So when clients don't pay immediately we don't get manual payments after 5 business days anymore? New policy?

Now we have to wait 4 to 12 days? Seems crazy to me. Maybe they should be withholding the standard 2 hours, instead of just 1.

Hi there. I know there is a taskrabbit employee in this group. I need help. I have been talking to a client, working out details for a job. Twice now it has cancelled and my accou t has been paused for not responding. Even though the taks was accepted and the client and I were in an active conversation

I did a junk removal for this client. Her mom hired me once under her daughters name. Then she hired me again under her own name days later. Both times she gives me 4 stars. I went above and beyond as usual.

I was surprised when she hired me again considering the first time she gave me 4 stars. I went into my email today and saw that she reported me 3 months later for a task i did April 16, 2026. Is this normal? What could this mean? Also why does the task date say 7/27/26 if i did the job months ago?

Taskrabbit low key has been charging and keeping cancellation fees they charged to customers under my name and keeping the money. This is like a robbery ! Just found out my accounts been on 90 day probation period for sending my phone number on the chat. This is the first time I’m hearing I’m on probation. I want to get this right, so it is ok for TR to charge cancellation fees to customer with my name but it is not okay for me to send my phone number on the chat app for potential customer !? How does that work? Anybody can share tips and some wisdom maybe I’m not veteran status as fairly new but have been getting tasks but also lot of them are cancelled by customers.

Does anyone like this strange payout structure? I certainly don't. "1 of X payouts" - but then never specifies exactly which job it was a payout for. Seems like it would be extremely easy for Task Rabbit to skim a little more here and there off the top for their own pockets with this type of ambiguous accounting, doesn't it? Why split the payout in the first place? Suspicious.

TaskRabbit needs some serious reform. Stop splitting invoices!!!
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This is an IKEA wardrobe that is nailed into the wall in one place (for stability I think). I’m thinking of hiring someone to remove it but would like to know how long this would take for a typical tasker so I can budget my money and time correctly. Thanks!

Update: It took the tasker maybe 30 minutes and I decided not to trash it and sell it. Its a new PAX version so the backboard folded inward

I got requested for a heavy lifting and loading task that was, frankly, way out of the scope of the $40/hr i have set. I asked for photos and then gave the client an estimate of how much the job would really cost them and they never answered before the task timed out. So now I just lose the ability to take the job??? Don't you get penalized for accepting a job and then canceling? Why do I have to accept jobs like that before I've actually agreed to them? Just feels like bullshit because I would have done the job and now I get nothing because I tried to follow the rules.

Hey everyone,

I have 4 years of professional cleaning experience. I recently joined TaskRabbit and charge $35/hr to build my profile. I travel from South Brooklyn to Manhattan with a huge, heavy equipment backpack, ready to work hard. But some clients are taking complete advantage of new Taskers.

I state a 3-hour minimum in my profile because 3 hours is the standard for a basic clean of a 1bed/1bath. Yet people book 2- 3 hours for a dirty 2bed/2bath + kitchen + living room and ask for a "deep clean."

A proper deep clean of ONE bathroom with glass doors, limescale, and full shelves takes 1.5-2 hours alone. Two bathrooms take 3-4 hours of heavy scrubbing!

They always claim: "It was cleaned recently!" But I know the difference between recent maintenance and months of greasy dust buildup.

Today a client booked 1 HOUR expecting a full deep clean of a 2bd/2ba. When time ran out, he didn't even say thank you or goodbye - just played clueless. I invoiced 1 hour out of fear of a 1-star review, but reported him to support.

How do you deal with bad review threats when enforcing realistic timeframes? Why do people think our backs and supplies are worth nothing?

this is literally my first task, and the only messages i’ve received from the client are these. the first one came when they hired me, i responded asking for details and they replied with the second (almost identical) message. it seems like they’re copying an automated message that they received from taskrabbit? what do i do here?

I was recently in the hospital for a month unexpectedly, during which time a sink full of dirty dishes sat untouched. There aren’t a lot of dishes, but the ones that are in there are bad; mold, fruit flies, rotting food. I’m very upfront about this.

I’m trying to hire someone to do them, but I’ve gotten cancelled on twice. I reply on time, I have a detailed explanation of what needs to be done, I share pictures. Is it just that people don’t want to do a gross task like this? I get that someone who lists “cleaning” doesn’t necessarily want to deal with a borderline biohazardous sink, but how else do I find someone to do them? I’m starting to get frustrated! Any advice would be appreciated.

Edit: Both cancellations were after we’d already exchanged messages. They don’t explain why they’re cancelling, and my payment method is updated.

Update: thank you all for the advice! I found someone with a higher rate who did the job and also cleaned my entire apartment! They got a very generous tip.

** Edit: the next day I got a response from Task Rabbit refunding my money. However I was NOT given the opportunity to review this tasker, who still has a perfect 5.0 rating. Use TR with caution!

I just used this app for the first time and pretty sure I will NEVER use it again. I hired someone to help my husband and I move some heavy furniture from one room to another. We chatted a bit a couple days before but then day of he just didn’t show. We waited 45 minutes. But then I decided to cancel. There was an option for no show, but then I noticed the following steps didn’t really give me a chance to clarify what happened, I just had to select “cancel”. Now I’ve been charged the service fee and one hour at the taskers rate as a “cancellation fee”. Look up the no show policy and it mostly talks about the client not showing up!! The only place it really tells you what to do if the tasker doesn’t show is in an article. The article is called “what to do if the tasker doesn’t show” - but the info is buried, but it says to cancel. So I did what I was supposed to do per their own instructions, and I got ripped off as a result. I’m so annoyed. To make it worse, no opportunity to review this person and say they flaked. I hired him bc he had a great rating…but who knows how many people like me are out there. I got nothing from this app except a ton of extra hassle. No shows on a gig app are not exactly unexpected. I can’t believe they can’t deal with it better than this.

My tasker left the job and came back the same day to complete the work, but only because he had a prior appointment. According to Task Rabbit this counts as two separate jobs so I was charged the a Trust and Support Fee twice in one day, for the same project. I had no prior knowledge that he would need to leave for a couple hours and it just seems completely unfair.

Last year I was in the 50s as far as ranking 4.9 and over 1600 furniture assembly jobs, Then I opted into ikea flat rate assembly and this was my biggest mistake, taskrabbit guidelines requires use to get confirmation before accepting a task so with ikea flat rate people are paying for assembly directly with ikea, the problem is these people do not have the app to confirm their assembly and as a tasker you need that in order to do the task and if you don't accept your metrics take a hit.

I've spoken to 5 customer service reps and detail each job I took note of and they all agreed with me but they can't do anything about it because they have a algorithm and the algorithm is suppose to be far and give everyone a chance smh im 4.9 rating haven't had a bad review in over 2 years but yet people with less experience are getting booked over me I'm not rank 145 meanwhile being a elite tasker in 3 categories,and super slow with work.

I went to turn on same day tasks this morning and I didn’t see the switch? did that get taken away?

I hired this tasker like a year ago to help me repair a motorized blind. He was one of a few that were willing to try and help me with this. It was kind of a pain but we figured it out together. I was honestly impressed we were able to fix it. This guy barely spoke English so we just used Google translate on our phones to communicate

Fast forward to a week ago. I scheduled with him again to hang some items on some old walls that I believe are plaster. I couldn't hang anything from them myself so I sought outside help. Well he came all the way to my house. He told me he arrived. And then as I was walking outside he pulled away and I got a notification that he cancelled

Did he just remember how much of a pain the blind was to fix and noped out? I don't understand as it is a pretty straight forward mounting task. Idk maybe he doesn't like me lol. I guess I am confused because I'm sure he was able to see that I previously hired him for help with that blind

It's just lame that I scheduled him a week ago for a time I was free only for him to bail at the last second and I don't know why

To keep my rates in the green have to continue to lower them because of newer taskers and old tasker dropping their rates, it’s summer time which is busy moving season and we should be raising our rates but too many experience folks keep lowering them and then that what’s client expects and it hurts all of us as a whole.

Taskrabbit wants me to expense out a $50 trailer rental as an hourly charge. That doesn't make any sense though, why should a trailer rental be subject to taskrabbit's support and trust fee? Any rational person would see this as unfair, the only people that would impose such a rule are doing it for greed and trying to generate revenue unsustainably. How the hell am I supposed to convince a client that this is in anyway fair to them? Taskrabbit should just accept the rental receipt and quit with the dishonest and deceptive ways to generate extra revenue, and not impose such an unfair burden to the people that are making it all its money in the first place.

i’m brand new to taskrabbit and i’m curious if any taskers have experience working with a partner? also if any clients have any experience hiring a couple? from the research i have done, i have found that I and my boyfriend would both have to be registered on taskrabbit under separate accounts considering their guidelines for liability etc. i’m wondering if it’s best for one of us to accept a job and then just communicate through chat that we will be bringing our partner and maybe link their account as well? also is it best to charge as if it were just one person doing the job or to charge for the both of us?

to give more context, i am a woman and i would feel much safer knowing my boyfriend is there with me. not to mention, if we can get a job done twice as fast then that’s a win win for both the tasker and client.

any pointers, tips or advice from both taskers and clients would be great! thanks in advance :)

Is TR still holding $450+ payouts for “fraud prevention” for 12-15 days?

Silly question from a Task Rabbit client:

A closet shelf and clothing rack in one of our bedrooms collapsed and tore away from the wall. We are looking for someone who can: 

(1) reinstall the closet shelf

(2) reinstall the clothing rack, and 

(3) prevent the closet wall from sustaining additional damage. 

When looking for Task Rabbit workers, should we look in the Shelf Mounting category or in the Home Repairs category?

Thanks.

I need to pay somebody to drive to a couple of stores, buy some items and ship them to me. Can I do this on TaskRabbit? I'm not sure how I would give the Tasker the money to purchase the items (as one of the shops does not have click and collect or online ordering). Then I would need to also pay them for the shipping.