6 Best Routific Alternatives & Competitors in 2024

Routific is great for small retailers just starting out but it fails to scale affordably when you need it the most. In this article, we look at six better Routific alternatives you’ll want to consider.Routific is a solid software for last-mile delivery but it’s far from perfect. Users complain that it's:

• Way too expensive: Since Routific is charged by vehicle (starting from $49), it quickly becomes too expensive. Especially when you consider its most affordable package lacks its most essential features—like live route tracking and customer notifications. Yikes.
• Inflexible to their needs: Drivers aren’t able to edit their routes even when they know a better way. Plus, dispatchers need an app for every depot they oversee.
• Lacks customization: Companies struggle to edit the customer notification templates so that they’re branded and personalized to the recipient. This leads to spam-like messages that look untrustworthy and unprofessional.
• Unreliable when it comes to route optimization: Routific struggles to optimize routes with ‘cluster’ deliveries at a single location (like an apartment building) or when giving it a specific endpoint such as the driver’s home address.
• Adds tasks to a dispatcher’s workload: The software can’t optimize routes based on the number of packages that fit in a van. This means dispatchers must spend time manually editing all routes before dispatching them.

If those are deal breakers for you, make sure to read the rest of this article. We’ve listed 6 Routific alternatives and one is sure to tick all your boxes.

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6 Routific Alternatives | A Quick Comparison

Here’s a quick breakdown of each alternative including what it’s best for, its price, and if it has the features dispatchers need for timely, efficient delivery.

6 Best Routific Alternatives |Full Features & Pricing

Below, we’ve listed the 6 best alternatives along with their pros, cons, cost, user reviews, and the reason you would choose them.

Up first is our very own Circuit for Teams—which we’ve built to be the most intuitive, adaptable and feature-packed delivery management software on the market.

1. Circuit for Teams

Circuit for Teams is a delivery management software for companies of any size who want to cut costs by 20%, increase delivery success rates, and reduce the manual work of dispatchers.

We’ve built the platform to be flexible and customizable to your needs and are continuously releasing new product updates that make your life as a dispatcher easier.

Have zones you deliver to time and again? With Circuit you can set up zones that automatically get assigned to specific drivers.

Need to organize a route by package priority? Simply change the settings and let Circuit for Teams do the math.

Want to add a stop after a route’s been dispatched? Easy. Just edit the route in real time and it will adjust without completely reoptimizing the route.

And unlike Routific, Circuit has all the features you need no matter your budget. The essentials plan includes:

• Route planning and optimization—simple and automatic route creation at the click of a button, saving dispatchers hours of time.
• Customer notifications—guarantee your customers are home to receive their delivery and improve your delivery success rate.
• Flexible proof of delivery—avoid disputes with photographic proof a package was delivered. Or document e-signatures if that’s what you prefer.
• Real-time driver tracking—keep your drivers on schedule and your dispatchers in control.
• Multi-depot management—great for companies with more than one delivery location. (More on this later…)

Each feature is designed to improve your delivery efficiency and success rates, while also prioritizing a great customer experience.

We’re also quick to launch new features and improve the ones we have already. It’s something our customers really appreciate:

Routific vs Circuit for Teams: Feature Comparison

📸 Here’s a snapshot of how Circuit for Teams compares to Routific.

In a nutshell, here are the four key ways Circuit for Teams outperforms Routific:

1. Driver management—Perfect for dispatchers who oversee multiple drivers in multiple locations. You can manage all your depots in one place and set location-specific preferences to guarantee driver efficiency.
2. Reliable route optimization—With CFT, you won’t need to worry about glitches, crashes, or if the algorithm can accommodate preferences (such as if you want a delivery driver’s last stop to be their own home). The same can’t be said for Routific, we’re afraid.
3. Scalable pricing you can’t beat—We don’t price by vehicle, we price by the number of stops you’ll make that month. That means as you grow, the cost of the software scales affordably. (Psst. Learn more about our pricing here.)
4. Personalized and branded customer notifications—Speak to your customers by name and set up automated text and email notifications that look official. The result? An experience that breeds trust and familiarity with the people who keep you in business.

Circuit for Teams | 4 Features Dispatchers and Drivers Love

Let’s dig a little deeper into what makes Circuit for Teams the best Routific alternative.

1. Multi Depot Management in One Easy-to-Manage Place

Large couriers and retailers often have multiple depots where dozens, if not hundreds, of drivers pick up packages for delivery.

Because of this, dispatchers need a platform where they can manage them all in one place.

Routific doesn’t cater to this. But Circuit does.

Our multi-depot and driver management feature gives dispatchers control and flexibility. They can add new drivers in seconds, assign them to specific depots based on their location and preference, and do so without switching to another delivery management app.

It’s perfect for companies with dispatchers who manage multiple depots or regional managers who need to check in on progress:

Compare that to Routific, where you would need to subscribe to another platform for every depot you manage. If that sounds like an expensive, logistical nightmare, that’s because it is.

Companies using Circuit for Teams save themselves the hassle and the expense while meeting tight deadlines. Take it from David, a customer who left us the following review on Capterra:

Because their deliveries are across multiple counties, David can manage all his drivers and all their routes in the Circuit for Teams dashboard. That’s a win for David and his company’s bottom line.

2. An App That’s Customizable, Easy to Use, and Driver Friendly

Your drivers are the ones on the ground completing deliveries and navigating their routes in real-time.

Their driver app should help not harm that process. Routific does have a driver app but it isn’t as customizable to driver needs, easy to use, or feature-rich as Circuit for Teams.

For example, drivers with Circuit can manually add or edit stops to capitalize on their route knowledge or if an accident unexpectedly blocks them from a road. This isn’t possible with Routific.

Don’t want to give your drivers that amount of freedom over their routes? No worries. Dispatchers can turn that setting off.

The Circuit app also comes with a ‘Package Finder’ feature which helps drivers find packages in their vehicles. This can save minutes at each stop, adding up to hours of improved efficiency over time.

Beyond having capabilities other apps don’t, Circuit’s app is easy to use and loved by over 10 million drivers.

It’s not only drivers that love it either:

Learn more about Circuit’s driver app here.

3. Proof of Delivery and Proof of Pick-up for All-Around Peace of Mind

A missing package is the stuff of nightmares. It delays your drivers, it frustrates customers, and it costs you money to replace or redeliver.

To help you know where packages are at all times and to minimize the opportunity for disputes, Circuit for Teams has a flexible Proof of Delivery feature.Driver’s are able to collect e-signatures, mark packages as delivered, and take photos to prove the package has made it to the customer or been left in an agreed-upon safe place.

You can decide what information you want to document and when for customer and dispatcher peace of mind.

Now, proof of delivery is a pretty basic requirement for a last-mile delivery app. But what about that first mile? Did your driver pick up all the packages they needed to?

Circuit for Teams goes beyond the basics with its proof of delivery for pickup points. You’ll have a full track record for each package, from the moment it’s picked up to the moment it’s dropped off and each turn along the way.

You can also:

• Have your drivers leave digital notes to inform recipients or dispatchers about special circumstances.
• Enable or disable PoD collection for specific deliveries to save your drivers time and make the process more efficient.
• Easily find and share information about specific deliveries to quickly resolve any customer disputes.
• Set up dynamic tracking so your customers can decide the level of information they receive.

With these in place, your customers know what to expect and when, your dispatchers can dispel disputes, and drivers can do their job more efficiently.

4. Analytics that Save You Time and Money

The Circuit for Teams platform on its own is enough to improve delivery success rates, reduce costs, and make it easier than ever to manage your fleet of drivers.

But there’s always room to improve your operation. Our advanced analytics dashboard helps you spot the areas you can improve and the ones you want to replicate.

For example, you can:

• Track individual driver stats
• Set a unique cost per delivery to track operational expenses
• Compare the difference between estimated and actual route duration
• Identify if a specific customer regularly disputes delivery
• Access historical route data and search for specific information using a simple search query

Armed with these insights you can adjust routes and schedules, resolve issues with unhappy customers, and surface data to save you more time and money.

These granular details aren’t possible with Routific’s analytics dashboard.

Need more information before you buy? Check out our full review of Routific (the good, the bad, and the inconvenient) here.

Circuit for Teams Pricing

Here’s a breakdown of Circuit for Team’s pricing model based on number of stops you’ll need to make:

Keep in mind that a stop doesn’t always equal a delivery. So if you have 10 deliveries to one location (an apartment block, for example) that counts as one stop.

While each package comes with a minimum of 500 or 1000 stops, if you go over, you only pay for the stops you actually make.

Other software automatically bumps you into the next pricing tier, quickly becoming too expensive.

2. OptimoRoute

OptimoRoute is a great option for companies that have a large team of drivers to manage.

While it isn’t as sophisticated for route planning as Circuit or Routific, it does let you set driver schedules up to 5 weeks ahead.

You can also customize each driver’s profile to:

• Work times (e.g. 08:00–16:00)
• Allowed overtime durations (e.g. 60 minutes of overtime)
• Break durations and times (e.g. 30 minutes from 13:00 to 13:30)
• Labor costs (e.g. $25 per hour)
• Speed limits
• Start and end locations
• Service areas

It’s also great at collecting customer feedback. Once a delivery is complete, you can send out a survey and analyze the results from those surveys to improve for next time or learn what’s working well.

What Real Users Have to Say About OptimoRoute

OptimoRoute Pricing

3. Onfleet

Similar to OptimoRoute, Onfleet is a delivery management software that:

• Optimizes delivery routes—It analyzes time, location, capacity, and traffic conditions to create the most efficient routes and stops.
• Proves deliveries have been made—Send customer notifications and collect photo proof that a package was delivered to reduce customer complaints.
• Collects feedback from customers—Track and improve the experience of customers with surveys that show your strengths and weaknesses.

As an alternative to Routific, we love that dispatchers can chat with their drivers in the app to get real-time information.

Below you can how this gives a dispatcher the opportunity to check in on delays and a driver the chance to update customer notes:

Drivers can even record voice notes if they’re too busy to write a message.

Onfleet also lets dispatchers add stops to in-progress routes for last-minute changes. When that happens you can auto-assign them to the driver closest to that stop or to the driver with the shortest route.

You don’t have to think about what will be most efficient because Onfleet will do it for you.

However, the platform does take some time to get used to. Some users said it took them a while to learn what details needed to be included in the route optimization process for it to truly be optimal.

Need more information? Read the full Onfleet review or see a complete comparison between Onfleet and Routific.

What Real Users Have to Say About Onfleet

Onfleet Pricing

Onfleet’s plans start from $550/month, making it the most expensive delivery management software on our list.

4. Route4Me

Route4Me is a delivery management software that intelligently and automatically optimizes routes based on changing customer needs.

Okay, but what does that mean? Let’s say your customer is available only on Wednesdays in October and only Saturdays in February, the platform will adjust the route to accommodate those chosen delivery windows. It works with daily and weekly changes too.

And just like Onfleet, Routific, and Circuit, your dispatchers can alter routes in real-time without disrupting the progress of their drivers.

There are also features to help you understand how drivers are performing:

• Driver ratings—You can send an automatic text or email to customers asking them to rate their driver. There’s also an opportunity to leave detailed messages about their delivery experience.
• Customizable surveys—Go one step further and send customized surveys to customers to get deeper insights on their experience.

Where Routific fails to plan around a delivery driver's vehicle, Route4Me excels. It even lets dispatchers set specific weight requirements for the vehicle and will organize the route based on what they can carry.

This adds a layer of efficiency most last-mile delivery software won’t account for.

But customers do face issues with the platform when uploading their csv. files. They often have to manually search through their upload to make sure addresses have uploaded correctly. This wastes time and adds hassle to what should be a completely automated task.

The platform could also do with a refresh. Its interface is clean but basic.

What Real Users Have to Say About Route4Me

Route4Me Pricing

Route4Me’s pricing model is based on users per month and many features are considered ‘add-ons’ rather than built into their package.

This can get expensive rather quickly and it’s worth auditing what features you’ll need and what features you won’t before committing.

But keep in mind, your minimum spend will be $200 a month no matter what.

5. FarEye

FarEye is perfect for larger companies with complex logistic needs and a passion for the environment.

Unlike Routific, which is for much smaller retailers, FarEye has a multi-carrier parcel management feature. Think of it like having a marketplace of couriers at your fingertips.

You can use it to choose the most efficient or cost-effective carrier for each delivery based on factors like destination, cost, and delivery time.

When would you choose a tool like FarEye over Routific?

We’d recommend it for anyone who manages multiple couriers or for retailers who need to bring on extra drivers but don’t want to commit to hiring.

FarEye users can also set sustainability targets and measure them alongside operational metrics like time to deliver, failed delivery rates, and driver logins.

What Real Users Have to Say About Fareye

Fareye Pricing

Unfortunately, Faraye doesn’t list its pricing publicly.

6. Track-POD

Track-POD is a delivery management software that got its start as a proof of delivery tool.

Because of that, its proof of delivery feature is built out to include photos, e-signatures, time stamps, barcode scanner, driver notes, and geofencing.

This all works together to guarantee the right package is delivered to the right place, every time.

Routific has proof of delivery functionality but it isn’t as extensive.

Track-POD’s other features are what you would expect from a comprehensive delivery management software, including:

• Route planning and optimization
• Delivery driver app
• Customer notifications
• Delivery analytics

However, Track-POD lacks real-time driver tracking, potentially leaving your dispatchers in the dark when they need information most.

Imagine an angry customer calling to ask where their package has been left. Rather than soothe their concerns you’ll have to call them back after getting in touch with your driver (if you can!).

Dispatchers also can’t edit routes that are in progress. If you need to allocate a delivery to another driver following a failed delivery, you won’t be able to. This is possible on other software like Routific and Circuit for Teams.

Check out our list of Track-POD alternatives here.

What Real Users Have to Say About Track-POD

Track-POD Pricing

Track-POD starts at $29 per driver/month if billed annually. But this doesn’t include real-time driver tracking.

In fact, to get that feature you’ll need to jump up to its ‘Advanced Plus’ package at $69 per driver/month.

They do also offer stop-based pricing ($285/mo for 1,500 delivery stops) but these don’t include customer support and limit the number of dashboard users.