A route planner for plumbers' booked days and annual testing.

• Tomorrow's booked jobs

  Five to seven jobs across town. Putting them in order takes one click instead of guesswork at 7 a.m.

• Backflow testing

  Many water utilities require backflow assemblies to be tested every year, which makes a predictable route of commercial and irrigation accounts.

• Restaurant drain maintenance

  Monthly or quarterly jetting for kitchens, grouped by area and done before or after service hours.

• Water heater maintenance

  Yearly flush and inspection customers you can group by neighborhood instead of booking one at a time.

1. 1

   Paste the addresses

   Copy tomorrow's jobs from your calendar or job list and paste them in. Lite places each one on the map and flags any it can't find.

2. 2

   Set how long each job takes

   Leave the default on routine calls and set a longer time on the water heater swap. The day's total includes it.

3. 3

   Start at the shop

   Start the route at your shop, or at the plumber's home if they take the van home. Here's how a round trip route works.

4. 4

   Optimize

   One click reorders the jobs for the shortest drive. Drag a job up if the customer can only do mornings.

5. 5

   Send it

   Assign it to the plumber. They tap each job to open directions and mark it Visited when they're done. More on sending a route to a driver's phone.

Test due comes in as a date. Filter it to the next two weeks, lasso the accounts in one area and optimize. Copy the assembly's location into the stop note so the tester finds it without calling.