Choosing a tool
Senior move managers usually shop three different categories of software, and only one of them is organized around the floor plan of the unit the client is moving into.
Most software a senior move manager tries was built for a neighboring trade. Moving company platforms are built for carriers who own trucks and bill by the load. Floor plan apps are built for contractors who need an accurate sketch of a space. General field service systems are built for any small business that quotes a visit and sends an invoice afterward. Each one is competent at its own job, and each one starts after the hardest part of a downsize is already settled.
The hard part is deciding what a fifty year household keeps when the receiving unit has two bedrooms, one dining wall, and an elevator with a reservation window. DownsizeRoute is organized around that decision: measured walls and door widths, keeper furniture placed against them, a release channel for everything that did not make the plan, and a move day sequence the family agreed to in writing. These pages compare it honestly with the alternatives, as a fit question rather than a scoreboard.
DownsizeRoute vs SmartMoving
SmartMoving is aimed at moving companies running trucks and crews, while DownsizeRoute is aimed at the manager who has to decide what fits the new unit before any truck is booked.
DownsizeRoute vs Magicplan
Magicplan is a field capture tool for producing a floor plan of a space, while DownsizeRoute is a decision tool for choosing which of a client's furniture that space can hold.
DownsizeRoute vs Jobber
Jobber is general purpose field service software for small home service businesses, while DownsizeRoute is narrow software for the specific work of moving an older adult into a smaller home.
Free tools
Two working calculators for the numbers that decide a senior move engagement: what the job pays after crew and disposition costs, and how many weeks it needs before move day.
Working document
A one page working template you fill in on the community tour so the keeper list is decided by measurements instead of by argument.
A short working session on your own numbers settles a comparison faster than any table. Tell us how the work runs today and we will show you the difference on that.