The Auto-Pricing Engine will determine how many crew members and trucks are needed to move a load and how long the job is going to take. Our out of the box Auto-Pricing Engine settings are based on averages in the moving industry. To ensure that your estimates are accurate for your company, you may need to adjust the Auto-Pricing Engine. The Auto-Pricing Engine will apply to jobs where the service type is moving.

Note: If the setting to Automatically Add Resources Based on Auto-Pricing Settings is not enabled, then the Auto-Pricing Engine will not automatically add additional resources beyond the crew sizes that you have configured in your tariff settings. To learn more about this feature visit our article, Enable Per-Additional Truck and Crew Hourly Rates.

This is the maximum number of hours that can be worked per job. Instead of going beyond this maximum number, the Auto-Pricing Engine will adjust your estimated crew count. To prevent the crew members from working unusually long hours, another crew member will be added to the estimate. However, In the case that the travel time is more than the labor time, SmartMoving will not add on additional crew members to the estimate.

Your crew ability can be based on volume or weight per hour. For each crew size, you will enter the cubic feet or pounds that the crew is able to move per hour. When an opportunity is created, the Auto-Pricing Engine will view the volume or weight of the shipment and estimate the number of crew members that will be needed based on the crew's ability by the hour. This will also help SmartMoving to determine how long to estimate that the job is going to take.

For example, according to the Auto-Pricing Engine included below a one-man crew can move 350 pounds per hour and a four-man crew can move 1400 pounds per hour.

To adjust this setting to be based on weight per hour instead of volume per hour, click on the drop-down menu and select Weight (lbs.) per hour.

Based on the volume or weight of the shipment, this setting will determine when the Auto-Pricing Engine will need to add on an additional crew member to your estimated crew count. Once the volume or weight of the shipment goes beyond the threshold that is set, the Auto-Pricing Engine will add an additional crew member to your estimate.

For example, if the volume of the shipment is beyond 1150 cu ft, the Auto-Pricing Engine will estimate that 5 crew members are needed for the job.

A minimum crew size can also be selected for this setting. This will instruct the Auto-Pricing Engine to never estimate a smaller crew size than what is indicated in this field.

The number of trucks that are required for a job based on the volume or weight of the shipment. Once the volume or weight of the shipment reaches beyond the threshold that you have entered, the Auto-Pricing Engine, will assign an additional truck to the job.

For example, the weight of the shipment is 45000 lbs., and so there will be 6 trucks estimated for the job.