Streamline local deliveries with Buunto + EasyRoutes

Buunto – Delivery Date Picker + EasyRoutes

Running a local delivery business shouldn’t be a headache for merchants.  Today’s retail landscape continues to see rapid growth in online shopping: an estimated 2.8 billion consumers worldwide will shop online in 2026, and e-commerce now accounts for over 21% of all retail sales globally.  As consumers continue to rely upon the convenience and accessibility of online shopping, their expectations for efficient, on-time delivery carry increased importance.  Whether dispatching a fleet of drivers daily or conducting a weekly neighbourhood delivery run, Shopify merchants of all sizes use Buunto – Delivery Date Picker + EasyRoutes to streamline the often tedious routine of local delivery planning.

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Buunto – Delivery Date Picker lets Shopify merchants offer delivery-date and time-window selection directly on the product or cart page, so customers lock in their preferences before checkout. A library of customization options lets users style the picker to match any theme, while granular scheduling controls — order preparation and lead times, cutoff times, and caps on the number of orders per day or per slot — keep fulfillment flows in sync with operational constraints. Users can add surcharges for express or weekend delivery, offer in-store pickup, and block out holidays and blackout dates. Some of Buunto's newest features extend this further: a built-in postcode checker restricts orders to the zones actually served, product- and collection-specific schedules handle catalogs with different fulfillment rules, and Google Calendar sync plus a developer API keep order deadlines visible across delivery and pickup timelines.

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EasyRoutes takes date and time-window data captured by Buunto and turns them into fully optimized delivery routes in seconds. EasyRoutes' routing engine weighs real-world traffic, each stop's promised time window, driver capacity (by weight or item count), stop priority, and preferences like avoiding U-turns and toll roads — and can split orders across multiple zones and drivers to keep expansive delivery areas efficient. Routes come with packing lists, and automated Workflows feature can build recurring routes automatically from orders matching your criteria, eliminating repetitive daily planning. Customers stay informed through branded, real-time tracking pages, ETAs, and email and SMS notifications, while drivers use the iOS and Android Delivery Driver app to navigate, view order inventories, and capture proof of delivery with photos, eSignatures, notes, barcode scans, and GPS-stamped confirmation. Because EasyRoutes is Built for Shopify and lives inside your admin — and can also ingest orders via CSV, REST API, or Zapier — every delivery record stays connected to the rest of your stack.

Together, Buunto & EasyRoutes cover the full lifecycle of a scheduled delivery. Buunto captures the when at the storefront — the date, the window, the capacity limits, the zones served — and writes those constraints onto each order. EasyRoutes reads that data and honours it automatically when it sequences stops, so a customer's chosen Saturday-morning slot becomes an actual optimized route rather than a promise someone has to track by hand. Pair Buunto's per-slot caps with EasyRoutes' Workflows and the daily routine collapses into a background process: orders flow in against the slots you've defined, and routes build themselves on schedule. The result is fewer missed windows, less manual planning, and a delivery experience — from the moment of purchase to proof at the doorstep — that stays branded and transparent the whole way through.

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Improved Customer Relationships

Customers that receive their orders from a merchant on time are far more likely to order from that merchant again.  In AlixPartners' 2026 Home Delivery Survey, 61% of shoppers said a late delivery weakens their willingness to buy from a retailer again, and 27% said they'd stop buying from that retailer altogether — with more than half willing to abandon a retailer entirely after just one or two botched deliveries.  Pairing Buunto’s time window data with EasyRoutes’ optimized route planning helps ensure first-time buyers convert into loyal customers that keep coming back.

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Operational Efficiency

EasyRoutes works directly from the Shopify admin and integrates seamlessly with any delivery preferences captured via Buunto – Delivery Date Picker.  EasyRoutes’ powerful route optimization engine considers all of Buunto’s time slots when planning local delivery routes, ensuring that delivery drivers take the most efficient route possible to complete an on-time delivery.  EasyRoutes offers a number of additional route planning criteria - such as avoiding U-turns and toll roads - to further boost operational efficiency and fuel savings while on the road.

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Competitive Advantage

‍Standing out among the estimated 28 million global eCommerce websites is no small feat.  Buunto & EasyRoutes make customizing the user experience a breeze, integrating directly with Shopify stores and enabling custom store-branded packing slips, labels, and order tracking pages. Combining the power of both apps ensures that customers will receive their orders in a timely, efficient manner, complete with all the branding and notifications that modern merchants and consumers expect.

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From flowers or firewood to cupcakes, coffee, clothing and more, integrating Buunto – Delivery Date Picker + EasyRoutes provides all the tools Shopify merchants need to exceed their customers’ local delivery expectations.  Buunto – Delivery Date Picker and EasyRoutes can both be installed from the Shopify App Store, offering free trial periods for merchants to give all of their features a test run.  Integrate today to supercharge your local delivery business and impress customers with every order!