Taskovery Partner
Customers are four taps from you.
They tap your trade, tap you, and get in touch. No phone numbers change hands. Jobs posted nearby land in your feed.
No commission on your work, ever. A flat monthly plan sets how many jobs you run at the same time, from $49. Every job you finish frees up the next.
Two minutes to set up. Free while we get customers onto the platform.
Work
Jobs posted near you that match your trades
Replace bathroom mixer tap
“The mixer in the main bathroom is stiff and drips. I’ve bought the replacement already. It’s a standard Methven.”
Dishwasher not draining
The fast path
You get rung before anyone fills in a form
The trade grid is the first screen a customer sees, so you’re two taps from the app opening. The person with a blocked drain at 7am is going to use those two taps.
They ring you directly
The call runs through Taskovery. You get the job, your mobile stays yours.
What they see before they tap you
Your name, suburb, badges, jobs completed and reply time. That last one is measured, so answering fast pays you back.
Your second trade counts
A plumber who ticks appliance repair appears in both lists. A whole second stream of taps.
Two streams of work, both yours
Direct calls bring you the urgent work. Posted jobs turn into reviews, and those reviews bring you the next round of calls.
What it costs
We take nothing off your jobs. You pay for how many you run at once.
Your plan sets how many customers you can be working with at the same time, not how many you can reach. Every plan sees every job in your trades and your area.
Solo
1 job at a time
For a sole trader who finishes one before starting the next.
Steady
3 jobs at a time
One being quoted, one under way, one wrapping up. Most sole traders sit here.
Crew
8 jobs at a time
A couple of vans and someone answering the phone.
Unlimited
No limit
Take on as many as you can genuinely service.
What counts as a job you’re running
A job takes one of your places from the moment you and a customer are connected, and gives it back the moment it’s marked completed or cancelled. Nothing else uses one up.
On Steady you can be connected to three people at once. Finish one and you’re free to take the next. There is no monthly cap anywhere in this.
Quoting, messaging, appearing in someone’s list, being rung: none of that takes a place. Only a live job does.
| Feature | Solo | Steady | Crew | Unlimited |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A month | $49 | $99 | $199 | $399 |
| Jobs at once | 1 | 3 | 8 | No limit |
| Jobs a month | As many as you can finish. No cap on any plan. | |||
| Commission | None. On any plan, on any job, ever. | |||
| Getting paid | You invoice the customer. Taskovery isn’t in it. | |||
| Jobs you can see | Every job in your trades and your coverage area. | |||
| Profile sections | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10, plus an accent colour |
| Support | Email, same working day | Email, same working day | ||
Why we changed how we charge
We used to take 10%, which meant holding your customer’s money until they confirmed and taking a cut on the way through.
A busy month used to cost you more. Now it costs you nothing more. Quote $8,000 in a month: the old way took $800, Steady costs $99, and the $8,000 is yours in full.
You’re not being charged yet
Every partner is on Steady, free, while we build up the number of customers here. No card form, nothing charged. We’ll tell you well before that changes and you’ll pick your own plan then.
Getting paid
You name the price, after you’ve seen the job
You never publish a rate card and you never race anyone to the bottom. Look at the work, send one figure, they accept it or they don’t.
You invoice them, on your own terms
Your invoice, your payment terms, your bank account. However you already bill people is however you bill them.
Nothing waits on us
No payout schedule, no release button, no Stripe account to set up. You’re paid when they pay you.
What you agreed is on the record for you
Captured the moment you both agree it, so the argument three weeks later has an answer.
We are not in your payment at all
No commission means nothing to collect, so no reason to sit between you and your customer. The money goes straight from them to you, and we never see it.
No payout wait, no held balance, nothing we could freeze. Your Consumer Guarantees Act obligations are what they would be on any job you take.
Introducing yourself
You’re not sending a quote. You’re telling them who you are.
Three things: who you are, how you’d approach it, and when you could start. Plus a ballpark, if they asked for one.
- Pricing is the customer’s call. Most jobs arrive with none asked for.
- A ballpark stays a ballpark. Labelled an estimate everywhere it appears.
- You know how to pitch before you write. The job shows what the customer said matters.
- Nobody sees your intro but the customer. Enforced in the database, not hidden in the app.
You price the job, not the platform
We never set your price, suggest one, or publish a rate card with your name on it. What you charge is yours.
The customer pays that figure to you, in full. Nothing comes off it, on any plan.
The one thing that follows you is your reputation for turning up when you said you would.
Insights
See exactly where your work comes from
The whole funnel, not a single total, so you know which step is worth ten minutes:
- Seen → opened. Your photo, trade line and suburb win this one.
- Opened → got in touch. Your bio and gallery, doing their job.
- Introduced → booked. How you write, and how fast you reply.
Alongside it: median reply time, reputation, and what you’ve billed this month. Plus how often you were at capacity, which is the number that tells you whether to move up a plan.
Insights
Nikau Plumbing & Gas · last 30 days
Your funnel
The Trade room
Ask the things you can’t ask a customer
A forum where you and other tradies sort each other out. Pricing, paperwork, whether something is notifiable work, which parts keep failing early, whether to take a deposit and how much.
Customers never see it. Not a filtered view, not a read-only version. You need a provider account to get in, and that’s enforced on the server rather than by hiding a tab.
- Ask about your own trade or across all of them.
- Whoever asked can mark one reply as the answer, so the next person doesn’t have to read the whole thread.
- No customers, no sales pitches, no lead-generation companies.
Trade room
Tradies only. Customers can’t see any of this.
Is swapping a hardwired oven notifiable work?
“Customer’s oven is hardwired into an isolator. I’m appliance-repair, not an electrician. Where’s the line here?”
At what point did you register for GST?
Do you take a deposit, and how much?
Four badges, and two of them you have to have
Your dashboard says “2 of 4 checked”, never “Verified”. A customer sees the same thing, so the ones you’ve done are worth something.
Identity
Required, everyoneDriver licence or passport, photo side up. Two minutes in the app.
Required before you can apply for a job. It’s the check that tells a customer paying you directly that there is a findable person behind the account.
Business
Required if you are a companyYour NZBN, plus a document showing the trading name.
Shows a customer there’s a registered company behind your invoice. Your NZBN is printed on your profile, so they can look you up. Sole traders do this one instead with proof of address.
Trade licence
Optional for everyoneYour current practising licence card, both sides. Checked against EWRB, PGDB or the LBP register.
The strongest single mark you can carry. Customers filter on it, and in a regulated trade they should. It goes grey the day it lapses, so keep it current.
Proof of address
Required if you are a sole traderA statement, letter or bill from the last three months, in the same name as your ID.
It stands in for the NZBN check you have no company to do. We never publish it and we never show where you live, only that the check passed.
Two checks before you can apply, and which two depends on you
A company gives us photo ID and an NZBN. A sole trader gives us photo ID and proof of address, because there is no company record to check you against. Trade licence is optional for both, and it is the only optional one.
Usually one to two working days. You can build your profile, appear in searches and be rung directly meanwhile, but you cannot apply for a posted job until both have passed.
If something doesn’t check out we tell you why and you can send it again. A customer is never shown that it was knocked back, only that the badge isn’t there.
You can’t approve your own badge, and neither can anyone else on the app
Whatever your app sends us lands as being checked, every time. That’s enforced in the database, not in the screen, which is the only reason the badge on your profile is worth anything to the customer reading it.
Questions
What you’re probably wondering
How do I actually get paid?
However you already get paid. You send a price once you’ve seen the job, they accept it, and then you invoice them directly, on your own terms, into your own bank account.
Taskovery is not in the payment. We record the figure you both agreed, so there’s an answer if it’s ever disputed. That’s the whole of our involvement.
Nothing comes off what they pay you. Your plan is the only thing you pay us, and it’s the same whether you bill $2,000 that month or $20,000.
Which plan should I be on?
Count how many jobs you realistically have on the go at once, not how many you do in a month. That’s the only number that matters here.
If you finish one job before starting the next, Solo is enough. If you’ve usually got one being quoted, one under way and one wrapping up, that’s Steady, and it’s where most sole traders land. Two or three vans is Crew.
Start lower than you think. The portal tells you how often you were at capacity, so you’ll have a real number before you decide to move up, and moving up takes effect straight away.
What happens when I’m at capacity?
You keep appearing in searches, customers can still ring you, and you can still message and quote. What you can’t do is take on a new job until one of your current ones is finished or called off.
The app tells you before it happens, not after, and shows which jobs are holding your places. Finish one and the next is available immediately.
If you’re hitting the ceiling often, that’s the signal to move up a plan, and the portal counts it for you rather than leaving you to guess.
Did Taskovery always charge?
No. It used to take nothing, and this page used to promise that if that ever changed it would be an announced flat fee for tradies rather than a cut of your job. That promise has been half kept and half broken, and we’d rather point you at the honest account of it than quietly delete the sentence.
Customers can just ring me? Do they get my number?
They can ring you from your profile, and no, neither side ever sees the other’s number. The call runs through Taskovery throughout.
You control when that’s possible through your hours and your availability, and you can block anyone, at which point they can’t reach you again by any route.
Do I have to give a price to reply?
No. Pricing is something the customer opts into. Unless they’ve ticked Ask for a rough price, your intro is simply who you are, how you’d do it, and when you could start.
When they have asked, the ballpark is labelled an estimate everywhere it appears, so “I’d want to see it first” is a perfectly good answer.
Can other tradies see what I’ve written?
No. Your intro goes to the customer who posted the job and nobody else. That’s a database rule, not an app setting.
It means you pitch on your own terms every time: your approach, your availability, your price.
How do I control which jobs I see?
You set your trades, a main one plus any others you genuinely do, and a coverage radius from your base. You hear about jobs in those trades inside that radius.
Notifications are per-type, so you can have new jobs come through instantly and keep everything else quiet.
What happens when a customer picks me?
You both land straight in a conversation and their address is shared with you. The job moves through Connected, then In progress, then Completed when the work is done.
When you’ve seen enough, send the price. They accept, you invoice them directly. Mark it completed when it’s done: that lets them review you, and it frees the place for your next job.
Completed is also what opens the door for a review. Reviews can only ever come from a job you actually did.
What can I put on my profile?
A one-line headline in place of the trade name, then sections you write yourself: what you specialise in, your licences, your guarantee, how you work. Three on Solo, six on Steady, ten on Crew and Unlimited.
You can also hide your gallery, hours, reply speed, jobs-completed count and coverage area.
What you can’t hide is your rating, your review count, the reviews themselves or your verification status. Not on any plan and not by asking. It cuts both ways, and it’s exactly why a good review here is worth something.
How do reviews work?
They come from customers whose job you actually completed, so every review on your profile is real work you did. They publish about 12 hours after they’re written, which means each one goes up on its own merits.
You get a public right of reply on every review, which is often the most persuasive thing on a profile.
Get your profile up before the rush
Set it up now and you’re one of the first people customers tap through to. Two minutes, and nothing to pay while we’re still filling the place with customers.
Or email help@trustlane.co.nz.