Add Addresses and Customer Locations on Address Book Map

Your Route4Me Address Book (List/Map) is a centralized database where you and your team members can securely store the information about customers’ locations, delivery addresses, depots, commercial facilities, warehouses, and any other relevant prospects and real-world locations. With Route4Me’s interactive Address Book Map, you can drop a pin on the map and pick all types of addresses and locations right from the map and save them into your synchronized Address Book as contacts, customer profiles, or regular addresses. Saving addresses/locations when you drop a pin on the map enables you to get a visual overview of your customers’ spatial arrangement and improve your routing patterns. All addresses that are picked from the map and saved into the Address Book using the Web Route Optimization Platform can be automatically synchronized across all authorized devices and accessed from the Route4Me Route Planner apps for iOS and Android.

To drop a pin on the map using the interactive map and adding those map pins as customer addresses to the synchronized Address Book, first, go to “Address Book Map” from the navigation menu.

To drop a pin on the map and pick a particular location (location’s latitude and longitude coordinates) from the map, first, right-click on this location on the map and then select “Add This Exact Location” from the menu.

When you use this option, you can save the exact latitude and longitude coordinates of the selected location as an entry in the synchronized Address Book.

To pick a particular street address from the map and save it into the Address Book, first, right-click on this address on the map and then select the “Add The Nearest Valid Address” option.

When you use this option, the system automatically picks the nearest valid street address that is located next to the selected spot on the map.

After that, you can add various customer, order, and business details to the selected address/location and save it into the synchronized Address Book as a contact, customer profile or a regular address.

First, input the alias (custom name) of the address/contact into the corresponding field. When creating a new alias for a contact, make sure that it is easily identifiable and corresponds to particular features of its associated prospect or address.

After that, you can choose a particular color and icon that you want to represent the contact/address on the map (i.e., in the Address Book Map).

In the “Location Details” tab, first, assign the contact/address to a particular Search Group using the corresponding field. Learn more about how to use Search Groups.

After that, fill out the rest of the fields in the “Location Details” tab with the contact information of the associated prospect.

To add custom data that does not fit into the pre-set fields in the “Add Address” window, click on the “Edit Custom Data” button. Learn more about how to add and manage custom data.

In the “Business Details” tab, you can define the following order information of the associated customer: Pieces, Weight, Cube, Reference No, Revenue, and Priority, as well as select the preferred “Address Stop Type.”

In the “Time Windows” tab, you can add two time windows for the contact’s visitation hours, as well as define the service time for the contact’s location. Learn more about route planning with time windows. You can also learn more about route planning with service times.

In the “Schedule” tab, you can create one or multiple custom recurring visitation schedules. To do so, on the “Add New Schedule” button and then set up the preferred schedule settings. Learn more about how to create schedules for recurring orders and repetitive visitations.

After filling out the preferred details, click on the “Add” button to save the contact/address into your synchronized Address Book.

Once the contact/address is saved, it also becomes available in the Address Book List where you can view and modify it, as well as use it for generating orders, inserting into the best routes or planning entirely new routes, and more.