How Satusfaction Simplifies Scheduling for More Than 100 Freelance TV Editors with farmerswife
Satusfaction is an agency representing freelance TV editors. With more than 100 editors on its books, managing busy diaries, availability and bookings is a central part of the team’s day-to-day work.
For Satusfaction, having a reliable scheduling system is not just useful; it is essential for keeping everything organised and ensuring the team can respond quickly to clients.
The Challenge
For more than 15 years, Satusfaction used a bespoke bookings system that the team had partly designed themselves.
“It worked very well for us. However, after over 15 years of good service, we realised we really needed something that could cope better with the amount of data we used.”
The team moved to a system provided by an American company, but less than a year after switching, they were told that the service would be discontinued. This left Satusfaction with very little notice to find and implement a new solution.
With the schedules of more than 100 freelance editors relying on the system, the team needed to find a dependable platform quickly—one that could manage their growing workload without making their processes more complicated.
Why farmerswife?
farmerswife stood out to Satusfaction because of its friendly, informal approach and the ease of use of the system.
“farmerswife appealed to us because of their friendly, informal approach and the ease of use of their system.”
The team needed a solution that was powerful enough to manage a large amount of scheduling information, while still being intuitive and straightforward for everyone to use. farmerswife offered the right balance: a robust scheduling platform with the flexibility to adapt to the way Satusfaction already worked.
The Benefits of farmerswife
Satusfaction now uses farmerswife to manage the diaries of all its freelance editors in one central system. The team can easily manage pencil bookings, confirmed bookings, holidays, availability and all the important information associated with each job.
Having everything in one place gives the team a clearer overview of every editor’s schedule and makes it easier to coordinate bookings, stay organised and respond quickly to changes.
“We are now using farmerswife to run the diaries of all our editors, putting in pencils, holidays, confirmed bookings and all the necessary information associated with each booking.”
The team also particularly values how customisable the system is.
“We are super happy and particularly like the way you can personalise the settings, so you can have a bit of personality rather than just a boring screen!”
This flexibility allows Satusfaction to tailor farmerswife around its own workflow, creating a system that feels familiar, practical and enjoyable to use.
“I think any TV company would really benefit from farmerswife, helping make the workload simpler and quicker.”
The Onboarding Experience
Despite needing to move systems quickly, the onboarding process was smooth and straightforward.
“The onboarding process was extremely straightforward, and Martin, who trained us and moved us over, couldn’t have been more helpful.”
With the support of the farmerswife team, Satusfaction was able to make the transition quickly and confidently.
“We have been surprised at how quickly we got up to speed on the system and just how uncomplicated everything has been.”
For Satusfaction, farmerswife has provided a reliable, easy-to-use and flexible scheduling solution that helps the team manage more than 100 freelance TV editors with greater clarity and confidence.
