Understanding your tour results
What the Router hands you, and how to read it.
When you'd use this
The Router just finished. You're staring at a map and a list of numbers. Here's what each thing means.
The four panels
1. Route map
Visual of your tour. Home city → stops in order → back home. Drive legs drawn between stops with mileage/time labels. Color:
- Green line: driveable within your constraints
- Amber: longer than your "warn" threshold
- Red: exceeds your hard cap (you'll want to fix)
2. Stop list
Ordered table of each stop with:
- Date, day of week
- Venue name, city, state
- Capacity and your projected draw
- Projected guarantee (midpoint of the range)
- Projected net after leg costs
- Status (pending Router output vs. confirmed via outreach)
Sortable by any column. Click a stop to expand details.
3. P&L projection
Tour-total economics:
- Projected revenue — sum of projected guarantees across all stops
- Projected costs — fuel, lodging, per diem, summed across all legs
- Projected net — revenue minus costs
- Per-day net — net / number of tour days (useful comparison across tours)
All projections — no show has actually paid you yet.
4. Reasoning paragraph
The Router's explanation of its choices in plain English. E.g.:
"Routed Durham → Asheville → Atlanta because the Carrboro option was short-paid on your last tour (preference flag). Atlanta's Masquerade is preferred over Terminal West based on your mid-club tier setting. Skipped Birmingham entirely — no venue in your capacity range had availability the week of 10/21."
Read this. It tells you what the Router rejected and why. If its reasoning seems off, that's signal to adjust your profile or constraints.
One route per run
The Router returns a single optimized route per run, not a list of alternates. If the primary route picks a venue you don't like, swap it manually in the stop list, or re-run after tightening a constraint to nudge the Router somewhere else.
What's NOT in the results
- Confirmed bookings — Router output is all projected. You still have to send inquiries.
- Venue contacts — click into each stop to see the booker email and confirm they're current.
- Detailed deal terms — projections assume average guarantee. Actual deals vary.
Exporting
Tour results export as:
- PDF (full route + P&L + reasoning) — good for sharing with your agent or band
- CSV (stops only) — for spreadsheet workflows
Still stuck?
- Projected revenue looks inflated. Check your draw estimate — overstating it inflates expected guarantees.
- Net is negative. Common on low-density tours. See Understanding tour P&L projection for how to read it.