🚗 How many routes?
EasyRoutes' "How many routes?" Route Option provides flexibility for splitting orders between multiple routes, planning the minimum number of routes possible to complete all deliveries, or planning routes that will be auto-assigned to one or more of your active drivers.
This Route Option is enabled at all times, and will default to creating a single, unassigned route until configured further:
Pro Tip: Once a route is created with a particular set of route options, this set will be used as the default for future routes until any changes are made, and another route is created with a new default set of route options. If there are particular route options you'd like applied to this default set, we recommend enabling and configuring all required route options, then creating a route. The set of route options enabled for that route will be the default set for new routes going forward.
Multiple Routes - Unassigned Drivers:
To generate more than one route at a time without having to assign or dispatch them immediately, use the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number of routes to create (up to 50 at once) within the Create unassigned routes panel. By default, routes created at the same time will have the same Route Options, which can be configured via the settings cards on the right-hand side of the Route Options page. Multiple routes will be created as a Route Group which can be viewed and tracked simultaneously from the same page.
Optional: Select the Set custom options for each individual route setting to enable individual Route Options tabs for each route, using the Route 1 / Route 2 tabs to enable/disable Route Options for each individual route:
Click Save after making any necessary changes to return to the Orders page and begin adding orders to your new routes.
Multiple Routes - Optimize for fewest routes:
Selecting Optimize for fewest routes will generate the minimum number of routes possible, while still taking into account any duration, stop count, item count, or weight limits applied via other Route Options. Ensure at least one of Max route duration, Max stops per route, and/or Max items per route is enabled in order to properly calculate any limits of a planned route. All routes planned using this feature will share any other enabled Route Options:
Click Save after making any necessary changes to return to the Orders page and begin adding orders to your new routes.
Multiple Routes - Auto-Assign:
Selecting Create and assign routes to drivers will generate one route for each driver selected via the checkboxes below; once created, these routes will be auto-assigned to the drivers selected. By default, routes created at the same time will have the same Route Options, which can be configured below.
Optional: Select the Set custom options for each individual route setting to enable individual Route Options tabs for each route, labelled according to each driver's name as shown below:
Click Save after making any necessary changes to return to the Orders page and begin adding orders to your new routes.
When auto-assign is enabled for one or more drivers, you'll also unlock the Auto-dispatch route option, which will dispatch routes as soon as they're created to their assigned driver:
Full details on how to set up auto-dispatch for your routes can be found in the route dispatch support article.