EasyRoutes is a route planning platform designed for garden centers 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 plants and supplies arrive in perfect condition. With features like proof of delivery and customer notifications, EasyRoutes makes last-mile deliveries for garden centers smoother and more reliable.
"I have been using this app for a few months and it really saves me precious time for my company's deliveries."
Powerful features for garden center deliveries, like:
🪴 Route Optimization
Deliver plants, soil, and gardening supplies efficiently by planning the quickest routes. This helps ensure plants stay healthy and deliveries arrive on time.
📍 Live Updates
Provide real-time tracking and ETAs so customers know when to expect their gardening supplies. This improves satisfaction and reduces follow-up calls.
📸 Photo Proof
Capture delivery photos to confirm items like potted plants or bags of soil were delivered correctly. This helps resolve disputes and ensures accountability.
📝 Driver Notes
Add instructions for handling delicate plants or heavy items like mulch and soil. This helps drivers provide careful and accurate deliveries.
🛠️ Route Editing
Adjust routes in real-time to accommodate last-minute changes or additional orders. This ensures flexibility and customer satisfaction.
⏱️ Time Per Stop
Schedule extra time for unloading and placing items where customers need them. This ensures a smooth hand-off and keeps clients happy.
➕ Custom Stops
Add new stops on the fly to handle urgent requests or unexpected orders. This flexibility helps meet customer demand quickly.
📜 Route History
Track past deliveries to analyze performance, improve efficiency, and optimize future routes. This helps streamline your delivery process.
In a 2020 study of consumers in the United Kingdom, over 75% of plant purchasers indicated that they shop for plants more than once a year, with a full 30% purchasing plants either every month or more frequently1. Over half of these same purchasers indicated a relatively high likelihood of buying houseplants as a gift, representing countless opportunities for plant merchants to convert one-time buyers into loyal, repeat customers.
EasyRoutes integrates with many of the top subscription apps in the Shopify App Store, making route planning for current and future plant subscription orders a breeze. EasyRoutes further supports custom and partial fulfillments, filter views for order sorting, and bulk order importing, equipping plant delivery merchants with all the tools they need to successfully manage subscribers and repeat orders - all without leaving the Shopify admin. Delivering plants as gifts? EasyRoutes has you covered: easily hide order prices, identify alternate contacts to receive order notifications, and provide the perfect gifting experience for both your customer and their recipient.
A sizable share of consumers value sustainable products, packaging & delivery
In a 2023 survey of consumer behaviour, 48% of shoppers indicated their interest in shopping sustainably has increased, with 74% of those polled having shopped at a retailer that promotes their products as sustainable at least once within the past six months.2 From sustainably sourced plants and eco-friendly packaging, to green methods of delivering plants around town, merchants offering plant delivery have many options to court customers seeking sustainable shopping options - and EasyRoutes is another crucial component in their sustainability toolkit.
EasyRoutes’ powerful route optimization engine plans the most efficient delivery routes possible in just a few clicks, ensuring plant deliveries arrive exactly when they’re expected, with minimal time spent on the road. Activating any of EasyRoutes’ additional route planning options - such as time spent per stop, or avoiding U-turns and toll roads - helps further boost operational efficiency and fuel savings once plants are picked and packed. In fact, drivers using the EasyRoutes Delivery Driver app to complete plant deliveries may use no fuel at all, opting instead for bicycle, scooter, electric vehicle or eBike delivery to increase their deliveries’ green factor even further.
93% of online shoppers want to receive proactive updates about their deliveries3
When it comes to local plant delivery, constant communication is key to ensure prospective plant parents know exactly when to expect their delivery. What’s more, when researching and buying products online, 68% of consumersidentified upfront estimated arrival times as the most valuable piece of information influencing their purchasing decisions.4
EasyRoutes generates real-time order tracking pages and delivery notifications - both via email & SMS - to keep customers informed about their plants’ delivery status. Drivers using the EasyRoutes Delivery Driver App while on their routes can navigate between stops and access order inventories, as well as collect proof of delivery with photos, eSignatures, and notes to further increase communication and trust between plant merchants and their customers.
Elevate Your Plant Delivery Game Today!
Your plants bring life to spaces, and your delivery experience should nurture that same growth. With EasyRoutes, you're not just delivering plants; you're cultivating a seamless, efficient, and professional experience. Whether you're a small, local plant shop or a growing green business, we understand the unique challenges you face. Let EasyRoutes take care of the route planning, so you can focus on helping your customers grow their green spaces. Discover the difference today—join the plant businesses transforming their delivery operations with EasyRoutes. Step into a smoother, cost-effective, and customer-delighting journey now. 🪴🚚✨
Create optimized delivery routes from your orders.
Create optimized delivery routes from your orders in seconds with EasyRoutes, whether through our web platform or seamlessly integrated into your Shopify Admin.
"The best routing app for Shopify merchants." - Shopify
Keep customers up-to-date and informed.
EasyRoutes keeps your customers informed with automated delivery notifications and customizable tracking pages, allowing you to craft the perfect branded delivery experience.
"Customers are loving the tracking feature...No more 'When's my order coming?' phone calls." - MB Grocery
Give drivers the tools they need to deliver succesfully.
Our mobile app for iOS and Android walks your drivers through their delivery routes step-by-step, with all the information they need, right at their fingertips.
EasyRoutes helps you track and analyze deliveries in real-time, share drivers’ live locations with customers, and use analytics to improve performance and make data-driven decisions.
.webp)
