At 8:15 the customer is on the pavement. Your crew is not. The review is already being written.
Five procedures stop the review a moving company is afraid of. None of them is a slogan.
You already know the review. Deposit taken. Nobody came. Or the crew came early and started while the customer was still packing. Or a bed leg was missing, and the bill to drive back was raised in the hall. Or the damage was found the next morning, and it was a month before anyone answered.
The firms this happens to are not short of effort. They are short of a page the crew can open without calling you. We write that page, from the way you already do the job, and leave it with you.
- The survey. The quote matches the house: floors, stairs, what will not fit, what must not be taken apart. The man who was not in the room can still read it.
- The booking confirmation. Deposit, arrival window, access, and what happens if you are late, in one place. The customer has it. The crew has it. You are not the copy.
- The crew brief. Written the night before from the survey, not delivered in the cab. What to take. What to leave. Who to call if the stair is wrong.
- The exception on the day. A missing leg, a no-fit landing, a customer who adds a room. Written before the van leaves. Not reconstructed from memory a week later.
- The claim. Photo, date, and the reply, in the file. The owner does not have to be the only person who can answer.
This is not a program you log into. It is a set of files in your name. They open in a browser. They open with no connection. There is no seat fee. When you stop paying anyone, the files remain.
We have done this once from pencil and paper, on a moving company, before anyone was selling an assistant for it. The change was not a dashboard. The change was that the next crew did not need the owner in the doorway.
The first five entries are £650, credited against the manual if you continue within thirty days. The manual is from £2,600, built from the jobs you already run, with one round of changes. You see the scope before you commit.
If you would like the half-hour, write or telephone. Bring the last job that went wrong in a way a written step would have caught. If there has not been one, you do not need this.