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Route Planning Built for Trade Days

One tap puts the day in the best order. Then you drag reality back in: the key pickup, the merchants run, lunch. Plenty of tools optimise routes; this one survives the day.

Route planning software for field teams in Ireland, in the plan rather than in a higher tier.

One plan. €59 a month.plus VAT · everything included · no add-ons

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Route planner
Route planner showing an optimised day of stops with drive times, a supplier collection waypoint and lunch break
Why trade routes are different

A trade day is not a parcel run

Route software mostly comes in two flavours: delivery logistics tools built for vans full of parcels, and job schedulers that reorder pins on a map. A trade day is neither. Jobs have durations that slip, customers who need warning, a key to collect before stop three and materials after stop five. JobFlow plans that day, not a delivery manifest.

A day in three moves

Plan it, promise it, run it

The same route the whole business works from: the office builds it, the customer hears about it, the crew drives it, and the board records how it really went.

1

Plan it

One tap orders the day. Then you drag reality back in: the key pickup before stop two, the merchants run after stop five, lunch where it belongs.

optimise → drag → done
2

Promise it

Every stop carries an arrival window, and the confirmations go out in bulk from the planner. You know who has confirmed before anyone turns a key.

bulk send → tap to confirm
3

Run it, then read it

On-my-way messages carry a live arrival time from where the van actually is, and the day is recorded as it happened beside how it was planned.

planned vs actual
The machinery

How routes work in JobFlow

One tap, best order

The optimiser puts the day's stops in the most efficient order with drive-time estimates between every stop. Don't like it? Drag any stop anywhere and the times recalculate. And if a reorder pushes a job outside a window the customer has confirmed, JobFlow warns you and highlights the job, so the efficient order never quietly breaks a promise.

Waypoints that belong to jobs

Add the nursery collection before stop two or the skip drop-off after the clearance job, attached to the job it belongs to, so when the job moves its errand moves with it. Lunch goes on the route too, and each person's day can start and end at home or the yard.

Who should take the job

Placing a new job, JobFlow suggests who should take it based on who is actually free and who is already nearby, with a Recommended badge. You still choose. You just don't have to hold the whole team's day in your head to do it.

The whole day on one live map

The planner's map shows the day's stops with the job pipeline laid over them, so you can see where the work is and what state it's in before you commit to an order.

Arrival windows customers actually confirm

Every stop shows its promised window while you plan, and confirmations go out in bulk from the planner itself, as WhatsApp messages with tap-to-confirm buttons and email fallback. You can see who's confirmed before the day starts.

On my way, with a real ETA

One tap in the field app sends the customer a message with a live, traffic-aware arrival time worked out from where the van actually is. Fewer “any idea when?” calls, fewer wasted journeys to empty houses.

Durations you can trust, then check

Every visit carries an estimated duration you can drag to resize, and records the actual. Route time is blocked out on the calendar too, so nobody books a job over the drive. Over time you learn that “a quick service” is ninety minutes, and the plans get honest.

Works where the day happens

The field crew sees the whole day in order on their phones, with drive-time pills between stops, and the app keeps working offline, syncing when coverage returns. Every stop is Eircode-accurate.

Route-heavy days come in shapes: seasonal rounds for landscaping, survey to commissioning runs for solar installers, and multi-site rotations for property maintenance.

After the day

Planned versus actual, on a live board

See any day, today or in the past, as it was planned beside how it actually ran. “How did Tuesday go?” becomes a ten-second look.

Which jobs overran, and by how much

Estimated against actual on every visit, so an overrun is a number you can look at rather than a feeling about how the week went.

What moved, and who was held up

Reschedules and delays show on the day they happened, not in a report somebody has to build afterwards from memory.

Travel, on-site and over-estimate time, separated

The three things that eat a day are counted separately, so you can tell a traffic problem from an estimating problem.

Today, or any day you've already run

We couldn't find this anywhere else; the closest thing is spreadsheet-style reporting in enterprise platforms like ServiceTitan.

Live board
Live board comparing the day as planned against how it actually ran, with overruns highlighted
Straight answers

Route planning questions, answered

Does JobFlow optimise the route automatically?

Yes, one tap orders the day's stops efficiently, and then you can override any of it by dragging, because the software doesn't know the key is in Blanchardstown. Both together beat either alone.

Can I add stops that aren't jobs, like collections?

Yes. Waypoints (a wholesaler collection, a skip drop-off, a key pickup) attach to the job they belong to and sit in the route like any other stop, with lunch breaks and home start and end points too.

Do customers know when we're coming?

Yes, twice: bulk confirmations with arrival windows go out from the planner before the day (WhatsApp with tap-to-confirm buttons, email fallback), and on-my-way messages with a live ETA go out on the day.

How much does JobFlow cost?

One plan: €59 a month plus VAT, including two users, then €10 a month per extra user. Route planning is included, not an add-on or a higher tier.

Routes are one part of it. Quotes, invoicing and the field app are the rest.

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Weighing it up? See how JobFlow compares to Jobber, Tradify and ServiceM8.

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