ReadyCrate for movers
Something to offer that isn’t a discount.
Include ReadyCrate totes in your bid. Your customer packs into clean, stackable crates before your crew arrives. We run all of it, and you’re invoiced only if the job books.
- No cost on bids you lose
- No contract
- No minimums
- We do the fulfillment
Why it works
Customers have a reason to pick you that isn’t a discount
It separates your quote without cutting your rate
- Two other quotes argue about price. Yours includes the crates.
- Costs you less than taking an hour off the job.
- Sets no precedent on your hourly rate.
The house is ready when your crew pulls up
- Totes arrive before moving day, not on it.
- They stack square and carry by the handle.
- Faster loads, so the crew makes the next job.
None of it lands on you
- We schedule the delivery and confirm the windows.
- Questions, damage, and pickup all come to us.
- You’re never the middleman on a rental.
Your call
Absorb it to win the job, or price it in and earn on it
Same package, same invoice from us. What you do with it inside your quote is entirely up to you, and you can play it differently job to job.
Play one
Absorb it and win the job
Treat it as marketing. A covered move runs $258 to $298 delivered, against $1,170 to $1,600 for the movers on a three-bedroom. A discount buys you the same job for less money. This buys you the job.
Best if you’re already busy and competing on more than price.
Play two
Price it in and keep the spread
Build it into your quote and keep the difference. You already mark up materials and fuel. This is the same move, on a line your customer actually wants. It pays for itself on the first job.
Best if you want the offer paying for itself from day one.
List it at our price, or fold it into yours.
Either shape works. Put ReadyCrate on its own line at what we charge, or fold it into your own number and price it however the job will carry. The one to avoid is a ReadyCrate line at a marked-up figure. Our prices are published here and our phone line quotes them, so that’s the version a customer comes back and asks you about.
How it works
You quote it. We do everything after that.
Put it in the bid
Add the crates to any job you decide qualifies. Job size, dates, service area, how you word it. That’s all yours and you set it.
The job books
Send me the address and the pack date, or hand your customer a page with your name on it and let them pick their own window. Either way it takes you one message.
We deliver, then we pick up
Totes land before pack day and come back after the move. Your invoice comes after the job books, so a bid you don’t win never costs you anything.
Lose the bid? No invoice.
What they get
What a covered move actually includes
The default covered move
Standard, included
50 totes · 2 dollies · 14 days · $229 plus a $29 to $69 delivery fee by ZIP
- Sanitized, numbered totes delivered before pack day
- Dollies included, so the stack moves in one trip
- Pickup from the new place when they’re unpacked
- Every question answered by ReadyCrate, not by your office
- Damage and loss handled directly with the customer, never billed to you
Your first 2 are on us, for the first 3 moving companies.
Before you offer it to anyone
We agree on a monthly ceiling first
I own a fixed number of totes and I run the routes myself. If crates go into every bid you write and one of them can’t be delivered, your customer already read the promise in a quote with your name on it. That’s your problem before it’s mine, which is why the number comes first. We agree on a monthly figure before you offer this to anybody, I tell you the day it changes, and if you need more than we agreed you ask me. Sometimes the answer is yes.
It’s a smaller number than a bigger company would quote you. It’s also one I can actually hit.
The other direction
And we point self-packers back at you
Every ReadyCrate customer is moving inside two weeks, and plenty of them still haven’t booked a crew. We keep a short list of movers we recommend when they ask, and partners go on it. Licensed, insured, a real review history, and short on purpose, because a list with everyone on it is worth nothing to be on.
Straight answer on what that’s worth today. ReadyCrate is new, and the list will be worth more in six months than it is now. It costs you nothing either way. I’d rather say that up front than sell you on volume I don’t have yet.
Clean. On time. Honest.
Your name is on the quote, so here’s what stands behind it
You’re putting your reputation on a delivery you don’t control. These are the operating promises behind every covered move.
- Sanitized totes for every rental
- Fixed delivery windows, not “we’ll text when we’re close”
- Numbered inventory with photo proof at drop-off and pickup
- A confirmed delivery before your customer’s pack date, every time
- Local Johnson County service, owner-operated
- If something changes, you hear it from me before your customer does
Questions
The things movers ask first
After the job books, never when you bid it. If you quote it and lose the job, there’s no invoice and nothing to cancel.
Yes. Show it on its own line at our price, or mark it up and fold it into your own number. What we’d avoid is both at once, a ReadyCrate line carrying a figure that isn’t ours, because our pricing is public and easy to check.
Depends on what you’re short of. If you’re busy and want to win better jobs, absorb it and let it be the differentiator. If you want the offer to pay for itself, price it in. Same package either way, and you can do it differently job to job.
The covered move is our Standard package, 50 totes. Bigger homes can move up a tier and the difference is either yours or your customer’s, settled before the job rather than on an invoice you didn’t expect. Every size is on our pricing page.
We do, both ends. Windows get confirmed directly with your customer, so it never turns into something your dispatcher has to chase.
It’s between us and the renter under our normal terms, the same as any other ReadyCrate rental. You’re not liable for totes your customer is using, and I won’t send you a bill for one.
No, and you shouldn’t. You decide what qualifies. Most partners set a floor on job size and only offer it where it will actually swing the decision.
We agree on a number before you offer it to anybody, and it’s based on what I can actually deliver rather than what sounds good on a call. Most partners start small and we raise it once we’ve both watched a few go smoothly. If you need more in a given month, ask.
Johnson County and the surrounding Kansas City metro, with a flat fee covering both the drop-off and the pickup. The full list is on our service areas page.
Get started
Put it in your next bid
Your first 2 covered moves are on ReadyCrate, for the first 3 moving companies. Takes about a minute, and I follow up personally to set the terms.
Owner-operated
You’ll be dealing with me
I confirm every delivery myself and I answer the phone. ReadyCrate is new, so I’m starting with a few moving companies rather than a roster, and I’d rather run a handful of moves flawlessly than a lot of them adequately. If you want to talk it through before you put it in front of a customer, email me at hello@readycrate.co or call (913) 538-0454.
— Blake