Your biggest loss isn't on the receipt.
One customer who disappears with a balance costs more than a year of processing fees. Route Balance shows you who's slipping — before they're gone. Every past-due day, broken promise, and warranty credit sitting unclaimed in your route.
Q3 2026
Twelve to fifteen operators.
iPad in the truck, browser in the office. Compliance-first onboarding, one-to-one with the founder. Apply if you already track your numbers and want verified customers before the first sale.
12–15 operators · founder-led · compliance-first
Apply for pilotFlat monthly. No per-stop fees. No percentage of collections. One prevented bad debt pays for Route Balance for a year.
See pricing →Built by operators, for operators.
Route Balance solves a real problem: at the end of the day, the numbers don't add up fast enough. One screen shows what got collected, what's still owed, and which stops drifted past due. Every workflow built from operator feedback, tested in the field.
No outside funding. No investors shaping the roadmap.
Mobile Service · Operator Route
The number you know
Processing fees on this week's sales
What you spent on inventory last month
The number you don't
The customer who hasn't paid in 38 days
The warranty credit that expired unclaimed
A route operator carries 180 to 240 active customers across ~50 weekly stops, carrying between $40,000 and $90,000 in receivables. Industry filings show charge-off rates between 3% and 12% across dealer portfolios. On a $60K book, that's $1,800 to $7,200 a year — missing on collections nobody's tracking.
Four things. One screen.
Today's stops in route order. Each shows balance, last promise, last visit. Tap to log.
Current, due, past due, and drift — pulled from imported statements. Reconciled per stop, not per invoice. Risk signals (High/Med/Low) surface automatically from the same data.
One tap to log: visited, collected, promise, left message, no contact. Promises track to the date the operator wrote down.
Every entry timestamped. Every import batch logged. Nothing edited without a record.
You know your processing fee. You don’t know what you left on the table.
Spreadsheets are manual. Dealer systems show what shipped. Route Balance surfaces the numbers your system doesn’t: drift rate, charge-off risk, unclaimed warranty credits, and customers heading toward write-off. Every number traces to source.
| Feature | Spreadsheet | Dealer system alone | Route Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time stop balances | — | limited | ✓Per-stop, updated each import |
| Automated SMS reminders | — | — | ✓Triggered on promise date + posting |
| 6-week cash forecast | — | — | ✓Know what next week looks like financially |
| Daily briefing by 6 AM | — | — | ✓Top collections, broken promises |
| Warranty claim matching & variance | — | — | ✓Auto-reconciled from your exports |
| Live fleet GPS positions | — | — | ✓15s updates, map + status |
| Customer identity verification | — | — | ✓Pilot — DL + live photo (FL first) |
| Aging by customer | manual | ✓ | ✓Auto-synced, 4 buckets |
| Promise tracking | manual | — | ✓Date-anchored, auto-escalation |
| Stripe payment links | — | — | ✓Send from any stop |
| Mobile-optimized (iPad) | — | limited | ✓Install to home screen, no app store |
| Chargeback evidence packets | — | — | ✓Built from 18-month audit trail |
| Customer behavioral signals | — | — | ✓Baseline, drift, propensity |
| Route optimization suggestions | — | — | ✓Based on 8 weeks of real patterns |
Core screens from the live product and pilot flows.
Built on a live Route since 2024. Numbers shown use demo data — your route figures live in your account.
Tomorrow's route, summarized before you wake up.
Past-due stops surfaced by collectible dollars. Broken-promise alerts flag customers who skipped. Aging breakdown across four buckets, updated every import.
One screen for the whole operation.
Today's collection totals across all trucks, pending approvals that need action, and the daily briefing — all in one view before you leave the driveway.
Know exactly who you are dealing with — ranked by risk.
Composite High/Med/Low risk scores on every customer, worst-first. Full AR aging buckets alongside. Quick log-promise and note actions from the slide-in panel. All signals pulled from your dealer exports.
Know your cash position six weeks out.
Weekly inflow/outflow projection built from your route data. Red weeks flagged automatically with plain-language summaries of what's driving each red week.
Every claim and credit, automatically reconciled.
Warranty claims matched against credits from your dealer files. Variances, overdue claims, and cash-at-risk surfaced automatically with full provenance back to the source document. No more manual hunting through PDFs.
See every stop. Every day. On the map.
Your entire pre-list plotted by call day — Monday through Friday in distinct colors. Filter by day or truck. Know at a glance where your route is concentrated and which days run longest.
Every truck. Right now.
GPS positions updated every 15 seconds. Moving trucks shown in blue, parked in gray. Tap any truck to see speed, battery, and last check-in time. Built for owners running multiple trucks.
New customer? Verified photo and DL before tools leave the truck.
Pilot (FL first). Send QR or SMS. Customer completes secure DL + live selfie on their phone. You get an instant verified profile with photo, key fields, and Stripe customer record in your dashboard. The feature that finally gives franchisees the same KYC capability the OEMs have.
Pilot operators
From dealers on real routes.
Before Route Balance, I had no idea which stops were drifting until I ran my end-of-month export. Now I know every morning. I caught a $2,400 account before it hit 90 days.
Pilot operator
South Florida · 8 months on route
The briefing comes in at 6 AM before I leave the house. I know exactly which three calls to make before I start driving. That alone is worth it.
Pilot operator
Southeast US · 5 months on route
Setup took one day. Uploaded my first business export, got on a call with the team, and the cockpit was loaded with real numbers by afternoon. It actually works.
Pilot operator
Midwest · 4 months on route
Representative of pilot operator feedback.
Works with
Connects to the tools you already use.
Field Business System
Import customer balances and aging data directly from your dealer business export files.
Field Manager
Pull account details and stop history from your route manager export.
Stripe
Send Stripe payment links from any stop. Cash collected syncs automatically.
QuickBooks Online
Push collected invoices to QBO. Keep your books without double entry.
Twilio SMS
Automated SMS reminders when a promise date approaches or a payment posts.
Google Drive
Upload warranty docs and export receipts. Files stored in your own Drive folder.
Email & Document Parsers
Automatic extraction from 17+ dealer formats — statements, pre-lists, SOC reports, warranty, promo, and EOD files. Ingested from Gmail forwarding or Google Drive, with full provenance back to every source document.
Three things it is not.
Route Balance is not a route optimizer.
Route Balance is not a CRM.
Route Balance is not your accounting system.
It is the cockpit for everything that happens between first stop and end of day. The layer that runs the whole truck.
Built for the route
Designed for the seat of the truck.
You run your route from a van, not a desk. Route Balance runs on whatever you have in your hand — phone, tablet, laptop. Check the summary between stops. Review the week from the driveway.
- ✓Loads in under 2 seconds on mobile data
- ✓Installs to your iPad home screen — no App Store needed
- ✓Works route-to-route without losing your place
- ✓One screen. No training required.
No app download. No setup. Sign in and go.
Common questions.
How long does onboarding take?▼
Most dealers have the cockpit loaded with real data within one day. Upload your first business export, connect Stripe if you want payment links, and you're live. We walk through setup on a call.
What data do you need from me?▼
A field business system export (customer balances, aging, stop history) and a route manager export (account details). You probably already run these for your own records. Route Balance imports them and builds the cockpit from what they contain.
How much does it cost?▼
$149.95/mo for the first three months, then $199/mo. No per-stop fees, no percentage of collections. One prevented bad debt pays for Route Balance for a year.
Who controls my data?▼
You do. Your data is yours. Route Balance imports your dealer business exports and runs analysis on them. It doesn't modify your source systems. Request a full data export or deletion at any time.
Does it work on iPad?▼
Yes. Route Balance runs in Safari as a full-screen web app. Install to the home screen from your browser — no App Store required.