EasyRoutes is a route planning platform designed for firewood delivery services. 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 firewood arrives on schedule. With features like proof of delivery and customer notifications, EasyRoutes makes last-mile firewood deliveries smoother and more reliable.
"[EasyRoutes] reduced our time spend on route planning significantly and more important reduced the amount of customer inquiries about deliveries to almost zero."
Powerful firewood delivery features, like:
Route Optimization
Plan the most efficient routes to deliver bulky firewood loads quickly. This minimizes travel time and ensures customers receive their firewood when they need it most.
Live Updates
Provide customers with real-time tracking and accurate ETAs so they know when to expect their delivery. This improves communication and customer satisfaction.
Avoid Tolls
Plan routes that bypass toll roads to reduce delivery costs, especially for large and frequent deliveries. This helps boost your profit margins.
Route History
Maintain a detailed record of all past deliveries to track performance and optimize future routes. This helps improve efficiency and resolve any disputes.
Driver Notes
Add specific instructions for deliveries, such as where to stack the firewood or any customer preferences. This ensures deliveries meet expectations.
Time Per Stop
Schedule extra time at each stop to allow for unloading and stacking firewood. This ensures deliveries are completed properly and to the customer’s satisfaction.
Photo Proof
Capture photos of each delivery to confirm firewood was delivered to the correct location. This helps avoid disputes and ensures accountability.
Custom Stops
Flexibly add or adjust stops to accommodate last-minute orders or changes. This helps you respond quickly to customer needs and increase satisfaction.
Firewood is the perfect product for offering delivery service
It’s big and bulky, with demand largely concentrated amid rural regions; transporting it can create a mess, and often requires additional time and labour spent unloading and stacking - it’s no surprise that firewood delivery is more in demand now than ever before. What’s more, with the worldwide firewood market predicted to grow by over 4% annually to $1.5 billion in 20311, firewood delivery represents an increasingly lucrative opportunity for firewood merchants of all sizes.
When planning optimized delivery routes with EasyRoutes, customers’ preferred delivery dates and times collected during checkout are seamlessly integrated into route plans and customer communications, ensuring firewood arrives when customers are best prepared to receive it. EasyRoutes’ flexible route options make it simple to set a weight limit for delivery routes, as well as assign extra time and custom tasks for each delivery stop depending on how much firewood needs to be unpacked and stacked.
Firewood sales are particularly affected by seasonality
Like many retail industries, firewood merchants are subject to seasonal swings in demand depending on the time of year - after all, few consumers are considering their winter heating needs when air conditioners are running full steam throughout the spring and summer months. A study of consumption across the United Kingdom indicated that firewood usage can spike by up to 50% during the winter months2, leaving firewood merchants to juggle dozens of deliveries simultaneously as consumers prepare for the cold season.
EasyRoutes’ adaptable driver seat model allows firewood merchants to scale their delivery operations leading up to the coldest months when demand surges, while significantly streamlining operational costs during off-peak seasons. When fall and winter bring an influx of orders, EasyRoutes’ delivery zones and route balancing tools ensure firewood deliveries are efficiently distributed across multiple routes, minimizing route planning and delivery time.
EasyRoutes’ seamless Shopify integration further helps support merchants who offer firewood delivery as a seasonal subscription service, turning recurring subscription orders into timely deliveries in just a few clicks.
Firewood delivery can be an eco-friendly choice for consumers
As a renewable resource, many eco-conscious consumers prefer to rely on firewood as their primary or secondary source of heat, reducing their overall reliance on fossil fuels. When grown and harvested properly, firewood can be a carbon neutral fuel source - and when sourced locally, can further reduce the need for long-distance transportation and the associated emissions from trucks or other vehicles hauling fossil fuels long distances.
Catering to both eco-conscious managers and consumers alike, EasyRoutes' powerful route optimization engine enables firewood merchants to plan the most efficient delivery routes with ease, ensuring timely delivery while reducing unnecessary miles on the road, and fuel wasted on idling in traffic. By leveraging EasyRoutes’ advanced planning features, including avoiding toll roads and eliminating U-turns, merchants can further enhance their delivery fuel efficiency, cutting down emissions during peak delivery seasons.
Equipped with the EasyRoutes Delivery Driver mobile app, many eco-conscious firewood merchants are taking sustainability to the next level, using electric vehicles or other eco-friendly transportation options to deliver firewood while minimizing their environmental footprint.
Elevate your firewood deliveries today!
The seasonal demand for firewood, combined with the logistical challenges of delivering bulky, heavy products, makes efficient delivery solutions essential for firewood merchants. EasyRoutes is the perfect partner to help streamline your operations, offering advanced route optimization, flexible delivery management, and seamless Shopify integration. Whether you're preparing for the winter surge or managing a steady flow of subscription orders, EasyRoutes equips you with the tools to optimize routes, reduce fuel costs, and enhance customer satisfaction with real-time updates and transparent delivery tracking
Ready to take your firewood delivery service to the next level? Start optimizing your deliveries and delight your customers with timely, eco-friendly service. Install EasyRoutes from the Shopify App Store today 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.
Use the EasyRoutes API and Zapier to automate order imports, route creation, dispatch, and delivery status updates — connecting your operations to the tools you already use.
EasyRoutes is a delivery management and route optimization platform for merchants, local delivery teams, and logistics operators. It helps you plan routes, dispatch to drivers, track progress in real time, and notify customers. Works with Shopify and integrates with other e-commerce platforms via EasyRoutes for Web.
EasyRoutes optimizes deliveries using your selected orders, start & end locations, stop time intervals, time windows, and route limits. You can balance routes, respect capacities, and re‑optimize as plans change.
Yes. Turn on settings to avoid toll roads and u‑turns from the Route Options panel. Enable these options before planning a route, or edit the route after creation and re‑optimize to see them reflected in your route.
Absolutely. Plan with item and weight limits to reflect the capacities of your fleet. Configure and assign Vehicle Profiles for an additional indicator for routes that have specific restrictions by vehicle.
Yes. You can set delivery time windows per stop or import them from supported third‑party date/time apps. EasyRoutes optimizes routes to meet these windows and calculates ETAs accordingly.
EasyRoutes supports delivery photos, e‑signature, driver notes, and automatic timestamps (with GPS location when available) to provide a complete delivery record.
