UK Flat Pack Furniture Assemblers

Flat Pack Amigo Development

Flat Pack Amigos is a directory of self employed assemblers who adhere to high standards. The site aims to bring together those that want to assemble furniture and those that want it assembling.

In order for the site to directory to develop and remain the number one source of assemblers we need help from the assemblers and their customers.

Areas that require development are:

Assembler Recruitment Pages - I have made a start, but is there are better way of conveying this information. Are the standards that have been set correct, can they be improved?

Customer Pages - are they clear and unambiguous? are there clearer ways of presenting the information? we all need reliable tradesmen, but what can we do to build and maintain the required trust?

Which pages need to be dynamic? - so users can update them, Testimonials for each assembler etc.

Call Taking & Commercial Invoicing - We are looking for an independent agent to take on the role of booking in commercial jobs received directly at a fixed premium per job of ~£10. This would ideally suite someone who is available to take calls throughout the day responding in a timely manner.

Diary Planning Software - FPA invested heavily in diary management software, which allows you to assign jobs to assemblers based on their category (i.e. skill set) and their distance from the job (to reduce travel and optimise diary management). The system is available for commercial exploitation and has already been trialled at one of our customers as well as currently being adapted for use by a company specialising in recycling waste oil. More information will be available soon. It can currently be used by several users simultaneously and also is being developed for use over the web.

If you are interested in assisting, please drop me an email (via the Contact Us page) and we can take it from there - don't send comments in the first instance. I intend to modify the website and make it database driven to allow this development to work.

I guess this is really collaborative working on a small scale or some form of Wikinomics! The ultimate aim is to create a network of assemblers for customers working in the way customers want, but also in a way that is fair for those providing the service too.