Landscaping Route Software That Protects Density
Route density is the whole economic argument of a maintenance round. Properties close together mean more cutting and less driving; properties scattered mean a crew spends its day in a truck. Most routing software optimises the order of stops, which helps a little. The bigger lever is which properties belong on which round in the first place.
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Book demoWhat routing has to respect
- Crews as the unit — a round belongs to a crew, and the crew moves together
- Existing rounds, which were usually built up over years and are worth protecting
- Frequency windows rather than fixed dates, giving room to move a property without breaking the contract
- Weather days, and how a lost day is absorbed without wrecking the following week
- Property-level access and scope, which decides how long a stop actually takes
- Seasonal load, where the same round takes far longer in May than October
Why sequencing alone is not the win
Optimising the order of a thin day produces a slightly shorter thin day. The real gains come from seeing density as a number per round, spotting where it has degraded as accounts were won and lost, and moving properties between rounds inside their frequency windows. That is a planning decision, not a daily sequencing one.
Routing shaped like your rounds
Fieldproxy holds your rounds, crews and frequency rules, sequences inside them, and reports density per round so the planning decision is based on a number rather than an impression.
Two approaches to the same problem
| A generic optimiser | Round-aware routing | |
|---|---|---|
| Existing rounds | Reordered or ignored | Preserved and measured |
| What it optimises | Stop order | Density, then stop order |
| Frequency | A fixed date | A window a property can move within |
| A rain day | Rescheduled job by job | Absorbed across the week by rule |
What you can run on it
- Crews, rounds and recurring maintenance schedules
- Density reporting per round
- Sequencing within the round
- Frequency windows with slippage warnings
- Weather-day redistribution by rule
- Crew mobile app with property notes and offline working
Common questions
What is landscaping route software?
It is the system that decides which properties belong on which round and in what order a crew visits them. The distinction that matters is whether it treats rounds as assets to be measured and protected, or as an input it is free to reorganise.
Will it rebuild our existing rounds?
Only if you ask. The normal arrangement is that rounds stay as they are and sequencing happens within them, with degraded density surfaced as information rather than acted on automatically.
How is route density measured?
As productive time against total time for the round, which makes the comparison between rounds meaningful and shows where the driving has quietly increased.
Can properties move between rounds?
Yes, within their frequency windows, which is where most of the achievable gain actually sits.
See the density on your rounds
Bring your current round list. The density numbers usually start the conversation on their own.
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