Gigapoo is the engine underneath. Paste one line and your website has verified people offering work, people asking for it, payment and payout — all handled. You bring the people. Every sale on your pages pays a flat fee, and your site keeps a share of it, paid every quarter.
<!-- anywhere on the page --> <script src="https://gigapoo.com/gigs.js" data-site="your-key"></script> <div id="gigs"></div>
Then: the market draws itself into that div, in your site’s colours, on your domain. Wanted and Offered, the seller’s page, the request, the bid, the checkout.
Your name, a real telephone, the domain. We call you — nobody on the engine is anonymous, and that includes the site owners. You get a key.
One script tag and one div. The market renders in your page’s own fonts and colours. Nothing to host, nothing to build, no database of yours.
Your sellers enrol through the widget on your site and the engine verifies them; your visitors post what they need. When a sale happens the fee is split, and your share is paid to you at the end of each quarter.
People looking for help and people offering it, on one page. A visitor can post what they need or answer someone who needs them.
Every seller: full name, telephone, a photo, a phone call before they can sell. Every buyer of in-place work: the same. Real names on everything.
Work done over the wire needs a verified seller. Work done at an address needs both sides verified, the address confirmed, the money held until done, and a meeting record both can see.
The buyer pays the engine. The engine holds it, pays the seller after the buyer’s two-day window, and pays your site its share. Money never touches your site.
Every piece of work is dated, every seller carries their ratings with them. A seller you recruit who has sold elsewhere on the engine arrives with a record — and provably so.
The widget reads your page’s CSS. Your visitors never leave your site and never see our name unless you want them to.
$1,200 a year to run the engine on your site — the verification calls, the payments, the payouts, the record. Then, on every sale, a flat amount from each side: never a percentage of the seller’s price, so the better a seller is paid, the less the fee costs them. The site where the sale happened keeps a share of the total.
Your share is paid at the end of each quarter by bank transfer. The engine keeps the rest and pays the sellers.
| On one sale | Amount |
|---|---|
| The seller’s price — set by the seller, paid in full to the seller | their price |
| Flat fee, from the buyer | $10 |
| Flat fee, from the seller | $25 |
| Total fee on the sale | $35 |
| Your site’s share | $17.50 |
| The engine’s share — the card, the verification call, the payout, the record | $17.50 |
Some kinds of work carry a larger flat seller fee (a spoken recording, a licensed professional’s opinion); the split is the same.
Everything the widget does, it does through the same endpoints your own code can call — a native app, a page you designed yourself, a back office. Public reads need no key. A seller acts with the token issued at verification. A site acts with its key. JSON in, JSON out.
The full reference, with every field, is published with the engine at gigapoo.com/api.
The engine was built for these three first. Every rule above came from running them.
We telephone every site owner before a key is issued — the same rule as for sellers. You will hear from a person, usually within a day.