One optimizer for one route and one driver

The planner started as a Dutch site for people who were sorting delivery addresses by hand every morning. It turned out that problem is not especially Dutch, and versions followed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Czechia, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Sort My Stops is the American one.

Each market has local address coverage, map bounds, routing providers and copy. US addresses are not forced through a European setup, while the basic optimization and address-review workflow stays familiar across versions.

Turning “121 N LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60602” into a point on a map is called geocoding. Every planner depends on this step before it can calculate a route.

Complete street addresses and imports can be matched against the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder. Its results are derived from MAF/TIGER address ranges. A matched house number may be interpolated along a street segment rather than measured at the exact doorway, so review the point when driveway-level precision matters.

When a state is clear and its source is enabled, search suggestions and map clicks first use that state’s official address service. They are hedged or supplemented with OpenStreetMap data through Photon. Road geometry and drive times come from routing services built on the same open road network.

A quarterly ZIP-to-state bias can be generated from the official HUD-USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk. ZIP codes can cross state lines, so this only chooses where to search first and never replaces the exact state-boundary check. This product uses the HUD User Data API but is not endorsed or certified by HUD User.

Because none of this is perfect, the planner shows you what it matched and lets you correct it. Anything it is unsure about is held back with its candidates on a map, and you can always drop a pin yourself. A planner that silently guesses is worse than one that asks.

It does not dispatch a fleet, split a day across drivers, enforce individual time windows, collect proof of delivery or apply truck restrictions. Schedule options are limited to one departure time, the same visit duration for every stop and one optional break.

It also does not require an account. Persistent drafts and recent-route history live in your browser rather than an account database, so clearing browser data removes them. The planner still sends route data through its API and selected geocoding or routing providers when you search or optimize; the privacy page documents that flow.

One email address, read by the people who build it: contact@sortmystops.com.

Reports about a bad address match, an unexpected route or a missing work feature are all useful. For address problems, include what you typed and where you expected the pin.