How do I create a delivery zone/area?
Use EasyRoutes' visual planning tools to draw a delivery zone on the map, and save it to use later for streamlined route planning, order selection, and route creation.
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EasyRoutes for Shopify
Note: EasyRoutes doesn't directly interact with your store's cart or shipping rates but we work with all the popular solutions in the App Store for this use case and also with Shopify's local delivery and shipping rates features. If you are referring to setting up regions for when your customers checkout, check out How does EasyRoutes work with shipping rates?
Creating a delivery zone
Pro Tip: To give yourself a larger area to work with when visually planning on the map, click the Expand map button within the map controls to increase the display size of the map view. Your active Route Options panel will be relocated below the map until it's sized back down using the Shrink map button.
To create a delivery zone, select the Zones icon in the map view on the Orders page - select Create new zone to begin drawing a new zone:
This will enable polygon drawing mode on the map. You can now draw shapes by clicking on the map to add points, eventually connecting them to complete a shape. Note that this tool allows you to click to add individual points that will connect to create a shape on the map, and does not support "dragging" across the map to draw a shape (dragging will simply scroll the around the map):
Once you are finished, click again on the first point drawn to complete drawing. This will launch a Save modal where you can name your newly drawn delivery zone.
A zone will now be displayed on the map - you can toggle the zone's display on/off using the checkbox, or delete the zone on the map entirely using the trash can, both found within the Zones menu on the map:
If a zone is selected/active, you can select all the orders in a delivery zone using the Select orders in delivery zone action, found within the Actions menu (three dots icon):
Once orders are selected (indicated with an alternate colour for their map pins), you can opt to keep or remove selected orders based on what you plan to route (i.e. keep them to make a route including these orders; clear them to make a route excluding these orders):
See Map Selection Tools for a description of each available action.
You can save a Delivery Zone for future route planning using the Create view button above your list of orders. Any delivery zones that are active when saving the view will automatically be applied to the map when accessing the saved view tab in the future:
Editing an existing delivery zone
Once created, delivery zones can be modified at any time to accommodate a smaller or larger map area. To edit an existing delivery zone's area:
- From your EasyRoutes Orders page, click the Zones button found on the map; click the edit (pencil icon) button next to the zone you'd like to edit:
- The selected zone will display with a dotted blue outline on the map - click anywhere inside it to activate editing handles, indicated by a dotted orange outline instead, as shown below:
- Click any of the zone's corners/points to select it for moving - the cursor will switch to a multi-directional move icon, allowing you to drag this corner/point anywhere else on the map:
- Once the selected corner/point has been moved, click it again to update the zone's boundaries:
Repeat Steps 1-4 above for any other corners/points requiring relocation to finish editing your delivery zone.
EasyRoutes for Web
Pro Tip: To give yourself a larger area to work with when visually planning on the map, click the Expand map button within the map controls to increase the display size of the map view. Your active Route Options panel will be relocated below the map until it's sized back down using the Shrink map button.
Creating a delivery zone
To create a delivery zone, select the Zones icon in the map view on the Orders page - select Create new zone to begin drawing a new zone:
This will enable polygon drawing mode on the map. You can now draw shapes by clicking on the map to add points, eventually connecting them to complete a shape. Note that this tool allows you to click to add individual points that will connect to create a shape on the map, and does not support "dragging" across the map to draw a shape (dragging will simply scroll the around the map):
Once you are finished, click again on the first point drawn to complete drawing. This will launch a Save modal where you can name your newly drawn delivery zone.
A zone will now be displayed on the map - you can toggle the zone's display on/off using the checkbox, or delete the zone on the map entirely using the trash can, both found within the Zones menu on the map:
If a zone is selected/active, you can select all the orders in a delivery zone using the Select orders in delivery zone action, found within the Actions menu (three dots icon):
Once orders are selected (indicated with an alternate colour for their map pins), you can opt to keep or remove selected orders based on what you plan to route (i.e. keep them to make a route including these orders; clear them to make a route excluding these orders):
See Map Selection Tools for a description of each available action.
You can save a Delivery Zone for future route planning using the Create view button above your list of orders. Any delivery zones that are active when saving the view will automatically be applied to the map when accessing the saved view tab in the future:
Editing an existing delivery zone
Once created, delivery zones can be modified at any time to accommodate a smaller or larger map area. To edit an existing delivery zone's area:
- From your EasyRoutes Orders page, click the Zones button found on the map; click the edit (pencil icon) button next to the zone you'd like to edit:
- The selected zone will display with a dotted blue outline on the map - click anywhere inside it to activate editing handles, indicated by a dotted orange outline instead, as shown below:
- Click any of the zone's corners/points to select it for moving - the cursor will switch to a multi-directional move icon, allowing you to drag this corner/point anywhere else on the map:
- Once the selected corner/point has been moved, click it again to update the zone's boundaries:
Repeat Steps 1-4 above for any other corners/points requiring relocation to finish editing your delivery zone.