How to Avoid Backtracking and Start Optimizing Routes with the Badger Map
By Admin User
Posted in Product
By Admin User
Posted in Product
Ever had an appointment cancel with hours to spare until the next one? Now, when one appointment cancels, the Badger Map shows you nearby customers and leads. The Badger Map not only builds your route, but can easily transform that route into a full day’s schedule.
How to Create a Route?
There are two ways to create a route with the Badger Map. You can tap the “Create Route” button under “My Routes” tab. Alternatively, you can simply tap “Add to Route” on the information card for a customer or a lead. The customer search feature will help you quickly find individual customers that you need to visit or have an appointment with. Once you are done filling in your schedule, the space in between appointments will stand out. You can fill in this open time by finding other customers or searching for potential leads near current appointments.
Fill in “Dead Time” in Your Schedule
Once you have populated your route, you can set a start time. Once the start time is set, the app automatically accounts for travel time to build your schedule that day. Once you put in your appointments for the day, you can spot places in your schedule that you can fill in with meetings with nearby customers or prospects.
For instance, let’s say you have a meeting at 11am, but after your 10am meeting, your 11am appointment is now pushed back to 2pm. The Badger Map allow you to fill in that dead time with other customers or leads.
Adjust Your Route
You can reorder your route by clicking and holding the little group of squares organized into a grid on the left side of each stop on your route. Your schedule times and the route icons on the map will adjust accordingly. You can also have the computer optimize your route minimizing the distance you have to travel by tapping the “Optimize Route” button at the top of the list
For a complete training on how to build and optimize route, watch this quick 45 sec video.
With the Badger Map, you can now turn your ”dead-time” into the “meeting time”. Happy Routing!
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