BBB Ratings and Accreditation Coming to the Porch Home Network
Seattle, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2015 — An established and trusted business review organization is joining forces with a new and innovative home network to offer consumers the most comprehensive information available on home improvement and maintenance professionals. Better Business Bureau and Porch.com announced today that homeowners can now find BBB information, including ratings and accreditation status, for millions of professionals right in their Porch search results.
Porch will display BBB information on home construction, maintenance and repair companies, and the information is updated and refreshed daily. Consumers who wish to see more detail can click through to read the entire BBB Business Review.
Porch is the first website and mobile app in the home services space to offer nationwide integration of BBB ratings and accreditation status.
“Our BBB Accreditation is our best marketing tool and key to our success, bar none,” said Jim Borst, president of West Coast Roofing and Contracting, Inc., a BBB Accredited Business in Clearwater, Florida. “To our prospective clients, it illustrates stability, professionalism, and the ability to work through conditions that our industry inherently produces when disrupting the norm. Now with the agreement between BBB and Porch, our accreditation will gain even greater exposure.”
“We are on a mission to make Porch the place you go to find the best and most trusted home improvement and maintenance professionals,” said Matt Ehrlichman, chief executive officer and chairman of Porch. “Partnering with BBB is a natural fit for us, since consumers have been relying on BBB for more than a hundred years to help them find businesses they can trust. By putting BBB Accreditation and ratings front and center across our website and mobile experiences, we can offer homeowners additional confidence in selecting a home services professional.”
“We’re thrilled about this innovative collaboration with Porch,” says Tyler Andrew, CEO of BBB serving Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington. “Porch is committed to BBB’s mission of advancing trust between businesses and consumers. This technology agreement will not only expand BBB’s digital footprint in the U.S., but it will give millions of consumers peace of mind when they browse Porch in search of trustworthy home service professionals.”
The agreement gives Porch six months of exclusive access to BBB Accreditation and ratings for the home improvement and maintenance industry for use on Porch’s website and mobile app. The company has matched more than 3.2 million Porch profile pages to BBB Business Reviews, and is displaying the BBB Accreditation status in its search results along with the BBB rating. Businesses can learn more about participating at bbb.org/porch-pro.
