For operators · UK-wide
How jobs and payouts work
Customers nationwide can submit move details, receive a fixed price and book it straight away; each booking is then offered to verified operators. Once every eligibility step and final approval is complete, matching jobs may be offered with your exact fixed payout shown before acceptance. Offers depend on real demand and route fit. Applications are welcome UK-wide, but no area has a guaranteed volume of offers.
Questions before registering? Call 020 3143 1719 (Every day, 8am–8pm, UK time) or email suppliers@movesmith.uk.
Built for the people doing the moving
Jobs come to you
Customers nationwide can submit move details and receive a fixed price. Suitable offers are sent only when customer demand, route fit and eligible local or route-based operator capacity align. No lead fees or listing fees, and no guaranteed job volume.
Your share, before you accept
Every offer shows your exact figure — not the customer price, yours. Fixed price per job, no bidding against other operators, no race to the bottom. If the number doesn't work, decline with no penalty.
Paid without chasing
Once you accept a job, Movesmith reserves the customer's fixed price around 48 hours before the move — or immediately if the move is within 48 hours. The job only proceeds after the reservation succeeds. Normally customer payment is captured after completion and sign-off or documented review. An expressly agreed multi-day booking may be collected before work starts, but customer prepayment never establishes completion or releases your payout. Your agreed payout is submitted for processing only after completion and applicable release or hold checks. Later payouts typically reach your bank within 3 working days. Our payment provider normally applies a 7-day wait to a connected account's first payout, which can take longer. Check your payout dashboard for your expected arrival date.
One complete payout
Every offer shows one fixed payout for the disclosed job. The mapped route, confirmed crew, vehicle, handling, access and planned return are already included. You decide whether the complete figure works before accepting.
How it works
- 1
Register in 2 minutes
Base postcode, van or fleet, and your Goods in Transit level. No sign-up fee and no long forms.
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Documents checked by hand
We check your Goods in Transit and Public Liability documents by hand, set up your account and email you as soon as they're checked. Same process wherever in the UK you're based.
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Suitable offers, when demand matches
Once you have final approval and are job-eligible, suitable bookings may be offered with your complete fixed payout shown up front, subject to your approved scope and job dates. Approval does not switch availability on. Offers depend on real customer demand, route fit and capacity; registration does not guarantee work.
Your business, your rules
You stay in control
- Pause new offers any time, or block the dates you can't work
- Set blackout dates around your own bookings and holidays
- Decline any offer before accepting, penalty-free
- No exclusivity — keep your own customers and channels
- Jobs are matched to your Goods in Transit level, never above it
Movesmith handles the booking, customer communication and payment. The network is growing across the UK. Verified operators with final approval may receive suitable offers when real demand, route fit and capacity align.
Why operators join
- One complete fixed payout shown before you accept
- No bidding against other operators
- No lead fees, listing fees or monthly subscription
- Clear commission agreed before you start
- Customer payment authorised before the job goes ahead
- Payout submitted after sign-off, successful capture and hold checks — typically in your bank within 3 working days
- One fixed payout covering the complete disclosed job
Movesmith handles the booking, the customer communication and the payment. You turn up and do the move properly.
Work in your city
Applications are open UK-wide. These city pages cover local move types and nearby areas.
Right to work
We handle your right to work check
Since 1 October 2026 the law asks Movesmith to check the right to work of self-employed movers. If you work for yourself, as a sole trader or a one-person limited company, we do it once, on your phone, in about 3 minutes, before your first job. If you run a removal company, you check your own crew and confirm it when you accept a job.
How the check worksOperator questions
I'm not in London — is it worth registering?
Yes. Operators can apply from anywhere in the UK, and customers nationwide can submit move details and receive a price. Portal access, document verification, activation and final approval for jobs are separate stages. Approval does not switch your availability on. Suitable offers depend on your availability, actual demand, route fit and available local or route-based capacity; registering does not switch on demand or guarantee work.
What does it cost to register?
Nothing. There is no sign-up fee, no listing fee, no lead fee and no monthly subscription. The commercial arrangement and complete fixed payout are shown on each offer before acceptance.
Do I need insurance before I register?
Not to register — tell us the Goods in Transit level you hold, or that you don't hold it yet. You do need valid Goods in Transit and Public Liability cover before taking your first job, and we check the documents during verification.
If you're not covered yet, our insurance guidance walks through what you need.
How do jobs get priced?
Movesmith prices the job, not the hour, and shows the customer that fixed price before they book. You see the price of a job before you accept it — there is no bidding and no race to the bottom.
The applicable arrangement, whether an existing commission agreement or a versioned cost-plus offer, and the complete payout are shown before you accept a job.
Initial offers go to eligible operators based within 30 miles of the pickup. If the job remains unclaimed, the search widens in stages to 50 miles and then 100 miles. The fixed payout already covers the job's mapped route and driving time, including the planned return. A job priced as a Long-Distance Move (a loaded drive of more than 150 minutes or 100 miles) also pays a mileage payment, shown as its own line before you accept; any other job has no separate mileage or travel payment on top, so check the route and the complete figure before accepting. Operators more than 100 miles from the pickup are not automatically allocated.
How much work will I actually get?
Customer activity varies by location and changes over time. Registration and verification do not guarantee any offer or volume. When a booking matches your eligibility, route and capacity, the offer shows your complete fixed payout before you accept. There is nothing to pay while you wait and no exclusivity.
I'm in Scotland — can I register?
Yes — register as normal. We cover the whole UK, Scotland included, and Scottish applications are reviewed like any other. You can ask us to delete your details at any time via suppliers@movesmith.uk.
Register for your area
Two minutes to register. We check every document by hand and email you as soon as it's checked; final approval is separate, and suitable offers depend on real demand, route fit and capacity.