[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":99},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-crew-app-en":3,"blog-related-crew-app-en":84},{"title":4,"seoTitle":5,"description":6,"category":7,"excerpt":8,"lead":9,"summary":10,"blocks":15,"faq":71},"Why your movers need a real app","App for moving companies: why a real app works | Movea","Texts, spreadsheets and a website on the phone don’t last a whole moving day. What an app for movers should do — and what it saves the office.","The crew","Texts, calls and shared spreadsheets work until something changes mid-day. What a real app for movers should do — and why the payoff lands in the office.","The office can plan the perfect day, but it is run by people with a phone in their pocket and gloves on. Here is the difference between a real app and what many moving companies use today — and what you should demand of it.",[11,12,13,14],"Texts, calls and shared spreadsheets work until something changes in the middle of the day. Then nobody has the same picture of the day.","A real app uses the phone’s notifications, camera, map and lock screen. Office screens in a mobile browser can’t do that in the same way.","Time and damage recorded in the van should end up on the job and the invoice without being typed in again.","The Movea App for iPhone and Android is included in the user price.",[16,20,23,25,28,30,32,40,43,45,55,58,60,62,65,67],{"type":17,"id":18,"text":19},"h2","how-it-works-today","How many moving days run today",{"type":21,"text":22},"p","The job is sent by text the night before. The address is in one message, the floor and the lift in another, and the equipment list lives in the crew leader’s head. Hours are written on a note or sent as a photo, and the scratch on the dresser is mentioned on the phone on the way home.",{"type":21,"text":24},"It works as long as nothing changes. But on a moving day something always changes: the customer isn’t ready, a job moves, a van gets swapped. Then there are five people with five versions of the day — and an office that has to piece it all together afterwards.",{"type":17,"id":26,"text":27},"app-or-website","Why a website on the phone isn’t enough",{"type":21,"text":29},"Lots of systems work “on mobile too”. Often that means the office screens are shrunk so they can be opened in the phone’s browser. It is better than nothing, but it is built for the office, not the van.",{"type":21,"text":31},"A real app is made for the phone from the start. That gives you things that make a difference on the job:",{"type":33,"items":34},"ul",[35,36,37,38,39],"**Notifications.** The crew get told when they have a new job or the route changes — without refreshing a page.","**The camera.** Damage is photographed and reported on the job while the customer is standing there.","**The map.** The stops are shown on a map, and navigation is one tap away.","**The lock screen.** The job timer can be seen without unlocking the phone — on iPhone in the Dynamic Island too.","**Big buttons and few screens.** Start, pause and finish the job with one tap, even with gloves on.",{"type":17,"id":41,"text":42},"what-the-app-should-do","What an app for movers should do",{"type":21,"text":44},"Use this list when you look at a system. If the app can’t do these things, the office ends up ringing round anyway:",{"type":46,"items":47},"ol",[48,49,50,51,52,53,54],"**The day’s jobs in order** with time, address and who you are riding with.","**Everything about the job in one place:** the customer, the stops, the van, the crew and the equipment to bring.","**Time tracking on the job** that ends up on the invoice without being typed again.","**Damage with photos and a note,** recorded before the van leaves.","**Chat with the office on the job,** so messages stay with the job and not in a text thread.","**Roles,** so a crew member sees their own jobs and not the company’s finances.","**Several languages,** so a mixed crew can each use the app in their own language.",{"type":17,"id":56,"text":57},"what-the-office-gets","What the office gets out of it",{"type":21,"text":59},"The app is for the crew, but the payoff lands in the office. When time is recorded on the job, there are no notes to collect. When the damage is on the job with photos, there is nothing to argue about afterwards. And when the crew can see changes themselves, there are fewer calls in the busiest part of the day.",{"type":21,"text":61},"That is also why the app isn’t an add-on with Movea. If only the office has the system, half the day still runs on text messages. Read more about [what Movea costs](post:pricing).",{"type":17,"id":63,"text":64},"movea-app","The Movea App",{"type":21,"text":66},"The Movea App for iPhone and Android is made for the crew in the van. It shows the day’s jobs and the calendar, the route on a map, the equipment as a checklist, the job timer and damage with photos — and every job has its own chat with the office. The app comes in English, Danish and Swedish and is included in the user price. See it screen by screen on the [mobile app page](\u002Fplatform\u002Fapp).",{"type":68,"title":69,"text":70},"demo","See the app and the office work together.","In the demo we run a real move through the system: from the job in the calendar to the time and damage on the job.",[72,75,78,81],{"q":73,"a":74},"What is the difference between an app and a system that works on mobile?","A system that works on mobile is usually the office screens opened in the phone’s browser. A real app is built for the phone and can use notifications, the camera, the map and the lock screen directly.",{"q":76,"a":77},"Does the Movea App cost extra?","No. The crew have the same user price as the office, and the app is included in it.",{"q":79,"a":80},"Which phones does the Movea App work on?","The Movea App is made for iPhone and Android.",{"q":82,"a":83},"Can the crew use the app in a language other than English?","Yes. The app comes in English, Danish and Swedish and follows the language the user has chosen.",[85,92],{"id":86,"path":87,"title":88,"excerpt":89,"category":90,"minutes":91},"pricing","\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fmoving-company-software-cost","What does software for a moving company cost?","The price on the homepage is rarely the price on the invoice. How to work out the real monthly cost — and why Movea has one user price for office and crew.","Pricing",4,{"id":93,"path":94,"title":95,"excerpt":96,"category":97,"minutes":98},"dispatch","\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fmoving-company-dispatch","Dispatch for moving companies: how to plan the day without a spreadsheet","Who rides with whom, in which van and in what order? A simple way to build the day, the mistakes that cost most, and the signs the spreadsheet has grown too small.","Dispatch",3,1793106496914]