Taskerr – A Micro Jobs WordPress Theme
Introducing our latest WordPress application theme, Taskerr! This powerful new theme enables site owners to build their very own micro jobs marketplace. You connect people needing jobs done with others willing to do them.
This underserved niche enables any business imaginable to list their service for a fixed price (which they set). Sites like Fiverr and TaskRabbit are perfect examples of how this amazing new “gig economy” successfully works.
We didn’t forget the importance of monetization for site owners which is the cornerstone for all our themes. Easily setup pricing plans and charge sellers a fixed price for listing their services. You can also upsell with featured listings placement. Alternatively, you can take a percentage of each sale (coming soon). This allows you to easily scale your site and earnings potential while providing a useful service marketplace (percentage-based fees via escrow service will be coming soon).
Quick Overview
Service Listing
Flexible and complete item details page for sellers to describe their service. Reviews and comments provide feedback and communication channels for potential buyers. People can add it to their favorites, contact the seller, or go ahead and purchase the service.
Order Process
Buying services is an easy and painless process. Once confirmation has been received, the project will begin. You can edit each page and the messaging to suit your needs.
Seller Dashboard
Sellers can manage their services/tasks like a boss. Quickly update any content, images, pricing, etc. View their stats to keep track on overall service performance. Taking a vacation or tired of working on a task? Sellers can easily pause their service instead of deleting it.
Email Templates
Taskerr includes over 15 different email notifications all of which use a professional and responsive html template. Buyers and sellers can unsubscribe for one or all of these from within their dashboard.
Purchase History
Buyers can easily keep track and manage of all purchases from their dashboard. Make a payment, send the seller a message, and keep track of what’s been completed.
Full Details
The Taskerr overview page outlines all the features and functions — complete with screenshots. You can also test drive the theme on our demo site.
On Sale Now!
Taskerr is on sale for 25% off during the first two weeks (expires September 10th, 2014), after which it’ll jump back to its normal price of $99. Click here to apply the discount code.
Comments (66)
Taskerr – Another great theme by Appthemes. Deployed & ready for action.
Speechless! I’m in Awe. This Theme is def a game changer for the micro job theme market. You guys outdid yourself again David!
I like how you guys just didn’t make another clone like the other theme houses. You pretty much made it your own unique. Props for thinking outside the box.
What is the difference this theme function and the Hirebee theme? Both for freelance website?
@Dolmat, HireBee is a freelance theme (typically larger projects that are done only once). Taskerr is a micro jobs theme (small jobs that can be sold over and over).
Can I ask what the geolocation element is like on this? Radius search? google maps in general or if it integrates with any geo plugin? Its just I am not seeing it in the demo and for a micro job/task site this would be crucial really. Looks promising for sure, excited by it. Thanks
@allmyhoney, Geo location is not included to Taskerr 1.0. Since many people offer remote services, which is not linked to any particular location, we decided to release Taskerr without this feature.
We will be watching for further feedback and if it will be popular, we will include this feature in a future release.
About “geo plugin”, we don’t tested Taskerr with any, so we can’t guarantee compatibility.
Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback here. I do believe sites like taskrabit, thumbtack and so on are heavily location based because micro tasks tend to be carried out locally and the remote work is more project based to be honest. Getting plumbers, carpenters, gardeners seems the ideal fit for micro tasks and this is most certainly location specific. Well I will stand by to see if the location element gets some love and if so give it a whirl!
I’m with you on adding the location base for this theme
Does it integrate with facet search plugin for example?
@jamesweb, Since we decided to integrate our “Custom Forms” module to Taskerr 1.1, will be logical integrate refined search for services. At the moment I can’t say if it will integrated future or some particular plugin compatibility. I’ll log a ticket for team discussion.
Thank you
@dikiyforester. That is great news! Will it be similar to the to the custom fields used in Classipress or more like your ACF plugin?
Don’t like to sound negative, but has anybody actually been successful with the themes as a business
@muse1982, it’s a brand new theme so too early to tell. We’d like to hope most (if not all) of our customers become successful. 😉
Payment is all yet to come right? Adaptive payments from PayPal. Right now all payments are taken offline?
@jamesweb, payments work already. PayPal standard is included for free and any other WordPress payment gateway plugin in our Marketplace works as well.
What’s coming next is the ability to take a percentage per transaction and use escrow to hold the funds (vs site owners PayPal account). That’s what PayPal Adaptive Payments (included for free in upcoming release) and Balanced Payments enable you to do.
Holding other peoples money in your paypal account can cause liabilities and tax burdens an admin wouldn’t want. I’ll prob wait for adaptive payments before I launch my site.
I am ready to purchase taskerr, its great theme but I am waiting for paypal adaptive and escrow integration. Can you tell me when will the new update out with this features so that I can plan my schedule accordingly.
I love the theme!! Quick question how is this similar to task rabbit? Task rabbit you have people posting what they need vs with Taskerr it seems you have people posting their services. Which is great. But how does one post a job they need done. Thanks
@CeCe, thanks for the feedback. You’re right, we need to do a better job separating the two. Currently jobs would be posted the same way (via Add Service) but it’s not really flexible. I’ll work with the dev team and see what we can do.
@david, this is very much needed to separate the 2 more clearly.
So to confirm a custom forms builders will be in Taskerr 1.1 If so is there a ETA when that will be? and will it be released along with the escrow system.
Thanks
I think geolocation should be included in Taskrr. You shouldn’t assume people won’t use this for local services because I think it has a lot of applications. I’m thinking about one myself but the lack of geolocation presents a problem.
yep, thats what i said in the forum but no reply from there….;-(
i think its necessary for an app like this, to have the geo loc. to see, what´s/who´s around you. And it would be make kin of a “double Sense”, when u turn the Taskerr Theme 180 degree, so that people could post a job that needs to be done. Like the early Zaarly or still existing Task Rabbiit.
Nice. ready to buy. ^)
Question
1) What about discount for first buyers? How can i get it?
2) About translation po mo files include?
@nonamege, click the link below and get 25% off your purchase. Yes, .pot files are included for translation. 🙂
Great job on this app . . . I will be your first super success story on this app. As soon as I purchase it of course.
Hi guys,
I’ve got a fee questions…
1. What’s the ETA on the “percentage of sales” option?
2. Does your multi-language support non-roman characters like Chinese?
3. Do you have a list of currencies supported?
4. Is there affiliate marketing?
Thanks
@Jeremy,
Is there a sample of a child theme available? I can’t find one and nobody replies on the support forum.
@fidij, no child themes available yet since we just released the theme. We hope some of our Marketplace sellers design a few soon.
I think you misunderstood me. I’m not looking to buy one, I want to create my own child theme. I just need a starter child theme to work from. I know how to create a regular one, but I’ve found in the past that your themes don’t always work correctly when using a standard child theme.
This is what I’m talking about. This guy created a standard child theme but some things are not working right.
http://forums.appthemes.com/help-using-taskerr/child-theme-supported-78945/
From looking at the theme I don’t see where you can post a job that needs to be done. Is that possible with this theme?
Thanks
@CeCe, just click the “Add Service” link in the header. 😉
David, I think the op might mean like job requests from buyers. Example I need thousand likes for my website aspa. Then various service providers would apply for your job.
Is “add service” for that purpose also?
@david, I do not think it works, I only am able to post services for a price rather than jobs that need completing? I think that is what CeCe was asking here?
@jamesweb, you’re correct. We’ll figure out a better way to separate the two.
That is what I was asking. You can add a service but not post a job.
I just want to chime in and say geolocation is a must with this theme. we need to be able to easily include jobs that are local based and not just remote. And geolocation is needed for these location based jobs.
keep up the good work!
Hi there, is there any dummy xml import content for this theme? Also is there any snippets or framework guidelines or documentation for editing the theme? Thanks in advance.
@jamesweb, no xml content available. Good idea though. We’ve got some general getting started articles on our docs site. Editing the theme is not recommended though. Use a child theme and/or hooks via a plugin if you’d like to change things around.
Really well done and I’m looking forward to building something fun with this!
A quick question with regard to “app theme” compatibility – I want to incorporate an affiliate program on our Taskerr driven site – is there a specific affiliate plugin you can recommend that plays well with your themes (or taskerr specifically?) – AffiliateWp (from Pippin W. of the Easy Digital Downloads family) would be my preference – but I see you guys have your own affiliate program, and if you can recommend a script that is tested well with your frameworks – that would save me a whole bunch of searching. Thanks again – really a great and innovative idea, and well executed as well! 🙂
@goodkarma, thanks for the kind words. We haven’t tested Taskerr with any affiliate plugin so not sure AffiliateWP would work. Probably not at this point. I’ll reach out to Pippin and see if we can setup a partnership or something.
@David, Are we gonna get a custom form builder in the next release that’s due out at the end of the month? it would help a lot.
Thanks
@gocards86, we’ve discussed this internally and decided to keep things simple for now (no custom form builder). Fiverr operates the same way.
What sort of fields would you want to add?
I know Fiverr has similar options but I don’t wanna be another fiverr clone. I guess I thought i’d spice it up a bit add a few of my own fields. I don’t like touching code with a ten foot poll lol so being able to create your own fields with a click is nice.
But I get where you guys are coming from. Maybe in the future
I was just wondering if you guys ever thought about integrating woocommerce or EDD as the payments element to your themes. The reason I suggest this is because the subscription and invoicing and gateway options are of course a little more major on these plugins so it seems to make sense. Right now implementing a free plan and then say a second tiered paid plan is just a little complex especially if you would like a recurring subscription model and seems like woocommerce is major enough now and certainly not going anywhere in the future, so an integration would be pretty cool and appropriate it seems. Maybe other thing the same here not sure.
@jamesweb, yes but we’ve built our own payments framework instead. That enables developers to build and sell add-ons in our Marketplace. Both WC and EDD are great solutions though for non-AppThemes themes.
Are developers actually creating plugins for the themes. I am holding backing at the moments as I don’t see much activity in the marketplac.
@muse1982, it’s a new theme so developers need some time to build new plugins & child themes. Is there one you’re particularly waiting for?
Hi David, are there any news from the “how can i post a job” side? (early Zaarly, not more existing DONE or the actually Airtasker)
@Ruben, this was a mistake with our marketing. The posting jobs feature isn’t part of Taskerr. It’s something that we need to discuss internally first before providing an ETA (if any).
Fair enough and I do understand you guys trying to grow your own marketplace, so hats off there . I assume with a little work one could integrate woocommerce with your appthemes framework – or would that even be worth it. Obviously I am talking custom development work here but do you feel this is a worth while path. The reason I suggest this is because some of the extensions for woocommerce like subscriptions etc is a very mature extension with a few years under its belt and I do not see any subscription plugin right now in the marketplace. Thanks for your time.
It isn’t very difficult to integrate this with WooCommerce. You could do it yourself with a couple of plugins. Just use the subscription plugin and the groups plugin and assign posting permissions to members of the group which you assign them to after they subscribe.
I think you’ll find recurring subscription integration, credits being created etc is alot more involved than the groups plugin here. But yes by all means what you suggest could work for a minimal level integration.
My HireBee project is almost done…just waiting for Paypal Adaptive.
I’d like to start on a new taskerr project but I can’t seem to find location filters, geolocation features, etc. I believe Task Rabbit has these features. It is needed for local house cleaners, errand runners, etc.
With the next update will there be a option to post a task/job and a service?
Thanks
@cece968, not at this time.
Hi,
I like your taskerr theme. I am providing services for my offline training classes.
I saw the demo, but I don’t need some of the information appearing in the page. May I know if I can remove or edit the fields like: (If yes, where can I remove them?)
Will deliver in:
Tasks Completed:
I tried the admin demo, but can’t seem to edit those fields. Thus, I need your advise before we decide to purchase the theme for our use.
Thank you and hope to receive your reply soon!
@acube, the fields can’t be removed at this time unless you edit the source code (which is not recommended).
Discussion is closed.