Businesses often lookout for the best routing app that can improve their delivery process. They look for an app that can help them prepare and drive the most efficient fast routes. The longer the driver spends completing the daily routes, the less profit will be earned.
A routing app can boost delivery efficiency with route planning and optimization, real-time route monitoring, and advanced features to streamline daily deliveries.
We have performed a small survey and came up with a conclusion that the majority of the business need the following features in their routing app:
- Route optimization: Almost every business agreed that they need route optimization software for the delivery process. They want applications that can work on multiple devices and provide the delivery agents the option to add stops, skip-stop, and add priority stops.
- Route monitoring: This feature helps you to track your drivers when they are out for delivery. It helps you to save time on the back end in case your company needs to adjust any routes (such as adding last-minute stops) or if a customer has called asking for an update.
- Order tracking: This tells your customer when their package arrives, which lets the customer prepare for its delivery and reduces the number of redeliveries your team will need to make.
- Proof of Delivery: It can be either a signature or a photo of where your driver left the package. This helps resolve disputes between the customer, driver, and company. And depending on what you’re delivering, signature POD may be required
The right routing app is going to be cost-efficient for your business. There are many routing applications today, but the only problem with them is that they offer features at a very high rate, or they offer the features you do not need.
We designed Zeo Route Planner as a multi-stop route planner customized to help every size company, from individual couriers to small businesses to courier teams. Our tool creates optimal routes, empowering delivery drivers to make their stops as quickly as possible, and it synchronizes communication between driver, dispatcher, and customer.
How Zeo Route Planner Makes Your Delivery Team More Efficient
Zeo Route Planner has been developed to serve all kinds of businesses, and therefore, it offers the features that suit you and your business. Let’s have a detailed look at how Zeo Route Planner can boost efficiency in your delivery process.
Managing Addresses
To start route planning, you need to upload all your addresses to the app. You can do this by importing your spreadsheet list, using image capture, using QR/Bar code, or manually typing in your addresses. If you add your addresses manually, Zeo Route Planner uses the same auto-complete feature like Google Maps, which means you don’t have to type in the entire address to get the correct stop to pop up. Drivers can do this on the mobile app, which is great for when they need to add a last-minute stop to their route.
We have already mentioned that you can also import your addresses from a spreadsheet. This is the most efficient way of doing it, designed for delivery teams planning larger multi-stop routes. But apart from this, Zeo Route Planner also lets you capture image OCR and import the addresses.
Route optimization
Once you are finished uploading the addresses, the Zeo Route Planner will take a minute to optimize the routes. Zeo Route Planner will provide you with the fastest route possible.
We have also included the feature “Navigate as entered” in the app. This feature is included in case if you want to proceed to the delivery without optimized routes. It sometimes happens that the drivers want to proceed to the addresses as they have got it from the dispatching office, and thus this Navigate as entered feature comes into play.
After you have the optimized route, your drivers can proceed with the delivery. Zeo Route Planner works with the most popular GPS navigation platforms, such as Google Maps, Waze Maps, Yandex Maps, Sygic Maps, TomTom Maps. Our Zeo Route Planner app works with both iOS devices and Android devices.
Additional details
Zeo Route Planner also provides you with the option to add several additional details for your stops. These include adding customer details such as customer name, mobile number, and email address. You can also set your delivery priority, stop duration, delivery slot, and stop type in the app.
In addition to these, Zeo Route Planner provides you a list of preferences that you can choose according to your needs and make the best out of our app. These preferences include changing the distance unit, choice of navigation maps, theme, fonts, and various other features.
Route Monitoring
Once the route is in progress, the dispatchers can follow along using the Zeo Route Monitoring feature. Route monitoring gives you a real-time update of where your drivers are within the context of their route. Instead of just reporting your driver’s cross streets or geographical location, Zeo Route Planner tells you where your driver is and what stop they’re going to next.
Proof of Delivery
As we have mentioned that Zeo Route Planner provides the feature of POD. This is beneficial to all businesses as it helps you provide transparency in the delivery process with the customers. With Zeo Route Planner, you can send an SMS message or an email to your customers notifying them their package is on its way. As the driver gets closer to their stop, the customer gets an updated notification with a more specific time window.
We also offer two different types of proof of delivery functionality:
- Signature capture.
With signature capture, your delivery driver can use their smartphone to collect the customer’s signature. You don’t need any smartpen, and the customer can use their finger to sign. - Photo capture.
If you need to leave a package, but the customer isn’t home, you can still collect proof of delivery by taking a photo. The driver snaps the photo with their smartphone, and the picture is then uploaded into Zeo Route Planner. Besides, a copy of this photo is sent to the customer and a notification that their package has been delivered.
To sum up, our route planner app is designed to make your deliveries more efficient by providing you these features:
- Creating the best route.
- Letting dispatch know where their drivers are in case they need to make route adjustments.
- Allowing you to add additional details as well as change preferences according to the need.
- Giving drivers the information they need to complete their stops quickly.
- Providing customers with accurate updates of routes in progress and proof of delivery.
Try it now
If you manage a team of drivers and want a simple, cost-effective way to manage plan deliveries, manage their routes, and track them in real-time, then go ahead and download the app and use it to raise your business and profits bar.
