Route Day Planner

Stops are grouped by day, then sorted within the day by zone (alpha) and preferred window (ascending). Free-text windows like "9:00 AM", "morning", or "PM" are parsed permissively; unparseable windows sort to the end of their zone. Per-day totals are simple sums of duration minutes; per-crew totals roll those up by the crew label assigned to each stop. There is no drive-time calculation, no map call, and no auto-optimization — those are deliberately user judgment calls.

The capacity warning fires when a day's scheduled minutes strictly exceed your working hours per day (default 8). The stops/day sanity warning fires when a day's stop count strictly exceeds the trade preset's typical operator range:

lawn-solo    14 stops/day
lawn-crew2   22
pest         12
cleaning      6
handyman      8
custom       (your number)

Ranges drawn from public synthesis of trade-association rules of thumb (mowing solo 8–14, mowing crew 14–22, pest 8–12, cleaning 3–6, handyman / inspection 6–10). They are typical ceilings, not universal rules — set Custom if your route density differs.

That last phrase has a definition behind it: route density is how tightly your stops sit together, and the route density and stops per day calculator works the ceiling out from service minutes and drive minutes instead of a preset.

A planned day and a paid day are different things, and how much of the paid day the schedule actually sells is measured separately. The miles this schedule commits to carry a cost of their own, which the vehicle cost per mile calculator puts a number on.