Paste a list of addressesCopy link

The paste wizard takes plain text, one address per line, and builds the orders, a depot, and your vehicles in a few steps.

Use it when all you have is addresses. If your stops carry per-stop details like loads or time windows, a spreadsheet import preserves them.

Step 1: Paste your addressesCopy link

On the Home page, press Paste address list. Paste your addresses into the box, one per line. At least two are required.

The paste-address dialog with eight addresses pasted, one per line, and the accuracy tips below the box

Geocoding accuracy depends on how each line is written:

  • One address per line, nothing else on the line.
  • Include city and state or country for better accuracy.
  • Addresses are searched around your current map location, so far-away addresses need the extra context most.

Press Next and Routing24 geocodes every line.

Step 2: Fix lines that could not be locatedCopy link

If every line resolves, the wizard skips this step. Otherwise a Fix your addresses step lists only the failed lines, with a count like "2 out of 15 addresses could not be located". Edit the lines in place and press Try again; failed lines can be retried repeatedly. The on-screen tips:

  • Do not include apartment numbers, company names, or personal names.
  • Add a postal code, city or state, and country.
  • Find the address on Google Maps and copy it from there.

Skip and continue proceeds without the unresolved lines. They can be fixed later: see Fix unrecognized or mislocated addresses.

The Fix your addresses step: one out of eight addresses could not be located, with Try again and Skip and continue buttons

Step 3: Choose your home addressCopy link

Pick your Starting (home) location from the addresses you pasted: the place routes leave from. Leave Return home at the end checked for round trips, or untick it and choose a separate Ending location (or none, for open-ended routes).

This step creates your depot. One start and end applies to all vehicles here; for per-vehicle depots, use the Excel template instead.

The Choose home address step with a starting location selected and Return home at the end checked

Step 4: Vehicles and working hoursCopy link

Tell the wizard about your fleet:

  • Number of vehicles/drivers available for the day.
  • Start time and End time: the earliest a vehicle may leave and the latest it must be back.
  • Service time per stop (minutes): the average time spent at each address. This single default applies to every stop: ten stops at 10 minutes each is over an hour and a half of the working day.

The vehicles and drivers step with two vehicles, working hours, and a service time per stop

Step 5: Work distributionCopy link

With more than one vehicle, the wizard asks how to split the work:

  • Limits stops per vehicle caps how many addresses each vehicle visits, spreading the work evenly while still respecting working hours.
  • Only limit working hours lets the optimizer use as few vehicles as the hours allow, which usually means cheaper routes but an uneven split.

With a single vehicle this step is skipped.

The Work distribution step with Limits stops per vehicle selected

Step 6: SummaryCopy link

The final screen recaps what will be created: the address count, vehicles, depot, working hours, service time, and the distribution choice. From here:

The Summary step recapping imported addresses, vehicles, depot, working hours, service time, and work distribution, with Review and Optimize routes buttons

  • Optimize routes builds the plan and starts the optimization.
  • Review builds the plan and opens the Orders page first, where details can be adjusted, like a bigger service time for one stop, before running it.

What the wizard created is a normal plan: orders, a depot, and vehicles, editable like any other. See Time windows, service time, priority, and load for the per-order details.

Next stepCopy link

Plan your first route in 5 minutes walks the same flow end to end with a ready-made example.