Product Updates

All-new map with order selection tools

This month we introduced a brand new look and feel to our EasyRoutes map to better help you plan and manage your orders.
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Apart from being speedier and easier on the eyes, we've also added selection tools to help you plan visually on the orders dashboard.

Select individual orders or draw polygons to select a group of pins. Once you've made a selection you can choose whether to discard or keep only those orders on the map.

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Auto-assign drivers when creating a route

In your order page route options you can now pre-assign drivers to the routes you about to generate.

Customize all your options, save a Custom View, and the next time you are in EasyRoutes all you need to do is click on your View and hit the Create Routes button.

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Sort and filter by delivery dates

Sort and filter your orders by delivery dates collected through popular apps in the Shopify App Store on your Order Dashboard.

EasyRoutes now supports the following date collection apps:

• Supertime by Roundtrip
• Store Pickup + Delivery by Zapiet
• In Store Pickup Local Delivery by LogBase
• Order Delivery Date by Identixweb
• Order Delivery Date & Pickup by BirdChime
• Order Delivery Date Manager by AppJetty
• Delivery Date & Time Slot by Buunto
• DingDoong: Delivery & Pickup by Omega
• Local Pickup & Delivery Date by Mageworx
• Store Pickup Click and Collect by CreativeR
• Delivery Date & Store pickup by Appsonrent
• Bloom: Delivery Date & Pickup by Shopside

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Find EasyRoutes tabs in your Shopify Admin sidebar

EasyRoutes' tabs can now be found in your Shopify Admin sidebar (or at the top of the page in the Shopify app).

Pin our app to access your routes even quicker!

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Improved batch actions for editing routes

We've improved access to batch actions for route editing and added the ability to select and view a subset of orders in your orders page:

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Indicator of multiple stops at same location

We've added a small indicator letting you know if any of the stops in your route are at the same location (your driver also sees this information in their driver app).

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Improved CSV import

For Premium Plan users working with orders outside of Shopify, you can now drag and drop your CSV orders into EasyRoutes.

We will also attempt to re-use your mapped columns if you are uploading a file of the same column format as your previous upload.

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Various other improvements

• Speed and performance boosts
• Various UI improvements
• Small bug fixes
• Ability to preserve tracking links when sending stops to a different route
• Additional packing slip customization options:
• Change font sizes
• Hide completely discounted items (and by discount app)
• Hide SKU
• Hide item properties by name
• SMS message support in more countries
• Setting to see company name next to customer name on routes
• If you are new user, moving over from Shopify Local Delivery? Check out our migration guide.

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Nov 29

• Various bug fixes and usability improvements.

Nov 28

• Bug fixes related to our new delivery date feature.

Nov 24

• You can now auto-assign to active drivers when you are creating a route.
• Improvements to SMS with improved logic on avoiding landlines, support for additional countries, and we show more information related to character count and usage in the SMS notification editor
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements.

Nov 18

• EasyRoutes' tabs can now be found in your Shopify Admin sidebar (or at the top of the page in the Shopify app).
• Protip: Pin our app to access your routes even quicker!

Nov 15

• Performance improvements on first load.
• Sort and Filter by Delivery Dates collected from popular apps in the Shopify App Store in your Order Dashboard (in beta). Learn more at this support article.
• Previously selected filters now shown on the Order Dashboard when you return to the page.
• See Company alongside Customer Name in Route Page
• Additional Packing Slip customization options: change font sizes, hide completely discounted items (and by discount app), hide SKU, hide item properties by name
• Printing support for Printout Designer
• Various bug fixes and improvements.

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New Order Dashboard with View Builder

We've redesigned our Select Orders page and have turned it into an powerful Orders Dashboard designed to help make route creation even easier and faster.

 Across the top are tabs representing your custom saved views.

Each view saves your route options and order filters. The next time you click on a tab, all the relevant orders will automatically be added to your map. Just click the Create Route button to continue!

Prefer not to auto-add stops to your map? You can turn this feature off in your General Settings.

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EasyRoutes SMS Notifications are now available internationally

We've expanded our EasyRoutes custom SMS delivery notifications to international customers on our Premium plans.

Choose which delivery events you want to send a notification for and customize all of the text. You can even send a message when your driver is a certain number of stops away.

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Learn more about pricing and availability from this support article.

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Require Drivers to Use Proof of Delivery

You can now make it so that drivers are required to capture a photo and/or e-signature as proof of delivery before they can mark an order as delivered.

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Send "Ready for Delivery" email without fulfilling orders

Using our custom email notifications, you can now send the "Ready for Delivery" email manually without fulfilling your orders first or at the same time. When this email notification is turned on you a button is added to your Route page.

Click the button at any time to trigger this email notification for all the orders within that route.

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Other Improvements

Apart from small bug fixes and UI improvements, we've also...

• ...made it so you can create a blank route from the Orders Dashboard in case you like to start your planning with a blank canvas.
• ...added a Help Center as the first tab of your EasyRoutes settings.
• ...improved our Getting Started Guide.
• ...added new packing slip customization options (e.g. hide SKU, hide items based on discounts or properties).
• ...updated our mobile EasyRoutes Delivery Driver app with:
• New draft feature for photo proof of delivery (this lets your driver upload the photo(s) later if they are offline)
• made the route line visible on the map when viewing an individual stop
• improved our offline experience and error handling

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September 26, 2022

• Various bug fixes and improvements related to order selection and fulfillment workflows.

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September 14, 2022

• With EasyRoutes custom email notifications, send the "Ready for Delivery" email separately from fulfilling your orders (e.g. email your customers about their scheduled delivery date or time all at once!)
• Create a blank route straight from the orders page to start route planning with a blank canvas.
• View any delivery issues associated with a notification event sent to the customer, and quickly try sending the notification again from the new Notification History panel.
• Additional header layout customization options for Packing Labels.
• Other various bug fixes and improvements to app usability.

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