VendSoft gives you the possibility to group your locations into routes.

A route is a list of locations grouped by some criteria: by the driver, by weekday, by machine type, and so on. Routes can be used to quickly create a trip using the Add from Route button.

Possible use case: You visit some of your locations on Monday, others on Tuesday, the third set on Wednesday, and so on. You can create a route that includes all your locations for Monday and call it the “Monday Route.” Then, when creating your trip for Monday, instead of adding the locations to visit one by one, click the Add from Route button and select “Monday Route.” All locations assigned to the route will be added to the trip. The same scenario can apply if you create a route for machines serviced by a specific driver (“Johnny’s Route”), or machines in the Northwest area of the city (“NW Route”), or only snack machines (“Snack Route”), and so on.

Another benefit of using routes is filtering the report data by route. On the Reports screen, click the button Filter By Route and select the route(s) to show in reports. The reports will display data only for the locations assigned to the selected routes.

Defining and using routes is an optional feature provided by VendSoft. You are encouraged to take advantage of it, but the system will function even if you don’t.

You can view and manage your routes from the Routes screen.

You can define a new route using the Create Route button on the Routes screen.

Click the Add Locations button to open the Select Locations screen.

Select the location(s) to assign and click Save. The system will position the assigned locations on the map. You can reorder them using drag and drop in the Locations list.

When you Add Locations from Route to a trip, locations by default will be ordered in the sequence specified here in the route.

In the Locations list, click the delete icon at the end of the row.
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