsed partner, and status updates from the affiliate's driver without giving them a seat. liverybook models affiliates with tier, approval status and computed compliance, blocks farm-out to blocked or expired partners, alerts at 60, 30 and 7 days before insurance expiry, and gives affiliate drivers a tokenised link to move a leg from en route to completed.
What affiliate networks operators use first.
The roster
Affiliate contacts by role (owner, dispatch, billing, ops, safety) and a driver roster with licence number, state and expiry.
Approval and compliance
Pending, under review, approved, suspended, blocked; compliance computed from approval and insurance expiry.
Farm-out in the row
Subcontractor, sub driver and sub vehicle are run board columns. The select only lists approved partners.
Status without a seat
The affiliate driver gets a link scoped to the leg. They can move it en route, arrived, on board, arrived, completed; they cannot cancel or no-show.
Where it lives in the product.
- 01DispatchThe run board shows every trip for the day in 16 columns, updates over a WebSocket, and lets a dispatcher assign a driver or farm out a trip without leaving the row.
- 02BookingsA booking is the order; each leg is a trip with its own driver, vehicle, status and timezone. Recurring bookings, proposals and flight verification feed the same ledger.
- 03BillingRate lists by vehicle class, rate groups that rotate by season, billing accounts and groups, invoices that build themselves as legs complete, and card collection through Stripe.
Questions affiliate networks operators ask.
Do affiliate drivers need a login?
No. They receive a tokenised link for the leg and update its status from it. Affiliates and their drivers are never seats.
What stops dispatch to an uninsured affiliate?
The compliance gate. An affiliate whose approval is suspended or blocked, or whose insurance has expired, cannot be selected as a subcontractor.
Switching? Read the Limo Anywhere comparison or the Moovs comparison.