Temporality isn't just for rentals. In the world of Recommerce, understanding how data and value change over time is crucial for buyback and resale models as well.
When managing a circular business, your inventory isn't static. Values fluctuate, conditions change, and inspection histories grow. Whether it's GPS tracking logs, availability schedules, or condition reports, this data lives on a timeline.
In this clip, we explore why TWICE Commerce treats data as temporal entities. We discuss:
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Tuomo: There's the question of temporality. People tend to think that it's only relevant to rentals, but it's actually something that happens also to buyback and resale products. It's not only data being dynamic, but it's data and values living over time. So they're temporal, they change and you get new data.
From our perspective as a re-commerce operating system, there's 100 billion different use cases, how someone might want to use those capabilities from that GPS tracking to that availability protection to storing those condition details or inspection details and costs. The only thing that we as a platform kind of can assume is that the user probably stores this information for a reason.
And if they make it so that this information is temporal, so it's kind of either a kind of a date range or a booking in time, or it's a note with a timestamp, that also probably is for a reason. Now, it's our job to make sure that if you store that data, it's probably important. So you want to come back to it later in that same temporal context. So you might want to view that data in a timeline or you might want to fetch it via API to be used in another system.