Custom removal survey and moving quote app
Appfront builds apps for removal companies that survey household contents at the customer's home or remotely: the furniture and boxes in each room from a library with volumes, special items such as a piano, a narrow staircase or a long carrying distance recorded with photos, the situation at departure and arrival, and a calculation of crew, vans, hours and materials that immediately becomes a quote. So the quote matches what actually needs to be moved, and the planning on moving day holds no surprises.
What is an app for household survey and removal calculation?
A removal begins with a survey: what needs moving, how much there is, and what is special. An adviser walks through the house, room by room, and estimates the volume. A piano, a cupboard that must be dismantled, a third-floor flat with no lift, or a street where the van cannot park outside the door: this determines the crew, the vehicles and the time. An app for household surveys records this and calculates it.
Without an app, the adviser writes it down on a pad and does the calculation at the office. Volumes are estimated from experience, and special items get lost between survey and planning. The customer receives a quote a few days later. And on moving day it turns out the wardrobe won't fit up the stairs, or that an extra van is needed.
We build custom solutions because the survey must fit your business: which types of removals you carry out, how you calculate, which items and volumes you use, whether you survey remotely with video, and which removal software and scheduling tools you use. A standard quoting programme calculates in cubic metres; it doesn't see the piano on the third floor.
Room-by-room inventory
Furniture and items from a library with volumes, surveyed per room, with boxes and materials included.
Special items with photos
Heavy, fragile or items that must be dismantled, and the situation at departure and arrival, with photos for the crew.
A quote straight away
A calculation of crew, vans, hours and materials from the survey, and a quote the customer receives the same day.
How we build your app for household surveys and removal calculation
We start with an assessment: how things work now, how calculations are made, and what turned out differently from the quote on your last moving day.
Your types of removals, the way you survey and calculate, items and volumes, and your software.
Room-by-room survey with the item library, special items with photos, and the situation at departure and arrival.
The crew, vehicle, hours and materials calculation, and the quote in your own branding.
Survey and special requirements through to scheduling and work order, integration with your removal software, and ongoing management afterwards.
What an inventory survey and removal calculation app actually does
The components below come up at almost every removals company. Which ones you need depends on your moves.
Item library
Furniture and items with standard volumes, adjustable per item.
Room-by-room survey
What goes in each room, with quantities, boxes and materials.
Particulars
Heavy, fragile and items requiring dismantling, with photos and notes.
Access and site conditions
Floor, lift, stairs, parking and carrying distance at both the origin and destination.
Calculation
Crew, vehicles, hours, materials and storage, drawn from the survey.
Quote
A quote in your own branding, sent immediately and accepted digitally.
Who we build an inventory survey and removal calculation app for
The app is designed for removals companies that currently survey with a notepad.
Domestic removals firms
Many surveys each week. Speed from survey to quote is the core.
Business relocation firms
Offices with many workstations and archives. Surveying by room matters most.
International removals firms
Moves involving packing and transport. Materials and volume are what matter.
Removals firms for older clients
Moves to smaller homes, with choices about what comes along. Surveying each item is the core.
Test your idea first: a working prototype in 1 day
With OneDayBuild, we turn your idea into something tangible in one day for €1,150, so you can see whether further development is worth the investment. Decide to go ahead with the full build? Then we credit the full cost.
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This page covers the survey and costing of a removal. For the removal company as a whole, see our page on removal software. For quotes on the move, see our page on a quote app, and for costings with variants, our page on a quote configurator. Our approach is explained under custom software development.
If a household's belongings go into temporary storage after the survey, see our app for storage and container tracking.
If the survey is complete and you want to schedule the crew and the lift for the day, see our app for crew scheduling with lifts.
Why choose Appfront for your inventory survey and removal calculation app?
A quote that's wrong costs money or a client on moving day. We build around that: a complete survey, special requirements that reach the crew, and a quote the same day.
Quotes that add up
The volume comes from the survey of each item, not an estimate in the office.
No surprises on the day
The piano, the stairs and the parking space are photographed for the crew.
Faster to the client
The quote goes out the same day, often while still on site.
Security and privacy for an inventory survey and removal calculation app
The app holds addresses, photos of homes and belongings, and client details. Access is set by role: the adviser sees their own surveys, planning sees the special requirements, and the crew only sees the day's job.
The app also works without signal and syncs later. Data is held in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily backups. Photos are not kept longer than necessary.
Frequently asked questions about an inventory survey and removal calculation app
Questions removals companies ask before getting started.
It records the belongings room by room from a library of volumes, notes special requirements with photos, captures conditions at origin and destination, calculates crew, vehicles, hours and materials, and produces a quote straight away.
Yes. The client walks through the home with their phone on a video call, and the adviser records the survey in the app. For large or complex moves, a visit is often still better.
From a library of items with standard volumes that you set yourself, adjusted per item if something is larger or smaller.
Yes. Photos and notes on heavy, fragile or items needing dismantling, plus stairs, lift and parking, go through to the planning and the work order.
Yes. The quote is sent in your house style, and the customer accepts online. The acceptance flows through to the planning.
Yes, provided that software offers an interface. The survey and the quote feed through to scheduling and administration.
Check that first. Some packages have a survey module, and that is enough if your surveys are simple. Custom development makes sense if you want your own item library and costing, want to survey remotely, or need details to reach the crew properly.
A complete survey and a quote the same day?
Tell us which removals you carry out, how you survey now and how you cost. We'll show you what the survey, costing and quote look like.