Service area size
- 10 km radius
- 30 km radius
- 100 km radius
We had two scheduling strategies handle the exact same appointment requests: free booking, where customers can pick any open slot, and smart scheduling, where only geographically fitting times are offered. We did this across 54 scenarios — each simulated over a full month — and tracked travel time and how many appointments fit.
The outcome, averaged over 54 scenarios
The same customers book on the same day. On the left everyone picks a time freely; on the right Schedulinq only offers times that keep the route compact. Watch the appointments come in.
No cherry-picking: in every scenario both strategies got the exact same appointment requests.
We combined four variables — the size of the service area, the appointment length, how customers are spread, and the team size — into 54 different scenarios.
For each scenario we generated a full month of appointment requests: addresses spread across the service area, each with a preferred time.
The same requests went through two planners: free booking (customer picks any open slot) and smart scheduling (only geographically fitting times).
For each scenario we recorded the total travel time and the number of appointments that fit. Then we averaged across all 54 scenarios.
Four variables, in every combination: 3 × 2 × 3 × 3 = 54 scenarios, each simulated over a full month.
The customer picks any open slot purely on preference. The order of arrival determines the schedule. The result: appointments in different areas alternate, with long drives in between.
Schedulinq only offers times that fit where you already are that day. Appointments in the same area are clustered, so your route stays logical — even when customers book themselves.
Appointments in the same area end up back to back, so you drive short hops instead of crisscrossing your service area.
By not offering every open slot, you avoid a far-away appointment landing between two nearby ones — the biggest source of lost time.
Every minute of travel saved is time spent on customers. In the simulation that fit on average 20% more work into the same day.
This is a Schedulinq simulation that shows the mechanism of smart versus free scheduling — not a claim that Schedulinq is exactly 18% better than a specific tool. Your result depends on your service area, your appointments and your schedule. You can run it free for 30 days alongside your current way of planning and measure it yourself.
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