Web design for removal companies
Every mover has been told a horror story before they ring you.
Somebody has told them about the firm that turned up with one van and two lads, or the quote that doubled on the day, or the wardrobe that never arrived. That story is in their head before they read a word of your website. The site's whole job is to be the obvious opposite of it: insured, surveyed, priced properly and staffed by people in uniform. We build it that way, host it and look after it, with a £0 upfront website design fee.
- Per month: £49.99
- Upfront website design fee: £0
Illustration: a removal companies pictogram beside an example website built for that trade.
The enquiry
The survey is the sale. The form's job is to book one.
A removal price given over the phone is a guess, and a guess is what causes the argument on moving day. The form exists to gather enough to book a video or home survey, and to show the customer that you price properly — which is itself the reason they will choose you.
- 1Both addresses, and both property types
The volume comes from the first, the difficulty from the second. Stairs, parking and access at the new house change the crew and the day as much as the number of boxes.
- 2The date, even if it is not fixed
Most movers do not have a date yet and think that disqualifies them. The form says otherwise, because an approximate week is enough to hold a slot.
- 3Packing, or not
The single biggest variable in the price and the easiest upsell in the trade. Asking it on the form makes it a choice rather than an awkward conversation.
- 4The awkward things
Pianos, safes, loft contents, sheds, no parking. Asked plainly and early, because these are exactly what turns a fixed price into a dispute on the day.
If you would rather people rang, your number stays the biggest thing on every page. The form is for the ones who never will.
What you do
The move is one job. Three others come attached to it.
Most removal enquiries are for a house move, but the profitable version of the same job includes packing, materials and a few weeks of storage. Putting those on the site turns a single-price comparison into a service somebody chooses.
House removals
The core job: a surveyed, fixed-price move with a crew that arrives in uniform and knows the address.
- Surveyed and fixed
- Dismantling and reassembly
- Chain days and delays
Packing and materials
Where the margin is, and where the customer's anxiety actually lives.
- Full packing
- Fragile-only packing
- Boxes and materials
Storage and office moves
The work that fills the quiet weeks and is not tied to the housing market.
- Containerised storage
- Office and commercial moves
- Single items and part loads
Anything you do not offer comes off the site. If you do not do storage or pianos, nobody rings you for them.
Credentials
They are handing you everything they own for a day.
There is no other purchase quite like it. A stranger loads a family's entire life into a van and drives away, on the most stressful day of their year. Insurance and membership are not decoration on this website — they are the reason the phone rings.
We display exactly what you hold and nothing beyond it: no borrowed badges, no invented ratings, no claims about how long you have been trading.
Things we'll display if you hold them
- Goods in transit insurance, with the level of cover
- Public liability insurance, with the level you carry
- Employers' liability insurance for your crew
- BAR membership, if you are a member
- Your own uniformed, employed crew rather than casual labour
- How you handle damage claims, described honestly
- Reviews wherever they already live: Google, Trustpilot, referenceline
Scheme names here are illustrative. You tell us what you hold during onboarding, and that is exactly what appears.
Where you move
Local moves fill the diary. Long distance pays for the year.
Most enquiries are within twenty miles, and those are the ones a local website wins. The long-distance and European work is worth far more per job but arrives less often, so both need saying without one drowning the other.
- Name the towns
"Norfolk" is not what people type when they are moving. Wymondham, Dereham and Diss are, and those searches are far easier to win.
- Say what you do beyond the county
National and European moves need their own line, because somebody moving to Devon will not assume a Norwich firm wants the job.
- Two-way loads
If you can offer a better price on a route you are already running, the site is where to say so. It is the only genuine discount in the trade.
- Norwich
- Wymondham
- Aylsham
- Diss
- Dereham
- Attleborough
- Wroxham
- Long Stratton
- Reepham
- Acle
- Hingham
- Loddon
Towns listed the way customers say them, with long distance covered separately.
Your site plan
Five pages, arranged around one decision: who do I trust with this?
Price comes second in this trade, and the websites that understand that win the jobs worth having.
Your suggested site plan
5 pagesHome
Who you are, what you are insured for, how you price, and one route to a survey.
- Insured
- Surveyed
- Book a survey
House removals
How a move day actually runs, hour by hour, from the crew arriving to the last box in the right room.
- The day
- Fixed price
- Dismantling
Packing & materials
Full packing, fragile-only and materials, with what each costs and how long it takes.
- Full packing
- Fragile
- Boxes
Storage
Containerised storage for broken chains and awkward gaps, priced by the week.
- Containers
- Weekly
- Access
Areas & contact
The towns you cover, the long-distance work you take, and the survey booking form.
- Areas
- Long distance
- Survey
Generally up to five pages on Website, planned around how your customers choose.
Need something extra later? No problem. PrimeStart customers can order additional services such as extra pages, branding and one-off optimisation through their client dashboard whenever they need them.
The logic of SEO
Nobody moves twice. Every customer is a new one.
Website + SEO is optional monthly work on how easily local customers find you, aimed at three searches agreed with you. Removals has almost no repeat business, which makes visibility more important here than in trades where a good job buys you a customer for life.
The kind of searches SEO works on
- removals Norwich
- house removals Norwich
- man and van Norwich
£349.99/month total, website included. SEO never promises a position, a number of enquiries or a revenue figure. It promises the work, every month.
Already have a website you are happy with? Ongoing SEO is only available with the managed website, as Website + SEO — PrimeStart does not run SEO on a site it does not host. If you would rather keep your current site, talk to us first and we will tell you honestly whether moving it across is worth it.
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A website that looks like a company
Uniformed crew, insurance stated, a survey process explained. Next to three sites that are a phone number and a photograph of a van, it is not a close contest.
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Found by the people already looking
The SEO work is monthly work on the local searches, your Google Business Profile and the listings that decide who appears when somebody near you types removals near me.
- 3
Every job is a first job
With no repeat trade, the flow of new enquiries is the business. That is exactly what monthly visibility work is for, and why it compounds in this trade more than most.
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A site that books surveys, not calls
A survey is a commitment. Getting somebody to book one rather than ring around for prices is the difference between quoting ten jobs and winning three.
We research your area first, recommend three that make commercial sense, explain why, and agree them with you before any work starts.
Your Client Platform
One place to watch it being built, and to change what you offer.
Every PrimeStart customer gets their own Client Platform. It is where the project lives: the stage it has reached, what we are waiting on, the draft to look through, and the button that says you are happy with it.
- Follow the build stage by stage, without emailing to ask
- Send photographs of your vans and crew straight from your phone
- Message PrimeStart directly, with the whole thread in one place
- Preview the draft on a laptop and a phone, and mark up changes
- Approve the website before anything goes live
- Ask for changes afterwards, and order services when you need them
- See your SEO report, tracked searches and recommendations each month (Website + SEO)
There is nothing technical to learn. One login to your Client Platform, and you never have to open WordPress.
Illustration of the Client Platform for a fictional removal companies business. SEO reporting is included with Website + SEO.
The plans
The same removals website, with or without the monthly SEO work.
The Website is the whole thing: designed, built, hosted, managed and kept current, with your domain name included. Website + SEO adds monthly work on how easily local customers find it. Clear pricing. Straightforward terms. No surprises.
A removal company's website built around a proper survey process, stated insurance and a move day explained hour by hour.
Designers usually charge for the build before the website exists. We absorb that cost and recover it through the monthly service, which is why the plan carries a minimum term, and why there is nothing to pay up front beyond the first month.
Complete the term and the website is yours: stay with us on a rolling basis with no new minimum, or move it to hosting of your own.
Want PrimeStart working on how customers find you? Website + SEO is £349.99 a month in total, with the same website included. The same managed website, plus monthly work on three agreed local searches, which matters more in a trade with no repeat customers. How SEO works
£49.99per month
- Upfront website design fee
- £0
- What you pay to start
- Your first £49.99, at signup
- Minimum term
- 18 months
- Over the minimum term
- 18 × £49.99 = £899.82
- After month 18
- The website is yours
- If you stay
- £49.99 a month, rolling, no new minimum
What the plan includes
- A survey booking formBoth addresses, the date, packing and the awkward things, as one message
- Insurance stated plainlyGoods in transit and public liability, where the trust decision is made
- The move day explainedHour by hour, which is what stops the horror story doing your selling for you
- Packing and storage given roomThe two things that turn a price comparison into a service
- Your towns and your long distanceBoth radiuses, without one drowning the other
- A professionally designed, custom-built WordPress websiteGenerally up to five pages, planned around how removal companies are chosen
- Hosting, your domain name and SSLIncluded and managed by PrimeStart
- Security, backups and updatesKept current, backed up regularly, WordPress and plugins updated by us
- Enquiry forms and basic Google foundationsForms that reach you; structure, titles and descriptions search engines read
- Support, small changes and your Client PlatformReasonable small changes subject to fair use, and one place to follow, message and approve
How it works
Your part takes less time than loading a van.
Choose a plan, tell us what you offer and what you are insured for, then tell us what to change on the draft. We do the rest.
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Choose your plan
Website, or Website + SEO. The upfront website design fee is £0 and your first monthly payment is taken at signup.
- 2
Tell us how you work
A short onboarding in your Client Platform: the services you offer, your survey process, your insurance levels, the areas you cover, photographs of your vans and crew, and where enquiries should land.
- 3
Ready to Build
We check we have what we need. If an insurance level or a service needs a decision, we say exactly which, and get on with the rest.
- 4
First draft
A working draft on a laptop and a phone: the survey form, the move day, packing and storage.
- 5
Approve and launch
Reasonable in-scope changes, then you approve it. Nothing is published until you say so.
We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.
You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.
Questions removal companies ask us
How much does a website for a removal company cost?
What happens at the end of the 18 months?
Is the domain name included?
Can the site give an instant price?
Can customers book a survey slot online?
Should I show my insurance figures?
How quickly will I see a first draft?
What is SEO, and do I need it to start?
You move the house. We'll move the enquiries.
Web design for removal companies at £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront website design fee: a proper survey form, your insurance stated plainly, and the move day explained before anybody has to ask.
Prefer to call? +44 7446 265140 or email contact@primestart.co.uk