Create Freelance and Micro Jobs Marketplaces with HireBee & Taskerr

In the last two months AppThemes have been busy developing two outstanding application themes for WordPress. We would like to introduce HireBee, a freelancer theme, and Taskerr, a micro jobs theme.

Taskerr has just been released a couple of days ago and allows you to turn a WordPress site into a fully working micro jobs marketplace like the successful examples Fiverr and TaskRabbit. The purpose of a micro jobs site is quite simple: It connects people needing jobs done with people happily willing to do them. AppThemes have also implemented a couple of monetization options to start with including charging sellers a fixed price for listing their services and featured listings placement. Later, you will even be able to take a percentage of each sale.

Features

• Fresh, clean, simple & responsive design
• Monetization options with both flexible and mighty pricing plans
• Seller dashboard & user dashbord with purchase history
• Users can mark favourite services
• Automatic notifications
• Tons of different sidebars
• Easy administration for site admins
• 15+ lovely designed and responsive custom emails built on the Ink framework
• List a service and include delivery time, price, tags, image & video uploads as well as embedded media files
• Service listing: Flexible and detailed item page for sellers with reviews and comments

Purchase Taskerr from just $69 »

At the end of June, AppThemes have already released the WordPress theme HireBee into the wild. Once installed, it enables you to launch a niche freelance marketplace just like Elance, Freelancer, oDesk, or 99designs. HireBee is thus connecting small and medium sized companies or even individuals with freelancers and comes with all the features you would expect from such a site including fast and easy project matching. By the use of filters for skills, categories and location types, freelancer are able to find the perfect projects for their skills in no time.

Features

• Modern, clean, simple & responsive design
• Monetization options with both flexible and mighty pricing plans: Charge for posting, featuring and mark projects as urgent
• User dashboard with notifications, projects, proposals, purchases, reviews, contact info, site stats & favourites
• Create custom project forms with custom fields
• Participants workspace where both employer & freelancer can manage the project
• Negotiation of project terms before the official assignment
• Save filters widget
• Post a project and include budget type & currency, location, skills, tags, file uploading and duration
• Automatic notifications
• Easy administration for site admins
• Users can mark favourite projects
• Shared or separate roles: Employers can also be freelancers and the other way around
• Easy administration for site admins
• Fast & easy project matching
• Employers can choose candidates right from within their dashboard
• Credit plans & perks
• Huge pack of sidebars

Purchase HireBee from just $69 »

Soon, Taskerr and HireBee will support AppThemes’ new escrow system with PayPal Adaptive Payments (free) and Balanced Payments. The latter will be released as a paid add-on plugin in the AppThemes Marketplace. By the way, both themes have been built with the Foundation Framework and can be customized via the AppThemes API.

All licences come with free support and updates for 12 months and a lifetime license. The themes can also be used on an unlimited number of websites.