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Written for the person who loads the van: what to decide, in what order, with the rules and prices that apply and a source for every outside fact. Each article ends with the questions we hear most.
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Holiday preorder turkey delivery routing (fresh vs frozen days)
How farms and other local delivery businesses — pasture-poultry farms, butchers, and meat or CSA ops — plan one-off Thanksgiving turkey days on their own vans, with frozen and fresh often on different days.
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Orchard and fruit multi-stop farm delivery routing
How orchards and fruit farms plan multi-stop harvest mornings that mix CSA shares, market drops, and wholesale docks on their own vans — windows, driver links, and tracking under the farm name.
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Honey and apiary local multi-stop delivery routing
How honey farms and apiaries plan local multi-stop mornings that mix markets, CSA or subscriber jars, and wholesale shops on their own vans — windows, driver links, and tracking under the farm name.
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Coffee roaster local multi-stop delivery routing
How local coffee roasters plan multi-stop mornings that mix café wholesale drops and home subscriptions on their own vans — windows, zones, driver links, and tracking under the roaster’s name.
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Florals and flower-farm multi-stop delivery routing
How flower farms and florists plan multi-stop deliveries with their own vans when the recipient isn’t the buyer — windows, photo proof, couldn’t-deliver reasons, and peak-day driver links.
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Bakery multi-stop farm delivery routing
How farm bakeries and meal-prep kitchens plan multi-stop morning deliveries with their own vans — windows, hard chilled vs dry vehicle rules, quiet hours, and drivers on a phone link.
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Eggs and poultry multi-stop farm delivery routing
How egg farms and poultry ops plan CSA egg shares, farm-store routes, and mixed chilled/ambient drops with their own fleet — hard temperature rules when product needs them.
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Dairy and creamery chilled delivery routing
How dairy farms, creameries, and herdshare milk deliveries keep product cold on own-fleet multi-stop routes — refrigerated as a hard vehicle rule, not a sticky note.
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Why frozen can't ride the dry truck
Why frozen, refrigerated, and dry belong on capable vehicles only — and why a farm or butcher route planner should leave a stop unassigned instead of saving a mile on the dry truck.
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Farm delivery driver link — no app install
How farm and CSA teams dispatch seasonal and part-time drivers with a texted route link instead of another app to install on delivery morning.
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Farm branded delivery tracking under your name
Why farm and CSA delivery tracking should sit under the farm brand, how branded pages and texts build trust on delivery day, and how Porch Routes keeps your name in front of the member.
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Butcher and frozen meat delivery routing
How butchers and frozen-meat subscription makers plan multi-stop days where heavy frozen boxes only ride capable vans — without putting frozen on the dry truck.
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CSV to multi-vehicle delivery routes in one morning
The classic switcher path: export this week's stops from a spreadsheet or membership tool, build multi-vehicle farm routes, and get drivers moving — without a Google Maps key or a long setup.
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Temperature-aware route planning for farm and local-food delivery
Why temperature must be a hard vehicle rule on farm and local-food routes, what goes wrong when it is only a note, and how Porch Routes keeps frozen off the dry truck.
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CSA delivery routing without replacing your membership software
How to add serious multi-vehicle, temperature-hard CSA routing without ripping out the membership, billing, and pack tools members already know.
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Porch Routes vs Spoke (Circuit), OptimoRoute, Route4Me, and Routific for farm delivery
Fair comparison of Spoke (Circuit), OptimoRoute, Route4Me, Routific, and Porch Routes for own-fleet food delivery, with temperature rules and free-tier contrast.
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How to plan delivery routes for a farm or CSA
Seven steps to a farm or CSA delivery day: delivery days by zone, cutoffs, addresses, cold chain, building routes, drivers and customer updates.
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Delivery zones and delivery days: how local food businesses set them up
Radius or drawn area, how many delivery days a zone should have, windows, minimums, order cutoffs, daily caps and what customers should see at checkout.
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Keeping frozen and refrigerated orders safe on a delivery route
The 40°F rule, who FSMA's transport rule actually covers, packing order, temperature as a routing constraint, failed deliveries and proof it stayed cold.
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Text message rules for delivery notifications
Consent under the TCPA, honoring STOP by any method, why the one-text delivery exemption isn't enough, and A2P 10DLC carrier registration explained plainly, with costs.
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How much does delivery route software cost in 2026?
Published prices for nine delivery route products as of September 2026, compared at 150, 800 and 2,600 stops a month, with how texts are billed and what counts as an order.
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Proof of delivery: photos, signatures, and what to do when a delivery fails
The four kinds of proof and what each settles, photo habits that hold up, storage and privacy, the false-delivered mistake, and a process for failed deliveries.
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Delivery driver apps vs texted route links: what part-time drivers actually use
Install-and-sign-in apps compared with no-login route links: onboarding, dead spots, security, navigation, proof and battery, and how Porch Routes does both.
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Routific alternatives for farms and food businesses
Eight alternatives to Routific for local food delivery — Porch Routes, Spoke Dispatch, OptimoRoute, Shipday, Upper, Track-POD, Detrack, Onfleet — with dated prices and who each suits.
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Google Maps stop limit: how to plan more than 9 stops
Google Maps takes 9 stops on a computer and up to 9 waypoints in a link (3 on mobile); how to split or plan around the limit for a delivery day.
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How to start a meat delivery business
A meat delivery business needs delivery zones and days, an order cutoff, packing to the FSIS 40°F rule, a vehicle that can hold it, and a real fee.
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How many stops can a delivery driver make in a day?
Stops per driver per day = (shift minutes − breaks) ÷ (drive minutes between stops + minutes at each stop); worked examples for town and rural routes.
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Shopify local delivery: what it does and what it doesn't
Shopify's local delivery is a checkout method by distance or postal code; it doesn't plan routes, so a connected app or route planner does that part.
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Can a grant pay for delivery software?
Western SARE and Utah's Food Security Grant explicitly allow route or logistics software; LFPP and VAPG are narrower — check the current rules first.
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