How do I optimise rounds?

There's an automatic and manual way to keep rounds optimised in getSoapy.

If you've selected the Keep optimised option, the round will be automatically optimised for you. Whenever a job is added or removed from the round, getSoapy will automatically optimise the order of the round so you spend less time travelling between jobs.

You can also:

manually optimise a round
manually reorder jobs in a round
switch between automatic and manual optimisation

Route optimisation is available on the Advanced and Pro plans.

Automatic optimisation always starts and ends at your business address. When you optimise a round yourself you can choose where it starts and ends. Neither takes into account time of day, job duration, or traffic in the same way the automatic scheduling feature does.

Manually optimise a round

Go to Tools > Plan > Rounds and click on the round you want to optimise.
Click on the menu icon in the top-right corner and select Optimise round.

Choose where the route starts and ends: My business address, My current location or An address. Choose Any job if you don't need to travel from or back to anywhere, and getSoapy picks whichever job works best to start or end on. Only one end can be Any job.
Leave Provider on Automatic and getSoapy picks a provider that can take your round. To choose one yourself, switch Automatic off and pick from Optimise with. Each provider has a limit on how many jobs it can order (Mapbox 10, Google 25, HERE 200, Geoapify 298), and only some can start at any job (Geoapify) or end at any job (HERE and Geoapify), so any that can't take your round are greyed out.
Click Optimise. A big round can take a few moments, and we'll show a confirmation message once it's done.

getSoapy remembers your choices for next time.

Manually reorder jobs in a round

This option only works if you have not selected the Keep optimised option. Otherwise, getSoapy will automatically reorder the jobs to minimise travelling time.

Go to Tools > Plan > Rounds and click on the round you want to re-order.
Click on the menu icon in the top-right corner and select Reorder jobs.

Drag and drop the jobs in the order you want (with the last job at the bottom of the page).
When you're happy (or happy with the order at least), click Save at the top of the page.

Change the optimisation settings of a round

If you want to change a round between automatic and manual optimisation, follow the steps below.

Go to Tools > Plan > Rounds.
Click on the menu icon to the right-hand side of the round you want to edit and select Edit.

Toggle the Keep optimised option to the setting you want.
Click Submit to save your changes.