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What are instant claimables?

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With Instant Claimables, a Tasker is assigned to the task as soon as they claim it. It is a new way to help Posters get things more done with less fuss! At this time, Instant Claim is available for:

  1. One-off bookings of full house removals
  2. One-off bookings and subscription for cleaning

The idea is to get you all the details you need right from the beginning and to set the price up front allowing you to instantly assign yourself to tasks. In this way, Instant Claim tasks help you to earn more by doing less.

This article has lots of great information to help you understand the Instant Claim feature. Here you'll find (click the arrow to expand):   

 

Why did Airtasker develop the Instant Claim feature?

As part of our grander mission of making Airtasker a great place to earn money, we took a long, hard look at how tasks get done. There are a few key points that really stood out:

  • Feedback showed us that task descriptions can often lack the detail and clarity Taskers need to make an accurate offer and do a good job.
  • Our own research showed us that Posters often underpriced their tasks by up to 20%.
  • We heard that leaving comments to get more details could be slow and repetitive. This can add up to 7 hours to the time it takes to get assigned. This often led to getting assigned to several tasks. That caused clashes with other scheduled tasks and forced cancellations.
  • Having to wait for Posters to pick their Tasker could get frustrating. This isn’t surprising – having to make several offers to get assigned to 1 task isn’t ideal.

The great news is that we've designed Instant Claim to help solve all these issues in one fell swoop!

We’d also like to mention that we believe in fair pay here at Airtasker. We’d like to help make sure that tasks you complete are fairly priced by weighing up against similar competitors.

What is the difference between an instant claimable and a normal posted task? 

 Have more questions about Instant Claimables? See our range of helpful articles here for more information.

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