Seattle’s Porch.com Debuts New Service, Partners with Wayfair
The home services platform launches its Porch Retail Solution and partnership with Wayfair.com
By Lauren Mang April 18, 2016
Local home improvement services platform Porch.com, which enables homeowners to find the right handyman, designer, landscaper, house cleaner etc., for their home-prettifying projects, has partnered with Boston-based online home decor shop Wayfair.com to implement its new Porch Retail Solution service across 15 U.S. markets, including the Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue metro area.
The new service will connect customers who make a Wayfair purchase with a Porch.com professional to assist with product installation, furniture assembly, plumbing and more. It’s intended to create what Porch ceo and chairman Matt Ehrlichman calls a “seamless experience” that will combine two once-separate transactions–purchasing a piece of furniture then finding someone to assemble or install it. (We assume it will also reduce frustration experienced while trying to make sense of confusing assembly instructions or when you finish up with random unused screws and bolts.)
Shoppers perusing Wayfair.com have the opportunity to add Porch Home Services to their shopping cart. Once they’ve checked out, they’ll receive an email from Porch with all the details on how to schedule a local Porch professional for the job. The pros are backed by the company’s Porch Guarantee, an initiative launched back in September that states select Porch professionals are pre-screened, have passed a background check and signed a pledge to commit to quality work. Job estimates are prepared ahead of time using average market rates and the homeowner can confirm a job’s final price prior to any work being done.
Wayfair, whose brand portfolio includes online flash sales website Joss & Main, modern e-retailer AllModern.com, DwellStudio and Birch Lane, offers a selction more than 7 million different home products on its site. Take a peek at a few items, which can now be assembled or installed using Porch’s services.
Bathroom faucet with double handles
Outdoor dining set
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