Manage zones

Last updated: August 16, 2026

A zone is a named coverage area — a set of countries, states, cities, zip codes, or polygons you draw on a map — paired with the store locations it applies to. Zones let you describe where you deliver so the rest of Nash can reason about geography: an order's dropoff can be matched to a zone, and a zone can be bound to an optimization strategy so routing behaves differently in different areas.

The Zones page under Network is where you keep that list — create zones, draw or edit their coverage, activate and deactivate them, and import or export them in bulk.

Note

This is a beta feature. Reach out to Nash if you'd like early access.

The Zones list

The page opens on the Zones tab, with tabs across the top:

  • Zones — the list of every zone and its coverage.
  • Coverage — a map view of your zones (see Coverage on the map).
  • Audit Log — a history of changes to zones.

Depending on your organization, other tabs may also appear.

Filter, sort, and search

A filter bar sits above both the Zones and Coverage tabs:

  • Store Locations — narrow to zones that apply to specific store locations.
  • State — filter by state.
  • Service Type — All Service Types, Home Delivery (HD), or Rapid Delivery (RD).
  • Sort — order the list by Zone Name, Created Date, or Last Updated, ascending or descending.
  • Status — a small filter with Active and Inactive options. The list shows active zones by default; choose Inactive to bring deactivated zones into view.
  • Search — the search box matches zones by name.

The table

Each row shows the zone across these columns:

Column What it shows
Name The zone's name. A zone's name is optional, so this can be blank.
ID Nash's identifier for the zone.
External ID Your own identifier, if you set one.
Coverage A short summary of the coverage area, or No coverage if none is set.
Status An Active or Inactive badge.
Actions The row menu — Edit, and Activate or Deactivate.

Selecting a row opens that zone's detail page. Deactivating a zone keeps it in the list (with the Status filter on) rather than deleting it, so you can reactivate it later.

Create or edit a zone

Select Create Zone in the toolbar to open a blank zone, or select a row's Edit action to reopen an existing one. Both open the same single-step detail page (New Zone or Edit Zone) with these fields:

  • Name — a label for the zone. This is optional — you can save a zone without a name.
  • External ID — your own identifier for the zone, optional.
  • Store Locations — the store locations this zone applies to. You can pick up to six.
  • Coverage Area — the geography the zone covers, built from six category types (Country, State, City, Zip Code, City and Zip Code, and Polygon). This is the heart of a zone; every category and how to enter values is documented in Zone coverage reference.
  • Metadata — an optional JSON field for extra key/value details.

Saving writes the coverage area and the zone, then returns you to the list.

When you edit an existing zone, an info tooltip shows its ID, External ID, and — if the zone is bound to one — its linked Optimization Strategy. Binding a zone to a strategy is set up on the strategy side, not here; see Optimization strategies.

Coverage on the map

The Coverage tab is a two-pane map: a list of your zones on the left and a map on the right. Its toolbar has two modes:

  • View — pan and zoom to inspect where each zone's coverage falls.
  • Create — draw a polygon on the map. When you finish the shape, a dialog asks whether to create a new zone from it or add the polygon to an existing zone.

Drawing polygons — both here and inside the Coverage Area editor on a zone — is covered step by step in Zone coverage reference.

Import and export zones

Two toolbar actions handle zones in bulk:

  • CSV Upload starts a CSV import for zones, so you can add or update many zones at once instead of one at a time.
  • Export opens the Export Zone Data drawer, where you choose which zones to export and download them as a CSV. The full field set is documented in Zone coverage reference.

Zones vs. route restrictions

Zones describe where you deliver. Route restrictions are a separate surface that describes areas the multi-stop optimizer must avoid — they are a different entity with their own page, not a part of zones. See Route restrictions.

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