What are the disadvantages of Yandex Routing?

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What are the disadvantages of Yandex Routing? Maybe someone used and knows the weaknesses?

Answer 1

A list of some of the shortcomings of Yandex Routing that I had to face:

• One of the big drawbacks of Yandex Routing is that the service is completely tied to Yandex Navigation, as a result of which it is difficult and sometimes impossible to use the mobile application by couriers in the absence or weak connection to the Internet, here, of course, services with mobile applications on offline maps benefit significantly;
  
• There is no possibility to use other mapping applications;
  
• There are difficulties in using it in Belarus and Ukraine, although this is probably more of a strategy;
  
• The prices for using Yandex Routing are not the most humane and for many, unrecoverable;
  
• The Yandex Routing interface has not yet been developed, the logic of the logistician's office is not obvious and requires a long study, a complex interface, intuitively incomprehensible logic, it takes a lot of time to learn the functionality;
  
• A small test period during which not everyone can figure out how the service works and make the right decision about the need for the business;
  
• The cargo circuit is implemented only in Moscow. There are no other cities yet;
  
• It is not possible to build a route using your own coordinates, for example, for oversized cargo;
  
• Yandex Routing forecast is relevant only for traffic up to 5 points;
  
• Problems in filling XLS files of loading routes. Correct filling requires the joint work of logisticians, programmers, managers, which complicates the implementation process;
  
• There is no way to edit and delete the data of couriers, vehicles, cars, etc., as a result, garbage accumulates;
  
• There is no order editing, changing any data requires adding from scratch and additional manipulations, which takes a huge amount of logistician's time. For example, to change/add a customer's phone number, a comment to an order, time, or any other information, a complete reload of all data is required;
  
• The impossibility of prompt instant change of routes, cancellation and change of orders, adding and deleting waypoints;
  
• Inability to control changes in the delivery process;
  
• Addresses must be clear to Yandex Maps, there is no convenient addition of addresses on the map, which takes a lot of time for the logistician.
  
• The cost of Yandex Routing is higher than some analogues