Oh hey there! 👋🏻
Guess you're here because you're after an update on how we're going, building out a new way for our awesome Taskers to earn money on Airtasker? Well, you're in the right place!
We keep this page up to date with information on the latest releases and upcoming plans.
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Update June 2021
Customers can now search for your listings in the Airtasker app.
Written on June 30th 2021
We've just launched a brand new feature that enables Airtasker customers to search for your listings.
To increase your chances of being found and booked by customers:
1) Ensure your listing title and description accurately reflect the service you are offering
2) Ensure you have tagged your listing with appropriate search terms.
3) Ensure your location is correct.
4) Ensure your listing is the best it can be by following the tips and tricks in this article: 'How to create a listing customers will love'.
To make changes to your listing, head to the My Listings page in the Airtasker app and hit the 'Edit' button.
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Update May 2021
Your listings are now live on your profile.
Written on May 12th 2021
What's new?
Your listings are now available to be viewed, booked and shared from within your Airtasker public profile!
This makes it heaps easier for customers to find your listings, understand your offering and book your services.
It also means you can see more clearly how your listing will appear to customers, and decide whether there are optimisations you can make to improve it.
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Update March 2021
Listings are now available for customers to purchase! 🎉
Written on March 8th 2021
What's new?
Well, everything!
We have officially started rolling out the new Airtasker home page, featuring hundreds of incredible listings!
When a customer opens the Airtasker iOS app or Website*, they'll be able to browse, discover and book listings, all in one place.
This is by far our biggest update in Airtasker history, and a giant leap forward for listings.
*Only select Airtasker customers will have access to the new home page, as we iron out the kinks and make sure our website and apps are running smoothly with this major new feature, before rolling out to all customers.
*The new Airtasker home page is not yet available on our Android app. Our product team prioritized development of the new feature on our iOS app and Website, as most of our purchasing customers are on these platforms and we want to maximise the opportunity for your listing to be browsed and booked!
What's next?
We will be increasing the rollout of the new home page to all customers over the coming weeks once we're confident the new feature is working perfectly.
For now, only a select number of our highest quality listings are being displayed on the new home page! We are building some new features that will ensure all of our amazing listings can be easily discovered and booked by customers!
Our tips for Taskers
Want to feature on our home page? 🤩
You can edit your listing and continually update it to improve its quality. Check out our guide on How to create a listing customers will love for our top tips on how to create a listing that will make customers say 'wow'.
Our content team is on the look out every day for great listings that will really inspire our customers on the unique things they can get done on Airtasker.
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Update February 2021
Listings are now live and can be booked by customers! 💰
Written on Feb 17th 2021
What's new?
After months of hard work, we are beyond excited to tell you that your listings are finally live and can be booked by customers! 🥳
If you open your listing, you will see that the previously greyed out 'Request a booking' button on your listing has turned to green. This means that you can:
- Start sharing your listings with the world
- Invite customers to book your services
- Start turning your unique skills into real earnings.
Boom!
To find out more about how it works, check out our guide: 'How do listings work? A guide for Taskers'.
We'll soon be sharing our tips and tricks on how to get your listing out there and start receiving bookings from customers, so keep an eye on your inbox!
What's next?
We have one final milestone to reach. From March 2021, we will start to put listings live in the all new Airtasker marketplace, so customers can browse, discover and book listings, all in one place.
This will be the biggest update to Airtasker in history and we are so close 😄
As mentioned in our January update (see below), not all listings will feature on the homepage and in our marketing in March. You will be notified if your listing is going to be featured. If your listing is not featured in March, it will be very soon after! 💪🏻
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Update January 2021
Listings are now available to preview! Plus, listings will start to go live in March 2021! 🎉
Written on Jan 6th 2021
What's new?
Happy New Year! 🥂
We are incredibly excited to kick off 2021 with the good news that your listings are now available to preview!
This means you can have a sneak peek into how your listings will appear to customers when they go live in the all new Airtasker marketplace, and make sure that they are the best they can be 👀
It's another very exciting step forwards!
If you're a Tasker and you've created a listing, simply head to the List my services page and click on a listing's title or image to preview a listing.
What's next?
You'll see that the 'Request booking' button on your listing is currently greyed out. This is because listings are still not yet live for customers to purchase and means you won't receive any booking requests just yet.
BUT, we are working around the clock ⏰ and are super excited to announce that we will start putting listings live in the all new Airtasker marketplace in March 2021! Not all listings will go live instantly, but if yours aren't live in March, they will be soon after 💪🏻
Our tips for Taskers
To set yourself up for success, we highly recommend you invest a few minutes in optimising your listing.
For tips and tricks, check out our page on How to create a listing customers will love. If you need help with your listing, please drop an email to listings-help@airtasker.com and ask for Hannah.
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Update October 2020
Taskers are now able to create their very own listings on Airtasker! 👏🏻
Written on Nov 1st 2020
What's new?
We’ve spent the last few months interviewing Taskers and Posters, talking to our support team about the challenges our customers are facing and using this insight to design a solution that we think will be a better experience for all. Our engineers (the guys who are in charge of writing the code) have also been working their socks off to turn our designs into a reality.
Very excitingly, we just hit our 'Milestone 1' and have just released the functionality that allows our awesome Taskers to list their skills and services on Airtasker! 🥳
That means that our Taskers are now able to create their very own listing on Airtasker, showcasing their skills and services. This is a huge step forwards in our journey to build a new way for Taskers to earn money on Airtasker.
Mitch, one of our Tech gurus leading the project said:
"Listings has been an incredibly exciting project to work on since we started a few months ago. It’s a radically different way to use Airtasker for both Taskers and Posters and as a result, required us to build a lot of new functionality from the ground up. It’s one of the largest new features we’ve ever built. It definitely wasn’t easy and it took a big team of talented engineers to bring it to life. This is just the beginning! We can’t wait to get cracking on Milestone 2. We know that there are Taskers on Airtasker with amazing skills and we can’t wait to see how they use the new features we’ve built to help them showcase their skills and earn more money!"
What's next?
This is only the beginning. Although Taskers can create their very own listings, these listings won't yet go live on Airtasker for customers to browse and request to book.
The final leg of the mountain climb is to build out the marketplace that will display the wonderful listings, so customers can browse and purchase them.
You can imagine we are building out a brand new shop in a shopping mall. We've started to collect the products that customers will have access to (your awesome listings!). The next step is to construct a place to house these awesome products - we need a building, we need 'shelves' so that we can display all the unique listings created by our Taskers, we need a shop window to entice customers and bring them in and we need a big party when we open the doors of the shop to the public. That's what we're now working on. 🛍
We are hoping to be able to put your listings live in the all new Airtasker store for customers to browse and request to book in early 2021. This will be an absolutely game-changing update, the biggest in Airtasker history, and will open up a powerful new income stream for our Taskers, no matter their skill or service. 🛒
Steve, our Product Manager, says:
"We’ve come such a long way with this new feature. Our Taskers don’t really get to see ‘under the hood’ at Airtasker and how we are working every day to find ways to help them earn more and realise the full value of their skills. It’s been a really tough few months to get to this point, but I’m absolutely stoked that Taskers can now start setting up listings! One of the things that I think makes Airtasker so special is the wacky, unique tasks we see getting done on the platform. I’m excited to put that power now in Taskers' hands, to let them create listings for really unique, quirky services that neither we, nor customers, would have ever even thought of."
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Want to know more about the story behind why we are building out a new way to earn money on Airtasker? Then read on... 📖
Our mission at Airtasker is to empower our Taskers to realise the full value of their skills.
We have teams of passionate people across Australia dedicated entirely to thinking about how we can help our talented Taskers find customers, monetise their skills, realise their potential and earn more money. It really is at the heart of everything we do - it's what drives us forwards.
Earlier this year, we started exploring the possibility of something very exciting... a new booking model that would let Taskers list their services on Airtasker and give Posters the ability to browse and purchase these services in an e-commerce-style experience. Guess it's a little bit like Amazon… or Airbnb... or The Iconic (you get the picture)... but for services. 🤔
It wasn’t exactly a lightbulb moment - more of an idea that evolved and took shape over time - but it excited us. Why? Because:
- It puts our Taskers firmly in the driving seat 🚕
- It gives our Taskers the space they deserve to market themselves and their unique skills to the world 📺
- It makes booking easier for Posters ✅
- It reminds Posters of all the awesome things they can get done on Airtasker, so it creates more job opportunities for our Taskers 👩🏻🎤
Since the day we decided to make it a reality, teams of people across the Sydney-office (well, remotely) have been rallying together to build it out…
An online marketplace for services.
Tim, our CEO, has been the driving force behind this vision. Here's what he has to say:
“I’m super excited to see how the Airtasker community is going to use listings to increase their earnings! Every single person has unique skills - whether it’s providing professional services or something quirky that only he/she can do, this marketplace will finally give Taskers the opportunity to showcase those skills to the 4+ million people in our community.”
If you haven't already, we'd love you to join us on our journey by listing your skills and services!
Click here to set up a listing.
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