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Delivery route planner: free, up to 100 stops, no per-driver fees

If you deliver — packages, meals, flowers, firewood, auction pickups — the order you drive your stops decides whether you're done at 3pm or 5pm. Here's the free way to get the fastest order for up to 100 stops and navigate it with the app already on your phone.

Plan a delivery route in three steps

1. Paste the day's addresses into the free multi-stop route planner — one per line, depot or home first. Up to 100 stops.
2. Pick the route shape. Round trip back to the depot is the default; you can also pin the last stop (end at the post office, end at home) or let the route end wherever is fastest.
3. Optimize and drive. The fastest order, total distance, and estimated drive time appear in seconds. Open it in Google Maps for turn-by-turn, copy the ordered list into your notes, or print the manifest for the dash.

Why not just wing the order?

Because the numbers are brutal. Eight stops can be driven in 40,320 different orders; twenty stops, more orders than there are stars in the galaxy. Drivers who sequence by feel typically leave 10–25% of drive time on the road — on a 6-hour delivery day, that's 40–90 minutes. An optimizer checks the orders you'd never think to try, in under a second, every time.

Why not Google Maps alone?

Two reasons. Google Maps caps a route at 10 stops, and it drives them in the order you typed them — it never reorders to save time. It's a superb navigator and a poor dispatcher. The planner does the dispatching (up to 100 stops, fastest order), then hands Google Maps the driving in legs it accepts. Full walkthrough: Google Maps with more than 10 stops.

Why not a delivery app subscription?

If you run real fleet operations, the paid platforms are worth it. But look at what the monthly fee actually buys:

A solo courier or a two-van shop mostly needs the first two rows. Paying $500–1,200 per driver per year for route math you can have free is the wrong trade — subscribe when you genuinely need the dispatcher features, not before.

Tips that save more time than any app

1. Batch by area, then optimize within the batch when you have hard time windows — morning-side-of-town stops in one run, afternoon in another.
2. Pin your fuel/lunch stop as a real stop so the route flows through it instead of backtracking.
3. Re-optimize when plans change. Two cancellations at noon change the best order for the rest of the day — re-pasting the remaining stops takes 30 seconds.
4. Keep a master list of regular stops in a note or spreadsheet; paste the day's subset each morning.

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Related: Multi-stop route planner (the tool) · Google Maps with more than 10 stops