Scheduling and routing
Scheduling that hands the crew a drivable day.
Book the visit and assign a crew, and the day’s stops order themselves into a loop rather than a list. Your maintenance book repeats on its own cadence, so the week fills itself and you only touch the things that changed.
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The real software, recorded against a demo landscaping company. Every figure on screen is theirs and the company is fictitious.
A calendar is not a route.
Most scheduling in this trade happens on a calendar, and a calendar knows what time it is but not where anything is. Eight stops entered in the order the phone rang is eight stops in the order the phone rang, and somebody re-sorts them in their head in the truck at seven in the morning, badly, every day.
The cost is not dramatic on any one morning. It is twenty minutes of windshield time a day that nobody logs, on a crew you are paying by the hour, across a season.
Book it, assign it, and the order sorts itself.
In Platy you book the visit and put a crew on it. The day’s stops then order themselves into a drivable sequence, so what the crew opens in the morning is a loop with a first stop and a last one, not a pile sorted by the time it was entered.
It is the same list the office is looking at. When a stop moves, it moves for everybody, and nobody has to send a text explaining that the Thursday job is now Friday.
The maintenance book rebooks itself.
Recurring work is most of the year for most of this trade, and it is also the part most likely to be managed by somebody copying last week forward. In Platy, recurring visits repeat on their own cadence. The week builds itself and you spend your time on the exceptions instead of on the pattern.
That matters most in the weeks where the pattern breaks: rain, a truck down, a crew short. When the routine part is already in place, moving the four things that changed is a short job rather than a rebuild.
What the crew gets is the same day, on a phone.
The schedule is not a thing the office looks at and the crew is told about. The crew opens the same day on their own phones, one stop at a time, with the notes and the checklist for each one, and it keeps working when the signal drops behind a treeline.
When a stop is done, it is done everywhere. The office does not find out at five o’clock.
What the scheduling side gives you.
Shipped, and recorded above against a demo company.
- Book a visit, assign a crew, and the day orders itself into a drivable route
- Recurring maintenance that repeats on its own cadence
- One schedule the office and the crew are both looking at
- The crew’s day on their own phones, one stop at a time
- Offline by design, so a back yard with no signal does not stop the day
- A job that came from an approved quote, not retyped off one
Questions owners ask
Does it optimise the route, or just sort the stops?
Can I still move things by hand?
How does recurring work handle a skipped week?
What happens when the crew has no signal?
Does it track how long the crew spent on a stop?
The rest of the same system
Platy is one system, so none of these is a separate product or a separate bill. They are the other jobs the same software is doing while it does this one.
Put next week in it.
Load one crew and one week of real stops. You will see the difference between a list and a route the first morning somebody drives it.