Bulk dispatch orders

When you have several orders ready to go, you can dispatch them together instead of one at a time. On Ready to Dispatch, select the orders you want using the row checkboxes — an actions bar appears with the bulk options.

You can also select from the map. Switch the Orders page to Map, then tick orders or draw around a group of them — the same actions bar appears. Only orders that aren't already on a route can be selected there. See work with orders and routes on the map.

The bulk dispatch options

The bar can show a few different ways to send orders out. They look similar, so here's what each one does:

• Dispatch — sends each selected order to a job using its own dispatch strategy. For how a strategy chooses a provider, see dispatch strategies.
• Dispatch as Batch — combines the selected orders into a single batch job. This appears when you've selected more than one order.
• Autodispatch — runs each order's dispatch strategy to pick a provider automatically. It appears when a selected order has a strategy set but no provider chosen yet.

Each of these asks you to confirm before it runs.

Planning or routing instead

A few related options on the same bar don't dispatch right away — they let you plan first:

• Optimize — work out the best plan for the selected orders before sending them. See optimize orders.
• Create Route — group the selected orders into a new route. It appears when you've selected more than one order. See create a route from orders.
• Add to route — add the selected orders to a route that already exists. You choose the route from a list, and the orders join it. It appears when none of the selected orders is on a route yet. Routes that are already dispatched or archived can't take more orders.

Create Route and Add to route are there only if your organization uses routes.

Dispatching everything at once

If you select all matching orders rather than picking individual rows, the bulk action runs in the background. You can watch its progress on the Activities page while it works through the orders.

If the orders you want aren't easy to filter for but you have their IDs, you can paste the list and run the same actions on it — see find and act on orders by pasting IDs.

If you don't see an option

Which bulk options appear depends on what your organization has enabled and on the orders you've selected. If an option you expect is missing, its availability varies by org — reach out to Nash.