September 2025: directions to the door, from the job or the customer
Knowing where the next customer is only helps if you can get there. September 2025 put a Directions button on every customer and job, and began ordering a day by distance.
Part 27 of 39 of Building TradeYoke, the story of how the platform was built, from January 2024 to today. Previous: August 2025: getting the address right, with postcodes and map pins. Next: October 2025: one set of maps, built on Google Maps. See every part on the build timeline.
Quick answer
Quick answer: Every customer and job in TradeYoke with a map location has a Directions button that opens directions to the address in Google Maps, so there is nothing to copy and paste. Plan my day can also order a day's stops nearest-first, with the miles between stops and the total for the day.
Key takeaways
- A Directions button on the customer or job opens directions to the address.
- There is nothing to copy and paste into another app.
- Plan my day can order a day nearest-first and shows the miles between stops.
- Good directions depend on good addresses, which is why the address work came first.
From a pin to a journey
With addresses sitting on a map from August, September 2025 was about the simple, useful step: getting there. A window cleaner's day is a string of short drives. Anything that saves a minute at each stop is worth building.
The Directions button
Open a customer or a job and there is a Directions button. Tap it and your phone opens directions to the address in Google Maps. You do not copy the address into another app and you do not retype a postcode with wet hands. It is a small feature, and it is one that people use every day.
We built it as a plain link out to Google Maps, rather than a navigation screen of our own. People already have a navigation app they trust, and building a worse one would not help anyone.
Ordering the day
Directions get you to one stop. The next question is the order of all of them. TradeYoke's Plan my day takes the day's jobs and orders them nearest-first, showing the miles between stops and the total for the day. Appointments with a fixed time stay where they are and the rest are fitted around them, and the weather is taken into account when suggesting what to do first.
It is a straightforward approach, not a clever one, and for a round of houses in a few streets that is usually what you want. Our guide to planning a window cleaning round explains when it works and when to override it.
What to expect
Distances are estimated, not taken from live traffic. The aim is a sensible order, not a perfect one. If you know the school run makes one road a poor choice at 3pm, you can still change the order yourself.
Next
October: the maps themselves, and how we use Google Maps across the app.
Questions people ask
Can I get directions to a customer from TradeYoke?
Yes. Customers and jobs with a map location have a Directions button that opens directions to the address in Google Maps.
Does TradeYoke put my stops in order?
Plan my day can order a day's jobs nearest-first, showing the miles between stops, while keeping timed appointments in place.
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