In SortScape, we're all about making your day more efficient. One tool designed to help with that is the Route Optimization feature. This feature allows you to optimize your routing by reordering your job runs to minimize travel time, meaning less time on the road and more time at your job sites.
Here's how to use it:
Go to your SortScape app and open up the schedule.
Click the map button at the top of each job run. This will open a modal that shows all visits for that particular job run on a map. It's a great way to visualise your day.
Set your start time. Enter when you plan to start your day to see estimated arrival times for each visit and when you'll finish.
Set your start and end address. If you start your day at the office/shed or at home and end it there, you should put that as your start and end address to allow us to optimise your route properly.
Review the route. If you notice that your route doesn't look quite right, look out for the 'Optimize Route' button. If your route could use some tweaking for better efficiency, this button will be enabled.
Optimize. All you need to do is click on the 'Optimize Route' button. The SortScape app will then reorder your jobs to make sure you're taking the quickest route possible.
Using Route Optimization not only saves you time, but it also reduces non-billable time spent on the road. That's more time you can dedicate to your tasks, your clients, and growing your business.
Estimated arrival times
When you set a start time, SortScape calculates and displays arrival/departure times for each visit, plus your estimated end time for the day. Make sure each visit has an estimated time for the most accurate times. As you complete visits throughout the day, the times will update with your actual logged start and end times.
Default start times
Admins can set the default start time used for route optimisation on the Visit Settings admin page.
Adding a shed or home as a start address
A shed or home can be added as an office internal property by clicking add new
near start address, searching for the address and clicking create.
Default start address
To change the default start address, click 'SETTINGS' near the start address.
Choose either:
Start from a particular property like your shed or home (if created) or
Start from the first property from the first visit in the job run.
Manual Reordering
Don't like the optimized route? Simply drag and drop visits to reorder them manually. The route automatically recalculates as you make changes.
Creating a Reverse Route
Some people like to start their day with the job that's the furthest away. In that case, you can pick that property as your starting point, and the route optimisation will optimise from that property back to your end address.
So give Route Optimization a try next time you're planning your job runs. We think you'll find it's a great tool for making your day run a little bit smoother.
Large routes
The default route optimization can handle routes up to 25 visits. For customers on the premium plan we are able to optimize routes up to 150 visits. Keep in mind, that this optimisation may take a while.