EasyRoutes is a route planning platform designed for plant stores managing 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 arrive fresh and on schedule. With features like proof of delivery and customer notifications, EasyRoutes makes last-mile plant store deliveries smoother and more reliable.
"All you need for a local delivery app is here."
Powerful features for plant delivery, like:
Route Optimization
Plan efficient routes to deliver potted plants, flowers, and gardening supplies quickly. This minimizes travel time and ensures plants arrive in peak condition.
Live Updates
Provide real-time tracking so customers know when to expect their plant deliveries. This improves customer satisfaction and reduces inquiries about order status.
Photo Proof
Capture delivery photos to confirm plants and supplies were delivered to the correct location. This helps resolve disputes and ensures accountability for fragile items.
Driver Notes
Add specific instructions for handling delicate plants, such as avoiding direct sunlight, protecting fragile stems, or placing items in shaded areas. This ensures plants arrive healthy and undamaged.
Time Per Stop
Schedule extra time at each stop to allow for careful unloading and placement of plants. This ensures deliveries are made with care and precision.
Custom Start/End
Plan routes that start at your plant store, nursery, or greenhouse, and end at locations that suit your operations. This flexibility helps streamline logistics.
Task Checklists
Ensure drivers follow specific tasks, such as verifying plant types, watering instructions, or placing plants in designated spots. This helps maintain quality and customer satisfaction.
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!
Streamline your plant delivery service with efficient route planning, real-time tracking, and proof of delivery. Ensure potted plants, flowers, and gardening supplies arrive fresh and undamaged to homes, offices, and retail locations. Handle delicate items with care, manage bulk orders, and offer flexible delivery options to meet customer needs and deadlines. Reliable logistics keep plants thriving and customers happy.
With customizable routes and driver notes, you can handle special instructions like shaded drop-offs or fragile handling. Efficient logistics help minimize delays, reduce damage, and ensure plant deliveries are seamless. Build a loyal customer base by delivering healthy, vibrant plants with precision and care, making every delivery a positive experience.
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.
