Ben Lynch is the Partnership Manager at Warp It. In his role, he is responsible for facilitating the safe and smooth passage of reusable assets from our valued customers to our partners in the charity and school sectors.

We’ve grabbed Ben for a quick interview so that you can learn more about what is going on behind the scenes.

It might be too early to put the Michael Bublé Christmas CD on just yet, but it’s not too early for us here at Warp It to tell you that we are setting the target of £3m in charity donations through our platform by December 25th.

Dear Warp It Admins,

This one is for you. Over the last few years, we’ve worked hard to increase the levels of control and customisability that you have over your organisation’s Warp It portal.

In this article, we are going to explain how to control what your users can see when they are in the marketplace.

Every so often we get requests from customers along the lines of....

These items are definitely not required internally- we want to send them straight to charity.

Now you can send items straight to charity!

Within the admin settings panel, you will find ‘Control Partners’, a section that will enable admins to allow items to be immediately assigned to third parties.

Log in as admin> settings> control partners......

Our customers have exceeded expectations! As of now customers have saved £2.7million worth of furniture and equipment and donated it to charities all over the country!! 

Yes they have given furniture and equipment to the value of £2.7million to all the third sector. 

By now, you’re probably quite familiar with the process of internal claims, but what about opening up your assets to third parties? In this article, we are going to talk about one of the features we’ve introduced to help smoothen the communications between you and third parties.

One thing that we are occasionally asked is whether customers can account for assets that have been claimed outside of the system either internally or by 3rd parties. 

The reason this is asked is that there may have been a period of reuse before implementing the system that you want to track, or a charity may have turned up on site and taken extra assets that you want to account for. 

One thing that we are occasionally asked is whether customers can send assets straight to a charity and bypass the internal reuse phase.

The reason this is asked is that when you add an asset usually, it gets advertised to internal and then later to whoever has been defined as ‘priority two’, and ‘priority three’ (see this article about share days).

However there are some cases where you might want to avoid internal reuse- the item might not be corporate colours, the item might be non compliant or outdated. As such you donot want internal staff to claim it!

Welcome back! In part four of this series looking at organisation and city level sharing of surplus assets, we are focusing on the University of London.