The festive period might be earmarked as the season where delivery companies go into overdrive across the country. But anyone working in purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) will attest to the chaos during a new student year. And chaos is the only word that can describe student residential properties up and [...]

It has never been more important to create a Parcel SafePlace parcel room and market it as one of your key amenities. They reassure your residents that the items they order will be collected, properly stored and sorted until they are ready to pick them up. Here are five reasons [...]

How do you define quality student accommodation? We describe the best PBSAs as developments that fully cater to the needs of student residents while also improving efficiency.

With every new academic year, another influx of students bursts onto the scene, full of energy and excited about the prospects that lie ahead. And every year, there’s also a lot of staff working in purpose-built student accommodation bracing themselves for the onslaught that comes with their arrival.

You have a lot of responsibilities as a residential operator, and finding ways to improve building management is almost always at the top of the list.

Shopping as we know it has changed for good. Back in the 1990s, the idea of doing all your shopping on something called “the internet” would have been a pipedream. Nowadays, it’s the done thing.

We spend a lot of time discussing how parcel tracking software and dedicated package rooms help your staff and residents. But there’s another key group that benefits from our product; the couriers.Couriers are the unsung heroes of the delivery world. Come rain or shine, day in and day out, they carry heavy parcels around with them, making sure everything is delivered safely.

Package management in residential buildings has quickly become a hot topic. It seems like every day, the amount of deliveries your team has to handle just grows and grows.Naturally, this is having a huge effect on workloads, costing site teams countless hours over the weeks and months. Not only are they fulfilling their roles as managers and resident advisers, they’re on the fringe of becoming full-time postal workers, too.

Parcel management in residential buildings has always been a hassle for staff, residents and couriers, but Parcel SafePlace is changing that. Our goal is to provide the BTR and PBSA markets with everything they need to make handling parcels easy, safe and secure.