Forthcoming Updates to United Baristas Market – Phase II
Oh boy! There's some big updates coming to United Baristas Market.
Let's start with the BIG picture
We want to create one, unified service that allows baristas and coffee people to easily source, service, better use and then sell on their coffee-making equipment. Soon you'll be able to do all this on United Baristas Market 💪
If we can achieve this we can help make coffee businesses more profitable, enhance cup quality, make baristas' lives easier and reduce the industry's impacts. ☕️⚡️
United Baristas Market will have several functions:
- buy and sell used coffee equipment
- source new coffee equipment
- maintain and service coffee equipment
- get product info to better use and maintain equipment
- + all these need to sync together
Forthcoming...
To build these functions out, we are introducing several new sections to Market, to complement marketplace. Specifically:
Equipment catalogue
- we're integrating the equipment catalogue from Equipment
- and syncing the equipment catalogue with Marketplace listings
Company Profiles
- Transferring all company profiles from Equipment
- Updating all market stalls to company profiles
- Introducing new Company Profile design and features
- and setting up the automated sync for Company Profiles with marketplace listings and the equipment catalogue
Brands
- Set up key brands as hubs for information on their respective equipment, importers, resellers, engineers and more.
Work in progress
There's a number of work items in progress at present.
We now need to implement these changes on the live site. Everything will function but we are letting you know now as things might be a little rocky in the coming weeks. Expect things to occasionally occur, such as:
- temporary broken links
- awkward templates
We are currently working on:
Incorporating Equipment functions in United Baristas Market
Okay, this is a massive update. Based on the learning from United Baristas Equipment [Beta], we paused development in 2021 with intention of implementing those functions directly into United Baristas Market. Today, we are announcing that work is underway to: • incorporate the equipment directory directly into United Baristas Market • move all company profiles, including engineers, into United Baristas Market • implement associated servicing and retailer searches into United Baristas Market We will notify impacted businesses once we have prepared the necessary steps for the transition. It's a big project for us, so please be patience and bear with us while we make these changes. Updates on the progress below 👇
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New Companies Profiles on United Baristas Market
We are starting to implement new Company Profiles on United Baristas Market. • Market Stalls will be transitioned to new Company Profiles – we will let you know when you have to update your profile New Company Profiles have a host of new features. Watch this space for details.
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Updated People Profiles
We are implementing new profiles for individuals on United Baristas Market to make listing items easier. • New people category: https://market.unitedbaristas.com/list/community/people/ • New design and functions are being introduced You can use currently available functions while we do this work and we'll be updating relevant people when this feature is implemented so you can finish updating your profile and benefit from the new functions. 💪
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Next steps
Once we get through this stage, we'll reach out to users with information on how they can make the most of the new functions.
This is currently planned for October.
In the interim, if you've got any questions or issues, please open a support ticket in Help Centre.
Thanks for your patience – it's going to be worth it ⚡️