Caminora vs spreadsheets for scheduling field teams
Spreadsheets are where most teams start — they are free, familiar and endlessly flexible. But as the number of jobs and operatives grows, a grid of cells quietly turns into hours of manual work every week.
Where spreadsheets struggle
A spreadsheet has no idea where your jobs are. It cannot tell you that two appointments are an hour apart, or that an operative has been booked into the wrong side of the city after lunch.
Every change ripples by hand: move one job and you re-check every following row, recompute arrival times and hope nobody is double-booked.
Where Caminora wins
Caminora reads any booking export and places every job on a map, then builds a route-efficient plan that respects each operative’s working hours.
Reorder a job and the schedule recalculates instantly — travel time, arrival windows and overtime warnings update for you, not by you.
When tomorrow’s bookings land, you upload the new file and get a fresh optimized plan in minutes instead of rebuilding the grid from scratch.
When a spreadsheet is still fine
If you have a handful of jobs in one location and travel time barely matters, a spreadsheet may be all you need. The moment routing and reshuffling start eating your evenings, Caminora pays for itself.