Linen, uniform and floor mat companies need route scheduling that handles weekly and every-other-week swap cycles, receiving windows at restaurants, offices and clinics, and dense routes where an extra stop or a bad sequence costs real time. Crewtide builds the week from your customer list, optimizes each route with real drive times, and keeps a change log and To notify list for every moved stop. It doesn’t track inventory, counts or invoices.
Why linen and mat routes are hard to keep straight
- A-week and B-week customers. Every-other-week accounts have to alternate correctly, and a holiday week makes it easy to lose track.
- Receiving windows. Kitchens before service, clinics before patients, offices when someone is at the front desk.
- Dense routes. Twenty or thirty stops a day means sequence is everything.
- Route changes are frequent. New accounts, cancellations and frequency changes reshape routes every week.
How to plan linen and mat routes in Crewtide
- Import your customers.Address, cycle (weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks), usual day, receiving window and time on site.
- Build the week.Crewtide puts every customer that’s due on a route and orders the stops.
- Add or move accounts with Find a spot.See which route has room and what each option pushes back.
- Publish.Print or export route sheets, and use the To notify list for customers whose day changed.
Typical customer rules
| Customer | Cycle | Receiving window | Time on site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Kettle (restaurant) | Weekly | Mon 7:00–10:30 AM | 15 min |
| Westfield Dental | Every 2 weeks (A week) | Tue 8:00 AM–noon | 10 min |
| Elm Street Offices (mats) | Every 4 weeks | Wed 9:00 AM–4:00 PM | 20 min |
| Lakeside Auto Service (uniforms) | Weekly | Thu 7:30–9:00 AM | 15 min |
What Crewtide doesn’t do
Keep your route accounting system for inventory, counts, contracts and invoicing. Crewtide plans and sequences the routes.
Coming with Pro: a driver phone app and texts to customers when a stop moves.
Comparing route planners? See Crewtide vs Upper and vs Routific.
What it costs
$49 per route driver a month billed annually or $59 month to month; office users are free. Eight routes cost $392 a month billed annually.
Questions
How do I schedule every-other-week linen customers?
Give each customer a cycle (every 2 weeks) and a usual day; Crewtide puts them in alternating weeks automatically, so you don’t flip them by hand.
Can Crewtide handle 25 or more stops a day?
Yes. Routes are ordered by real road drive times and each stop’s receiving window.
Does Crewtide track linen inventory or counts?
No. Keep your route accounting system for inventory and invoicing.
Is Crewtide a delivery route planner?
It’s built for recurring service routes, which linen and mat routes are: the same customers on fixed cycles. For one-off deliveries, a delivery route planner fits better.