Multi-Stop and Round Trips

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Overview

Most business driving is not a single hop. Smartbills models a trip as an ordered list of points: the first is your origin, the last is your destination, and anything in between is a stop. A route supports up to 12 points in total.

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Add a stop

In the Route section of the trip form, use Add stop. The new row is appended after the current last point, which means it becomes the destination and the previous destination becomes an intermediate stop. This matches how Google Maps behaves. Drag the rows if that is not the order you drove. Each stop must be picked from the address suggestions. A row that contains typed text but no resolved place blocks saving, and the row is marked so you can find it.

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Reorder stops

Drag any row by its handle. Reordering happens live: as the dragged row crosses another, the list and the map markers swap immediately rather than waiting for you to drop. The distance recalculates once you release.

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Remove a stop

Each row has a remove control. You can delete rows down to the two required points. The origin and destination themselves cannot be removed, only replaced.

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Reading the map

Markers match the row icons exactly, so you can tell at a glance which pin is which: Hovering a row emphasises its pin on the map and brings it to the front, which helps when several stops sit close together.

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Round trips

Turn on the Round trip toggle when you drove back to where you started. The calculated distance then covers the outbound route plus the return. Round trip works with stops. A route of A to B to C with round trip on is measured as A to B to C and back.

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Blank rows

Rows you added but never filled in are dropped when you save. You do not need to tidy them up first. The origin and destination are always kept because validation guarantees they are resolved.

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Saved trips

Smartbills can store frequently driven routes as reusable templates, applying the stops, default name, and vehicle in one click.

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