Transform Your Business with Smart Bartering
Cut Spending & Boost Value
Get the things you need at a fraction of the cost by trading your underutilised stock, services and assets.
Top Benefits
Why Bother Bartering?
Pay For Goods At Wholesale Value
You can receive the retail value for your trades. So if you trade £1000 (retail carpet price) of carpets for £1000 of plumbing services, it only "really" cost you £300 (wholesale carpet price) to get £1000 worth of plumbing.
Human Assistance
You will always have personal assistance from one of our barter brokers to ensure all parties are happy with each deal, and that everyone fulfills their commitments. If you need something we don't yet have on the platform, we can headhunt new members who have what you need.
Generate More Business
You can specifically choose to trade slow-moving stock, or services during your downtime. You'll make new contacts and can grow through repeat business and referrals.
How it works
The Modern Barter System
We run our barter system as a marketplace. We have a pool of members with businesses in varied industries who put up their goods and services for sale with our platform at fair market value. These are sold for “flow credits” to other members, who can then go on and spend their flow credits on the platform for the things they need. Let’s look at an example:
Example 1: Excess Stock
Martin owns a carpet shop. He has some excess stock that cost him £1,000 to purchase, but the retail value is £3,000. He speaks to his flowelix broker to have this stock sold on our marketplace in exchange for “flow credits” – which he can then spend on any other goods or services on the platform.
The reason Martin was able to sell this stock so quickly on flowelix is down to the fact that he is not the only member who is getting a steep discount on what he needs. For example, a landscaper might have purchased £200 worth of carpet, but it actually just cost him a few hours of his time to get those £200 worth of flow credits, on a day that he didn’t have any paying clients anyway.
This kind of use case can also apply to:
- Various retailers and wholesalers.
- Media businesses with unsold advertising space.
- Hospitality businesses
- Printing businesses
- Gyms
- many more…
Example 2: Underutilised Assets
Deborah owns a driveway cleaning business. She works from Monday to Friday. She decides to rent out her industrial grade power-washer on the weekends through our platform. She uses those flow credits to pay for printing services to advertise her business.
This kind of use case can also apply to:
- Catering businesses
- Manufacturing plants
- Web design & hosting
- Printing
- many more…
Example 3: Idle Time & Cancellations
Let’s take another look at Deborah. She sometimes has clients cancel, or just days that she’s not too busy. The keeps a waiting list of flowelix members who are happy to have her come over and clean their driveways whenever she has cancellations and idle time.
She would have usually had to send out a last minute text or social media post with a steep discount in order to fill these slots. But using flowelix, she can still get the full market value.
This kind of use case can also apply to:
- Construction
- Plumbers & Electricians
- Protographers
- Designers
- Most service based businesses
- many more…
Sign up
Fill out the form below and we'll get you set up in our system so that you can starts bartering for the goods and services that you need ASAP.
We will contact you as soon as we can and begin our onboarding process.
We'll discuss what you need from other members, and what you have to offer. We can then create a plan to make sure you're getting the most out of the platform.
Unlock greater benefits through referrals.
The more members we have in our network, the better it is for everyone. More members means more liquidity, as you will be able to convert your goods and services into flow credits, and the things you need much faster.
Why Work With Us?
Bartering can work for any bsuiness in any insdustry. You need need to be creative and think outside the box. The advantage of using flowelix is the increased liquidity of using a marketplace. If you have £10,000 worth of napkins, and you need a new heat pump installed – you probably won’t find a boiler fitter who needs £10,000 worth of napkins.
But by using our platform, we can help you to move that stock to people who need it, and then convert it into the product or service that you need.
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Become A Member
Fill out the form below to become a member and start extracting more value from your business.
Help & Support
If you need to get in touch, please use the email address below. If you are an existing member, you should have a direct phone number for your flowelix broker. If you have lost this number, please send us an email.
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info@flowelix.com
