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How TaskLocal works for Professionals

From verification and setting your availability to completing jobs and receiving reviews, this guide explains the main TaskLocal Professional journey.

1

Create your Professional account

Register as a Professional and provide the information required to set up your TaskLocal account.

2

Complete verification

TaskLocal may require documents including identification, proof of address and Right to Work / UK Status information as part of Professional verification.

3

Wait for document review

TaskLocal reviews the submitted documents before activating the Professional account.

If documents need correction, you may be asked to resend them while the application remains pending. An application may also be approved or rejected following review.

Approval and verification mean that the relevant TaskLocal verification process has been completed. They are not a guarantee of workmanship or the outcome of a job.
4

Add your specialisations

After approval, select the services and specialisations that you provide.

TaskLocal uses these selections to determine which jobs are relevant to your Professional account.

5

Add your availability

Create future work slots with the dates and times when you are available.

Your onboarding is completed when the required setup, including specialisations and future availability, has been completed.

6

Find suitable jobs

Browse available opportunities that match your selected specialisations.

TaskLocal prevents a Professional from accepting jobs outside their selected specialisations.

7

Send an offer

Submit your price and the relevant information for the Customer to consider.

The Customer can compare available offers before selecting a Professional.

8

Respond to a counter-offer

Where the Customer proposes a counter-offer, you can decide whether to accept it.

The accepted offer or counter-offer becomes the final agreed price.

9

The Customer chooses a work slot

After you are selected, the Customer can be asked to choose one of the future work slots you have made available.

10

The Customer completes their platform-fee step

The Customer normally pays a TaskLocal platform fee of 3% of the final agreed price, subject to any eligible voucher or applicable adjustment.

Your Professional-side fee does not replace the Customer's separate TaskLocal platform fee.

11

Complete your Professional fee step

The normal Professional TaskLocal platform fee is 3% of the final agreed price.

Example
Final agreed price: £100
Normal Professional platform fee: £3

Your amount payable may be reduced where an eligible TaskLocal free-fee benefit, fee credit, voucher or other applicable account benefit is available.

Where the Professional fee is reduced to £0 under an applicable benefit, TaskLocal can complete the Professional-side fee step without requiring a separate card payment.
12

The booking becomes ready

Once the required Customer and Professional platform-fee steps are completed, TaskLocal can move the booking to its assigned stage.

Protected contact details become available according to the platform's booking rules.

Do not share telephone numbers, email addresses, social-media details or other protected contact information in order to bypass TaskLocal's booking process or platform fees.
13

Start the job

A Professional can start a booking only when the required Customer and Professional platform-fee statuses are paid.

When you start the job, TaskLocal changes its status to in progress and notifies the Customer.

14

Mark the work complete

When you finish the work, mark the job as complete from TaskLocal.

The booking then moves to awaiting confirmation. It is not yet finally completed.

15

Customer confirms completion

TaskLocal asks the Customer to confirm that the work has been completed and leave their feedback.

Once the Customer confirms it, the job status becomes completed.

16

Receive your Customer review

The Customer provides a rating from 1 to 5 stars together with written feedback when confirming completion.

TaskLocal uses Professional reviews to update the Professional's displayed rating.

17

Review the Customer

After completion has been confirmed, you can also leave a rating and written review for the Customer.

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