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Long Carry Fee Calculator

We believe in a “no surprise” move day, and long carries are the #1 surprise that will upset customers. If you add the possibility of a long carry into your core pricing, you will already have charged the customer for this and will avoid the surprise.

Here’s the solution: Increase your Inventory Cost By Volume to accommodate an occasional long carry charge.

How to Calculate the Necessary Price Increase

Step 1: Gather your information.

You’ll need three numbers:

  • Total number of jobs (over a set period)
  • Total number of instances of a long carry (over that same period)
  • Your Price per CF for a long carry

Let’s look at an example. Imagine that you’re a moving company that charges $0.14 per CF for a long carry and you perform 100 jobs per month with 20 instances of a long carry (both origin and destination). 

Step 2: Calculate how often you encounter long carries

Instances of a long carry (20) / Number of Jobs in total (100) = Instance rate of jobs with long carry (20%)

Step 3: Calculate your price per volume increase

Normal long carry charge ($0.14) x Instance rate of jobs with long carry (20%) = Price per volume Increase ($0.03)

Add your Extra Long Carry Charge to your Price Per Volume

On your Mover Dashboard, click on the Pricing tab and scroll down to the drop-down menu that reads “Inventory”. Add your Extra Long Carry Charge to the amount that says “Cost by Volume”. For our example:

Original Cost by Volume ($0.9) + Extra Long Carry Charge ($0.03) = Total Cost By Volume ($0.93)