Detrack and Track-POD are both cloud-based delivery management platforms with a driver app, electronic proof of delivery, live tracking, route optimisation and customer notifications. The difference is what you pay and what you're limited to.
If you're choosing between Detrack and Track-POD, you're looking at two established delivery management platforms, and neither will leave you short on core features. Both run a driver app for iPhone and Android, capture proof of delivery, track vehicles live, plan routes, send automated customer notifications and connect to your other systems via API.
| Feature | Detrack | Track-POD | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order management | Create and import jobs and manage deliveries in real time | ||
| Organisation management | Invite users with role-based permissions for dispatchers, managers and administrators | ||
| iPhone and Android driver apps | Drivers view routes, navigate and capture proof of delivery on their phone | ||
| Proof of delivery | Signatures, photos, notes, timestamps and location as digital proof the job was completed | ||
| Live tracking | Real-time GPS tracking with customer-facing tracking pages | ||
| Route planning and optimisation | Optimised stop sequences built in a few clicks to cut drive timeBuilt into Detrack Advanced since early 2024. No separate product or login. | ||
| Email, SMS and WhatsApp notifications | Automated updates on status, ETA and completionTrack-POD charges extra for SMS on every plan | ||
| Vehicle checks | Pre-start safety checks completed by the driver in the app | ||
| Analytics and reports | Dashboards and reports on delivery performance, driver performance and operations | ||
| Integrations and API | Connect to your existing systems via API, webhooks and pre-built integrations | ||
| Customer support | Technical support via chat, email and phone |
Feature parity is the starting point. These are the places where the two platforms genuinely differ, and most of them show up on your invoice rather than in a feature list.
Dispatchers, admins, managers and anyone else who logs into Detrack from a desk never count towards your bill. Track-POD's entry plan allows seven dashboard users, and you need its $69 to $89 per driver tiers to lift that to 50 or 100. If your office team is growing faster than your fleet, this is the gap that matters most.
Track-POD's cheapest entry point is three drivers on the Advanced plan: $147 a month billed annually or $177 month to month, whether or not you have three drivers. Detrack starts at $29 for a single driver and scales one at a time from there.
Track-POD's Advanced plan caps you at 6,000 orders a month, and its per-order plans are priced on volume by design. With Detrack, a busy month costs exactly what a quiet one does. Deliver 100 jobs or 10,000 and the invoice doesn't change.
Detrack keeps your delivery data searchable for five years. Track-POD keeps two on its Advanced, Advanced Plus and Ultimate plans, extending only on Enterprise and its highest per-order tier. For industries that face audits, or that want to compare this year's peak against last year's and the one before, the extra three years do real work.
If you deliver for multiple clients, Detrack's rate cards let you set a pricing structure per client and calculate the cost of every delivery automatically, by item count, weight, zone or your own parameters. Track-POD's 3PL portal lets your shippers manage their own orders, which is useful, but it doesn't work out what to charge them. For 3PLs juggling several pricing agreements, that is hours of admin a week.
Track-POD lists SMS as an additional charge on every plan. Detrack doesn't add a per-message fee on top of your subscription. You connect your own SMS provider and pay only what that provider charges, with nothing added by us.
Some older reviews and comparison posts, including Track-POD's own "Detrack + ElasticRoute = Track-POD" article, describe Detrack as a two-part solution: add orders in Detrack, pull them into ElasticRoute, plan there, push routes back. That was true until early 2024, when we brought ElasticRoute directly into Detrack.
Today route optimisation is a feature of Detrack Advanced, not a separate product. You import or create jobs, click optimise, review the routes on the map and send them to drivers, all in one dashboard and one login, with no extra subscription. If a review or comparison says otherwise, check its date.
Both platforms offer a per-driver (or per-vehicle) plan, so this is the cleanest like-for-like comparison. Track-POD's Advanced plan lines up against Detrack Pro, and Track-POD's Advanced Plus against Detrack Advanced. All prices are in USD, taken from Detrack's pricing page and Track-POD's in October 2026.
| Billing | Track-POD Advanced | Detrack Pro | Saving per driver | Saving, 3 drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $59 | $29 | $3051% less | $90 a month |
| AnnualBilled yearly, shown per month | $49 | $26 | $2347% less | $69 a month |
| Billing | Track-POD Advanced Plus | Detrack Advanced | Saving per driver | Saving, 3 drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $79 | $39 | $4051% less | $120 a month |
| AnnualBilled yearly, shown per month | $69 | $35 | $3449% less | $102 a month |
Track-POD per-driver plans require a minimum of three drivers. Detrack has no minimum. Detrack annual prices reflect the 10% annual discount, rounded to the nearest dollar. Track-POD also offers an Ultimate plan at $89 per driver billed annually ($99 monthly) and an Enterprise plan with a 20-driver minimum. Both companies quote custom pricing for large fleets.
Track-POD also sells volume-based plans, priced on orders per month with unlimited drivers. Detrack doesn't charge per order, so to compare them we've assumed each driver completes 500 jobs a month (roughly 23 a day) and priced the equivalent fleet on Detrack Advanced, billed monthly.
| Track-POD plan | Orders a month | Drivers needed | Track-POD price | Detrack Advanced | Saving with Detrack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | 3,000 | 6 | $510 | $234 | $276 a month54% less |
| Growth | 6,000 | 12 | $900 | $468 | $432 a month48% less |
| Scale | 9,000 | 18 | $1,170 | $702 | $468 a month40% less |
| Enterprise | 12,000+ | 24+ | Custom | $936+ | Quote required |
Only when you run a lot of drivers for very few orders. Track-POD's Core plan costs the same as 13 drivers on Detrack Advanced, so you'd need 14 or more drivers sharing fewer than 3,000 jobs a month, which is under 11 deliveries per driver per day. Most fleets run well above that, and the further above it you are, the wider Detrack's lead gets.
Across every scenario, from a single van to a fleet of twenty and from steady year-round volume to a seasonal spike, Detrack delivers the same core features for 40 to 55% less than Track-POD. The gap holds against Track-POD's per-driver plans, which are its more economical option, and widens against its per-order plans. That difference is money you can put into another driver, another dispatcher or the next piece of kit, rather than into software.
Both will run a delivery operation well. The question is whether you want to pay a premium for the one with more limits.
Yes. Route optimisation is built into Detrack Advanced. ElasticRoute, our former standalone routing product, was merged into Detrack in early 2024. There is no separate product, login or subscription. Order management, route planning, live tracking and proof of delivery all run in one platform and one driver app.
No. ElasticRoute was brought directly into Detrack in early 2024 and is no longer sold or run separately. Its multi-driver route optimisation is now a standard feature of Detrack Advanced. Reviews or comparisons that describe Detrack and ElasticRoute as two products predate that change.
Pro covers proof of delivery, live driver tracking, branded customer notifications and tracking links, custom fields and job statuses, five years of data storage, daily analytics, the manager and scanner apps, and API access, with unlimited web users. Advanced adds route optimisation, recurring jobs, vehicle safety checks, rate cards, a scheduling calendar, capacity utilisation tools, milestone reports comparing expected and actual drive time, advanced analytics and access to the Detrack MCP server.
No. Detrack starts at one driver and you add more as you need them. Track-POD's per-driver plans require a minimum of three drivers, and its Enterprise plan requires twenty.
No. Every Detrack plan includes unlimited web users, so dispatchers, admins and managers never add to your bill. You pay only for drivers using the driver app. Track-POD includes 7, 50 or 100 dashboard users depending on the plan.
No. Detrack uses flat per-driver pricing with unlimited jobs on every plan. Deliver 100 orders or 10,000 a month and the price stays the same, so there are no surprise charges when volume picks up.
Yes. Our support team helps with migration, and Detrack's API and spreadsheet import let you bring across existing order data and customer details. Most teams are running live jobs within the trial period.
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