We are going to be redesigning our web site. I have noticed that on some of the storage web sites, there are "storage calculators", where you put in # of chairs, etc. and it calculates the size of storage unit that you need. Is this a plug and play kind of thing that I can get somewhere or is this something your web designers created on an individual basis?

Thanks,
Kim

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Kim Howard
Manager
FCI Self Storage & Custom Police Vehicles

Hi Kim,

Usually you design this kind of calculator on your own. We've chosen to do one designed for Adobe Acrobat that can be both used on the web or offline. These things are not very advanced, but if you dont have enough experience yourself I'd hire someone to do it and make sure it works. So I wouldn't recommend you tryin to copy someones idea straight of

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Business Manager
Servistore, Sweden
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I have seen these storage calculators on the web, and I cannot figure out for the life of me how the programming could take stacking into account. How can the programming determine if the chairs are stackable, or weather the customer would stand a couch on end or lay it down on the floor.

I use a quick and easy chart on my website that describes what is being stored, and the approximate size needed.

http://www.justrightselfstorage.ca/i...ce-calculator/

I like your space and size calculator, Matz, it is about right on. I believe the Association's calculator shows a 10x10 for a small 2 bedroom apartment whereas yours suggests using a 10x15. Even that is on the small side, but often big enough. Usually, out here in the West, we need a 10x20 for a 2 bedroom apartment or condo, especially if the family has been together for a few years and has collected "valuables" along the way.

Apparently there is some thought that giving the price of a 10x10 instead of a 10x15 or 10x20 sounds better to the caller, and, after they come in, you can show them the units and let them choose the larger unit that they will need. It's kind of deceptive, isn't it?

Self Storage Association, maybe you could revisit your unit size recommendations. Perhaps it's just outdated because people a saving more things these days.