18 Best Delivery Route Planner Apps for 2024

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Pricing

1. Essentials: $80 per month for 3 users (billed annually) – Save 20%

Includes: 250 stops, route optimization and planning, priority stops, and one-click dispatch

2. Growth: $160 per month for 5 users (billed annually) 

Includes: Adds custom reports, export to Garmin, and detailed live tracking to Essentials

3. Enterprise: Not publicly available

Includes all the features of Essentials and Growth and offers a dedicated support manager + technical consulting

2. DynoRoute

Ideal delivery routing software for individual delivery drivers

If you are looking for a flexible pricing model for your multi-stop route planning, DynoRoute can be your go-to option. Every credit you buy paves the way to your claim for better rates. We also found the freedom it provides to add special instructions or delivery preferences to customize your stops along your route. 

If you are a solo driver or independent delivery contractor, DynoRoute can be your best routing partner to take you to your desired destinations in the shortest possible time. Their latest version has also introduced support for two more languages, including Spanish and Portuguese, increasing its cross-border usability.  

However, the problem is that it is useful only if you are an iOS user, restricting its ability for Android users. 

Key Features: 

1. User-friendly interface: Dyno Routes doesn’t require a steep learning curve, so you can understand how it works and start navigation quickly. 
2. Integration with Apple Maps: This feature enables seamless integration with Apple Maps to provide in-app turn-by-turn navigation instructions, eliminating the hassle of switching between apps.
3. Route reports: Provide details like the number of stops assigned, delivered, and missed per day, week, or month. This helps evaluate your overall or individual drivers’ delivery performance and take appropriate improvement measures.
4. Easy customization: You can choose your preferred distance unit, navigation app, and vehicle type to fit your delivery requirements. 

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Pricing: 

Starter Pack: $9.99 (500 credits)

Optimization Pack: $19.99 (1200 credits)

Advanced Package: $39.99 (3000 credits)

3. Google Maps

Free route navigation app with over 1bn downloads

Google Maps is one of the best free multi-stop route planner apps. This delivery route optimization software helps you find ways and plan trips with multiple stops, including road trips, deliveries, or walking. Based on real-time traffic, you can plan routes with up to 10 stops to reach your destinations faster. 

Another plus is that this route planner works offline as well and allows you to download the maps before you start your trip. This enables your delivery executives to navigate seamlessly in remote areas with poor network connectivity. 

We also found Google Maps Street View amazing, as it lets you explore the surroundings of your destinations to get an immersive experience when searching for a location. However, you can’t use Google Maps for trucks or commercial vehicles like cranes, which necessitates additional constraints, including height clearance and load limits.

Key Features

• Voice navigation: Google Maps provides turn-by-turn voice guidance, enabling hands-free navigation and allowing you to focus on the road.  
• Automated rerouting: This feature reroutes you on your trip based on real-time traffic, incidents, or road closures to save you transit time.
• Public transit information: It is suitable for various travel scenarios, allowing you to plan routes that combine driving, walking, and public transportation.
• Multiple route options: This section informs you of multiple route options along with ETAs so you can choose the route that fits your urgency or individual preferences.

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4. Routific

Ideal for automating your route planning

Routific stands out for its algorithm, which avoids “spaghetti” (overlapping) routes that other delivery route planners like Route4Me or MapQuest fail to provide. These non-overlapping routes prevent multiple drivers from traversing the same delivery area and crossing paths frequently.

Another feature that we liked is its ability to sync orders from e-commerce platforms to automate workflows. We were also able to accommodate new stops and assign drivers to the territories they are familiar with, using Routific.

However, we experienced less freedom of customization when it comes to customer notifications due to the limited number of characters and logos they provide. Also, the app doesn’t allow for scanning different types of barcodes and order-taking functionality.

Key Features:

1. Real-time traffic-based routing: This lets you optimize your routes based on up-to-the-minute traffic patterns (unlike OptimoRoute) to avoid congestion and maximize successful deliveries.
2. Engine API: Allows you to integrate their route optimization algorithm in your existing tech stack or business software.
3. Route information: Enables viewing your route details, including start and stop locations, travel distance, time, and specific delivery instructions. 
4. Delivery status updates: Convey real-time delivery notifications to your customers to help them stay informed throughout the delivery process.

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Pricing: 

Essential: $49 per vehicle per month

Professional: $69 per vehicle per month

Professional+: $93 per vehicle per month

5. MapQuest

Ideal for small-sized retail companies

MapQuest has been a prominent name in online mapping services since its inception in 1996. It stands out for its detailed street-level maps and turn-by-turn driving directions so you can navigate different cities or countries. 

We liked the flexibility it provides to add stops in multiple ways, either line-by-line, through copy/paste functionality, or by importing addresses from a spreadsheet. Another feature worth noting is the comparison of prices at nearby gas stations to help choose the most cost-effective filling station. However, unlike MapQuest, which allows it, you may not be able to add stops beyond 26. To overcome that limitation, you can opt for advanced MapQuest alternatives.

Key Features

• Avoidance options: This enables you to avoid toll roads, highways, or seasonal roads, helping you customize your delivery routes based on your unique needs. 
• Favorites: It lets you save your favorite (most frequently used) routes to some recurring stops for quick referencing as required. 
• Up-to-date satellite imagery: Provides up-to-date satellite images of different places for better visualization while analyzing routes. 
• Real-time information: Allows you to access not only real-time traffic conditions but also local temperature to plan trips accordingly.

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6. Circuit for Teams

Ideal for delivery or field service-based businesses

Circuit is a go-to route planner app that helps you factor in all delivery constraints, including order priorities, traffic constraints, delivery distances, and speed. What impressed us was the flexible and customizable data fields, which made our stop entries super-fast and error-free. 

Another feature that we found great is zoning which helped us organize our stops and routes by delivery zones and saved our time managing them manually. However, the accuracy of routing, especially in rural areas, was not up to the mark as reported by users and our tests revealed.

Key Features:

1. Delivery/service customization: This enables you to set priority levels, specific instructions, or the type of address (home or commercial) to effectively meet your customers’ delivery expectations. 
2. Proof of delivery: This allows you to collect your customers’ digital signatures or photos of delivered items for a verifiable record and avoid delivery-related issues later. 
3. Dynamic customer notifications: Facilitates keeping your customers informed on the estimated times of arrival and ensures they are available for delivery or service.
4. Dispatcher view and driver app: This allows you to modify routes in real time, notify your drivers of changes, and let them add or remove stops as needed.

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Pricing

• Starts at $20 per month

7. Route4Me

Ideal for last-mile delivery businesses looking for flexible pricing models

If you are looking for a delivery routing solution that offers a flexible pricing model, Route4Me can be a great option. Unlike other software like Routific which provides bundle packages, this cloud-based route planning solution offers different subscription plans and add-ons to meet your unique business needs. 

We were genuinely impressed by a large number of aspects, including drivers’ skills, working hours, capacity constraints, multiple depots, and curbside delivery, that Route4Me considers while optimizing routes. 

However, the basic plan doesn’t have the route optimization feature, making it expensive for small delivery businesses seeking optimized routes. Moreover, we could not find them active on review sites (like Capterra), unlike OptimoRoute, which responds to its customers regularly. 

Key Features:

1. Multi-stop route planning: This lets you create optimal multi-stop routes to handle increased volumes of delivery orders efficiently. 
2. Email & text notifications: Keep your customers informed with custom SMS or email notifications for delivery status confirmations, cancellations, schedule changes, and specific instructions to handle deliveries or appointments, if any.
3. Analytics: Provide detailed insights into mileage, fuel, and drivers’ costs to identify areas for improvement and enhance overall efficiency.
4. Real-time collaboration: This app enables continuous communication between you, your drivers, and your customers to address any issues, queries, or concerns promptly.

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Pricing

• Route Management: $200 per month
• Route Optimization: $300 per month
• Route Optimization Plus (Business Optimization): $450 per month

8. RoadWarrior

Ideal for delivery drivers, couriers & services

RoadWarrior is a cloud-based multi-stop route planner specifically designed for route operations. Equipped with best-in-class routing, RoadWarrior offers both a mobile app for drivers and the RoadWarrior Flex web app for teams, making it suitable for both individuals and businesses alike.

Used by over 50k drivers, it lets you add or remove your drivers easily and manage access permissions. The ‘drag-and-drop’ functionality to move stops for route adjustments is also smooth as internal testing found. Another interesting feature that we liked is that it let us merge different routes into one if required to ensure on-time completion of jobs.

However, RoadWarriors may be expensive for some basic functionality like Proof of Delivery as it comes as a paid add-on costing $10. Internal testing also found some syncing issues leading to delays in reflecting changes in orders’ schedules sometimes.

Key Features: 

1. Delivery time windows: Enables you to configure availability time windows and priority levels to minimize failed delivery attempts.
2. Multi-constrained route optimization: Facilitates considering multiple variables, including traffic, school zones, tolls, or one-way trips while optimizing routes. 
3. Proof of delivery: Allows you to collect signatures or photos to ensure instant delivery confirmation while eliminating any paperwork.
4. Manifest uploads: Supports uploading of manifests from FedEx, UPS, OnTrac, and Amazon to boost the versatility and flexibility of optimizing routes.

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9. Zeo

Ideal for professional delivery businesses, fleet companies, and mobile planning

Zeo is among the leading names in modern route optimization platforms and over 800k drivers across 150 countries depend on it to fulfill their delivery needs. Equipped with the potential of managing last-mile deliveries end-to-end, Zeo route planning software can help you edit, delete, reroute, or manage your already created routes.

Unlike other software like Mappr or RoadWarrior, it provides support for over 40 languages, making it highly valuable for different countries across the globe. The other interesting thing that we found is the freedom Zeo provides to customize status update messages by adding brand-specific logos and colors. 

However, testing revealed issues with uploading delivery manifests automatically, requiring us to take a manual approach. Moreover, unlike the Upper route planner, Zeo doesn’t provide detailed insights into the actual distance from a location to determine whether a delivery attempt was genuine or fake.

Key Features:

1. Multiple route tracking: This feature allows you to monitor multiple routes for all your drivers through an intuitive layout. You can gain real-time visibility into delivery operations, facilitate proactive resolution of issues, and ensure timely deliveries.
2. Auto-assign stops: This lets you distribute the unassigned stops automatically among your drivers based on their location, proximity, and drivers’ locations. This minimizes your time and effort in assigning them, boosts your route efficiency, and helps balance the workload among drivers.
3. Operating zones: Facilitates defining the operational areas for your individual drivers through various methods, such drawing polygons on a map, inputting coordinates, or selecting predefined regions. It helps optimize your drivers’ efficiency and reduce unwanted travel costs.
4. Real-time communication: This feature enables you to communicate with your drivers while they are on their routes, share necessary documents, or address their concerns through the message section. 

User reviews

Zeo Route planner is an app that will make it way more efficient for anyone who needs to routes plan with multiple stops.and i like when i add my time deliveries in the app and set the timer for them so zeo automatically remind me destination arriver time and optimize automatically too to reach in time for my time deliveries.

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Pricing: 

Zeo Route Planner comes with monthly, quarterly, and annual pricing plans for fleet managers and single drivers. 

FLEET MANAGERS 

Monthly: INR 999/month per seat

Quarterly: INR 899/month per seat

Yearly: INR 833/month per seat

SINGLE DRIVER

Monthly: INR 400/month per seat

Yearly: INR 333/month per seat

10. Onfleet

Route planning software for professional drivers & fleet businesses

Onfleet presents itself as a “complete last-mile delivery solution” that has the potential to handle your end-to-end delivery processes. Internal testing also found this claim to be quite right. While the standard route optimization that all the software provides is good, what makes it stand out is its AI-powered customer notifications and ETAs. 

Another great thing about this app is the multi-industry support it comes with. Trusted by over 1000+ customers, it also helps collect feedback through integrated forms and incorporate it to improve delivery services. 

Another good thing is its versatility and usability across industries. However, it may take you some time before you familiarize yourself completely with its features due to its complex UI. High prices may also be a problem for you if you are a small delivery business owner who has budget restrictions

Key Features: 

1. Advanced route planning: This allows you to plan routes for multiple weeks ahead of time, which is especially helpful in planning your daily start and stop if you are a long-haul driver. 
2. Proof of Delivery: This helps you record every successful delivery by capturing photos, signatures, barcodes, or digital notes to reduce paperwork and enhance accountability.
3. Real-time reports: Gives you insights into on-time rates, service times, feedback scores, and distance traveled to assess your performance and implement improvement measures.
4. Analytics: Enables you to get insights into each driver’s productivity through detailed task history and performance metrics.

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Pricing:

Launch: $550 per month

Scale: $1265 per month

Enterprise: Not publicly available

11. Badger Maps

Ideal for traveling salespersons

Badger Maps can be your ideal routing partner for sales or field service businesses. The Lasso tool that it provides helps circle addresses with a fingertip and define territories. You can also view your entire day routing to filter and prioritize your best opportunities.

Badger Maps supports comparatively more navigation apps than other apps, including Waze, Google Maps, Garmin, and Magellan. Even after adding 100+ accounts, it works seamlessly to let you plan most optimal routes to cover them. 

We also found the ability to find and accommodate new opportunities to compensate for canceled appointments on the fly to maximize the sales trip efficiency. However, our tests revealed the slow loading time and subpar note-keeping ability as two primary concerns that could be addressed.

Key Features: 

1. Targeted focus: This feature lets you color your points and filter your opportunities based on predefined upselling or cross-selling criteria to maximize your deals.
2. Follow-up route planning: This allows for checking in to appointment meetings, scheduling next follow-ups, and planning routes to accommodate them on further trips.
3. Stats and mileage tracking: Enables you to access statistics, including mileage, travel time, and full-day time of their routes. This feature helps understand the overall efficiency and performance of sales routes.
4. Detailed reports: These provide crucial details, including check-in photos, services completed, and surveys so that you can plan your future trips faster.

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Pricing:

Business: $58 per user per month (billed annually)

Enterprise: $95 per user per month (billed annually)

12. MyRouteOnline

Ideal for field services & sales reps

Whether you are an individual delivery driver or operate a large fleet, MyRouteOnline can cater to your routing needs. Equipped with a user-friendly interface and distance or time-based optimization, this app stands out for route animation. We loved it as it let us visualize and evaluate your routes before starting delivery trips and make necessary changes. 

We also liked how it enables export routes to Google Maps, Garmin, TomTom, or even Excel spreadsheets.  You may also like the functionality of reloading and updating preplanned routes which can save you time planning them every time.

However, while it is based on the ‘Pay as You Go’ model and hence, flexible, it may sometimes be costlier for large businesses. Sometimes, printing of export routes seemed slow as tests revealed and reported by users. 

Key features

1. Multi-stop route planning: Plan routes with multiple stops efficiently, accommodating up to 1000 addresses in a single run.
2. Cloud integration: Lets you import address lists fast and easily from cloud storage systems, including Google Drive and Dropbox. 
3. Customized multi-routing: Enables setting a fixed duration for each stop, maximum route duration, or the number of stops to cover along each route when planning multiple routes. 
4. Save routes: Facilitates saving an unlimited number of routes online to facilitate easy access as and when needed.

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13. RouteXL

Ideal for small businesses delivering multiple locations

RouteXL is your go-to road route planner for multiple stops. It enables you to organize your address to reduce travel time, making deliveries or pickups speedy and fuel-efficient. A good thing is that it provides a free plan with limitless routes that can include up to 20 stops. For the unlimited stops requirement, you can check out RouteXL alternatives.

We liked the flexibility it provides to choose from popular navigation platforms, including Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps. Using RouteXL, you can import multiple addresses from various applications, spreadsheets, or emails, elevating your route planning convenience.

Then, once you have added departure and destination points, the route is calculated with a single button press. 

The generated routes can be printed, exported to navigation devices, or shared via email, offering flexibility in dispatching.

Key Features

• Versatile navigation maps: Users have the flexibility to choose from popular navigation platforms, including Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze.
• Advanced algorithm support: The algorithm supports time windows, optimizing routes based on specific time constraints such as pickup, delivery, and visit times.
• Smart routing features: RouteXL goes beyond route planning to offer diverse features, including geocoding, GPS tracking, data sharing, search functionality, route sharing, and QR code scanning.

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14. Track-POD

Ideal for proof of delivery and live tracking

With over 10,000+ companies as customers, Track-POD has developed award-winning systems to revolutionize Proof of Delivery (POD), route planning, and live tracking for delivery-based businesses. 

Easily accessible both on desktop and mobile devices, Track-POD allows you to optimize routes. What we liked, in particular, was that it let us capture geotags and timestamps to know when and where our drivers received ePODs. 

However, testing revealed issues with tracking the total number of hours drivers work. Moreover, we couldn’t find truck-specific route optimization that considers height and load constraints. 

Key Features

1. Fleet optimization: This lets you maximize the capacity utilization of your fleet alongside creating optimal routes to reduce the number of delivery trips and associated fuel and wear/tear costs.
2. Safety management: This enables you to evaluate your vehicles’ conditions to fix any mechanical issues and ensure they operate optimally on the road. 
3. QR / barcodes: Allows you to check or input the details of any item or order into your system by scanning printed labels on them.
4. Exhaustive reporting: Facilitates tracking metrics like task completion time, average driver delivery time, and cost per delivery to evaluate your delivery performance and initiate targeted improvement actions.

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Pricing:

Provides two types of pricing: 

Per Driver

1. Standard: $29 per month/driver/vehicle (billed annually), doesn’t include ETA live updates, route optimization for stops beyond 24, or priority orders 
2. Advanced: $49 per month/driver/vehicle (billed annually), includes POD, ETA live updates, service time, and delivery time windows
3. Advanced Plus: $69 a month per driver/vehicle, allows up to 50 dashboard users and includes analytics
4. Enterprise: Not publicly disclosed, includes all advanced route planning features

Per Order

1. S Plan: $285 a month per 1500 orders
2. M Plan: $510 a month per 3000 orders 
3. L Plan: $900 a month per 6000 orders
4. XL Plan: $1440 a month per 1440 orders

15. GSMtasks

Ideal for route planning & task management for last-mile

Renowned for its visual and intuitive interface, GSMtasks form a good solution for service or last-mile delivery businesses. Whether you have service appointments or deliveries, it helps you create the most efficient routes to cover them through automated routing. 

A standout point about GSMtasks is the ‘limitless integration possibilities’ they provide through their RESTful web service API. We also liked how it let us create custom meta-fields to add delivery-specific details like storage temperature or pressure. 

However, GSMtasks doesn’t provide route optimization in their starter plan, making it expensive for small businesses or solo users with limited routing needs and budget constraints. However, testing revealed bugs and crashes while using the smartphone app as users also reported. 

Key Features: 

1. Proactive scheduling: This lets you group different recurring tasks and schedule them for days, weeks, or months ahead of time to prevent last-minute scheduling hassles. 
2. Live tracking: Provides you with real-time visibility into your drivers’ movements and locations to track the progress of your tasks and address any issues promptly. 
3. Fleet analytics: Enables you to track metrics like cost per mile, on-time completion percentage, or utilization rate to analyze your fleet performance and take measures to improve it. 
4. Drag-and-drop route adjustments: Allows you to change the sequence of your tasks fast and efficiently as required to boost your adaptability and agility.

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Pricing: 

Essential per user:  $17 per user/month, doesn’t include route optimization

Professional: $22 per user/month, includes route optimization and offline mobile app

Enterprise: Custom pricing and allows 30+ users

16. Logistia 

Ideal for flexible delivery management system

Logistia is a route planner and optimization app made for professionals that simplifies and optimizes delivery routing through intelligent algorithms. Using it, you can also define delivery areas to ensure focused and efficient routing for each. 

The ability to add products to orders helped us enable drivers to verify the contents of assigned orders before starting their delivery trip. The integrated billing management also provides drivers with payment details, including amount or payment mode to understand the financial aspects of their deliveries. 

However, testing revealed issues with loading maps when in use. Moreover, it was cumbersome to pick one order at a time instead of moving all the desired orders to the next day. The base plan is also expensive, considering it doesn’t provide live tracking and ETA notifications.

Key Features:

1. Advanced planning: Lets you plan your delivery routes for the long haul to minimize the last-minute chaos and ensure a seamless delivery process.
2. No-contact delivery: This enables you to indicate to you that a particular delivery is no-contact, ensuring a safe and compliant service at every drop-off location.
3. Financial reports: This allows you to retrieve detailed financial reports, including details like the total payment collected, payment methods, and any discrepancies, to track your financial performance.
4. Driver settings: Facilitates customizing your routes based on unique preferences or familiarity of your areas to ensure better delivery management.

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Pricing: 

• Simple start: $19 per driver per month (250 addresses/driver), doesn’t provide tracking
• Essentials: $29 per driver per month (500 addresses/driver), includes live tracking, customer notifications, and customer notifications
• Plus: $39 per driver per month (1000 addresses/driver), includes Reports & Analytics

17. OptimoRoute  

Ideal for delivery route planning and field services

If you are looking for easy-to-use route planning for your daily couriers, then OptimoRoute is the best option for dealing with a high volume of pickups and deliveries to cover daily. What caught our attention was the speed of planning – around 1000 routes in a matter of minutes. 

Serving over 3000 customers globally, OptimoRoute lets you factor in variables, including the number of boxes, volume, or weight to select the right vehicle for your deliveries or pickups. An advanced functionality is the “Return to Depot” that lets you plan the return trip for your driver while optimizing delivery routes. 

The app also offers a real-time tracking feature to compare your planned vs. actual routes. What we found missing is the ability to consider real-time events like traffic patterns, road closures, constructions, and accidents for planning. It doesn’t have barcode scanning and order-taking features like Routific.

Key Features: 

1. Route optimization: Optimizes routes based on general, vehicle-specific, and driver-specific constraints, including time windows, service areas, requisite skills, vehicle capacity, and required vehicle features.
2. Real-time order tracking: Lets your customers know the whereabouts of their orders and reduce inbound customer queries about deliveries.
3. Proof of delivery: Captures your customers’ digital signatures, photos, and notes to document them as a verifiable record and minimize missed delivery liabilities. 
4. Mobile app for drivers: Allows you to send planned routes directly to your drivers to let them navigate these routes in the navigation app (Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Waze) of their choice.

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Pricing:

• Lite: $35.10 per driver/month (billed annually)
• Pro: $44.10 per driver/month (billed annually)
• Custom: Varies based on your unique needs

18. Speedy Route

Ideal for delivery drivers and sales people on the road traversing multiple locations

Speedy Route is a powerful route optimization tool designed for individuals and businesses with multiple stops. It meticulously calculates the best route, ensuring each location is visited once before returning to your starting point in the shortest and quickest way possible. 

This web-based route planning platform offers full driving directions between all stops, making it an invaluable asset for optimizing your travel.

Ideal for single or multiple delivery vehicles, Speedy Route adapts to your specific needs. It produces the optimal route for the number of delivery service vehicles available, maximizing efficiency. 

Speedy Route excels at solving the Travelling Salesman Problem, providing free routing software that redefines the delivery and sales route optimization experience.

Key Features

• Scenario planning: The platform provides scenario planning capabilities, allowing you to strategize and optimize routes based on various scenarios and variables.
• Vehicle maintenance: You can incorporate considerations for vehicle maintenance into your route planning. This way, you can ensure that routes are efficient while also accounting for the condition and maintenance needs of the vehicles.
• Routing alerts: Speedy Route includes routing alerts to keep you informed about potential issues, traffic updates, or other factors that may impact your routes.
• Route simulation: You can simulate routes to visualize and assess the proposed plan and make informed decisions and adjustments as needed.

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Pricing:

Small Team: $69 per month, includes 5 drivers and 500 stops

Large Team: $99 per month, includes 10 drivers and 999 stops

Delivery Route Planner Apps – Pave the Way to Efficient Delivery Route Planning

A delivery route planner app is key to streamlining route planning for multi-stop deliveries while minimizing manual effort and errors. While numerous delivery route planner apps are available, it is important to identify your business-specific needs and the features you need. Accordingly, you can vet certain options, test them, take their free trial, and pick the one that suits you best.