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.

Route density is the term for what this page measures: how tightly the stops sit, and therefore how many of them a day can hold. What each of those stops is worth moves with average ticket, which is why a tighter route and a bigger ticket are two different answers to the same shortfall.

Two neighbouring tools work the same ground from a different angle. The stops per day capacity estimator carries pest trade benchmark bands, and the production rate and job time estimator works out the per-property service minutes this model asks you to supply.

Turning the ceiling into a schedule is the job of the route day planner, and the drive minutes this model is so sensitive to cost real money, which the vehicle cost per mile calculator quantifies per mile.