Zonetail Partners with Thumbtack Enabling High-Rise Residents Across the U.S. to Instantly Book Home Services
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – November 8, 2021) – Today, Zonetail Inc. (TSXV: ZONE) (OTCQB: ZTLLF) (“Zonetail”) announces a new partnership with Thumbtack, the modern home management platform, empowering high-rise residents to instantly book home projects such as TV mounting, house cleaning, local moving, junk removal, and more.
Zonetail provides mobile platforms to high-rise residential buildings connecting highly sought after residents with the amenities and services of their building through the convenience of their personal mobile device. Included on the platform is an ‘Explore’ section highlighting businesses and services in the local area.
Recently, Zonetail conducted focus groups with users, to discover what new features and content they wanted to see on the platform. Over 80% of those surveyed requested access to home repair and maintenance services. As Zonetail prepared for it’s U.S. rollout, it set out to find a nationwide partner that had superior technology and a vast network of skilled professionals.
Millions of people across the United States use Thumbtack to confidently manage their homes, and their lives, removing the stress and hassle of booking service providers. Thumbtack’s platform helps homeowners and residents in every corner of the country instantly find and hire skilled professionals across 500 occupations from plumbers to cleaners and electricians to painters.
“We have long suspected that providing access to home services would be a highly desired feature, and an absolute necessity that we needed to include on the platform. Our recently conducted focus groups clearly confirmed that fact,” said Mark Holmes, CEO of Zonetail. “We immediately set out to find a company that we could partner with that does this exceptionally well. When we were introduced to Thumbtack, we knew they were the partner we were looking for, their technology and scale is fantastic.”
“Together, we are helping high-rise residents easily get new home projects done, opening up a new channel to drive more business to service providers across the country,” said David Steckel, Thumbtack’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. “By seamlessly integrating with Zonetail, we can provide an instant booking experience to fix and maintain your home as well as guidance for residents on what projects to do, when to do them and who to hire.”
Zonetail believes that providing a one-stop-shop for every service that a resident could possibly need will have a strong and positive impact for its customers and company growth.
“The users requested it, and now they’ll have it – all at the touch of a button,” Holmes said.
About Zonetail
Zonetail Inc. (TSXV: ZONE) (OTCQB: ZTLLF), is a mobile platform for hotels and high-rise residential buildings providing guests and residents access and interaction with building amenities and services, as well as neighbouring restaurants, stores, services, and other businesses. Zonetail has a partnership with AAHOA, the largest association of hoteliers in the world, representing over 25,000 hotels and 50% of the US market. Zonetail is also partnered with Shiftsuite, one of the largest property management system software providers to the condo industry in Canada. The residential platform is now live in over 80,000 condominium households. Zonetail recently launched it’s new ‘Zonetail Home’ platform that includes integration with Yardi, the largest property management software company in North America representing an estimated tens of thousands of buildings and millions of residents. The rollout has begun and is expected to dramatically increase the number of users in the Zonetail residential vertical.
Please visit https://www.zonetail.com.
For more information, please contact:
Mark Holmes
President and CEO
Zonetail Inc.
Telephone: (416) 994-5399
mark@zonetail.com
About Thumbtack
Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes – confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improve their most valuable asset. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and CapitalG, among others.
Please visit https://www.thumbtack.com.
For more information, please contact:
Laura Arrubla Toro
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