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Website builder for moving companies
What you move, where you go, what's covered — and a quote request built to actually be filled in.
A removals quote needs four facts and most forms ask for twelve. Every extra field costs you submissions, and the ones you lose are the people who were in a hurry.
Describe the business and the quote form is built short on purpose — the move, the dates, a phone number — arriving as an email and as a record, with the services, coverage and insurance on the page above it.
What they came for
What people want from a moving company website
Four questions a visitor arrives with. Everything below is what the generated page does about them.
Do you go where I'm going?
Local, regional, national, storage — the coverage is stated plainly, because a move is quoted by distance before anything else.
Are you insured, and how insured?
Goods in transit, public liability, the trade body you belong to. These sit in the short-facts section, which for removals is doing the whole job of reassurance.
What do you actually do on the day?
Packing, dismantling, the boxes, the clear-out — a real list, because a customer comparing three quotes is comparing what's included, not the price alone.
How do I get a price?
A short form: the move, the dates, a number to ring. Every field you add costs you the people who were in a hurry, and they are the ones who were moving next week.
Common problems
What tends to go wrong on moving company websites
Three patterns that come up often. None of them is a design problem, and each is a sentence or two of work to fix.
A quote form with an inventory in it
Long forms are abandoned more often, and the detail is easier to collect on the callback. Three to five fields is enough to reply to.
No insurance figure
"Fully insured" is stated by most firms. The cover level is the part a customer can compare.
The coverage is "nationwide"
A national claim gives no sense of where you are based. Naming the towns you work from is more useful for a local move.
What gets built
What a moving company website needs
The sections Sitemo plans for moving companies, in the order it puts them on the page.
The opening screen
The first screen: a photograph of the real place, the name, and the one thing you want a visitor to do next.
The facts people decide on
The handful of facts a visitor decides on — walk-ins welcome, open Sundays, free parking, fully insured.
Services
What you sell, with prices. A list when there are many, cards with photographs when there are a few.
Your story
The short version of why the place exists, in your voice rather than a company profile.
Gallery
The work, the room, the finished job. Laid out as a set, so one good photograph isn't carrying the whole page.
The ask
The line that asks for the call, the booking or the visit.
Testimonials
Room for the reviews you already have. Your words from your customers — nothing invented to fill the space.
FAQ
The questions you answer on the phone all day, answered once on the page.
Contact form
An enquiry that reaches you as an email and is kept as a record you can open later.
Not a fixed list. Sitemo decides which of these your site actually needs from what you describe — a moving company with four things to sell gets a different page from one with forty.
Underneath the page
And the parts that aren't pages
Most moving companies need somewhere to keep this. It comes with the site rather than being a plugin you go and find.
Each one is a table you edit in your dashboard — change a price, add a service, take something off the list — and the published site follows. Enquiries arrive as an email and are kept as records you can search later, so nothing is lost because an inbox was busy.
The words
The same line, written twice
A general version of a line and a specific one, both about the same length. The difference is how much a visitor can do with it.
General
“Making your move stress-free since 2005.”
Specific
“Two-van team, house moves within 60 miles, packing included if you want it. £50k goods in transit.”
The cover level and the radius are comparable; a promise is not.
General
“Get a free quote today.”
Specific
“Send us the two addresses and the date — we'll come back with a price the same day.”
It says what to send, what comes back, and by when.
The prices and areas above are made-up examples; what is being shown is the shape of the sentence. Yours go in the box below, and the site is written from them.
Try it
Describe your moving company
This is the same box that's on the home page, filled in with the example above. Change it to yours.
Free to try · No credit card · Your site stays exportable
Questions
Websites for moving companies
- How long should the quote form be?
- Short. Three to five fields is the guidance the form section is built around, because every extra field costs submissions — the rest of the detail belongs in the callback.
- Can I show that we're insured?
- Yes, in the short-facts section near the top with the other things that decide the call. Only what you actually hold — nothing is invented to fill the row.
- Do submissions get stored anywhere?
- Yes. Every submission is emailed to you and kept as a record in your dashboard, so a quote request isn't lost because an email was missed.
- Can I ask for a room count or an inventory?
- You can, but keep the form short — three to five fields is what the form section is built around, and the detail belongs in the callback where you can ask about the stairs.
- Can I show storage as a separate service?
- Yes. It is its own row with its own description and price, and if it deserves a page of its own you can ask for one in chat.
- Are quote requests stored anywhere I can search?
- Yes. Every submission is emailed to you and kept as a record in your dashboard, so a request from three weeks ago is still there when the customer rings back.
Where this isn't the right tool
There is no job costing, crew scheduling or van diary in here. Sitemo builds the page: what you move, how far, what you're insured for, and a short form that people actually finish. What happens after the enquiry stays with whatever you already use.