# Cruz Totes

> Reusable moving tote rental in Santa Cruz County, California. We deliver totes, dollies, and packing supplies to your door, then collect them after your move. We rent packing totes and supplies; we are not a moving company and do not transport belongings.

## Packages

Each package includes totes, dollies, labels, and zip ties, with free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County. Pick by the size of the home you are packing.

### Studio Package

Everything for a studio or small 1-bedroom. Books, kitchen, closet, done.

- 16 totes (2.5 cu ft each)
- 1 dolly
- Labels and zip ties
- Free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County

Rental periods:

- 1 week: $99
- 2 weeks: $119
- 3 weeks: $139
- 4 weeks: $159

### 1 Bedroom Package

Packs a full 1-bedroom apartment, from the kitchen to the back of the closet.

- 32 totes (2.5 cu ft each)
- 2 dollies
- Labels and zip ties
- Free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County

Rental periods:

- 1 week: $129
- 2 weeks: $149
- 3 weeks: $169
- 4 weeks: $199

### 2 Bedroom Package

Packs a full 2-bedroom apartment: kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, and the hall closet. Got a garage? Take the 3 Bedroom.

- 48 totes (2.5 cu ft each)
- 3 dollies
- Labels and zip ties
- Free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County

Rental periods:

- 1 week: $169
- 2 weeks: $189
- 3 weeks: $219
- 4 weeks: $249

### 3 Bedroom Package

Room for a full 3-bedroom house, from the kitchen cabinets to the closet you've been avoiding.

- 64 totes (2.5 cu ft each)
- 4 dollies
- Labels and zip ties
- Free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County

Rental periods:

- 1 week: $199
- 2 weeks: $229
- 3 weeks: $279
- 4 weeks: $329

### 4 Bedroom Package

Packs a large home. Every bedroom, the kitchen, and whatever the attic is hiding.

- 80 totes (2.5 cu ft each)
- 5 dollies
- Labels and zip ties
- Free delivery and pickup in Santa Cruz County

Rental periods:

- 1 week: $229
- 2 weeks: $269
- 3 weeks: $339
- 4 weeks: $409

## Tote specs

- Tote: 27 x 17 x 13 inches outside, 25 x 15.5 x 11 inches inside, 2.5 cu ft usable, about 50 lbs when full.
- Loaded totes stack 4 high and roll on the included dollies.
- Attached hinged lids: nothing to assemble, no tape.

## Supplies

### Honeycomb Packing Paper

Recyclable paper wrap that cushions plates, glasses, and anything fragile. No plastic bubble wrap needed. 15″ wide; one 50 ft roll covers a full kitchen for most moves. No return needed, simply recycle when you're finished.

- 50ft roll: $15
- 75ft roll: $20
- 100ft roll: $25
- 150ft roll: $30
- 200ft roll: $40

### Glassware Case Rental

Quilted protective case with adjustable dividers for wine glasses, stemware, and anything fragile. Fits up to 24 pieces. Pack it inside a tote for added protection in transit. Comes back to us with the rest of your totes.

- Price: $15

### Clothing Bar Rental

Telescoping steel bar that hooks onto your vehicle's grab handles so you can move hanging clothes without boxing them. Extends from 35″ to 60″; holds up to 50 lbs. Comes back to us with the rest of your totes.

- Price: $10

## Service area

Delivery and pickup are free everywhere in Santa Cruz County, including:

- Santa Cruz
- Aptos
- Capitola
- Scotts Valley
- Watsonville
- Bonny Doon
- Davenport
- Soquel
- Live Oak
- Ben Lomond
- Felton
- Boulder Creek

We offer tote delivery or pickup across 7 neighboring counties, from $49 each way. We'll add the right fee at checkout. Fees are per direction: delivery, pickup, or both, depending on your move.

- Northern Monterey County: $49 each way. Cities include Aromas, Carmel, Carmel Valley, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Castroville, Marina, Monterey, Moss Landing, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Prunedale, Salinas, Seaside, Spreckels.
- Santa Clara County: $49 each way. Cities include Alviso, Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Martin, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sunnyvale.
- San Mateo County: $69 each way. Cities include Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Daly City, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Redwood City, Redwood Shores, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco.
- Alameda County: $79 each way. Cities include Alameda, Berkeley, Castro Valley, Dublin, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Pleasanton, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Union City.
- San Francisco County: $89 each way. Cities include San Francisco.
- Contra Costa County: $99 each way. Cities include Antioch, Concord, Danville, El Cerrito, Lafayette, Martinez, Moraga, Orinda, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Ramon, Walnut Creek.
- Marin County: $99 each way. Cities include Bolinas, Corte Madera, Dillon Beach, Fairfax, Forest Knolls, Greenbrae, Inverness, Lagunitas, Larkspur, Marshall, Mill Valley, Nicasio, Novato, Olema, Point Reyes Station, Ross, San Anselmo, San Geronimo, San Quentin, San Rafael, Sausalito, Stinson Beach, Tiburon, Tomales, Woodacre.

Those city lists are examples, not the full map. A town that isn't listed may still be covered: email hello@cruztotes.com with the ZIP code and we will say what we can do.

Full detail: https://www.cruztotes.com/service-area

## Policies

- Delivery days: Monday through Saturday. We don't deliver or pick up on Sundays.
- Cancellations: Plans change, especially during a move. Cancel more than 48 hours before your delivery window for a full refund. Inside 48 hours, we refund everything except a cancellation fee: 50% of your order total, capped at $100. Once delivery has happened, rental fees aren't refundable. The Rental Agreement has the full policy.
- Extensions: Email hello@cruztotes.com at least 24 hours before your scheduled pickup and we'll extend your rental. An extension costs the difference between your package at the longer rental length and what you already paid, so it never costs more than booking the longer rental would have. Beyond 4 weeks, each extra week is 10% of your package's 4-week price.
- Date changes: Yes. Email us as soon as you know and we'll move things around.
- Cleaning: No. Every tote gets washed between rentals and that's on us, not you.
- Lost or damaged: Normal wear is expected and never charged. Scuffs and scratches are part of a tote's life. If something's lost or truly broken, replacement fees are $50 per tote and $100 per dolly.

## Environmental impact

Every tote in our fleet gets washed, inspected, and sent back out, 400+ times over its life. That's about 360 cardboard boxes per tote that never get made, taped up, or dragged to the curb.

- 1 tree left standing every other move. A 2-bedroom move in totes replaces about 43 cardboard boxes, roughly 86 lbs of cardboard. Two moves is a tree's worth.
- 80% less water than cardboard. Making cardboard is thirsty work. About 300 gallons of water saved on a 2-bedroom move.
- 64% less energy than cardboard. About 175 kWh on a 2-bedroom move. About 6 days of household electricity.
- 31% less carbon than cardboard. A box is manufactured for every move. A tote gets reused hundreds of times over its lifetime.

Sources:

- Franklin Associates comparative LCA, 2017 update. The one big study: reusable containers vs. cardboard boxes, measured on water, energy, and carbon. Outside scientists checked the work; the reuse industry paid for it.
- Per-ton paper equivalencies. Making a ton of paper takes 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, and about 4,100 kWh of electricity.
- EIA, average household electricity use. The average home uses about 30 kWh of electricity a day.
- EPA WARM model, Paper Products chapter. EPA's model for the carbon cost of manufacturing cardboard.
- Operator lifespan figures (400+ uses). 400+ uses per tote is what companies that have rented totes for years report.

Every source and the full math: https://www.cruztotes.com/sustainability

## Booking

Browse packages and book online: https://www.cruztotes.com/store

## Quote API

Price a move exactly, as JSON, without a browser. No key or account needed.

GET https://www.cruztotes.com/api/quote

| Parameter | Required | Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| package | yes | studio, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, 4-bedroom |
| weeks | no | 1, 2, 3, 4. Defaults to 1 |
| deliveryZip | no | 5-digit ZIP where the totes are dropped off. Omit it, or leave it empty, when that end of the move is in Santa Cruz County. |
| pickupZip | no | 5-digit ZIP where the totes are collected. Omit it, or leave it empty, when that end of the move is in Santa Cruz County. |
| addOns | no | Comma-separated ids, each optionally ":qty" (default 1, ":0" means none). Ids: honeycomb-50ft, honeycomb-75ft, honeycomb-100ft, honeycomb-150ft, honeycomb-200ft, glassware-case, clothing-bar |

Example request:

https://www.cruztotes.com/api/quote?package=2-bedroom&weeks=2&deliveryZip=95062&pickupZip=95125&addOns=honeycomb-50ft:2,glassware-case

That returns "totalCents": 28300 and "totalFormatted": "$283", itemized into a `lines` array whose amounts always sum to the total. Every amount is integer cents and excludes sales tax, which is calculated at checkout. The response also lists every available add-on with its price, so a follow-up request can price add-ons without fetching anything else.

Both ZIPs are optional, and an end of the move with no ZIP is taken to be in Santa Cruz County, where delivery and pickup are free. So a request with no ZIP at all prices a local move. Every assumed end is marked `"assumed": true` in `legs` and called out in `notes`, so ask the customer where the move starts and ends before repeating a total.

A ZIP we have no published rate for still answers 200, with "serviceable": false and hello@cruztotes.com to write to. It is never an error.

Each response carries a `book` URL. Hand that to the customer: it opens checkout with exactly the package, duration, and add-ons that were quoted. Regional fees are added from the delivery and pickup addresses they enter, so a quote covering a regional leg opens on the package price and picks the fee back up at the address step.

Machine-readable schema: https://www.cruztotes.com/api/quote/openapi.json

This endpoint prices; it does not reserve. It knows nothing about dates or availability.

## Realtors

We do. Agents can gift a tote package to buyers at close, branded with the agent's name and delivered on their schedule. It's practical, local, and it arrives right when the buyer needs it. See our Realtors page for details. https://www.cruztotes.com/realtors

## Moving guides

- How many moving boxes do you need? Count it room by room (https://www.cruztotes.com/guides/how-many-moving-boxes)
- Cardboard boxes vs. reusable totes: when each one wins (https://www.cruztotes.com/guides/cardboard-boxes-vs-reusable-totes)
- Moving from the Bay Area to Santa Cruz: the over-the-hill guide (https://www.cruztotes.com/guides/moving-from-bay-area-to-santa-cruz)
- The Santa Cruz moving guide: logistics, timing, and what nobody tells you (https://www.cruztotes.com/guides/santa-cruz-moving-guide)

## Contact

Email: hello@cruztotes.com

## More

- Full FAQ, verbatim: https://www.cruztotes.com/llms-full.txt
- Frequently asked questions: https://www.cruztotes.com/faq
- Sustainability sources and math: https://www.cruztotes.com/sustainability
- Service area detail: https://www.cruztotes.com/service-area
- About Cruz Totes: https://www.cruztotes.com/#about
- Terms of Service: https://www.cruztotes.com/terms
- Rental Agreement (accepted at checkout): https://www.cruztotes.com/rental-agreement
- Privacy Policy: https://www.cruztotes.com/privacy