What route software supports recurring weekly deliveries to the same customers?

How recurring schedules work

A weekly customer is two things: a standing order (who, where, which window, how often) and a daily plan (which driver takes which stop, in what order). Software that treats them as one gives you either a frozen route that breaks the first day a driver is out, or no memory at all. Check these in any product.

• The schedule sits on the customer, not in a copied spreadsheet tab
• Rhythms beyond every week: Monday and Thursday, every second week, the 15th of the month, with start and end dates
• Holidays: what happens when the regular day is a closed day
• Skipping one week without deleting the schedule
• What happens to orders already made when the schedule changes
• Whether the orders are ordinary orders planned with the rest of the day, or a fixed route

Set it up in Afi Planner

Afi Planner is route planning and delivery management software for local delivery teams, made by Afi Labs. The schedule lives on the customer in Contacts. Open the contact (save it first), switch on “Delivers every…” and fill in the rest. Press “Save schedule”: the orders for the next 14 days appear at once, and the scheduler, which runs every hour, adds each new day as it comes within 14 days.

• “Repeats”: “On weekdays” (any combination of Monday to Sunday, “How often” every week or every 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 weeks) or “On a day of the month” (a short month uses its last day)
• “Starting” and “Until (optional)” for a customer who starts later or ends
• Its own “Window from” and “Window until” (empty means the contact’s usual window) and “Extra notes for these orders”, added after the contact’s notes
• “Tell the customer each delivery is scheduled” is off by default, since the customer knows the rhythm; every other message is sent as for any order
• On the day, press “Plan routes” as usual: the recurring orders are ordinary orders marked “↻ Repeats”, planned together with the one-off ones. The plan does not promise the same driver each week
• “Copy stops from another day” is the other route: pick a day, see how many orders will be copied and why the rest are left out, leave out delivered or failed ones, and “Undo copy” while they are untouched

What to check each week

The schedule runs on its own, but a few things need a dispatcher’s eye.

• “Skip this one” on a recurring order removes it and marks the day skipped; the schedule goes on with the next one. Not possible once a driver has worked on the order
• A holiday you mark closed moves a weekly delivery to the delivery day before, and Needs attention shows “Closed on {day}: recurring orders moved”, including customers that could not be moved. Days the company does not deliver (Settings, Delivery days) get no orders
• After you change or stop a schedule the orders already made stay: the editor offers “Remove N orders not planned yet” or “Keep them”, and orders on a route already sent to drivers are never removed
• A new window, notes or address on the customer flows to the coming orders, except ones you edited by hand and ones on a sent route, which keep what they had and are listed
• A paused or ended account creates no new orders, and the scheduler never makes two orders for the same customer and day

Where it stops

There is no ready-made link to a customer’s ordering or ERP system and no Shopify or Zapier app; schedules are kept on each contact, and orders can also arrive by paste, file or the API. The scheduler makes orders, not routes: plan the day each morning or the day before. Paid plans are quoted by fleet size with no published price. The free trial lasts three months, no credit card: set “Delivers every…” on five regular customers and look at the next 14 days.