United Baristas is now easier to use and even more connected.

We’ve just launched the latest version of United Baristas Services, making it simpler to search for items on Marketplace, set up job notifications, source equipment or keep track of upcoming coffee events. This release is another milestone in our mission to better connect the specialty coffee community.

A unified design

This update marks two key milestones. Firstly, we (finally) have a unified design across United Baristas. We released a new design for articles in 2024, which has been a real success.

We designed the templates with our services in mind. Now that they’re implemented across United Baristas Services, browsing listings is smoother than ever, it’s faster to scan key information and the site is better formatted for all devices and screen sizes.

Introducing Events Calendar 2025

Second, our Events Calendar is now fully integrated into United Baristas Services. It features both upcoming events and the coffee events calendar, making it easy to plan the year ahead. Plus, event organisers can add their own coffee events and everything connects seamlessly with our other services.

Ringing in the New Year with big changes

Implementing this new design has been a major undertaking. We began integrating our services in 2022 and with this update, we have not only re-styled United Baristas but also changed the platform which powers our templates.

So far, we’ve updated our most frequently viewed pages. You may still come across a page that looks slightly off, but we expect to have all templates updated by the end of February. If you encounter a critical glitch that persists for more than 24 hours, please let us know via our Support Centre.

View our work in progress and input your ideas

If you only use United Baristas Services a few times a year, you may notice big changes between visits. If something has changed, visit United Baristas Updates to see recent developments and our roadmap. You can also share your ideas for how we can make United Baristas even better.

We hope you find these updates useful for whatever you have planned in the year ahead.

Work is underway to implement a new design across United Baristas Services.

Temporary glitches and awkward styling are to be expected. We are not only implementing a new design but also a new platform on which the design is coded. This means we need to temporarily merge the existing and new platforms on United Baristas Services while it is live. Glitches and awkward styling may occur whenever the two systems are incompatible.

We have been preparing for this transition over the past six months and will endeavor to make the change as smoothly as possible. There will be updates across United Baristas. If something isn't working, please try again a little later. If an issue persists for more than 24 hours, please open a support ticket.

Why are we doing this

Earlier this year, we updated United Baristas with a new design – and it has been a real success. The site is simpler to use, articles are easier to read, more people are visiting than ever before and the new platform is easier for us to maintain and update in the future.

We now need to implement the same platform and design on United Baristas Services. This will further unify United Baristas and make future updates easier.

Unfortunately, it's not practical to push the platform and design changes to United Baristas Services all at once, so we are doing it incrementally. The Christmas – New Year period is the quietest time of year for our services, making it an ideal time to implement these changes.

We expect to have the new platform and the foundation of the new design in place by 6 January 2025. We will then progressively redesign each of Directory, Equipment, Events, Jobs, and Marketplace throughout 2025.

Thank you for using United Baristas. Please bear with us as we make these changes and all the best for the year ahead.

Just like 🎄 Christmas, it's best when we're all together. Over the past three years we have incrementally integrated all our services into United Baristas Services.

United Baristas Service has new features

We've launched new features such as powerful notifications, enhanced Profile functions, and improved services like Jobs.

Introducing Coffee Events 2025

In the new year, we'll launch the all-new Coffee Events. It's fully integrated into United Baristas and has been completely rebuilt to better connect the coffee community. You can now easily explore coffee events by location, format and type. Plus, events are automatically displayed across United Baristas based on your location.

More updates are coming next year

This concludes the first phase of our work building United Baristas Services, but we're only just getting started. The next phase includes a new design and additional features.

Thanks

It's great to have you as part of the United Baristas community and thanks for your patience as we've made these changes. We hope you find them really useful for the year ahead and all the best for 2025.

Here's some of the updates we've made to United Baristas Services so far:

Coffee Events are now integrated into United Baristas Services.

 https://services.unitedbaristas.com/coffee-events/ 

Introducing Coffee Events 2

Completely rebuilt to better connect the coffee community. You can now easily explore coffee events by location, format and type. Plus events are automatically displayed across United Baristas based on your location.

View Coffee Events

You can now browse, view, filter and search events, just like you already do with equipment, jobs and marketplace listings. For example, search for upcoming trade shows & festivals in London.

 https://services.unitedbaristas.com/service/coffee-events/ 

Upcoming Events Calendar

View events by year, month or week with the Events Calendar. For example, here's Coffee Events in February 2025.

 https://services.unitedbaristas.com/coffee-events-calendar/ 

Adding your Coffee Events

Add Coffee Events to United Baristas, just like you add jobs or equipment. Free events are free to list, plus Company Profile holders get extra features and discounted listings on their events.

 https://services.unitedbaristas.com/service/coffee-events/new/ 

We look forward to catching up with you at Coffee Events in 2025.

We've made further improvements over recent weeks, plus numerous changes in preparation for forthcoming updates. Here's a summary of the latest changes you'll notice:

Directory

Companies, people and brands are now part of Directory. We're improving how each of these profiles connect with each other, as well as with Equipment, Jobs and Marketplace.

People Profiles

There have been significant updates to people's profiles on United Baristas. You can learn more about creating your profile and the new features, including:

• add a profile picture and header image
• add your experiences
• optionally display your openness to a new coffee job

Notifications

New notifications also allow you to receive search notification of updated profiles, plus get updates from specific people, company or brand profiles. Notifications also work with Equipment, Jobs and Marketplace.

Emails

To support new notifications we have redesigned our emails for clarity and sending enhanced security. Here's a couple of things to note:

• Job Alerts are now Notifications
• If you have issues receiving new United Baristas Services emails, guidance is in Support Centre
• Following changes to UB-ID, if you don't receive your UB-iD password reset email, please read this guidance 

Fixes

As we update the site in preparation for major updates next year, we occasionally break things where unexpected incompatibility is an issue. Here's some bugs we hope you didn't encounter:

• Fixed error preventing some users adding new plans to their Company Profile
• Fixed an error where occasionally the page would freeze when editing a listing
• Fixed links to popular products from Brand profiles
• Fixed an error preventing downloads from Equipment Catalogue and Jobs for users that were not signed in

If you encounter an error, please check known issues, and if it's not listed then open a Support ticket.

We've made improvements and changes to People Profiles on United Baristas.

New features and improvements

• Showcase your work and achievements with Experiences
• Communicate your openness to a new coffee job
• Add profile picture and header image

Experiences

You can now add key experiences from your coffee career. Communicate periods of employment, achievements and awards. Think of it as a potted version of your CV. Most people looking for work should add 2 to 5 experiences.

Open to work?

You can now display your openness to a new job. Opt for:

• Looking for my next job, or
• Open to opportunities

If you select either of these options, the enquiry form is displayed on your profile so companies can contact you without you having to share your email, phone or socials.

Profile pictures

Add a profile picture and header to your profile to make it your own.

Expiry & renewal

To keep United Baristas tidy, you'll need to update your profile at least every 18 months otherwise it'll be unpublished and subsequently deleted several weeks later.

Next steps

These updates are all compatible with forthcoming changes to better integrate United Baristas services. This is a multi-step project for us and updates will be incrementally rolled out into early 2025.

New design

A new Profile design is scheduled for early 2025. Start using these new features from today and they'll be further enhanced with the new design.

Notifications are now available across United Baristas and are designed to help you stay informed about the things you care about.

Here's how to create powerful, personal notifications.

Tip: set specific notifications

Tailor your notifications as specifically as possible. For example, if you're looking for a La Marzocco Linea PB, live near Bath and don't want to travel far, you can set notifications for any of the following options – but the most specific option is likely the best:

•  all Marketplace listings 
•  coffee equipment 
•  coffee-making equipment 
•  espresso machines 
•  La Marzocco espresso machines 
•  La Marzocco Linea PB espresso machines
•  La Marzocco Linea PB espresso machines near Bath 

Notifications are not limited to Marketplace listings; they also apply to Jobs, Equipment, Companies, and more — plus across all locations.

Whether you're tracking local job listings, want to discover new engineers or get updates on key coffee equipment, the possibilities are endless. The power is now in your hands 👐.

Tip: batch notifications

You can also choose how frequently you receive each Notification:

• Immediately – as it happens
• Daily – grouped into one daily email
• Weekly – grouped into one weekly email

Managing Notifications

You can update notifications as your needs change:

• start Sign In to your Account
• click Notification Settings
• View and edit your Notifications

And some Notification styling is awkward as we prepare to implement the new United Baristas design, please bear with us.

Support Centre is the new name for Help Centre.

Rationale

We are simplifying things across United Baristas and it makes more sense to us that you view support articles and get assistance from support in... Support Centre.

Redirection

All current articles redirect to Support Centre. If you encounter a broken link it is because an article has been revised, superseded or deleted. You can both search and browse current articles.

Updates to Support Centre articles

As we continue to update United Baristas Services, Support Centre articles will become increasingly out-of date.

The current plan is to document changes here in Updates as we go, complete all updates to Services, and then comprehensively revise Support Centre articles.

Support Centre articles written before July 2024 are at greater risk being out-of-date.

If you can't figure something out in the interim, please reach out to Support.

We’ve made several improvements, changes and temporary fixes as we prepare for a major update to United Baristas Services.

Enhancements to Search

With more-and-more listings, we want to make it as easy as possible to find suitable jobs and equipment.

Search now organises results into four distinct sections:

• Sections - relevant listing and profile categories
• Listings & Profiles - relevant results
• Store – relevant products
• Explore – other relevant, key pages

You can make very specific searches, such as 'Victoria Arduino engineers London', 'used GS3' or 'Barista jobs in Edinburgh'. Remember, if you wish to view all relevant listings it is easier to use Filters.

We’ve also removed sold and recently expired listings from search results. There are two changes you may need to make:

1. if you wish to check sold prices, start in the relevant Marketplace section (for example, coffee equipment) and use Filters and toggle the Status to 'Sold'
2. if you wish to re-list once it expires, you can no longer find the listing through search. Instead, sign in to your Account > Manage Listings.

Sold Marketplace listings

If you mark your Marketplace listing as 'sold', the payment and contact information is removed and the listing no longer:

• appears in search results (though it will remain in Filter results)

• nor displayed in related Marketplace listings

These changes further reduce the visibility of sold listings. If your sale falls through, remember to change the status back to something other than 'sold'. We recommend using the 'under offer' status until sales are completed.

Signing in

You can no longer sign in to United Baristas using Google. To continue using United Baristas Services, simply create a new password.

Your email address is the unique identifier. For example, if the Google Account associated with your UB-iD was person@gmail.com, then enter the email and continue to create a password.

Steps to sign in:

1. start Sign In to your Account 
2. enter your email address
3. create a password by following the Forgot Password link

Additional guidance is available in Support Centre.

Accounts updates, plus receipts and invoices

 Accounts have been amended to make functions clearer.

Additionally, when you pay to list on United Baristas Services, the receipt/invoice is issued through Stripe and emailed at the time of purchase. Now, a copy is also available via a link from your Account.

Directory

The profiles section has been renamed to 'Directory'. Going forward, Directory will house both People and Company profiles, plus we will add new functions and features.

Equipment Store product finder

We've updated Product Finder to make it easier to sort equipment available on United Baristas Store by edit.

Removed 'Discussions' from Marketplace listings

You can no longer comment on Marketplace listings. This function was seldom used, as most people prefer to message their questions directly. We believe that having two methods to ask questions risked causing confusion.

Following Listings, Jobs & Profiles

We have temporarily removed the “Follow” button for users who are not signed in. (Recent backend updates caused the button to do nothing if clicked without being signed in.)

To follow a listing, job, or profile, sign in first and then follow.

Follow functions will be updated with the forthcoming updates to Notifications.

Numerous temp fixes

There are numerous small styling fixes to buttons, margins and blocks. As we make backend changes in advance of the new styling changes, some of the existing styles may look a bit odd. If some thing is too much, not working or unclear – please let us know.

United Baristas has long offered a unique blend of thought-provoking ideas and actionable information.

Our articles have become increasingly comprehensive as we tackle the complex opportunities and challenges facing the industry. The old templates were stretched to their limits, so we've introduced a new design that makes searching, browsing, and reading easier.

 https://unitedbaristas.com/ 

Articles are easier to browse, search and read

•  View Articles
• Explore articles from across United Baristas by theme with Collections.
• Follow the development of topics across articles with Series.
•  Listen to key articles with Audio Articles.
• Save articles to your account with Bookmarks.

New United Baristas design

Improvements to Articles are part of a larger update.

We’ve completely rebuilt United Baristas to better communicate our actions across the coffee community, further reduce our carbon footprint and build a foundation for our future plans.

What's next?

We have begun implementing the new design across United Baristas Services. This is a large, multi-stage project for us and will take some time.

Upcoming changes, work-in-progress and new features will be communicated in the Updates section. Thanks in advance for your patience and use of United Baristas. It's great to see our Services used by so many people from across the coffee community.