Attach Images and Photos to Stops – iPhone Route Planner App

Route4Me’s iPhone Route Planner is designed to make your routing operations and transactions as fast and flexible as possible, allowing you to effortlessly plan, optimize, and navigate routes of any complexity on the go. Route4Me also enables you to build a well-structured and easily-manageable network of users with different roles and account-level permissions (learn more). A picture is worth a thousand words – taking a picture is much faster, more time-efficient, and more informative than making regular text notes. To make sure that you are always on the same page with your team and your customers, Route4Me allows you to capture and attach photos to your notes as proof of delivery (POD) or proof of service (POS). Thus, your remote team members can take photos of the services that they performed so that they can be evaluated, attach images of the returned or damaged goods, take photos of delivery and pickup locations or delivered and picked up goods, record the state of the transported packages or their company vehicle, and so on. Depending on the particular needs of your business or unique business model, being able to attach photos to route stops can help you to significantly increase the security of your routing operations, improve team communication, and minimize legal risks.  All photos that are captured and uploaded using Route4Me’s iOS app are securely stored on Route4Me’s remote servers and cannot be deleted or altered by other users. To learn more about how proof of delivery can be useful for your business, visit this page.

Photos can be attached to route stops with notes. Thus, to attach a photo from your device or take a new photo with your device camera and attach it to a particular route stop, first, open the corresponding route. To do so, go to “Routes” from the navigation menu and then select the preferred route.

After that, tap on the note icon next to the stop to which you want to attach an image and then tap on the “Add a Note” button. Next, fill out the contents of the note and then select the note’s status.

To select an image from your device, tap on the photo icon (make sure that your Route4Me iPhone app has the permission to access your gallery) → navigate through the folders on your device to find the photo you want to attach to the note → tap on the preferred photo to upload it from your device into the note (max 50 MB per image).

To take a new photo and attach it to the note, after filling out the note’s contents, tap on the camera icon to launch the camera app on your iPhone (make sure that your Route4Me iPhone app has the permission to use your camera).

Next, take the preferred photo using the camera app on your iPhone and then tap on the “Use Photo” button to add the captured image to the note.

Once the image is added to the note, it is displayed at the bottom of the note’s screen. After filling out the note’s details and attaching the preferred photo (max 50 MB per image), tap on the “Done” button in the top right corner of the screen to save the note with the image. NOTE: You can attach one image per note. If you need to capture multiple photos for one route stop, you can add multiple notes.

To view the note with the attached image, tap on the note icon next to the corresponding route stop and then tap on the note that you want to check to open its details. NOTE: For security purposes, notes and notes’ contents (i.e., images, signatures, etc.) cannot be deleted or altered in any way by other users. All captured and uploaded photos are securely stored on Route4Me’s remote servers.

Notes with captured and uploaded photos can also be viewed from the Route4Me Web Platform. To do so, once the image is attached to the note and the note is added to a particular route stop, open the corresponding route stop on the Route4Me Web Platform and scroll to the “Notes” section. Photos attached using the Route4Me iPhone app are saved as PNG files. To view or download the attached image from the corresponding note, click on the “View PNG” button accordingly.