### Changed
- Implemented the map from scratch to improve the performance of projects (especially large projects).
- Do not allow the driver working end time to be the same as the driver working start time.

### Fixed
- Fixed an issue that, in specific cases, resulted in unrealistic high route kilometers and distances.
- Fixed an issue that, in specific cases, resulted in the stop duration being set to 0.
- Fixed an issue that, in specific cases, resulted in the route end time being the same as the route start time.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in the map turning black for 4K monitors.
- Fixed the stop count when a user wants to move a selected stop to a specific route and stop location via the “Move to” button.

Release 1.17 – Quality release

### Added
- Support for dependable stops (via API & Excel file upload only)
- Multiple confirmation dialogs for important actions like bulk disable vehicles
- Move to feature for single or multiple selected stops
- Support to change a project’s driver app settings after a project has been published
- Support for using the keyboard buttons (up, down and enter) to select and add an address from the autocomplete results

### Changed
- Moved the navigation bar from the left to the right
- Moved the support button from the navigation bar to the bottom right as a chat bubble
- Hide the navigation bar when entering a project for more visual space and clarity
- Updated the move to modal from the stop details to properly show routes for vehicles that have reloads
- Now when entering an optimized project, the “Routes” tab will be shown immediately

###Fixed
- A bug that resulted in the configuration “Allow late stops” to not work properly
- A bug that resulted in stop markers being hidden when clicking on a specific stop marker
- A bug that caused the reoptimize button to disappear when all project stops were deleted
- A bug that resulted in the vehicle route shift times being incorrectly shown everywhere
- A bug that resulted in invalid stops from being downloaded when using the hassle-free spreadsheet upload feature
- A bug that resulted the search results to be persisted inside the route
- A bug that resulted in the route reload icon to disappear if there were more than 9 reloads
- A bug that resulted in the product tour being frozen when the project had no routes after optimizing
- A bug that resulted in the drag and drop preview of the stop not being shown correctly
- A bug that prevented the map zoom from being properly reset when switching projects
- A bug that resulted in custom Rentman fields not being properly used

Release 1.16 – Quality release

We get a lot of feedback from users, which is awesome! Based on the feedback and customer interactions, we redesigned the Routetitan platform to get to routes faster and be ready for the future. We’ll be releasing the redesigned iteratively and will start with one of the most important parts: projects.

Projects are at the core of Routetitan. Users spend most of their time working inside a particular project to plan their deliveries or pickups for a given day. Users must be able to accomplish whatever they need to as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Read the full changelog below to see what changed in this release.

### Added
- The ability to change the project name from inside a project
- The ability to change the project date from inside a project
- The ability to delete a project from inside the project
- The ability to switch to a different project from inside a project
- The ability to create a new project from inside a project
- The ability to bulk enable/disable vehicles
- The ability to bulk edit vehicles
- When searching for an address, we simultaneously search in your list of existing stops and autocomplete your input with a valid address
- The ability to bulk select stops and then edit, delete or download them
- The ability to download the stops of categories “Success”, “Failed” and “Remaining” as an Excel file from the progress bar
- The ability to bulk select routes and perform multiple actions on them like downloading the stops
- The ability to add a new stop directly inside a specific route
- The ability to switch between routes when inside a specific route
- The ability to send SMS notifications with the “Sender” being your organization name instead of Routetitan (first iteration, contact [support@routetitan.com](mailto:support@routetitan.com) if you want this enabled) 

### Changed
- When pressing the “New project” button, you enter the newly created project immediately
- Improved stops overview, which gives room for more stops being visible on a screen
- Separated stops in unscheduled and scheduled categories
- Improved the way drivers are assigned to a route
- Moved the project progress bar to a separate component hovering over the map for more convenience
- Improved the product tour to allow users to add as many stops to the first project as needed
- Routes with reload are now shown as a single route for more convenience
- Correctly update stop ETA when the duration of a specific stop is changed
- Disallow users to add a custom URL to an SMS notification

### Removed
- The ability to hide a specific route

### Fixed
- A bug that resulted in the Rentman app not being active when refreshing the browser
- A crash that as a result of deleting a vehicle that is being used in a project
- A broken signature component in the “My Routetitan” (track & trace) site for specific cases

Release 1.15 – New project view & bulk actions

With this version, we want to help users get to an optimized project as soon as possible. So we’ve added some features to prevent repetitive steps for each project. Also, we’ve made it much easier to upload stops by using a spreadsheet.

### Default route setup
We now allow users to create some default values for the vehicle’s start location, end location, start time and end times. This allows a user to set up the default once, and the great benefit is that users don’t have to specify these values every time they create a new project. Instead, the default values will be used for every project they create automatically

Also, we now enable all your vehicles with the default route settings automatically for every project you create. This allows you to get started even faster.

### Hassle-free spreadsheet upload
Using a spreadsheet to bulk upload multiple stops to a project is very popular and widely used by our customers. The main issue has always been making sure that the spreadsheet with stop information is in the correct structure. And if something was not correct, our response didn’t really help the user in finding the cause in order to fix it in the file.

![hassle-free-speadsheet-upload](/uploads/hassle_free_speadsheet_upload_5732edce24.png)

So we’ve worked hard on a new hassle-free spreadsheet upload feature. As the name suggests, it’s a more hassle-free process where we show what specific cell contains an error and allow you to change it immediately from within Routetitan, so you can move on more quickly.

### Educational components
Understanding how to use Routetitan’s full potential for your business is important for the success of our customers. We’ve now added some educational buttons to the mains sections to help users better understand each section and feature.

### Other fixes and improvements
- Fixed a bug related to bulk moving of stops by doing a drag-and-drop action that resulted in the stops not being shown correctly
- Added form validation to prevent cases where the stop duration is longer than the time window end minus the time windows start
- When pressing the R icon in the top left corner inside a project, it now takes you to the Projects overview instead of reloading the project
- When creating a new project, immediately enter the project to save users time
- Prevent an individual vehicle to just have an end address, the start address in that case is mandatory
- Fixed a UI issue that made the left part of the project scrollable
- Inside the invoices overview, we now link the user to the Stripe hosted invoice page where they can download the invoice or make a payment
- Disabled the SEPA Direct Debit payment option

Release 1.14 – Hassle-free spreadsheet upload & default route setup

Performance will always be an important part of the Routetitan platform. However, this is the last in a series of performance updates dedicated to this purpose. For the next version, we aim to release some new and exciting features.

### Major performance improvements
- Significantly improved the speed of starting a route via the Routetitan Driver app ([web](https://dwa.routetitan.com), [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.routetitan.da.prod), [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1603815637))
- Significantly improved the speed of completing stops in a route
- Significantly improved the speed of updating stop details
- Significantly improved the speed of duplicating a project
- Significantly improved the speed of adding stops to a project
- General performance improvements for all API requests

### New route optimization engine
<img src="/uploads/new_route_optimization_engine_783311bead.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" width="1171" height="441" />
Our route optimization engine powers everything in the Routetitan platform and is the heart of our product. We have been hard at work on our route optimization engine for the past few months. The main goals were to increase the speed of optimizing routes (especially for larger projects) while at the same time increasing the quality of the routes it creates. After months of work we’re now proud to include it in this version of Routetitan!

### New product tour
Understanding how to use Routetitan to get the most value from it is important. We’ve completely redesigned the product tour and split it into three parts:

__Part 1: creating a project__

__Part 2: adding stops, enabling vehicles and optimizing the project__

__Part 3: publishing project and sending routes to drivers__

You can start the product tour manually by visiting [this link](https://app.routetitan.com/?start_tour=true) or by pressing the “Product Tour” button from the menu in the bottom left three dots button.

### Other fixes and improvements
- Store user’s map settings for projects so that the user doesn’t have to change them every time
- Fixed a bug that caused the project sidebar on the left to be scrollable
- When visiting [https://app.routetitan.com](https://app.routetitan.com) the user should be rerouted to [https://app.routetitan.com/projects](https://app.routetitan.com/projects)
- Fixed a bug where when duplicating a project and giving it a different name, the new name would not show immediately
- Fixed a bug where when changing the name of a project, the new name would not show immediately
- Removed the route number when printing the routes
- Fixed a bug where when discarding changes in a stop would sometimes cause the user to be thrown out of the project
- Fixed bug that could show the project count incorrectly sometimes
- When Creating a new project or duplicating an existing one, automatically set today’s date as the project date
- When Creating a new project or duplicating an existing one, automatically focus the cursor on the project’s name input field so the user can start typing immediately
- Discontinued the Individual plan

Release 1.13 - Performance improvements

The upcoming Routetitan releases will significantly improve the performance and user onboarding. In this second release of the series we’ve addressed some of the biggest performance bottlenecks when you’re inside a project and when starting a route via the Routetitan Driver app. 🚀

### Major performance improvements

- Significantly improved the processing time of uploading stops to a project via a Excel/CSV file
- Significantly improved the processing time of adding stops to a project via our API
- Significantly improved the speed of publishing a project
- Significantly improved the time it takes to start a route via the Routetitan Driver App
- General performance improvements for all API requests

### New projects overview
<img src="/uploads/image6_0467a718d4.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" width="1171" height="441" />


Instead of showing all projects in one overview, we have split them into three tabs: upcoming, active, and past. Users will be able to locate projects more quickly and maintain a better overview of all projects within their organization.

- __Upcoming__ tab will show projects that are for today (or a date in the future) and have no routes that are started yet.
- __Active__ tab will show projects that have at least one route that is in progress.
- __Past__ tab will show projects that are either completed or expired

### Changes to a published project are now automatically saved
In the past, if you made changes to a published project, you had to click the "Publish project" button again for the changes to be saved. This caused some confusion among users and sometimes users forgot to publish the changes. Therefore, we have decided to automatically save all changes made to a project after it's published.

Since all changes are now automatically saved, we have removed the ability to reoptimize the entire project after publication. The purpose of this is to prevent routes from changing radically after reoptimization has been implemented.

### Other fixes and improvements
- Updated the navigation bar for a better overview
- Fixed a bug that prevented a newly created vehicle tag to immediately show in the list of tags inside the stop details
- Fixed a bug that did not disable the old notification template if a new one for the same event and channel was created
- Fixed a bug that showed the “LIVE” label for routes inside an expired or completed project
- Removed the route number so that only the vehicle name is shown inside a project’s routes

Release 1.12 - Performance improvements

In the upcoming series of releases, we're committed to significantly improving the performance and user onboarding of Routetitan. This is the first performance release of the series. Happy holidays! 🎅🎄🎁

### Major performance improvements

- Significantly improved the loading time of showing the projects overview
- Significantly improved the loading time of entering a project
- Significantly improved the loading time of showing all routes inside the [Driver App](https://dwa.routetitan.com)

There will be more improvements like this in future releases.

### Fixes and improvements

- Fixed an issue where the route polyline would sometimes disappear after removing the vehicle break
- Fixed an issue where the recipient name would not be shown when a notification email was sent to a recipient
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the reoptimization would fail when new stops were added
- Fixed an issue where sometimes expired routes would be shown as active routes inside the Driver App
- Improved the search results for stops inside a project, when you click on the stop it now scrolls to that stop within the route and shows the stop details panel
- Improved the map settings UI
- Improved user sign up UI
- Improved the more (3 dots) menu inside the navigation bar on the right
- Added the option to easily contact support via the navigation bar on the right
- Removed the sign in button from the website when visiting on your phone

Release 1.11 - Performance improvements

We love launching new features, but this time we have focused on smaller bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to the product.

### Fixes and improvements

- Added the ability to search for a stops unit id from within a project
- Added the ability receive an email notification when a stop was skipped (contact support@routetitan.com if you want us to activate this)
- Improved the general performance when searching within a project
- Improved the general performance of uploading stops via an Excel or CSV file
- Improved the look of the printed version of the routes
- Improved the project’s date formatting so that it’s easier to read and understand
- Prevent transactional emails from being clipped at the bottom if the content is recurring
- Properly close the panel when pressing the Apps or Rentman section
- Highlight “Vehicles” tab inside a project when a user has added stops but not yet enabled vehicles to make the next step more obvious
- Show a progress bar when downloading the stops or solution of a project
- Show a progress bar when printing the stop labels
- Include a + symbol for phone numbers inside of the Routetitan Driver App
- Fixed an issue where a stop’s address would be shown incorrectly when uploading stops via the Excel file and the street column had a house number addition
- Fixed an issue where in specific cases the finishing address shows the last stop’s recipient name
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Driver and Vehicle tags of a project to be included inside the download solution excel file
- Fixed an issue where the “You have unsaved changes” dialog did not appear when creating a new project and clicking on any option from the dropdown menu in the navbar
- Fixed an issue that shows the Product Tour when double clicking on the “Add driver” button
- [Rentman] Added a refresh button so that users can quickly refresh the stops within our Rentman app
- [Rentman] Added infobox to the email address fields so that long email addresses are fully visible when needed
- [Rentman] Added more support so that users can specify more stop details using Rentman’s custom fields
- [Rentman] Extended support to define more stop details like signature requirement, duration from within the Rentman project
- [Rentman] Fixed an issue that prevented the input from being cleared when adding an API key to Rentman
- [Rentman] Fixed an issue where when creating a new project from within the Rentman app and then opening the Projects section, at first only the newly created project is shown

Release 1.10 - Fixes & improvements

### Android app in the Google Play store
Occasionally, customers have asked why a driver's real-time location sometimes disappears from the map after they've begun their routes using the web-based driver app. That is because web-apps aren't allowed to track the device's location when they are not in the foreground. The solution for this would be to create a native Android application. And that's exactly what we've done in the past weeks. The Android app can be downloaded directly from the Google Play store by searching for "Routetitan Driver" or via the button below.


[<img src="/uploads/en_badge_web_generic_f960b3733f.png" alt="Get it on Google Play" width="300" height="116" data-modal="false"/>](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.routetitan.da.prod&pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1)


###Integration with Rentman

Rentman is an all-in-one solution to help you manage your rental business more efficiently. Resources planning, scheduling, and communication are all seamlessly integrated in an easy-to-use system. Customers that use both Rentman and Routetitan would have to manually add all stops for a given day inside a Routetitan project. This is very time consuming work and prone to errors.

This release allows customers to connect to their Rentman environment from within Routetitan. Rentman orders can be selected quickly and exported as stops inside Routetitan projects. When that is done, vehicles can be activated and routes optimized. All without leaving your Routetitan environment! Connect to your Rentman environment via https://app.routetitan.com/apps.

### Fixes and improvements

- Added the ability to generate generic shipping labels for stops within a project
- For all urls in the SMS/Email notifications we now use our own url shortener routet.it instead of tinyurl.com
- Fixed an issue where photos that were taken with an iOS device would show up rotated inside the project
- Show an error message when a user enters the correct tracking number but an incorrect zip code on the track & trace page
- Fixed an issue where during the product tour the drag and drop for unscheduled stops to a route is not shown
- Fixed an issue where the track & trace url that was sent to customers was not shortened correctly
- Better handling of newsletter subscription failures
- Fixed some translations in the Dutch language
- Ensure that lowercase tags are sorted properly
- The Vehicle overview section has been updated so that the full name can be seen even if it is long
- Removed the extra space that was added automatically once a notification content component was selected to be included in the message
- Correctly show the search results when trying to find certain Notifications
- Fixed a bug related to properly showing the recently closed routes in the driver app

Release 1.9 - Android app & integration with Rentman

###Notifications sections

“Where is my order?” The ability to answer this question quickly and accurately is key to managing customers’ last-mile delivery expectations. Our new automated notification system enables you to easily send real-time delivery notifications to your customers using either email or SMS. Each notification is event-triggered, and you can customize your notification template by adding selected data fields along with your own message. Once activated, the selected customers will receive an alert when the event, such as the start of their drivers’ route or arrival at their stop, takes place.

###New track and trace page

Along with a new notification system we’ve also completely redesigned the track and trace page. This page is meant for your customers (recipients) and gives them all the information they need to stay informed about their delivery/pickup. For example it allows your customers to track the location of the driver real time when there’s 15 minutes left before the driver reaches the address. And when a driver has completed the stop and added photos or notes, that information will also be visible inside of the new track and trace page. The new page will allow your customers to help themselves in case of questions regarding their delivery/pickup instead of calling your customer service line.

###Fixes and improvements

- Improved the stop’s identification number so that’s it’s easier to read
- Fixed a bug that prevented large projects from being correctly optimized
- Added more stop information inside the project solution excel file that can be downloaded when a project has been completed
- Fixed potential crashes when the browser automatically translates English words to a different language
- Fixed a small bug during the product tour’s vehicle section
- Made changing the stop’s default duration optional during the product tour
- Removed the vrp object from the project.published payload in order to decrease the payload size

Release 1.8 - Notifications section & new track and trace page for recipients

###Support for Shopify, WooCommerce and Bol.com order excel files

Our customers use lots of different e-commerce platforms. All of those platforms have an option to download the orders as an excel file. But every excel file is different and our platform expects the excel file to be in a specific format. This means that you have to download the orders excel file from your platform, change the structure so that it’s processable for Routetitan and then upload it to a Routetitan project. This usually takes a few minutes every time but we want to help our customers speed up that process.

We can’t add support for all e-commerce platforms in a single release but we’ve picked the three most requested e-commerce platforms ([Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/), [WooCommerce ](https://woocommerce.com/) and [Bol.com](https://www.bol.com/)) and added support for their standard order excel file structure. You can now upload the downloaded standard excel file to a Routetitan project without changing the file structure. This will help you plan your routes even faster.

Feel free to reach out to us at [support@routetitan.com](mailto:support@routetitan.com) and let us know about the e-commerce platform you use and want us to support in the future.


###Route start webhook event

Webhooks are important to our customers and their developers. Important actions take place when a webhook event is received. For example when receiving the webhook stop completed the recipient can be notified that their shipment has been delivered successfully.

A much requested webhook event is “Route start”. The name describes the event clearly, the webhook event is fired as soon as the driver actually starts the route via the Driver App. You can use this webhook to send a notification to the recipient about the estimated ETA. Or do something else, depending on your organization's needs and the promise to the recipient.


###Fixes and improvements

- Improved the fit to zoom functionality of the map to zoom in closer to the relevant sections of the map
- Improved search for drivers inside a project
- Added the ability to do a ```GET /projects?project_date={DD-MM-YYYY}``` in order to search for projects based on date (REST API)
- Added the ability to do a ```GET /projects?name={string}``` in order to search for projects based on the project name  (REST API)
- Allow the ability to do a ```GET /projects/{project_id}/stops/{stop_id}``` request to get only the stop information (REST API)
- Improved search functionality for driver tags
- Improved search functionality for vehicle tags
- Updated the stops excel file example template
- Updated the driver excel file example template
- Update the vehicle excel file example template
- Implement new vehicle and driver tags component inside stop details screen
- Remove ETA for unscheduled stops inside downloaded the project solution excel file
- Sort vehicle and driver tags alphabetically
- Fixed a bug that sometimes resulted in not showing the “You have unsaved changes” dialog
- Fixed an issue that caused a crash when you duplicate an already duplicated project
- Fixed a bug where manually refreshing the route resulted in the page not refreshing (Driver App)

Release 1.7 - Support for Shopify, WooCommerce and Bol.com order excel files

###Default values for vehicles

When using Routetitan daily you may find that you’re doing some repetitive actions every time you create a new project. For example when activating vehicles inside a project you’ll need to define the vehicle’s start location (and optionally the end location). The same applies to attaching a driver to the vehicle route. It may take just a few seconds per project but it takes time nonetheless. In this release we’ve added some features to help you get started even quicker.

####Start & end location

You’re now able to define a default start & end location per vehicle. When you’re activating a vehicle inside a project that has some default locations defined, those default values will appear immediately. You always have the option to change the default location for a project when needed.

####Driver

We’ve also added the option to define a default driver for the vehicle. During the route optimization process we will take the vehicle’s default driver tags into account. And when routes have been created we will automatically assign the default driver to the vehicle route. You will again have full control, so if you want to assign a different driver to the vehicle route you’ll have that option.

###Driver Tags 

In release 1.5 we’ve introduced the concept of vehicle tags. In this release we’re adding driver tags. Driver tags work the same way as vehicle tags but, as you’ve probably guessed, on a driver level. So you’ll be able to define a driver tag called “Basic Safety Training” for example. When you attach that driver tag to a driver and also to one or multiple stops. We’ll make sure to match the driver tag with the stop tags. This will result in the stops with the driver tag “Basic Safety Training” to be part of a route that is assigned to a driver with the same tag.

###Fixes & improvements

- Added a new vehicle count logic - you’ll be able to use the same vehicle in multiple projects for the same day now
- Added the option to multi select and delete drivers
- Added the option to multi select and delete vehicles
- Improved the drivers table for a better user experience
- Improved the vehicles table for a better user experience
- Improved the upload stops process to better handle different time formats
- Fixed a bug that did not allow you to change a vehicle tag name in some cases
- Fixed a bug that did not show the “You have unsaved changes” dialog when selecting a different stop without saving the current changes
- Fixed a bug where the “from” and “to” times of stops where not visible in the downloaded project solution excel file
- Fixed a bug that prevented a user from moving a stops from the unscheduled list to a route via drag and drop
- Fixed a bug that prevented the changes in the number of vehicle count to be processed correctly for users that send SMS notifications to their customers


Release 1.6 - Default values for vehicles and driver tags

###Vehicle Tags

In some cases, you need stops to be assigned to specific vehicles. For example when you have a fleet of both refrigerated and non-refrigerated vehicles and you’re planning routes for both refrigerated and non-refrigerated orders in a single project. You don’t want an order that needs to be transported in a refrigerated environment to be assigned to a vehicle that has no refrigerated area for obvious reasons.

To prevent this from happening we’ve added the vehicle tags feature. Vehicle tags help users to identify and tag specific features of the vehicle. This allows users to assign vehicles with specific features to stops with specific requirements and thus enhance the optimization results.

**✨Example**

The way this works is by first creating a vehicle tag, “refrigerated” for example. Then you would add this tag to the vehicles that have a refrigerated holding area. And finally, you would add this tag to stops that need to be transported by a vehicle that has a refrigerated holding area. Now when you optimize the project, Routetitan will make sure that the stops that were tagged with “refrigerated” are assigned to vehicles that have the same tag.

We’re also working on a driver tags feature which will do the same thing as the vehicle tags feature but on a driver level. This feature will be released in an upcoming release.

###Internal & external notes

Drivers were always able to leave a delivery note when completing a stop via the Driver App. This note was visible inside the project and also for the customer. But sometimes you don’t want a delivery note to be seen by your customer. Therefore we’re introducing the internal & external notes feature.

Whenever a driver is completing a stop they’ll have the option to enter an internal note or an external note. Internal notes are only visible to you inside the project. External notes will also be visible to customers in the My Routetitan pagina where they can follow their shipment.

###Fixes & improvements

- Added the ability to delete projects that have the status In Progress
- Added the ability to delete vehicles that are used in a project with In Progress status
- Added the project’s name to the Routes section of the Driver App
- Improved the projects table for a better user experience
- Improved parsing phone numbers to make sure that SMS notifications are sent when a phone number is added with a leading 0
- Fixed a bug that prevented deleting a vehicle’s weight and volume capacity
- Fixed a bug that caused the Project status to remain at In Progress while all routes in the project were completed
- Fixed a bug where in some cases the waiting time of a stop would not be shown
- Fixed a bug where downloaded stops excel files from a project was missing information


Changelog

New updates and improvements to Routetitan.