Routific

Avantages

Reliability of ETA sharing and CMS feature.

Inconvénients

The driver can't change the route but this is not a big deal for me.

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Avantages

Ease of use. Great customer support. Detailed Analytics. Cost vs Value. Customer notification integration. Time savings. Value add features

Inconvénients

If I had to rate something down, it would be that the new Routific (Beta) reoptimizes. already optimized routes when dropping a new order on to a route.

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Pourquoi passer à Routific

Avantages

Ease of use. Did exactly what I needed and saved me a ton of time.

Inconvénients

Dont have anything specific that I needed that it could not provide

Avantages

How quick it puts the routes together and that you can select different options.
And the customer service.

Inconvénients

I was very disappointed to know that to retrieve my driver notes and places she stops, I had to pay an additional fee.

Avantages

Rapid, same day route creation allowing significant adjustments to be made right up to dispatch.

Once appropriate headers are set very easy to plan multiple days ahead with some basic google sheet filtering, and flexibility to choose matching headers during upload.

bolt-on pricing on text notifications being per-vehicle-per-month, not per customer, far easier to budget and maintain suitable information to customers.

Inconvénients

some issues with pin mapping for certain addresses, uncertain as to whether this is a Routific specific issue or a general google-powered maps issue.

only allows for one break period for driver profiles which can lead to some awkward time planning and forced gaps, and one time window for customers.

No functionality to plan a cycling route - mapping reliant on roads only, understandable though it would be a massive boon if possible.

Avantages

Extremely easy user interface. I needed to generate optimized routes for 20-40 drivers and 500 addresses. I was able to do this without having to trudge through a lot of other features that I didn't need. The routes were generated quickly, and were very drivable. For output I used the spreadsheet that shows all routes and all stops per route. This was perfect for me because the drivers didn't want to get routes over their phones via a dedicated app or a list of hot links to feed into Google Maps. It was easy to go into Settings and customize my optimization criteria. The Routific staff that I corresponded with were extremely friendly and helpful, which made the whole experience a real pleasure

Inconvénients

I wish I could have gotten the "solution" spreadsheet with a separate tab for each driver (in addition to the main overall tab that I already got), plus a simple pdf of stop addresses for each driver. I wish the free trial allowed more than 20 drivers, although I understand that Routific would have raised the limit for me if I had really pressed.

Avantages

It is incredibly easy to setup, a breeze to learn and a pleasure to use.

Inconvénients

It would be great to have an app for administering routes.

Avantages

I liked its ease of use. Not all of our processes are online and it can be used efficiently by our staff who are tech-savvy as well as those who like to operate more in an 'old-school' fashion. I did trials with many of these programs before finding Routific and then was happy that I had found the one that worked best for our operation.

Inconvénients

No cons as far as our use goes. It does everything we ask of it.

Avantages

Ease of use. I was able to provide a csv files with my names, phone, email and addresses and the output retained that data for my next step.

Inconvénients

I couldn't just copy and paste my data, adding the extra step to create the csv file fom my spreadsheet.

Avantages

The accuracy and ease to use coupled with the seamless integration with other systems.

Inconvénients

Getting around the integration of the mapping system was hard at the beginning but the Routific helped a lot!

Avantages

Ability to plan, route and manage daily trips through basic and simple steps!

Inconvénients

The inability to close Canada/US border when routing trips
Routing trips over the course of multiple days

Avantages

Other trials were of no use as they had a limit on the number of addresses, so the one week model was perfect.Once addresses were added I was amazed at how easy it was to text a route to a mobile number (driver) and them manage the route from there. The links into Google maps for directions made the deliveries so simple!!

Inconvénients

Nothing. This product saved me hours and hours planning and driving, and as such a ton of money also!

Avantages

The routing is great and the support of the company is amazing - highly recommended

Inconvénients

Nothing special to say here. We are very satisfied

Avantages

Routific has been instrumental in our charity successfully expanding our Christmas Tree collection fundraising scheme across our entire catchment area. What used to take a person days of preparation using paper maps can now be done in a few minutes, and tailored until exactly as desired.We especially love the way that routes are dispatched to driver's smartphones, working like an app within the phone's internet browser, but without requiring an actual app to be downloaded.

Inconvénients

It can take a little while to work out how best to format and upload your address data for most accurate results. But once you administrators are familiar with the system and how best to use it for your organisation, it works very well.

Avantages

So easy to upload your Excel and it plans your delivery route for you. A very important tool to save time/money.

Inconvénients

there are no dislikes about Routific. It works perfectly.

Avantages

We used the system to route drivers for a one time delivery project. It was easy to use and the routes were well optimized. There were no complaints from our drivers.

Inconvénients

We did not have any problems using Routific.

Avantages

With just a little figuring we were able to use Routific with great results. Easy to create driver profiles, easy to set up with orders from Shopify, easy for drivers to use.  We are a first time e-commerce site and plunged directly into making about 25 daily local deliveries in an area that spans 75 miles. All our drivers are volunteers so they had no special experience making deliveries, and I had no experience making routes. With Routific, it was so easy to select the orders in Shopify and in minutes have an optimal route. The app is browser based which the drivers really appreciated, they didn't want yet another app on their phones, and it meant there were almost no instructions I had to communicate to them. They got a text, they opened the program on the browser, and off they went. When each delivery was finished, the app checked it off and sent them to the next address. Soooo user-friendly!

Inconvénients

It wasn't immediately obvious how to find on the dashboard the routes already created, but perhaps this was lack of familiarity as I did figure it out after a while.

Avantages

Uploading the customers, creating drivers and letting Routific do the task of routing the deliveries saved 70% of our daily operations time.

Inconvénients

Live tracking needs to be improved. Customer communications also need improvement.

Avantages

Our church has a large scale fundraiser two to three times per year where we make and distribute approx 1000 chicken salad lunches across our community (~25 mile radius). All deliveries must be completed in about 2.5-3 hours and everyone participating is a volunteer (no previous professional delivery experience). Traditionally we were having problems getting enough volunteers to manage the delivery due to inefficiency in travel, lack of knowledgeable directions to delivery sites, frustration faced when deliveries were not made in timely fashion. I decided we had to make a change if we wanted to continue our fundraiser. I chose Routific because of its integration with turn by turn directions, its stellar routing algorithm, the ability to publish route to phone with navigation, and ease of managing routing/driver assignments. I absolutely could not be more impressed with the way Routific allowed me to send drivers out with easy to understand routes that made sense to them and easily allowed us to deliver meals at the proper time. Every driver returned with nothing but positive comments from the experience and promised to serve as delivery driver again next time! As the coordinator and admin of the project (with no routing or delivery experience) the software was quite intuitive and easy to use. The online help docs are top notch. Use of the software was very simple to learn and implement. Thank you Routific for developing a solution that fits so well for our needs!!

Inconvénients

Really have nothing negative about the software at all to share. It is expensive for our situation where we have two to three one day events per year but have 10 or more drivers on those three days. If your business is delivery this produce would be an absolutely cost effective investment just on the fuel and time it saves alone. Highly recommend Routific!

Avantages

The many things I love about this program include the fact that I am able to see approximately where my drivers are and know when they will make it to their next stop. I also love the signature capture feature included in the program. It helps me to prove who signed for the delivery. Being able to route many drivers at a time and not have them overlap is truly an asset. The customer service that this company provides is excellent! When I have an issue they are on it immediately. I love that my representative knows who I am and wants to deal with me. I would appreciate a photo capture feature enabled into the program to prove when something has to be left on a porch, but I feel it will be rolled out eventually.

Inconvénients

I would say the only thing that I would like to change about this program is the cost. When I first started I felt the value for the money was great, but since the new features have been added I feel it is just a little out of the good value price range. I would like to have a flat fee to run unlimited vehicles, also.

Avantages

The ease of use. Everything is easy to find and user friendly

Inconvénients

Maybe the amount of features. I prefer it works well and just a little amount of features than the other way round. But I'm missing just a few important features.

Avantages

Easy to use, very professional, great customer support

Inconvénients

all good nothing bad at all better than all others online

Avantages

We are very happy with the features that we use regularly on Routiffic. It is easy to use and easy to train people on. It saves us time and makes us more effective and efficient.

Inconvénients

There are a great deal of features that we do not, at this point need - but it is nice to know they are there for when we need them

Avantages

I love this software because it is so simple and easy to use. It helps us a lot with our daily runs. It's a really easy and great tool to have. Customer service is amazing. They are really committed to this product and to their customers.

Inconvénients

There are a few things that are still missing. For example, switching an order from one date to another would be extremely helpful as some customers are not available on some dates. Also being able to select more than 1 order to unschedule it. I like to make my own runs but Routific routes them on its own and I have to unschedule them 1 by 1.

Avantages

Fast
Flexible
Easy to use UI
Powerful

Inconvénients

The colors of the plots are hard to reach (colors are too similar).