What should I look for in a route app for knocking?

Walking-appropriate ordering, per-address history, and behaviour with no signal. The third one is the one people check last.

Are delivery route planners usable for door-to-door?

Partly. They order stops and forget doors, so you end up keeping the actual record somewhere else.

Is there a free option?

KnockMode is free for one rep with no card and no expiry. Map coverage is Texas today; everything else works anywhere.

Route planning apps for field reps

Most route planning apps are built for delivery drivers and optimise road distance across spread-out stops. For door-to-door, look for walking-appropriate ordering, a record of what happened at each address, and behaviour with no signal. The last one is the question reps most often skip and most often regret.

The three questions worth asking

Does it order for walking or for driving. Does it hold what happened at each address, or only the stop. And does it work with no signal, or does it go blank in a dead zone.

Most tools in this category answer the first two acceptably and the third badly.

Stops are not doors

A delivery planner treats a stop as a task to complete. A door is a place with a history, and the difference shows up the second time you visit. Tools that model stops make you keep the history somewhere else, which is where it gets lost.

What we do

KnockMode orders doors for walking, keeps every conversation on the address, and draws the map from the phone once the area is saved. It is free for one rep, and map coverage is a Texas extract today.

Common questions

What should I look for in a route app for knocking?: Walking-appropriate ordering, per-address history, and behaviour with no signal. The third one is the one people check last.
Are delivery route planners usable for door-to-door?: Partly. They order stops and forget doors, so you end up keeping the actual record somewhere else.
Is there a free option?: KnockMode is free for one rep with no card and no expiry. Map coverage is Texas today; everything else works anywhere.

More on routes

Planning the walk: ordering doors, cutting dead time between them, and route tools compared.

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