Route Tracking App for Sales Reps by Field Team Tracking

Route tracking app for sales reps: what was driven, not what was planned

A route tracking app for sales reps answers a different question from a route planner. A planner suggests an order of stops before the day starts; tracking shows what happened. In Field Team Tracking, a rep who agreed to the location notice is followed from punch in to punch out, with breaks paused. The phone takes a reading every 15 seconds and sends them in five-minute batches. On the web, each day becomes a line on a map, from the first position to the last, broken into numbered stops of five minutes or more; each stop lists when it began and ended, its length and its area name. Alongside sit the day’s working hours, kilometres, idle minutes, breaks and office time. Fake GPS points get a flag for the office and are excluded from the total, as is any leap no vehicle could make. Opening several days of a rep’s routes one by one lets a manager spot long drives and overlaps.

Route tracking app for sales reps and territory planning

The app does not suggest routes, but its records make planning better. Reading three weeks of a rep’s daily routes, one day at a time, points to long drives with few stops and to customers on another rep’s path. Redraw territories on that evidence, then check the next month’s routes. Visits as records are covered on the sales visit tracker app page, kilometres for claims on the field sales tracking app page, and a single day replayed for any role on the employee route tracking app page.

Route tracking app for sales reps setup

1. Set the branch working hours, then add the reps.
2. Each rep switches on live location once and accepts the notice.
3. Check the first week’s routes for gaps or drift.
4. Review three weeks together before changing territories.
5. Compare the following month’s routes with the old ones.

Route tracking app for sales reps limits

• No planning. The app does not suggest stop order or optimise routes.
• Not a live map. The office sees readings in batches every five minutes.
• Areas, not shops. Stops show the area name; the rep’s remark names the customer.
• Phone settings matter. Battery settings may affect readings; the app asks for the battery setting where needed.

Route tracking app for sales reps example: a stationery distributor in Port Louis

An invented distributor, with sample numbers. A stationery distributor in Port Louis runs 7 reps who serve schools and offices across the island. Fuel costs kept rising while the number of accounts stayed flat.

Three weeks of recorded routes showed two reps crossing each other’s areas daily, and one rep with long idle time in the afternoons. The manager swapped twelve accounts between the two reps and moved stock collection to the morning. The next month’s routes were shorter, with the same number of stops.