The site an office manager can forward to the person who signs off
Office moves are booked by a manager with a deadline and someone to report to. The site has to look organised and insured, explain how you move without closing the business, and book the site visit.
Removalists moving offices, clinics and studios
This build is for removalists who move businesses: offices, medical and allied health practices, studios and small retail. If your busiest night is a Friday and your crew knows every goods lift in the CBD, this is your page.
A commercial move is often booked by someone other than the person who signs off on it: an office manager or practice owner with a lease end date, a list of worries and someone to report to. They search, shortlist a few movers, and send the shortlist upstairs.
That changes what your website has to do. It has to look like a business that handles businesses: organised, insured, careful with equipment and files, and able to work around trading hours.
Their questions are different from a household's. Who disconnects the computers? Can you move us on a Saturday? Do you book the goods lift? What happens to the confidential files between one building and the next?
Paperwork matters to them too. The NSW Government's advice for anyone hiring a removalist is that the contract should include an inventory, addresses, dates and times2. An office client expects that as standard, so your site says you provide it.
Four faults that cost you office move work
You never see these happen. You see the result: a board with two jobs on Friday when it should have five, and no idea which enquiry went elsewhere.
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Fault
Office moves sit as one bullet point under "house moves, offices, pianos".
What your site does instead
A commercial section of its own, so an office manager comparing movers sees a business that handles businesses.
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Fault
Nothing says who disconnects the computers or how files travel.
What your site does instead
Pages that spell out what your crew does with IT equipment, what the client's IT provider does, and how confidential files are sealed and tracked.
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Fault
After-hours and weekend moves are available but never mentioned.
What your site does instead
A page on moving without closing: Friday night or weekend windows, staged moves, and staff back at their desks when you say they will be.
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Fault
The form asks for a moving date and the number of bedrooms.
What your site does instead
A site-visit booking form that asks for workstations, IT, loading dock and lift bookings at both buildings, and the lease or fit-out deadline.
What the site has to prove before anyone rings
A plan for moving without closing
The main thing an office client buys is continuity. The site explains how a typical office move runs with you: a site visit, a labelling system, a move window after close of business or over a weekend, and staff back at their desks on the next working day if that is what you deliver.
A move-day checklist page gives the office manager something to forward to staff. It is useful to them, and it keeps your name in front of the person who approves the booking.
IT and file handling, spelled out
What your crew does with computers and servers, what the client's IT provider does, and how confidential files travel.
Costs that don't surprise
Delays happen in commercial buildings. Say up front whether there are storage costs if moving day is delayed, and card surcharges1, as Queensland's fair trading advice suggests customers ask.
The pages on your job sheet
A typical layout for this kind of work. Yours is built from the jobs you take and the detail you send us, so anything you have nothing to say about is left off instead of padded out.
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Home Office moves up front, after-hours message, site-visit button
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Office relocations How you plan and run a commercial move
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After-hours and weekend moves Moving without closing the business
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IT equipment and servers Disconnection, packing, reconnection and who does what
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Document security Locked crates, sealed and tracked, confidential files
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Other commercial moves Clinics, studios, retail fit-outs, if you do them
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Move-day checklist A page the office manager can print and forward to staff
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Insurance Public liability and goods-in-transit details
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Book a site visit The office form
Quote form, loaded for an office move
Business and contact role
Who is booking, and who approves the spend
Workstations and staff
The office version of "how many bedrooms"
IT and servers
Whether your crew handles it or their IT provider does
Building access
Loading dock, goods lift bookings and after-hours entry at both sites
Deadline
Lease end date or fit-out handover
Move window
Friday night, weekend, or staged over several days
Site visit
Preferred days for a walk-through
Asked by office relocations
Read next: Removalist quote forms: what to ask for each move size.
The plan behind it does not change from one mover to the next: the price, and what is on board.
Office clients want a site visit, not an online quote. Does a form still help?
Yes. The form books the site visit and collects the basics first, so you arrive knowing the desk count, the building rules and the deadline. It replaces the first phone call, not the walk-through.
Should my office page be separate from house moves?
Yes. The person booking an office move is comparing commercial movers. A home page full of family moves makes you look like a residential business that also does offices, and they will shortlist someone else.
Can I list the types of businesses I have moved?
You can describe the kinds of premises you handle, such as medical practices, accounting offices or design studios. Name a client only with their written permission, and never suggest a relationship you don't have.
Do I need a page about document security?
If you move offices that hold client files, such as accountants, clinics or law practices, a short page on how files are packed, sealed and tracked answers a question they will ask before they book.
Building managers want certificates before we can use the loading dock. Can the site help?
The office page can say you provide certificates of currency for public liability on request, if you do, and the form asks for the building manager's contact at each site. That turns a last-minute scramble into a line on the checklist.
Will the site look right to someone forwarding it to a director?
That is the point of the commercial section. It reads as a planned service with a process, insurance and a checklist, which is what the person approving the booking looks for.
The plan, in six lines
Identical for every kind of removal business. The pages and the quote form are what change.
Monthly
A$249 a month, GST may apply
Setup
A$499 once, for building the site
Live
Within 14 days of receiving your complete content
After launch
Hosting, SSL, security updates, up to 5 content edits a month and a monthly enquiry report
Term
12-month minimum, then month to month
Not included
Paid ads, logo design, writing your content, domain registration fees
Bring a recent office job to the call
Book a 20-minute call. Tell us the offices you move, how you handle IT and the move windows you work. We tell you straight whether the plan fits your commercial work.
A$249 a month, A$499 setup, GST may apply. The price in full
We build and look after websites. We are not a removal business, and nothing we write for you is advice about moving, lifting or insurance cover.