The route planner in Manifold takes the checks already booked for the day and works out a sensible driving order between them, then hands each stop off to your phone’s own turn-by-turn navigation. It is built for the person actually on the road, whether that is an engineer working through an assigned list or a sole trader who scheduled the day themselves.
- See the day’s checks on a schematic coordinate map.
- Get a travel-aware order and drive-time estimates between visits.
- See lateness warnings when the plan no longer fits the booked bands.
- Hand off any stop to Google, Apple, or Waze for turn-by-turn navigation.
A route plan is only as good as the addresses behind it, so the two things worth checking before you trust it are property accuracy and how recently anything changed. Pair the route planner with the Today board or My Week so the day’s order and the day’s schedule always agree.
- Route quality depends on cached property coordinates; confirm addresses are accurate.
- Use the planned order as a guide, then adjust for access windows and tenant availability.
- Re-plan if checks are added, cancelled, or rescheduled during the day.
- Lateness warnings mean the current plan no longer fits the booked time bands, so slippage is visible before a tenant notices it.
- Correcting a property address and re-caching its coordinates is what actually improves a route; retrying the planner on stale coordinates will not.
- See Today Board and My Week for the schedule the route planner is built from, and Scheduling and the Calendar for how those bands were booked.