Finalizing routes marks a route as “finished,” and ready to be integrated back into your ERP or TMS system. This allows you to focus on the finalized routes and avoid the ones that are still being planned. Finalizing sets the finalize date and time on the route, allowing for web service calls and the Route Export Service to return only routes that have met this condition. Finalized routes are indicated with a checkmark on the route card:

Finalizing a route also sets the routemodifieddate for the route, another popular method for filtering webservices calls to get route information out of Daily Planner. You can add the routemodifieddate and routefinalizeddate fields to their route card layout/grid view to expose these values.