How to use Grafter to post jobs, view profiles and hire workers easily

A simple five-stage process for finding, hiring and paying people for short-term work. Scroll down to find out more…

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Designed to simplify the process of finding, hiring and paying people for short term jobs

Grafter helps with the legal and financial aspects of hiring and paying people to helps you
to remain secure and compliant in five easy steps.

Set up a job

Follow the four quick steps to set-up a job. 

When complete, the job details will be sent to suitable people in our database of over 60,000 registered grafters.

You can hire multiple people under each job and also pay each person for multiple phases of work.

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View available grafters

Available grafters will show in your dashboard as they respond to your job. Normally you will get a response within the hour.

You can review the grafter’s profiles, previous work & reviews and ‘chat’ to them to pick the best grafter for your job.

After chatting to them, you can buy credits to exchange contact details or arrange to meet.  Pricing details can be seen here.

You can now complete the hiring process offline yourself. Or at no extra costs you can use Grafter to hire and pay the workers securely as shown below.

Hire the best person

If you wish to use the platform to manage and pay people securely, click ‘Make Offer’ to offer the job to someone. 

You will have the opportunity to adjust any job details such as start date at this point. 

The grafter ‘Accepts’ the offer and everything is booked. 

You are set-up to manage and pay the worker using the Grafter platform, with no further platform fees.

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Pay the worker

Workers will Request Payment when they are due to be paid, as defined in the job details.

This will raise an online invoice which you can pay, or dispute and ask the worker to change.

Easily pay with our system. You can also pay directly yourself or pass the invoice on to someone else to pay, no Grafter account required.

Mark the invoice ‘Paid’ to confirm that the payment was made.

Rate and Review

After the job is complete, the client can review the worker, providing a star rating and written review.

This is an important step as it provides an incentive for people do a good job. It also helps good grafters find more work, or warns other clients about poor performers!

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Search over 40,000 trusted grafters throughout the UK

Easily hire and pay trusted trades people with Grafter.