EasyRoutes is a route planning platform designed for bakeries handling local deliveries. It helps you create efficient routes, dispatch to drivers, and keep customers updated with real-time tracking. By optimizing routes, you save time, reduce fuel costs, and ensure fresh baked goods arrive on time. With features like proof of delivery and customer notifications, EasyRoutes makes last-mile deliveries smoother and more reliable.
“EasyRoutes has saved me a significant amount of time generating routes, improved the customer experience with delivery notifications and tracking links, and saved me time on order management.”
Powerful bakery local delivery features, like:
Route Scheduling
Schedule deliveries so fresh bread, pastries, and cakes arrive at their peak freshness. This helps ensure that your customers receive high-quality baked goods right when they need them.
Route Editing
Modify delivery routes on the go to accommodate new orders or last-minute changes. This allows you to stay flexible and ensure all deliveries are completed without delays.
Live Updates
Keep customers informed with real-time tracking and accurate ETAs for their baked goods. This helps customers plan their day around deliveries and improves satisfaction.
Time Per Stop
Allocate sufficient time for unloading, setting up, and interacting with customers at each delivery stop. This ensures smooth hand-offs and maintains excellent service.
Packing Slips
Ensure accurate order fulfillment by including packing slips with each delivery. This helps avoid mistakes and makes it easy to verify the contents of each order.
Custom Stops
Add or adjust delivery stops to handle special requests or last-minute orders. This flexibility helps keep your customers happy and ensures no delivery is left out.
Custom Start/End
Plan routes that start at your bakery and end wherever is most convenient for your business operations. This helps streamline your workflow and reduce unnecessary travel.
Photo Proof
Capture photos at each delivery to confirm that the correct orders were delivered to the right customers. This reduces errors and provides a reliable record of successful deliveries.
Recent sustainability trends present an opportunity for forward-thinking bakeries
Numerous consumer studies have shown a rapidly growing interest in sustainable and environmentally-friendly business practices and product options - and bakeries are no exception. In 2023, over two-thirds (70%) of consumers worldwide are seeking sustainable packaging, and more than half (56%) indicated an interest in purchasing plant-based bakery products to help achieve their sustainability goals.12Beyond butter, eggs and plastic, bakeries embracing sustainable local delivery practices are better positioned to cater to these evolving consumer tastes.
EasyRoutes' robust route optimization engine effortlessly plans the most efficient delivery routes with just a few clicks, ensuring that baked goods reach their destination on time while minimizing time spent on the road. By enabling any of EasyRoutes’ additional route planning options, such as time spent per stop and avoiding U-turns or toll roads, bakeries can further enhance their operational efficiency and reduce fuel consumption as they transport their delectable treats. Remarkably, delivery drivers utilizing the EasyRoutes Delivery Driver app may even forego traditional fuels entirely, with many eco-friendly merchants opting for bicycles, scooters, electric vehicles, or eBikes for deliveries to promote their sustainability even further.
Bakeries are heavily influenced by seasonality, special occasions - and even Sundays
Whether pecan pie for Thanksgiving, hot cross buns for Easter, or entire months dedicated to all things pumpkin spice, many seasons and special occasions are traditionally associated with specific baked goods. What’s more, bakeries are particularly prone to weekly fluctuations in popularity, with more consumers consistently opting to indulge their sweet tooth on Saturdays and Sundays rather than throughout the week.3 Scaling delivery operations to align with these special occasions and weekly trends can pose a significant challenge for bakeries of all sizes.
EasyRoutes' adaptable driver seat functionality enables bakeries to activate extra delivery drivers during peak holiday seasons - or even just an unusually busy Saturday afternoon. This results in immediate cost savings for bakeries during off-peak periods when consumer demand temporarily declines. When holiday order volumes inevitably rise, EasyRoutes' delivery zones and route balancing features provide bakeries with additional tools to efficiently scale and manage for periods of increased demand, however long they may last.
Elevate your bakery's deliveries today!
No matter the season, join the sustainability movement and meet the demands of eco-conscious consumers any day of the week by enhancing your bakery's local delivery with EasyRoutes. EasyRoutes offers a powerful route optimization engine that ensures efficient delivery routes, minimizing time on the road, reducing fuel consumption, and satisfying hungry customers sooner. With the EasyRoutes Delivery Driver app, your drivers can even opt for eco-friendly modes of transportation, like bicycles, scooters, electric vehicles, or eBikes, aligning with sustainable delivery practices. Don't let fluctuations in demand or special occasions slow you down; activate extra drivers during peak times and holidays effortlessly. Stay ahead in the competitive bakery landscape—make the sweet choice and install EasyRoutes from the Shopify App Store and give all the app's features a test drive throughout your 14-day free trial. 🧁🚚✨
Auto-optimize delivery routes in seconds
Instantly generate the most efficient routes directly from your orders. Save hours on manual planning and cut delivery costs with powerful, scalable routing built for businesses of every size.
"The best routing app for Shopify merchants." - Shopify
Delight customers with live delivery updates
Reduce “Where’s my order?” calls with automated SMS and email notifications. EasyRoutes includes branded tracking pages that match your business — giving customers the visibility they expect.
"Customers are loving the tracking feature...No more 'When's my order coming?' phone calls." - MB Grocery
Everything your drivers need in one app
From optimized stop lists to proof of delivery, the EasyRoutes driver app gives your team all the tools they need — on iOS and Android. Turn-by-turn navigation, delivery notes, and customer info all in one place.
Monitor delivery progress in real time, review performance across your team, and uncover trends with powerful reporting. EasyRoutes helps you make data-driven decisions that scale with your operations.
Dispatch routes directly to your drivers’ phones. With turn-by-turn navigation, order details, and proof-of-delivery tools, everything drivers need is one tap away.
