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Plan the Day's Route, Then Watch It Happen

An ordered route per technician with drive times, miles and ETAs — and a live map showing where everyone actually is.

Plan the Day's Route, Then Watch It Happen

Three techs crossing town past each other all morning is a cost you never see on an invoice.

How it works

  1. Pick a date and a technician. You get their stops in an optimized order.
  2. The summary tells you stop count, total drive time, total miles and the ETA at each stop.
  3. Check it against the map before you commit to it.
  4. Hand off to navigation — the tech taps Navigate and their phone takes over.
  5. Switch to the live tracking tab to see active technicians moving on the map, refreshing every minute.

Operator mode is the denser version: one day at a time, search, and filters for status, assignment and unscheduled work. It's built for whoever is fielding calls all day and needs to find the nearest available truck.

Location tracking is consent-based. Technicians see a disclosure screen and have to agree before their phone shares position, and the location history is pruned automatically.

Where you'll find it

Web at /dashboard/dispatch, and Dispatch in the mobile app. The phone is what actually reports position.

Related: Scheduling on the calendar · Creating a job

No charge during beta. Pricing.


Header photo: Dodge Tradesman 100 Van (4795685725) by dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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