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Free multi-drop route planner
Paste up to 60 UK addresses or postcodes and get the quickest order to visit them by road, with a map, total miles and driving time, and links that open the route in Google Maps.
How to plan a multi-drop route
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List your drops
Paste one stop per line — a full UK address with its postcode, or just the postcode. Or upload a CSV or text file from your spreadsheet.
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Set where you start
Add your depot or home postcode, and choose whether the van comes back to it at the end. Leave it blank to start at the first stop.
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Plan the route
Press Plan route. We look up every postcode and find a fast visiting order using real driving times.
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Drive it
Tap Take me there at each stop for Google Maps directions, or print it, copy it into a message or download it as a CSV for your driver.
Who uses a multi-drop planner?
Anyone with more than a handful of stops in a day: wholesale bakeries dropping to cafés, fruit and veg suppliers doing the restaurant run, firewood merchants, water cooler and laundry rounds, milk rounds, window cleaners and self-employed multi-drop couriers.
Getting the order right matters more than people expect. Visiting the same 20 drops in the order they were written down can easily add a lot of extra driving compared with a planned order — especially when the list jumps back and forth across a river or a motorway.
See how RoundSorted works for your trade →Tips for faster delivery routes
Use full postcodes. A UK postcode covers around 15 addresses, so it's precise enough to put stops in order. Outward codes alone (like “G42”) cover thousands of homes and won't work.
Deal with timed drops separately. If a few customers need you before opening time, plan those as a short first run, then plan the rest starting from the last timed drop.
Split big days by area, not by list. Two vans? Split your stops north and south of a natural line (a river, a motorway) and plan each half, rather than splitting the list in half.
Load the van in reverse. Once you have the order, load the last drop first so the first drop is by the doors. Print the route and use it as your load sheet.
Allow time at each stop. The driving time shown doesn't include unloading. Add a realistic few minutes per drop to plan your day — our delivery cost calculator helps you work out what each drop really costs.
Same drops every week? Don't retype them. Keep customers and standing orders in one place — see our free delivery schedule templates, or let RoundSorted build the run each morning.
Route planner questions
Is the route planner really free?
Yes. There's no sign-up, no card and no trial. You can plan up to 60 stops at a time, as often as you need (within a fair-use limit of a few routes a minute).
How many stops can I plan?
Up to 60 stops per route. If you have more, split them into two runs — for example by area — and plan each one.
Does it work with just postcodes?
Yes. Each line can be a full UK address with its postcode or just the postcode. We use the postcode to place each stop and work out the order; when you open the route in Google Maps, the full address is used where you gave one, so you're taken to the door.
How do I follow the route in Google Maps?
Work down the list and tap Take me there at each stop. Google Maps opens with directions from wherever you are to that stop, so it doesn't matter how many stops the route has or if you get held up.
Does it use real roads or straight lines?
Real roads. We work out driving times between every pair of stops using OpenStreetMap road data, so rivers, motorways and one-way systems are taken into account. If that service is briefly unavailable we fall back to straight-line distances and tell you.
Does it plan delivery time windows or van capacity?
No — it finds a fast order for one vehicle. If some stops must be first (a café that opens at 7am, say), put them in a separate short route, or move them in the list after planning.
Is my list of addresses stored?
No. The addresses are sent to our server to work out the route and are not saved. Postcodes are looked up with postcodes.io and road times with OSRM (OpenStreetMap).
Can I save the route and send it to my driver?
Not in the free planner — copy, print or download it as CSV. If you run the same rounds every week, RoundSorted saves your customers and standing orders, builds the route each morning and puts it on your driver's phone. It's free for up to 5 customers.
Plan the same rounds every week?
RoundSorted remembers your customers and their standing orders, so each morning's run sheet, load list and route are ready before you are. Drivers get the run on their phone, drops are ticked off, and invoices go out on their own.
No card needed for the Free plan.