What shipped, and when.

Porch Routes 0.0.18

Your account details are now marked private too, so a shared web cache can’t keep them, and older release notes describe AI connections in general terms.

• Your account details, such as your email and the businesses you belong to, are now marked private too, so a shared web cache can’t keep them.
• Older release notes now describe AI connections in general terms, without naming any one assistant.

Porch Routes 0.0.17

Texting wording is clearer: texts come with paid plans and turn on once texting is ready, and the staff alerts hint says alerts go by email only until texting is on.

• Texting wording is clearer: texts come with paid plans and turn on once texting is ready.
• The staff alerts hint now says alerts go by email only until texting is on.

Porch Routes 0.0.16

For AI connections, the review page now applies each change exactly as you reviewed it, fits on a small phone, and says clearly when AI connections are off. Their daily limits now scale with your plan, and address lookups share one steady pace.

• For AI connections, the review page now applies each change exactly as you reviewed it, and skips any order that changed after it was staged.
• The review page also fits on small phone screens, puts keyboard focus back where you were when a dialog closes, and says clearly when AI connections are off.
• Daily limits for AI connections now scale with your plan. They cover how many rows your assistant can stage, how much it can export and how many addresses it can check each day. When it reaches one, it’s told when it can try again, and nothing from that call is staged.
• Address lookups now share one steady pace across Porch Routes, so the map service doesn’t turn them away. When lookups are busy, imported orders stay pending and are placed on a later try, and an assistant checking addresses is asked to try again shortly.

Porch Routes 0.0.15

AI assistants you connect can now stage changes for you to review when your business allows Read & write. The approval screen lists everything they’ll be able to stage. We’re rolling this out to selected businesses first.

• For AI connections: when your business allows Read & write, connecting an AI assistant now lets it stage changes for you to review, as your plan allows. If you connected one before Oct 27, disconnect it and connect again to turn this on. We’re rolling this out to selected businesses first.
• The screen where you approve an AI connection now lists everything the assistant will be able to stage, so you can see exactly what you’re allowing.

Porch Routes 0.0.14

An AI assistant now sees a customer’s delivery zone, and the review page shows any rows it adds while you’re reviewing.

• Getting ready for AI connections: an AI assistant that looks up one of your customers now sees their delivery zone, just as you do in the app.
• Also for AI connections: if your assistant adds rows while you’re reviewing its changes, the review page marks them and shows them to you before you can apply.

Porch Routes 0.0.13

Getting ready to let your own AI assistant read your data and stage changes for you to review, plus extra privacy for your business’s data.

• Getting ready for AI connections: soon you’ll be able to let your own AI assistant read your Porch Routes data and stage changes for you to review and apply. It isn’t switched on yet, and nothing changes in your business until it is.
• Your business’s data is now marked private, so shared web caches don’t keep it, for extra privacy.

Porch Routes 0.0.12

Drivers and the office can look back at finished routes, delivery photos show on the route timeline, and pricing is clearer.

• Drivers have a new Past routes tab next to Today, with a read-only look back at each finished route, its stops and delivery photos.
• In the office, route history lets you search past routes, filter by date range, driver or status, and open one to review how each stop went.
• Delivery photos now show as small thumbnails on the route timeline, so you can check a drop-off without opening the stop.
• New on our website: a free route planner guide, a route optimizer page and side-by-side comparisons with other route planners.
• Unlimited vehicles and drivers on paid plans. Texts included on paid plans, then $0.015 a text. Email and tracking links are always free. Free up to 150 orders a month.
• Small labels and captions are easier to read, and the website menu on phones is easier to tap and puts you back on the menu button when it closes.

Porch Routes 0.0.11

Planned and actual times on the route timeline, driver sign-in invites from the driver editor, and a change to how customer updates are sent on each plan.

• The route timeline now shows planned and actual times for each stop.
• Owners and admins can invite a driver to sign in straight from the driver editor, and accepting the invite links them to that driver.
• Texts included on paid plans, then $0.015 a text. Free plans and trials send customer updates by email only.

Porch Routes 0.0.10

Stop list CSV download, clearer texting messages, and smaller fixes for imports and sign-in.

• Download a stop list as a CSV from the route menu, safe to open in Excel.
• Clearer messages when a customer text can’t be sent.
• Delivery photo links are now hidden in your record of messages sent to customers.
• Importing orders: choosing “Not in this file” for delivery notes now skips notes entirely.
• New two-step sign-in setups now show Porch Routes in your authenticator app.

Turn-by-turn stays in the drive screen

While a route is on the road, the drive screen shows the next maneuver for the current leg — the turn, the street, and the distance — from the route already planned. If those steps are missing, the map and the stop list stay as they are.

• Next maneuver and the step list for the current leg
• That guidance stays in the app
• A leg without steps keeps the map and the list

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Pack lists group by freezer, fridge, and dry

The pack list can be grouped by freezer, fridge, and dry, and each group prints on its own page. Load the freezer last so frozen goods come out first. A line with no temperature class still shows.

• Group the pack list by freezer, fridge, and dry
• Print one page per group, with the route name on each page
• Lines with no temperature class still appear

Hand-edited routes keep real road times

After you drag, remove, move, or defer a stop, arrival times and planned distance stay based on real roads when the road server is up. The estimate notice only shows when it is not. Drivers can tap find-me on the map to see where they are.

• Road times and distance after a hand edit, when the road server answers
• Routes can turn around at a stop instead of looping the block
• Find-me on the driver map

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The drive map fills the phone

While a route is on the road, the map fills the screen and Delivered stays at the bottom. More details opens the customer, the items, and who is next over the map. Navigate still opens this stop. A link for the next 10 stops stays in the route menu.

• Map between the progress header and the bottom buttons
• More details shows the name, address, items, and the next stop
• Open in Google Maps stays in the route menu

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Pack lists include what each customer bought

The pack list for a route now shows each stop's products and quantities under the customer and address, so the van can be loaded from that list. A stop with nothing on the order says so.

• Name and quantity on every line, with frozen called out on that line
• Print, share, and copy include the same lines
• A stop with no items says "No items on file"

Drivers see the whole route on their phone

Drive mode shows every stop on a map and in a list, including routes longer than what Google Maps can open in one link. Navigate still opens the current stop in Google Maps or Apple Maps. A link for the next 10 stops stays in the route menu and says when it is capped.

• Map of every stop, with the road line when the route has one and a straight line otherwise
• Scrollable stop list; the current stop and the next one are highlighted, and a tap frames that stop on the map
• Open in Google Maps is in the route menu, not the main button, and names the 10-stop limit

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Navigate opens all your stops, in order

The driver's Navigate button now hands Google Maps or Apple Maps the rest of the route in order, up to 10 stops at a time, instead of one stop. The business picks the default in Settings, and each driver can switch to one at a time from the route menu on their phone.

• Settings → General → Driver navigation: All stops in order (the default) or One stop at a time
• Route menu (…) → Navigation: the driver's own choice, saved on their phone
• More than 10 stops left: the bar says how many this handoff opens; tap again for the rest
• iPhones on iOS 18.4 and later get Apple's documented multi-stop link

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A free route planner and a delivery cost calculator

Anyone can put up to 25 addresses into the free multi-stop route planner, no account needed, and get the shortest order, arrival times and Google Maps links for the drive. The delivery cost calculator shows what each local delivery costs in fuel, driver time and wear.

• Route planner: paste addresses, choose where the day ends, see miles and time saved against the order you typed
• Opens the planned route in Google Maps in parts of 9 stops, the most one Maps link takes
• Cost calculator: cost per delivery, what shorter routes save each month, and the plan that fits

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Named depots, a Starter plan and a texting page

Vehicles can start and end at any named depot — a second farm, a kitchen, a driver's yard — not just the business depot. A $39 Starter plan covers a few delivery days a month, every paid plan's text allowance has a published overage, and the new texting page says exactly how texts work.

• Depots panel on the Vehicles page; the vehicle editor's Starts at / Ends at are a pick list
• Starter: 500 orders and 750 texts a month for $39; Porch 1,500 texts, Route 7,500; then $0.015 a text or $10 per 500
• /sms, /status, /changelog and /roadmap; support hours on Contact and Security
• Continue with Google / Apple on sign-in, once the owner switches the providers on

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Driver breaks, second delivery windows and learned service times

A driver's break has a window it must start inside and the optimizer places it where it costs least. An order can carry a second delivery window. Each driver has a speed factor, and the planner can learn service times from what routes actually took.

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Reverse, copy, draw and lasso; staff alerts

Reverse a route, copy a route to another day, and draw or lasso stops on the Build routes map to assign them. The office can be alerted by email or text when a stop runs late, fails, or a driver's GPS goes quiet.

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Spanish drive mode and package scanning

Each driver has a language for the drive screen (English or Spanish). Orders can carry package codes, and a driver scans them to confirm what was loaded and what was handed over.

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Shopify write-back, farm CSV presets, Zapier and API parity

A connected Shopify store gets each delivery's outcome written back to the order. CSV import has presets for the common farm store exports. A Zapier app and new API routes for routes and an optimization-only call bring the API level with the app.

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Plan the week

A week view of open orders by delivery day: drag orders between days to balance the week, then build each day as usual. Every move is recorded and sent to your order system as an update.

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Addresses found the way people write them

The address finder tries an address as typed, spelled out, without its direction and by street and ZIP before giving up, and the free US Census Geocoder backs up OpenStreetMap. One place picker everywhere: search, tap the map, drag the pin or use your location, with the nearest address filled in for a dropped pin.

• The depot is one tap away from Build routes and the getting-started checklist
• Address review shows how precisely each address was found

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The public site

Product, pricing, six industry pages, guides for every screen, learn articles, a glossary, API docs as OpenAPI 3.1 with a Markdown twin, llms.txt for answer engines, and light, dark and system themes across the whole product.

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Plans, billing and usage

Porch Light free up to 150 orders a month; Porch and Route through Stripe with monthly or annual billing; a 14-day trial with no card; usage meters for orders, texts and vehicles with warnings at 80% and 100%. Limits are advisory — nothing stops mid-route.

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Two-step sign-in, activity log and data export

Owners and admins can require an authenticator code at sign-in. Settings → Activity records who changed what. Every plane is rate-limited. A business can export its data as CSV and an owner can delete the business outright.

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Customer notices, tracking pages, ratings and the message log

Scheduled, on the way, almost there, delivered and couldn't deliver — by text and email under the business's name, each with a tracking page showing the truck, the timeline and the proof photo. Delivered notices wait out an undo window. Customers rate the delivery; replies, STOP and HELP land in a messages inbox.

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Drive mode from a link, with proof and an offline queue

Dispatching texts or emails each driver a no-login link to one route. Drive mode shows a stop at a time, hands off to the phone's maps, takes photo or signature proof, and keeps working without signal — updates wait in a retry queue and sync when the phone reconnects. Printable manifests per route.

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Orders from the API, a CSV or by hand; customers and recurring deliveries

Create or update a delivery by your own order reference (safe to retry), import a day of orders from a spreadsheet with saved column mappings, or add them by hand. An address book links orders to customers, and standing weekly or biweekly deliveries generate their own orders.

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Free maps by default

Maps, address lookup and road distances run on OpenStreetMap — MapLibre with OpenFreeMap tiles, Nominatim and OSRM — so a new business needs no map key and gets no map bill. Google Maps stays an option.

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Porch Routes becomes its own product

The routing engine, dispatch board, drive mode and tracking pages built for From The Farm's local delivery program now run as a standalone product with its own database, sign-in, jobs and deploy. Any store or order system plugs in through the integration API with API keys and signed webhooks; every business is kept apart on the server.

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