Route Density / Stops-Per-Day Calculator

The estimate is a bottom-up stop-cycle model. Subtract your fixed daily overhead from the paid workday to get productive minutes, divide by the time one stop takes (service + drive), and round down — you never count a stop you cannot finish.

productiveMin   = workdayMin − fixedOverheadMin     (workdayMin = hours × 60)
cycleMin        = serviceMin + driveMin
stops/day       = floor(productiveMin ÷ cycleMin)
driveShare      = (stops/day × driveMin) ÷ productiveMin
dailyRevenue    = stops/day × avgTicket
monthlyStops    = stops/day × workingDays × techs
monthlyRevenue  = monthlyStops × avgTicket
sensitivity     = floor(productiveMin ÷ (serviceMin + max(driveMin − 5, 0))) − stops/day

Round down, always. Capacity is a physical ceiling; a fractional stop is no stop. The monthly roll-up floors the daily count first, then multiplies by working days and technicians.

Drive time is the dominant lever. The sensitivity hint shows what shaving 5 minutes of drive between stops would add — on a typical general-pest route, one or two more stops per day. A drive-time share above 40% of the productive day triggers an advisory flag; it never caps the computed stops/day.

Sources: ServiceWorks technician-utilization / capacity model (productive ÷ available); CalcMyBid "5–7 productive hours/day" anchor; Pest Control Millionaires route-efficiency bands (12–18 stops/day, $800–1,200/route, for general pest). Lawn and pool preset defaults require separate figure research — those chips are blank until sourced.