Today
What to do before the first stop: what has been collected so far, who is due on this call day, and the one or two calls that cannot wait. Built from the weekly statement and the day’s prelist.
The morning book for tool‑truck operators.
Route Balance reads the statement, prelist, and customer exports you already run and turns them into four screens for the truck: Today, Prelist, Customers, Inventory.
One customer who leaves with a balance costs more than a year of processing fees. You see who is slipping while there is still time to collect.
Four screens, one morning.
Each one is built from an export you already produce. Nothing to set up, nothing to re-key.
Prelist
The call book by day, from the prelist export you already run. Every stop shows the balance, the last visit, and what is still open, in route order.
Customers
The imported roster with balances and aging. Route Balance fills it from the customers report, so nobody types a customer in by hand.
Inventory
What is on the truck and what is on order, from the inventory export. Drivers see the same list as My truck.
Screens from a live book
The briefing, before you leave the lot.
Collected so far this week, the stops on today’s route that owe, and the calls that cannot wait. Updated every time a new export lands.
Who is slipping, sorted by how far.
Balance, days out, last payment, and the promise on file. Aging runs in four buckets from the statement, so the number you see matches the number you are owed.
Send a pay link. Post it when it clears.
An amount and a memo, sent by email or copied into a text. When the customer pays, the payment posts against their balance and shows on the next briefing.
Screens are from a live route book. Figures shown are demo data.
One live book, founder-led.
The pilot runs on a real franchise book with the founder on the other end: iPad in the truck, browser in the office, one call to load your first exports. It is for operators who already track their numbers and want Today, Prelist, Customers, and Inventory on their own book.
Route Balance is built and run by a tool-truck operator. There is no outside funding and no investor setting the roadmap.
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No per-stop fee and no percentage of what you collect. A route carrying $40,000 to $90,000 in receivables writes off 3% to 12% of it in a bad year. On a $60,000 book, one write-off you catch early pays for Route Balance for the year.
See pricingThree things it is not.
- It is not a route optimizer.
- It is not a CRM.
- It is not your accounting system.
It is the four screens for the morning, plus the briefing and collections that feed them.
Common questions.
See all questionsHow long does onboarding take?
Most operators have the book loaded within a few days. Upload your first business export, connect Stripe if you want pay links, and 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 Today, Prelist, and Customers from what they contain.
How much does it cost?
$149.95 a month for the first three months, then $199 a month. No per-stop fees and no percentage of collections.
Who controls my data?
You do. Route Balance imports your dealer business exports and runs analysis on them. It never writes back to your source systems. Request a full data export or deletion at any time.
Does it work on an iPad or a phone?
Yes. Route Balance runs in the browser as a full-screen web app on iPad, phone, or laptop. Install it to the home screen from the browser menu; there is nothing to download from an app store. It keeps your place from stop to stop.