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Route planning for local delivery

Delivery routing for businesses that load their own vans.

Plan a day of stops across your whole fleet in seconds, and never put a frozen box on the dry truck. Drivers run the route from any phone, customers follow along, and every outcome lands back in your order system.

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A real plan from Porch Routes’s optimizer: 16 stops on 3 vehicles, 28% fewer miles than driving them in the order they came in. Distances on this page are straight-line estimates.

What makes Porch Routes different

Temperature is a hard rule

Frozen, refrigerated and dry only ride on vehicles that can carry them. The optimizer won’t bend that to save a mile.

Mistakes can be undone

The delivered notice waits a few minutes, so a driver’s mis-tap is fixed before the customer hears a thing.

The loop closes

Every outcome goes back to your order system over a signed webhook, with retries and reconciliation so nothing goes missing quietly.

How a delivery day works

From the first order to the porch, in one place.

Orders come in, routes get planned, drivers head out, and both your customers and your order system hear how it went.

  1. 1

    Orders come in

    Send them over the API with your own order number, import a CSV, or add them by hand. Addresses are found on OpenStreetMap, so there’s no map bill.

  2. 2

    Build the routes

    Pick the day and the vehicles. Porch Routes splits stops by what each vehicle can carry, fits time windows and capacity, and shows what the plan saves.

  3. 3

    Dispatch

    Watch every route on the dispatch board. Dispatching sends each driver a link to their route, with no app and no login.

  4. 4

    Drivers deliver

    Drive mode shows one stop at a time: hand off to maps, mark it delivered with a photo or signature, or say why it couldn’t happen.

  5. 5

    Customers follow along, and your system hears back

    Customers get texts and a live tracking page under your name. When the undo window closes, the outcome goes to your order system over a signed webhook.

Cold chain

Frozen stays on the truck that keeps it frozen.

Most route planners see a stop as a weight and a time window. That works until a sixty-pound frozen order ends up on the dry truck because it happened to be closer.

In Porch Routes every vehicle says what it can carry. The optimizer treats that as a hard rule, and a stop that can’t be carried safely waits with the reason instead of riding on the wrong truck.

  • Frozen, refrigerated and dry capability on every vehicle
  • Weight capacity, stop limits and shift length respected
  • Unknown weights flagged, never counted as zero
  • An order sent without a temperature rides as its coldest item

The plan above, by vehicle. Take the reefer van out of the same build and the optimizer won’t move frozen stops onto another truck:

Drive mode

A route your drivers can run with one thumb.

Drive mode opens in any phone’s browser and shows the stop in front of the driver: name, address, instructions and what’s in the box, with one big button to finish it.

  • No app to install

    Dispatching sends each driver a link to their route. Staff drivers can log in to see all of theirs.

  • Hands off to maps

    One tap opens the stop in Google Maps or Apple Maps.

  • Works without signal

    Taps and photos made in a dead spot wait in a queue and sync when the phone reconnects.

  • Proof and reasons

    Photo and signature proof, or couldn’t deliver and skip with a reason.

  • Undo for a mis-tap

    Marked the wrong stop? Undo it before the customer is told.

  • A summary at the end

    When the last stop is done, everyone sees how the route went.

What customers see

Your customers always know when to expect you.

Every text and email goes out under your business’s name, with a link to a live tracking page. No app, no account, and never a word about Porch Routes.

  • Scheduled, on the way, almost there, delivered and couldn’t deliver — turn any of them off.
  • The delivered text waits out the undo window, so a mis-tap never reaches a customer.
  • The tracking page shows only their own delivery: never other stops or your driver’s number.

Who it’s for

Made for businesses that deliver their own orders.

If you pack the orders and load the vans yourself, Porch Routes fits the way you already work.

Learn

Farm and CSA delivery, without the courier playbook.

Start with temperature rules that keep frozen boxes off the dry truck, CSA routing that keeps your membership software, or a plain comparison of Spoke (Circuit), OptimoRoute, Route4Me, Routific, and Porch Routes.

Read next

For platforms and marketplaces

Plug local delivery into your platform, and hear back when it’s done.

Send Porch Routes each delivery with one API call, keyed by your own order number. When a stop is delivered, skipped or can’t be completed, a signed webhook tells your system — so the order in your store actually becomes delivered.

Every write is safe to retry, webhooks retry with backoff, and reconciliation flags anything still owed. No store? Import a CSV or add orders by hand.

  • Orders API
  • Signed webhooks
  • Delivery log
  • API keys
  • CSV import
  • Manual entry
Read the API docs
POST /api/v1/orders
Authorization: Bearer pr_live_…
Idempotency-Key: order-10241-v1

{
  "external_ref": "10241",
  "customer_name": "Priya Raman",
  "address": { "line1": "312 W Tabernacle St",
               "city": "St. George", "region": "UT" },
  "delivery_date": "09/17/2026",
  "temperature_class": "FROZEN",
  "load_weight_lbs": 42
}
stop.delivered → your webhook url
X-PorchRoute-Signature: sha256=9f2c…
X-PorchRoute-Event: stop.delivered

{
  "event": "stop.delivered",
  "data": {
    "external_ref": "10241",
    "status": "DELIVERED",
    "delivered_on": "09/17/2026",
    "driver_notes": "Left in the porch cooler",
    "proof": { "photo_urls": ["https://…"] },
    "tracking_url": "https://…/track/…"
  }
}

Everything in the box

A whole delivery day, not a route calculator with a driver app bolted on.

See every feature

Plan

  • Multi-vehicle optimizer

    Plans the whole fleet at once, and plans the same day the same way every time.

  • Temperature rules

    Frozen, refrigerated and dry are hard constraints on every vehicle.

  • Windows and locked stops

    Delivery windows, stops pinned in place, drag to reorder or move between routes.

  • Zones

    A radius or a drawn area, each with its own delivery days and windows.

  • Free maps

    Addresses, road distances and maps from OpenStreetMap, with no key to set up.

Deliver

  • Day and dispatch boards

    Every route for the day on a timeline and a map.

  • Driver links

    A no-login link to one route, texted or emailed when you dispatch.

  • Drive mode

    One stop at a time on any phone, with a retry queue for dead spots.

  • Proof of delivery

    Photos and signatures, stored privately and attached to the stop.

  • Printable manifests

    A PDF run sheet per route, with the line items on it.

Notify

  • Customer texts and emails

    Scheduled, on the way, almost there, delivered and couldn’t deliver.

  • The undo window

    Delivered notices wait a few minutes, so a mis-tap never reaches a customer.

  • Live tracking page

    The truck on a map, a timeline and proof photos, under your name.

  • Ratings

    Customers rate each delivery from 1 to 5 stars.

  • Message log

    Every text and email: what it said, who it went to, whether it was sent.

Connect

  • Orders API

    Create or update deliveries by your own order reference, safe to retry.

  • Signed webhooks

    Outcomes pushed to your system, with retries and reconciliation.

  • CSV import

    Bring a day of orders in from a spreadsheet.

  • Delivery log

    Every webhook attempt, with a way to retry one by hand.

  • Team roles

    Owner, admin, dispatcher and driver, with email invites.

Where it comes from

Built for farms delivering frozen and refrigerated orders.

Porch Routes was built for From The Farm’s local delivery program, where farms deliver refrigerated and frozen orders straight to their customers.

That’s why temperature is a hard rule, why a delivered notice can be taken back, and why every outcome goes back to the store that took the order. Now it’s its own product, for any business that delivers its own orders.

Early-access pricing

Priced by orders, not drivers.

Every feature on every plan. Plans differ only by how many orders and customer texts they include, and by support.

  • Porch Light

    For a first delivery day, free for good

    Free

    No credit card needed

    Start free
    • Up to 150 orders a month
    • 1 vehicle
    • Email and tracking-link updates
    • Email support
    • Every feature on every plan

  • Starter

    For a few delivery days a month

    $39/mo

    Billed monthly

    Start free
    • Up to 500 orders a month
    • Unlimited vehicles and drivers
    • 750 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
    • Email support
    • Every feature on every plan

  • Porch

    14-day free trial

    For businesses delivering every week

    $79/mo

    Billed monthly

    Start free
    • Up to 1,000 orders a month
    • Unlimited vehicles and drivers
    • 1,500 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
    • Email support
    • Every feature on every plan

  • Route

    For busy fleets and platforms

    $189/mo

    Billed monthly

    Start free
    • Up to 5,000 orders a month
    • Unlimited vehicles and drivers
    • 7,500 customer texts a monththen $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
    • Priority support
    • Every feature on every plan

  • Fleet

    For 5,000+ orders a month

    Custom

    Priced for your volume

    Talk to us
    • More than 5,000 orders a month
    • Unlimited vehicles and drivers
    • Texts set for your volume
    • A dedicated contact
    • Every feature on every plan

Every new business starts with 14 days of Porch’s allowances · No credit card

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Security and reliability

Careful with your customers, and with your data.

Porch Routes holds addresses, phone numbers and photos of people’s porches. This is how it looks after them.

  • Every business kept apart

    Which business a request belongs to is checked on the server, on every request — never taken from the browser.

  • A locked-down database

    Row-level security is on for every table, so only Porch Routes’s own server can read or write your data.

  • API keys stored as hashes

    A new key is shown once. After that, Porch Routes keeps only a hash of it.

  • Signed webhooks

    Every webhook carries a signature made with your endpoint’s secret, so your system can check it came from Porch Routes.

  • Private proof photos

    Delivery photos and signatures sit in private storage and are shared only through links that expire.

  • Safe to retry

    Writes carry an idempotency key, so a retried request never creates the same delivery twice.

Questions

The things people actually ask.

Something else? Read the API docs or get in touch.

How is Porch Routes different from other route planners?

It’s built for businesses whose orders have to stay cold. Frozen, refrigerated and dry are hard rules in the optimizer, not notes on an order. The delivered notice waits a few minutes, so a mis-tap can be undone before the customer hears anything. And every outcome goes back to your own order system over a signed webhook.

Does it work with my store or order system?

If your system can send an HTTP request, yes. Create or update a delivery with one call keyed by your own order reference, and Porch Routes sends that reference back on every webhook. No store? Import a CSV or add orders by hand.

Do I need a Google Maps key?

No. Address lookup, road distances and maps run on OpenStreetMap, so there’s nothing to set up and no map bill. Google Maps is supported if you’d rather use it.

Do drivers need to install an app?

No. Drive mode runs in the phone’s browser. Dispatching a route texts or emails the driver a link that opens it, with no account needed. Staff drivers can log in instead.

What happens when a driver loses signal?

The driver keeps working. Deliveries marked without signal wait in a retry queue and sync as soon as the phone reconnects, and a small counter shows how many updates are still waiting.

What is the undo window, exactly?

When a driver marks a stop delivered, the customer’s notice and the webhook to your system wait for a set number of minutes. During that window the driver can undo it and nobody is told. After it, the notice goes out and the webhook fires. Set it to zero to send straight away.

What do customers see on the tracking page?

Only their own delivery: your business’s name, the truck’s position while it’s on the way, a progress timeline, delivery photos once it arrives, and a place to rate it. Never other stops, other addresses or your driver’s phone number.

What does early-access pricing mean?

Porch Routes is taking its first businesses now, and these are the prices it’s launching with. Start with a 14-day trial and no credit card, then pick the plan that fits — Porch Light stays free up to 150 orders a month.

Plan your next delivery day in a few minutes.

Add your vehicles and a day of orders — by hand, from a CSV or over the API — and build your first routes.

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Free up to 150 orders a month · No credit card