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Mapsly offers a wide range of tools to boost your field team’s efficiency:
Use Mapsly’s web and mobile apps to build optimized routes with up to 1000 jobs, based on live and historic traffic data, and various job constraints (duration, required skills, capacity, open hours, etc.) and vehicle parameters (vehicle type, truck capacity, starting/finish locations, working hours, etc.) that may be controlled on a per-record/per-user basis directly from your CRM or spreadsheet.
Your users can plan routes in their mobile apps for themselves on-the-go, or a dispatcher can plan routes for them, individually or for entire teams (for up to 20 users at a time), for one day or multiple days ahead, based on your users’ individual working hours and their individual starting and ending locations.
Mapsly supports 4 job types: service, pickup, delivery, or pickup-delivery. A pickup-delivery job will translate into 2 activities — one for the pickup and one for the delivery — in one route. Indicate the capacity for your trucks to be used with pickup, delivery and pickup-delivery jobs and the capacity required by each job. You may have multiple capacity dimensions at once.
Route jobs may be represented by any CRM objects, including custom ones, or any sheets in a spreadsheet, with any job constraints mapped on their fields/columns — this way you can control your job constraints directly from your CRM or spreadsheet.
You may have records from multiple different objects/sheets in your route at once. When necessary, add arbitrary locations to your route from an address, GPS coordinates, points of interest (like hotels, medical facilities, etc) or previously saved places.
When optimizing routes, Mapsly automatically re-orders activities in resulting routes — to minimize the total driving time, balance your workload between users, or meet your custom optimization goals. You may also edit the resulting routes after the planning is complete as well.
When planning routes for today, Mapsly will suggest the most optimal starting time and location for every driver based on today’s working hours, current location (when used with location tracking), and the previously planned routes for today.
Vehicle parameters may be entered in Mapsly for each user, or you may indicate which of your CRM objects (or sheets in your spreadsheet) represent vehicles and map any of the vehicle parameters on its fields (columns) thus controlling your vehicle parameters directly from your CRM or spreadsheet in real time.
Resulting routes are accessible programmatically in Mapsly workflows and custom buttons, which enables exporting route information back to your CRM or spreadsheet and executing custom processes with it.
With the upcoming December 2023 updates we’ll be introducing more routing features and improvements:
routing-powered calendar that will allow you to see traveling time between meetings and plan your calendar events directly in Mapsly to avoid scheduling conflicts (Mapsly calendar will automatically sync with your CRM’s or Google calendar);
multi-day planning “around” existing calendar meetings and (bulk-)exporting route activities to the calendar as new meetings;
real-time replanning of today’s routes for your drivers, with new routes pushed to their mobile devices;
continuous (long-haul) routes: plan multi-day routes that start and end at specified locations with night breaks planned along the route;
offline capabilities for the Mapsly mobile apps;
app builder for creating customer-facing web apps, for example, an Uber-style interactive map showing the courier’s real-time location and their movement toward the recipient, order information and buttons like Leave feedback, Update destination, etc.
Check into your route activities: add notes, create tasks, gather various data using custom forms, take photos, upload documents, and save it to the record that you’re checking into, or create a new “Check-in” record — in our CRM or in Mapsly.
Save photos and uploaded documents as attachments to your CRM (if your CRM’s API supports receiving attachments).
Let your recipients sign off deliveries with electronic signatures saved as images Mapsly or your CRM as attachments.
Use the user’s current location to automatically calculate the distance from the user to the route waypoint’s location and save it to your CRM. If necessary, prevent users from checking into locations if they’re too far away from it, or simply mark such check-ins as Unverified.
Optionally, enable checking out of your route stops: save additional check-out data to the record you’re checking out of, or create a new “Check-out” record.
Sync check-in/check-out data immediately to your CRM, or — if your CRM doesn’t support custom objects or custom fields in some of its standard objects — save it in Mapsly with a reference to your CRM records.
Check-in and check-out processes are simply examples of automation configured with the Mapsly automation suite that can be executed by buttons placed into the context of a route waypoint, and can be flexibly configured (without writing code) to perform any sequence of actions like creating or updating CRM records, calling out external APIs and using their responses down the process flow, sending out SMS or emails. Similarly, you can configure any other processes and make them available for route waypoints of particular objects.
Implementation of automation including check-in/check-out and any other custom processes is included in your Mapsly subscription — contact us via chat or schedule a call with our solution engineer to discuss your vision and use scenarios — and we’ll implement it in Mapsly, so you can focus on your business.
Using the Mapsly mobile app your traveling users can track their location, and Mapsly users with appropriate permissions can view their current position and the history of their movements.
Tracking can be automatically activated and deactivated by schedule and continues to work even after the Mapsly mobile app is unloaded from memory (swiped up in the list of apps) or the phone/tablet is rebooted.
Location tracking is thoughtfully designed to preserve battery. In particular, it uses the phone’s accelerometer to determine when the user stops – to pause tracking and data transmission until the user resumes moving.
Location tracking does not require an internet connection to work – while offline, the mobile app collects location data and transmits it to the Mapsly server once the mobile device is back online.
Once a day, for each tracked device Mapsly summarizes the total traveled distance and time and the report is available for your analysis.
If your team regularly visits your points of sale, clients, vendors, or any locations represented by a CRM object, Mapsly can help you plan regular visits with the desired frequency and duration, while minimizing the cumulative driving time thus maximizing the team’s efficiency and capacity. The result is the set of daily routes per user.
The frequency and duration of visits can be specified down to a particular location – by mapping the CRM fields that keep this data. You can also indicate a condition that records must meet to be included in the planning.
As new locations are added or existing ones are removed, routes can be re-planned – Mapsly will use the check-in events to determine when locations (records) were visited last time to plan the next visit for each of them. During re-planning previously planned routes are removed and re-created to account for the up-to-date set of locations and their properties.
Mapsly supports two modes of planning:
Individual mode: For a particular user Mapsly will plan visits to the records assigned to the user and all produced routes will be assigned to this user. Planning and subsequent re-planning can be performed by any user at any time.
Team mode: Visits are planned in a centralized way by a responsible user (“dispatcher”) for all participating traveling users a once. In this mode, visits are distributed between team members to maximize the efficiency of the whole team.
With the upcoming December 2023 update, Mapsly mobile app will receive more offline capabilities, so even without the active internet connection you will be able to:
While offline:
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