
- #REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT STREETS AND TRIPS ANDROID#
- #REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT STREETS AND TRIPS PROFESSIONAL#
We wish you a smooth transition from Microsoft Streets & Trips (AutoRoute) to portatour®! www.portatour. Watch this video the see the first steps explained in 5 minutes. It’s time to say good-bye to Streets & Trips and switch to portatour®. Switching from Microsoft Streets & Trips (AutoRoute) to portatour® is straightforward.
#REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT STREETS AND TRIPS ANDROID#
While Streets & Trips has been a desktop application, you can access portatour® from PC, notebook, iPad, iPhone, Android and other smartphones and tablets.

This makes portatour® the best replacement of Streets & Trips – especially for a salesperson. This takes usually between 2 and 10 seconds – a considerable speed improvement compared to Streets & Trips.īesides sales territory mapping and route-planning, portatour® offers easy-to-use customer management, call reporting, appointment planning – and over 100 additional features to improve sales force effectiveness.

It can generate optimized route-plans for up to 4 weeks with up to 125 stops. Faced with many addresses, Streets & Trips could strain your patience for a few hours before returning with a result.įinally, the wait is over: portatour® features a lightning-fast route-planning at the click of a button. Until now, you had to wait for Streets & Trips (AutoRoute) a long time when it calculated optimized routes with multiple stops. All together, these are essential features to plan a sales strategy. You can also filter the customers and only show a selection. Symbols can be freely assigned to individual customers to highlight them. Colors can be used to visualize a specific aspect of the customers, for example revenue. Once imported, customers can be plotted on a map to get an overview. To start with portatour®, import your addresses from an Excel file with a few clicks. Additional fields like phone numbers, contact person, business hours, or annual revenue can be imported in addition. In the last 20 years Streets & Trips (AutoRoute) was often used as a tool by professionals – for example to plan optimized routes to visit customers. It’s not designed for sales and lead generation. The problem with this is that Bing Maps lacks many of the features offered by Streets and Trips.

In their statement, the company recommended users switch to Microsoft’s other mapping solution, Bing Maps. Read on to learn about essential features and tips for switching. In July of 2014, Microsoft announced that it was discontinuing Streets and Trips.
#REPLACEMENT FOR MICROSOFT STREETS AND TRIPS PROFESSIONAL#
It is especially useful for professional sales reps working in outside sales, support and service. Looking for a better alternative? Then consider the online route-planner portatour®. portatour® supports multi-stop route-planning for up to 125 stops per week, it can show up to 3.000 addresses on a map and has many more functions for professional route planning and route optimization. Microsoft Streets & Trips (also called AutoRoute) will be discontinued by 31st December 2014.
