Advice Needed - Can I do this with AppSheet?

[Bridget_Gunden]

Hi Guys,

I’m at ground zero here, and am working a ton and don’t have the time to quite delve into this like I’d like, so I figured I’d lay out our user case, and just ask the community if you think this is doable using AppSheet?

Ok here goes…

We have a team of 10 that go out every single day M-F and put posters up or flyers out, at coffee shops, gyms, etc. around Chicago.

We have about 15,000 locations in our database that we have them do this at. Where they go changes as it depends on what our clients need. No one has a set route like many outside sales companies, their routes are different every day.

Here would be some use cases for our clients:

1. “Hi, we’re the Shamrock Shuffle 5K and we want posters put up on your fitness route.”

2. “Hello, we’d like posters put up around college campuses for Harry Styles’ upcoming show.”

From there, we take a staff member and assign the appropriate route to them, they complete the route and then we send a report to our clients.

You saw the two scenarios above we chose categories to flyer at, but we also might run into clients that want us to flyer based on neighborhood or business type, so we need to be able to tag and/or categorize for all of these.

Currently, we’re running off a custom build on our website from the late 90’s. Basically, it’s a database that allows us to categorize each location/business by type and neighborhood and then “tag” it with other keywords. This means accounts/locations may fall into multiple categories. Say a gym near the DePaul campus for example, is tagged “College,” “Fitness,” “Health,” and “DePaul.” and then is also in the neighborhood Lincoln Park and is categorized as a “GYM.” This database is then funneled into two channels: our staff schedules and our client reports.

Current User Scenarios:

1. Dave (Staff) - you are assigned to the “Fitness Route” for the Shamrock Shuffle

• Once we assign him, he can log into our website and see a list of locations / accounts that he will be visiting.
• This also attaches all locations to a report
• He uploads 50-100 photos to our desktop computer / server and we manually upload that to that same report.
• He submits basic notes on his route on that report and we review and approve and push to the client
• The client logs in and sees our basic summary, a list of accounts / locations visited, and all photos

NEEDS:

• Ability to import our locations database

• Ability to categorize or, at minimum, tag locations within our database

• Ability to quickly assign all locations by those tags or categories to our staff

• Ability to create reports based off of these reports, including all locations, for our clients.

• Ability to upload 50-200 photos and possibly a form submission per shift

• Ability to also connect our database lists to our client reports

WANTS:

• Mileage tracker that tracks their routes over a certain speed, like our current software, TripLog. The reason here is that they sometimes drive 10 miles and then walk 4.

• Map routing of location