What is route optimization?
Direct answer: Route optimization is putting a day's stops in the order that cuts the most driving, so a crew spends more of the day working and less of it in traffic and at fuel stops.
Why it matters
Drive time is unpaid time. Two jobs three miles apart booked on opposite sides of a city cost a crew the day.
How Apex Flow Scheduler does it
It orders each day's stops using zip and city geometry, and hands the finished route to Google or Apple Maps for turn-by-turn directions. Public road-time services can be rate limited, so very large days may fall back to the geometry estimate.
Official site: scheduler.apexflowlabs.com
Status words: Working today means it runs on live business data now. Rolling out means it is built and being switched on. In development means it is not available to use yet.
Reviewed: 2026-10-07