Applications for mobile devices do nothing but promote a sedentary life. Not only can we buy anything that comes to mind through Amazon, but we can also buy prepared food and have it delivered to our home in a few minutes.
To this, we have to add that precisely the food at home is not, precisely, a very nutritious food that we say and where all types of fats tend to predominate. Leaving this question aside, if you usually order a lot of food at home, you are probably interested in knowing what is Globo Prime and what advantages does it offer us.
What is Glovo
Globo is a company that allows users receive your purchases in minutes without leaving home, be it a hamburger, a charger, a toothpaste ... except animals and large products, since the delivery men of this company travel by motorcycle or bicycle depending on their work area.
This service works only through the mobile device app and is available for download for free on both iOS and Android. The application requests permissions to use the location and thus be able to show us the businesses near our location that work with Globo.
How Globo works
When we want to buy a product and receive it at home through Globo, as soon as we open the application, they will be displayed all businesses near our location that work with Glovo (and other services of this type such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Just Eat ...).
By using location, delivery drivers can plan the delivery route and make different deliveries in the same trip, since each delivery person charges per order delivered, they do not have a fixed salary nor are they considered as company employees, although the Spanish government has recently regulated the operation of these applications to avoid the exploitation to which the delivery workers are subjected. platforms.
If we do not want to search among all the restaurants that are close to our location, we can choose use the search engine integrated in the application, search engine that allows us to apply filters according to the type of food and / product that interests us at all times.
Once we have selected what we want to receive, we must choose an approximate delivery timeWe can even select that it be done the next day within a maximum period of 24 hours. If we have not previously entered our phone number, we must do so so that Glovo can contact us if a problem arises.
Finally, we make the payment of the product that we have requested, a price that will be increased by shipping costs that depends on the distance (the closer, the cheaper) and usually around 5 euros, which are distributed both Glovo and distributed. While we wait for the order to arrive at our address, through the application we can check its status at all times.
The request it is paid only when we receive it, a payment that is made through the application for mobile devices and that includes the price of the service in addition to the products we have purchased.
Although Glovo is available in most cities, not all establishments are compatible. In that case, if we need an urgent product, from Glovo we can buy it through a dealer, who will be in charge of buying it, paying for it and adding the price of the service that we must pay when it is delivered to us.
Can Glovo orders be canceled?
Most of the orders made through Glovo are for perishable products, that is, food. The company allows us to cancel orders, whether for food or other products depending on whether the store has started to place the order and the delivery person has already been assigned, if the order is not prepared but has been assigned to a delivery person ...
If it is non-perishable products, we can cancel the order without incurring a cancellation fee as long as no delivery person has accepted the delivery request. If so, you will be charged the cost of the basic delivery service. If the product is already on its way, we will have to pay the price of the product, the price of the transport, plus a cancellation fee.
Can the orders be modified?
To modify the order, we must get in touch with the delivery man Through the application to expand or reduce the order, as long as it is possible by the establishment and if the delivery person is not en route to deliver it to us.
What is Glovo Prime
Glovo Prime is a subscription service that allows us to receive orders for free in a series of selected establishments and enjoy exclusive promotions in exchange for a monthly fee of 5,99 euros With a free trial period of 1 month, it does not include any commitment to stay and we can renew or cancel it whenever we want directly through the application for mobile devices.
The establishments included in our Prime selection may vary depending on our location since they are limited to those that are closer to our location since the price of this subscription is practically what a normal shipment can cost us through this platform.
Glovo Prime requirements
- Orders over € 10,00 for restaurant and store orders.
- Orders over € 20,00 in food orders.
How to order Glovo Prime
Just like to use Glovo, it is necessary, yes or yes, the application for mobile devices, the only way to contract Glovo Prime is using the app.
To contract Glovo Prime, we must open the application and click on our username to access the details of our account. In this section, you will find the Glovo Prime option.
To contract it, we will click on the button Try a free month and enter the password of our Google or Apple account.
Be careful because despite the Prime you can be charged and you have to be attentive to the card charges. If you claim they tell you that it is because of the kilometers or the route that the glover has made and that you read the general conditions.