Routific vs Forward Thinking GPS: Which is a better fit?

Ruben: My name is Ruben. I'm a coordinator at a non-profit. I give Routific five out of five stars, and for more reviews like this, click below. So I work for a non-profit, so money is always tight and I looked heavily for free route mapping software. I found lots in Europe, but nothing where the maps worked in North America, which was a drag. So we were doing lots with Google Maps. We were just doing heavy manual labor with Google Maps. I looked heavily at a paid competitor called Road Warrior, but settled on using Routific. We were using Google Maps and doing this all manually, but during the first COVID lockdown in 2020, Routific gave it software away to nonprofits that were doing food delivery work. And so we jumped on that. We had our deliveries quadrupled at one point, so we were just absolutely swamped with the amount of groceries we were delivering and the number of drivers we were trying to schedule. So Routific was giving their software away and we tried it and loved it and it made such a huge difference, even once the volume dropped back down that we stuck with it. I found it quite easy to get started with Routific. I think I probably asked questions in their chat help like two or three times, but it's quite straightforward. The design is very intuitive and pretty clear. There's a few things, like a few settings that I tweaked over time. You can tweak for driver speed and traffic settings and stuff like that, but it was really quite easy to get started with. And the thing I think it's important for other people to know is that I use Routific for this small non-profit program for two hours once a week, and we had a very quick startup with it. So if you're using it full-time for a really serious high volume job, you're going to figure it out super fast and get really into the details of it. There's a bunch of other staff in our organization that use it to the admin staff that actually plan the roots and whatnot. So all of us are just using it for fairly minor periods of time and we all found it quite easy to get started with. We also have a lot of volunteer drivers and for 10 years we've been just handing them printed maps and printed lists with addresses on them. None of them were real eager to switch to the app once that was an option, but we kind of kept offering it and once they did switch, now they love it and they don't want to switch back. The app, it's fantastic for the drivers to use. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what considerations I would have. I've found it very effective and a pleasure to use. I've recommended it to lots of people that work in kind of similar program areas as I do, and I don't think there's a downside to trying it. If you are doing a lot of route mapping, it's really effective and easy to use. We really like it and we don't want to give it up now.