Updates and perspective from the team building Moovi, the operating platform for UK removals and storage operators.
The State of the UK Removals Software Market 2026 - Part One (2026-09-30). Most software comparisons are feature bake-offs, and a feature bake-off written by a vendor always flatters the vendor. So before naming a single product, here is the part no demo shows you: web-native versus thick-client, cloud versus self-hosted, in-house versus outsourced development - and the eleven questions to put to every vendor in this market, mine included. Part One of two. No products named.
Small, unsexy, with inherited defects (2026-09-07). Ask a layman what a removals firm does and they describe a van and some boxes. Ask someone in the trade and you get export packing, LTL and FTL, multimodal, risk assessments and a compliance stack. So why does this industry run on a CRM? An essay on the category error at the bottom of removals software - a tool borrowed from the estate agency next door, built for a business whose job is winning the sale, handed to a business whose job is doing the work.
Leading us astray? (2026-08-25). Every removals firm in the country buys leads and calls it the cost of doing business. But one enquiry can be sold to as many as six firms - the platforms' own figure - and only one of you can perform the move. The rest still pay, and that cost is folded into the price of the jobs you win. Following the money to the one party that wins on every single enquiry, whether anyone moves house or not.
Choosing a removals company: what you are actually paying for (2026-07-31). A short, practical guide for anyone moving home. There is no licence to be a mover, so the cheapest quote can be unpriced risk. What you are actually paying for when you choose a professional removals firm, the insurance gap most people never check, and five questions that tell you who you are really dealing with.
Business Rates, Warehouses and the Removals Industry (2026-07-23). A free Moovi briefing for removals and storage operators. What the government's 20% business rates cut for pubs actually announced, what it did not, why the warehouse levy did not arrive this time but is not settled, where you stand on the five multipliers and transitional relief, and a ready-to-send template letter to your MP. Information, not advice. Nothing for sale.
The Wrong Way Up (2026-06-30). The Moovi Dispatch, Issue Four. Issue One found the hidden cost of idle time; Issue Two traced the adoption curve; Issue Three drew the line between software that records a business and software that runs it. This issue asks a harder question: how an industry ended up with its innovation running the wrong way up, born at the bottom of the market and never picked up and maximised at the top.
Digitised, or Optimised? (2026-06-26). The Moovi Dispatch, Issue Three. Issue One found the hidden cost of idle time; Issue Two traced the adoption curve. This issue is about the difference between software that records your business and software that runs it, why standing still is more dangerous than it looks, and what reclaiming the lost margin is worth.
Moovi Global is live: domestic and international moves on one connected record (2026-06-26). Moovi Global is live: international removals on the same record as your domestic jobs - sea, air and road, customs documentation, multi-currency quoting, destination services, and a partner app your destination agent can use without running your software.
We've Always Done It This Way (2026-06-17). The Moovi Dispatch, Issue Two. Issue One argued the UK removals industry's margin problem is idle time, not price. This issue asks why almost no one has pulled that lever - and why the two things that kept the old way working have just quietly stopped being true.
The Margin Question (2026-06-11). A biweekly analysis of the economics of the UK removals industry. Issue One asks where, in a sector squeezed by forces largely outside its control, the margin actually went - and argues the largest lever an operator is not pulling is not price, but time.
What Is The Best Removals Software? 5 UK Picks (2026-05-30). Find out what is the best removals software? for your UK firm. We compare 5 top picks, from Moovi to MoveMan, to streamline your quotes, crew, and storage.
We weren't at Birmingham. Here's why, and here's where we stand. (2026-05-26). Why Moovi missed the BAR conference, and where we already stand on the four themes that came off the Birmingham stage: cyber, professional standards, speed to lead, and commercial growth.