Thread: Registration + Service Selection + Find Freelancers Qs + Negotiation Features

Registration + Service Selection + Find Freelancers Qs + Negotiation Features

Dear Appthemes,

Firstly thanks ever so much for creating some great themes! We were about one week away from building our own site, so I think you just saved us about two months of work!

We've take a pretty close look at both Taskerr & Hirebee and have a few final questions for both before making our final decision, I've taken look in the pre-buy questions but seems no one has asked this (though there are a few hidden questions in the post-sale forum).


Questions for both Taskerr & Hirebee

- Registration Page: One thing we can't see clearly in either example is the registration page. Can you explain how the signup process works and when users are required to register? Also what we are looking to do is have a Pre-Registration page before users can see all the services that are available. Is the possible to do?

- Pre-Screen Applicants: Initially we also want to ensure we only have the best service providers on the site as such do both sites have the ability for us to pre-screen applicants before they are allowed to contribute services?


Questions for Taskerr

- Order Page: After choosing and selecting a service you are taken to a final confirmation page where you can message the seller and then confirm purchase. Here we just wanted to know whether its possible to customise this form like you can do on Hirebee?


Questions for Hirebee

- Find Freelancers Section: Here we are a little confused as to why you have this feature, as whilst you can search freelancers and see their prices, you can't actually choose to purchase services from them? Is this a bug, as we can't really see why you'd want to have this feature? i.e. Search and no CTA?

- Turing off negotiation/bidding features: Initially to again protect the market we plan to turn off bidding features, as such we just wanted to confirm this was possible? Or whether there was a potential way around this?


Sorry for all the questions, but yes very close to purchasing and while both come 90% of the way they maybe lacking a few key features we are looking for (I hope not :)).

Thanks in advance,

Patrick

Both themes use the native WordPress user functionality and essentially when registering they simply need to select a username and enter an email address. There is no function in WordPress to require approval of users who register, although you of course have control over the accounts within the WordPress admin dashboard. Setting up a "Pre-registration" page would require customization, and the only way around approval of users outside of customizing the theme would be to close registrations and require users to email you first to apply and set up an account.

Taskerr does not currently include a custom forms feature to modify listing forms, so this would require customization on your part.

The Freelancers page allows you to view profiles of those applying for projects and you can make contact through social media links/portfolio links.

There's no setting to turn off the bidding as described, so again this would require customization. Our themes are not encrypted, so ultimately you are free to make modifications if you wish. Thanks.

Thanks very clear...one last question however

Thanks for the fast and detailed response ;) Though not the answers we were looking for I think there should be a few walk around.

One last question we have however is regarding the registration page, at what stage on both themes are users currently asked to register/login to continue?

Thanks again,

Patrick

You're welcome :) The user would be prompted to register when they attempt to post a project, so it occurs before the posting process rather than part of it. Thanks.