Delivery & couriers
Route planner for florists and flower delivery
Get every arrangement out while it's fresh: map the day's orders, split them between vans when the holidays hit, and give each driver a route they can follow from their own phone.
Free plan, no credit card. Works on your phone and computer.
- ShopStart
- Hollis & Tate Funeral HomeStanding spray to the chapel0.5 mi
- Midtown hospital deskGet-well vase, room number on the card1.0 mi
- WhitfieldBirthday roses, call if no answer1.1 mi
- Gulch office towerAnniversary arrangement, lobby desk1.7 mi
- RamirezSympathy plant, hand to the recipient0.6 mi
- + 6 more stops
EZRoutePlanner for florists
A flower delivery route planner puts the day's arrangements in the shortest order from your shop. In EZRoutePlanner you paste or import the orders, lasso each van's area on busy days, and press Optimize Route. Drivers get a link with a Navigate button for every stop. The free plan covers 30 deliveries a route; paid plans from $20 a month handle holiday volume.
- Everyday
- 10–30 deliveries, one van, one or two runs
- Holidays
- Valentine's and Mother's Day: extra vans and drivers
- Orders in
- Paste addresses or import your POS export
- Drivers
- One colored route per van, opened from a link
An example day
Friday flower deliveries
This example is 11 stops on real roads in Nashville, Tennessee. In the order the list had them, the round trip is 17 mi and 59 min of driving. Optimized, it's 10 mi and 36 min: 7.2 mi and 23 min less, 41% shorter.
Most days a florist runs one van; on a holiday, three or four. The routine is the same either way: start from the shop, optimize, then move anything tied to a service or a ceremony toward the front by hand, because the planner orders by distance, not by the clock.
Stops are example points on real streets, not real customers. Distances and times are driving figures for each order.
- ShopStart
- Hollis & Tate Funeral HomeStanding spray to the chapel0.5 mi
- Midtown hospital deskGet-well vase, room number on the card1.0 mi
- WhitfieldBirthday roses, call if no answer1.1 mi
- Gulch office towerAnniversary arrangement, lobby desk1.7 mi
- RamirezSympathy plant, hand to the recipient0.6 mi
- Music Row studioWeekly lobby arrangement swap0.9 mi
- OkonkwoNew baby bouquet and balloon0.5 mi
- Belmont dorm front deskBirthday bouquet, ID at the desk1.3 mi
- Sylvan Park bistroWeekly table flowers, back door1.1 mi
- Germantown wedding venueAltar pieces, 20-minute setup0.5 mi
- CallahanAnniversary dozen, card attached0.4 mi
Where the day goes
What makes routing hard for florists
Funerals have a clock, birthdays don't
A standing spray has to be in the chapel before visitation; a birthday bouquet can arrive any time before five. Juggling both kinds of stop by hand is where the morning goes.
Holidays multiply everything
Valentine's Day and Mother's Day turn one van into several, driven by people who don't know every neighborhood. Dividing the orders by area the night before eats hours you don't have that week.
Delicate cargo, second trips
Vases tip, petals bruise and roses wilt in a warm van. Add a wrong apartment number or a patient who's been discharged, and an arrangement rides around all day or comes back.
Start from your list
Bring the spreadsheet you already keep.
Card messages, sender details and product codes stay in your POS: EZRoutePlanner keeps the delivery address and one label per order. On a holiday, import the updated export again as late orders arrive; orders you've already imported are skipped, so nothing doubles up.
- 1
Bring in the day's orders
Paste the delivery addresses from your POS or wire orders, or import the CSV export. Label each stop with the recipient's name so the driver can match it to the card.
- 2
Split by van on busy days
On a holiday, lasso one area per driver to make each van's route (paid plans). Every route gets its own color on the same map.
- 3
Optimize from the shop
Set the shop as the base and press Optimize Route. Then drag funeral and wedding work with a set time toward the front.
- 4
Send each driver their run
Share each route as a link or QR code. Seasonal drivers tap Navigate at each stop and use the maps app they already know.
| Order | Recipient | Delivery address | City | ZIP | Item | Occasion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5531 | Whitfield | 2108 Belcourt Ave | Nashville | 37212 | Rose bouquet | Birthday |
| 5534 | Ramirez | 4410 Utah Ave | Nashville | 37209 | Peace lily | Sympathy |
| 5538 | Okonkwo | 1615 Holly St | Nashville | 37206 | Pastel vase | New baby |
| 5540 | Callahan | 2817 Belmont Blvd | Nashville | 37212 | Dozen roses | Anniversary |
| 5543 | Pruitt | 906 Gale Ln | Nashville | 37204 | Sympathy wreath | Sympathy |
An example sheet. Columns can be named anything and in any order; street, city and ZIP can be one column or several. Pick one column, like the customer name, as each stop's label.
From the route
Routing tips for florists
Run timed work as a short first loop
Funeral homes and venues need flowers before an event; homes and offices just need them today. Send the timed pieces out first in a short loop from the shop, then optimize everything else as the second run.
Load the last delivery first
Once the route is optimized, print the PDF route sheet and load the van from the last stop forward, so stop 1 is by the door. Nobody wants to lift a centerpiece to reach a bud vase.
Three bouquets, one hospital
Rows with the same address become one stop, labeled with the first recipient. When several orders go to one hospital or office building, put the count in your label column, or the driver may leave with one and forget two.
Put hospital pins on the right entrance
A hospital or campus can have one street address and a dozen doors. Drag the pin to the entrance with the front desk (the nearest address is filled in for you) so drivers don't circle looking for it.
Size holiday vans by stops, not by last year
Plan Valentine's Day vans by how many stops one driver can make. The stops per day calculator turns stop time and drive time into a count per van; then lasso compact areas so seasonal drivers aren't crossing town.
Keep standing accounts on their own route
Weekly lobby arrangements for offices, restaurants and hotels are the same stops every week. Save them as one route and run it on its usual day, apart from the day's orders.
Honest fit
What it handles, and what it doesn't
EZRoutePlanner is built for putting a day of stops in the right order and getting them to whoever drives. Here's where that fits florists, and where you'd want something else alongside it.
Good fit
- Daily delivery runs from one shop with one or two vans
- Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, one route per van on paid plans
- Standing weekly accounts: offices, restaurants, hotel lobbies
- Seasonal drivers navigating from a link on their own phone
- Walk-in, phone and wire orders pasted into one list
Not built for
- No delivery time windows; funeral and wedding times are ordered by hand
- No proof-of-delivery photos or recipient signatures
- No "your flowers are on the way" texts to senders or recipients
- Doesn't split orders between vans for you; you lasso each van's area
- Doesn't connect to your POS or wire service; you paste or import an export
Last reviewed October 21, 2026.
Florists: questions
How do florists plan delivery routes for Valentine's Day?
Divide the orders by neighborhood into one route per van, optimize each from the shop, and send drivers out in waves as arrangements are finished. In EZRoutePlanner that's a lasso per van on one map; paid plans keep as many routes as you need. Plan the night before with the orders you have, then add late ones in the morning. The multiple drivers guide covers the split.
What's the best way to deliver flowers to a hospital?
Call ahead or check the hospital's website: many send flower deliveries to the front desk or a volunteer office, and some units don't allow flowers at all. Confirm the patient is still admitted before the van leaves, and pin the stop at the entrance with the desk, not the emergency department.
Can I import orders from my florist POS?
If it exports CSV or Excel, yes. EZRoutePlanner finds the address columns, even when street, city and ZIP are split, and shows every order on a map before importing. Pick the recipient as the label; card messages and other columns aren't stored. More on routing from a spreadsheet.
Is the free plan enough for a small flower shop?
For everyday deliveries it often is: unlimited routes of up to 30 stops, saved one at a time, with 30 saved addresses and no credit card. When the holidays need a route per van, paid plans start at $20 a month, or 25% less paid every 6 months.
Can I set delivery times for funerals and weddings?
Not as time windows. EZRoutePlanner orders stops by distance and doesn't hold a stop for a set hour. Optimize first, then drag timed stops to the front, or run them as their own short route before the rest of the day's orders.
How many deliveries can one flower van make in a day?
Commonly 20–40 on a regular day in town, depending on how spread out the orders are and how long each handoff takes. On holidays, drivers do more when their areas are tight, which is why compact routes matter more than extra hours.
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Plan tomorrow's flower delivery route tonight.
Import your customer list, optimize the order with one click, and open it on your phone in the morning. Free to start, no credit card.
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