New Routific app in the Shopify App Store turns online orders into optimized routes drivers trust, with live tracking and customer notifications built in
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Just ahead of the holiday rush, when local delivery volumes spike, Routific, the smart route optimization and delivery management platform for growing delivery businesses, has released a new app in the Shopify App Store. It gives Shopify merchants a two-way connection between their store and their delivery routes, and it takes minutes to set up.
"Shopify made it easy for anyone to sell online, but getting those orders to a customer's door is still hard for shops that do their own delivery," said Marc Kuo, Founder and CEO of Routific. "Most routing software gives you spaghetti routes that double back and cross into each other, and dispatchers end up fixing them by hand. We've spent more than a decade building routes that hold up on the real road. Now any Shopify merchant can have them."
For Shopify merchants who handle their own delivery, Routific turns orders into optimized delivery routes in minutes, weighing driver familiarity, business time windows, and historical traffic to produce accurate arrival times. Merchants can dispatch routes to drivers in a click, track progress live, and keep customers updated with real-time tracking links and branded notifications, all in one place. When a delivery is done, Routific can automatically update the delivery status back in Shopify. Routific users can cut their delivery costs by up to 25% compared with manual planning.
The new app in the Shopify App Store is already in use by merchants around the world. Routific is the highest-rated route planning software on Capterra, with 4.9 stars from 144 reviews as of October 2026.
Flourist is a mill and bakery that stone-mills organic flour from Canadian grains to order. It delivers flour, fresh sourdough bread, produce, and kitchen staples across Greater Vancouver.
"We started local delivery when folks were stuck at home in March of 2020 and had it running within days thanks to Routific. Years later, we're still delivering, and now our Shopify store connects directly, so all our local delivery orders come straight into our route planner," said Jake Templeman, Customer Service Manager at Flourist. "It saves us so much time. We love that our systems talk to each other without any effort on our end."
GardenTap is an online plant retailer in Southern Ontario. It delivers everything from small perennials to 10-foot trees, adding orders to its routes throughout the week as they come in.
"Our routes are never the same two days in a row. One truck might carry 25 orders of plants in all sizes, the next might carry one order with one large tree," said Richard Dilda, Operations Manager at GardenTap. "Being able to pull Shopify orders straight into route planning saves us a lot of time. We bring in just the local deliveries, see where everything lands on the map, and build our routes through the week. Without Routific, life would look like Google Maps."
Feed Me by Drakes is the online catering service of Drakes Supermarkets, the family-owned grocer with 75 stores across South Australia and Queensland.
"Our catering platters go out to events and offices across Adelaide every day, and every one of those orders has a time it has to arrive by," said Sue Ashworth, Ecomms Manager at Drakes Supermarkets. "Getting Routific connected to our Shopify store was seamless, and the team was there whenever we had questions. Now our orders flow straight into route planning, and our drivers get where they need to be, on time. When you're delivering food for someone's event, that's what matters."
The Red Apron is a women-led Ottawa kitchen that has made prepared meals using local, seasonal ingredients for 20 years.
"Our Shopify orders go straight into Routific, so there's no copying addresses or juggling spreadsheets," said Josephine Diaz, Co-Owner at The Red Apron. "Routific plans our routes in minutes, our drivers know exactly where they're going, and our customers know when dinner's arriving."
The app is available now to all Routific customers at no extra cost. Merchants can install it from the Shopify App Store or learn more at routific.com/shopify-app. Watch how it works: https://youtu.be/MPboalgsiME
About Routific
Founded in Vancouver in 2012, Routific is smart route optimization and delivery management software for growing delivery businesses, from food and grocery brands to florists, furniture retailers, and couriers. Its optimization algorithm, inspired by how honeybees find the shortest path to food, builds routes drivers trust. Routific is the highest-rated route planning software on Capterra. It connects with Shopify, Zapier, and thousands of other apps.
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