Mobile application that helps to hire staff for a party in 5 minutes
'07.06.2017'
Source: Miami Herald
Planning a party? This application, created by the chef, will allow you to easily hire staff, tells Miami Herald.
After graduating from the Culinary Institute in New York State, Jordan Hamilton moved to sunny Miami. There he began attending tourist courses at Florida International University and working as a private chef.
“I was often asked to invite bartenders, waiters or photographers to participate in major events. I was surprised that my customers had no place to order these services. Then I sat down Googleto call each company, compare reviews, compare prices. However, it took several days and sometimes weeks to confirm. And all this prompted me to the idea that we need a special platform with the help of which people could order staff for parties. The app should be as simple as mobile. Uber"Hamilton said.
Hamilton once shared his idea with one of his clients, Sarah Lacharlott, and she became its first investor and co-founder. Then he put off his chef's hat, and for about a year he developed an application Partytap using a technical company from atlanta WorkN and teams from India and Hungary.
Partytap makes it easy to find and hire staff by bringing together private party planners and small companies with bartenders, waiters and other service providers. This is necessary so that individuals and smaller organizations can combine the same types of events that are within the power of large corporations with large budgets. The application saves time and money by simultaneously offering services of bartenders, peddlers, photographers, DJs and cleaners. The price is known in advance.
So you know what you are paying for, regardless of whether you have a month left or only 6 hours. This month catering and valet services will be added. All employees Partytap checked and selected manually. After the event, they are ranked on a scale from 1 to 5 stars, therefore Partytap can control how each employee works.
“You just open the app, choose the character you want, add your credit card and submit the request. The information is served to you in real time by the staff who accept your request - that's all. What would have taken several phone calls and days of planning now takes less than 5 minutes, ”Hamilton says.
Free app available in stores Apple App and Google Play. Partytap receives a percentage of every transaction registered in the app and serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, but Hamilton is looking to expand into Aspen and Las Vegas, two big party markets in the next couple of months. And in the future, move on.
Launched: 15 January 2017 of the year Apple App Store and Google Play
Web site: www.partytap.com
Мanagement: Jordan Hamilton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Sarah Lacharlott, co-founder.
The number of employees: 2 staff members and 400 employees who are attracted through the app (DJs, bartenders, photographers, valet, catering and waiters).
Financing: $ 85 thousand from friends and family last year. Currently, a repeated round of fundraising is being held in order to collect from $ 250 thousand to $ 500 thousand.
Recent achievements: in South Florida more than 400 service providers have joined this app, it has been downloaded more than 2100 times. Revenue increased by 550% from March to April, and this impulse, according to Hamilton, lasted until May.
Следующий шаг: expansion to key markets. Hamilton increases funding to support growth, expand marketing, hire managers and staff for new cities.
