Plan the showing tour, then text your buyers the route.
Add the houses on today's list, put them in a sensible driving order, and send a link your clients can follow in their own car. No app for them, no account.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
The short answer
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Lite Route Planner plans showing tours and open-house routes: add the listings, press Optimize for the shortest driving order, and send buyers a link or QR code that opens in any phone browser with no account. It's free for up to 50 addresses, and agents who tour every week can use Personal: up to 200 addresses for $19.99 a month billed every six months. It doesn't book showing appointments, so you drag houses with fixed times into place.
Plan a Saturday of showings
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Paste the addresses
Copy the addresses from your MLS search or your notes and paste them in, one per line. If your search exports to a spreadsheet, upload the file instead.
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Pick where the tour starts
On Personal, save your office as a base and start there. Without a base, Optimize finds the shortest path through the houses and picks the best one to start from.
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Press Optimize
The houses reorder to cut the miles. Choose to end at the last house or come back to where you started.
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Place the booked times
If a seller only allows a 2:00 showing, drag that house to the slot that lands closest to 2:00. Set about 25 minutes per house so the day's total is realistic.
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Send the link
Copy the route's share link or show its QR code. Buyers open it in their browser and tap any house for directions.
A buyer's tour list
Most agents keep the shortlist in a sheet or a note. Any extra columns come along as custom fields you can color the map by.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |
| 1 | MLS # | Address | City | List price | Beds/Baths | Showing | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5527310 | 418 Cedar Ridge Dr | Franklin, TN | $612,000 | 4/3 | 10:30 | Lockbox |
| 3 | 5530982 | 1207 Hartwell Ct | Franklin, TN | $575,000 | 3/2.5 | Any time | Lockbox |
| 4 | 5519045 | 96 Mill Creek Ln | Brentwood, TN | $689,900 | 4/3.5 | 11:45 | Call listing agent |
| 5 | 5534471 | 3310 Wynwood Ct | Thompson's Station, TN | $549,000 | 3/2 | Any time | Lockbox |
| 6 | 5528803 | 720 Overlook Trl | Nolensville, TN | $634,500 | 4/3 | 1:15 | Occupied, 24h notice |
Keep lockbox codes out of stop notes on a route you share: anyone with the link sees each stop's address and note. Imported columns like Access stay in your planner as custom fields, which the share link doesn't show.
Why a share link suits a showing day
Buyers drive themselves
Many buyers follow in their own car. The link shows every house in order and opens directions in their browser, with no app and no account.
Family can meet you partway
Send the same link to a spouse joining at the third house, or to a co-agent covering the afternoon.
View-only by design
People with the link can follow the route but can't change it or mark stops. Turn the link off when the tour's over.
A QR code for open-house circuits
For a broker open-house tour, put a screenshot of the route's QR code on the flyer so other agents can scan it and follow the loop.
A seven-house tour: Google Maps or a route planner
Google Maps is great for driving to one house. It gets harder when the list is long and the order is up to you.
| Feature | Lite | Google Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Places in one trip | Up to 500 on paid plans | 10 (start plus 9) |
| Puts houses in the best order | Yes | No |
| Counts time inside each house | Yes | No |
| Link buyers can open | Every stop, in any browser | 3 stops in mobile browsers |
| Saved for next weekend | Unlimited routes | No |
Google Maps limits checked October 19, 2026 in Google Maps Help and the Maps URLs guide. More in Google Maps with multiple stops.
What it won't do for an agent
Lite doesn't connect to your MLS or showing service, and it doesn't book or confirm appointments. The optimizer orders houses by distance, not by showing times, so fixed times are yours to place. There are no client text alerts and no live location sharing: buyers see the planned route, not where you are right now.
What it does well is the part in between: a clean list of houses in a sensible order, the drive time between each, a total for the day that includes your time inside, and a link anyone can open.