# Changelog Porch Route · https://porchroutes.com/changelog · Last updated September 14, 2026 What shipped, newest first. Dates are the day a change reached production. ## September 14, 2026 ### Named depots, a Starter plan and a texting page (Platform) 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 More: https://porchroutes.com/pricing ### Driver breaks, second delivery windows and learned service times (Planning) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/guides ### Reverse, copy, draw and lasso; staff alerts (Dispatch) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/guides ### Spanish drive mode and package scanning (Drive) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/guides ### Shopify write-back, farm CSV presets, Zapier and API parity (Connect) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/docs/api ### Plan the week (Planning) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/guides ### Addresses found the way people write them (Planning) 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 More: https://porchroutes.com/guides ### The public site (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. More: https://porchroutes.com/features ## September 13, 2026 ### Plans, billing and usage (Platform) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/pricing ### Two-step sign-in, activity log and data export (Platform) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/security ### Customer notices, tracking pages, ratings and the message log (Customers) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/sms ### Drive mode from a link, with proof and an offline queue (Drive) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/features ### Orders from the API, a CSV or by hand; customers and recurring deliveries (Connect) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/docs/api ### Free maps by default (Planning) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/features ### Porch Route becomes its own product (Platform) 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. More: https://porchroutes.com/about