University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

When items that are ready to reuse on the Warp It system aren’t claimed within the deadline their status will expire. What happens next?

To locate an item on Warp It easily and quickly, you can filter search results by person. 

It's important to control and customise the Warp It portal experience and ensure it works for you.  

This guide explains how you can control what your users see when they are in the marketplace and how they can make a claim. 

Is your organisation a bit apprehensive about giving staff tools that they could potentially cause havoc with?

Don’t worry, it’s a common concern. When we introduce the capabilities of Warp It, sometimes we get a bit of pushback about its dangers and limitations.

We get asked regularly by our members why we collect data on so many different metrics, what we do with that data, and how they should then use that data to their advantage?

In this guide, we will look at these questions and try to help you see the bigger picture of reuse data, and how it is more valuable than simply knowing how many items have been traded and to whom.

Every so often Warp It customers want to send items straight to charities, and other third parties.

Here's a guide to show you how to do this.

Within the admin settings panel, you'll find ‘Control Partners’.

This section will enable admins to allow items to be immediately assigned to third parties.

Log in as admin> settings> control partners.

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Warp It users sometimes need to get agreements from members when adding or claiming certain items associated with specific risks. 

For example, there may be certain risks around electricals, medical and clinical equipment, or even some types of furniture.

Members need to know about these risks or agree to statements around these risks.

If you want to plant some trees then this is for you.....

Extending the lifespan of products by reuse and repair reduces manufacturing and transport and thus avoids carbon emissions.

We track carbon savings on our system and express this as the theoretical "number of trees planted" equivalent.

We would actually like to express this more visibly and actually plant the number of trees in real life! 

In this article we make a proposal to plant trees with our customers and their community. 

We are seeking partners to take part in a tree planting project where we actually plant the number of trees equivalent to the carbon your organisation has saved by reusing items on Warp It.

We’ve put together loads of resources and guides to help you get set up on Warp It, to help you embed it, and to help you list things so that you can start making claims quickly.

Despite all of the resources, we know that some new customers are savvy enough to bypass all of the information and figure it out for themselves. We know that some of you want to get cracking ASAP and make up for the lost time.