Workchute lets you prepare one current job or bid before you have an account. The draft is private, expires at the time shown on its page, and can be continued only in the same browser. It is not attached to an email address until a successful sign-in claims it.
Finish or claim the current guest task if you still need it. Closing private browsing, clearing site data, changing browsers, or letting the displayed expiry pass can make the draft unrecoverable.
You can open more than one initial guest form in separate tabs without one form invalidating another. After the first save creates a private browser draft, Workchute still keeps one current saved guest task at a time.
Prepare a guest job
Choose Post a Job while signed out. Workchute guides you through Description, Pictures, Location and property, and Review.
Continue saves and reveals the next section on the same page. Scroll back or use the section locator to edit earlier sections. Their buttons stay hidden; only the latest revealed section has Cancel and Continue. Earlier edits save when you next continue. Failed saves retain your entries without revealing the next section. Without browser enhancements, ordinary Back and Continue forms remain available. Workchute may suggest an editable title and categories in the background after Description Continue. Suggestions depend on availability and usage limits; enter them yourself if none appear. Changing the description clears untouched generated suggestions, and your own title/category edits take priority. Review the result before signing in and posting.
Describe the work.
Optionally add pictures using the types and size shown on the page. Wait for pictures you want to keep to reach a ready state; only ready pictures can move into the party-owned draft. Use Remove before continuing when a picture is wrong or its processing failed; removing it from the guest draft does not affect any other job.
Choose a valid address and property type. For address help, see Location, addresses, and privacy.
On Review, add the title and choose one or more categories up to the limit shown by the form. Review any optional timing and urgency, then submit the completed guest draft.
The category, property, date, picture, and draft limits are validated against the running Workchute environment. Categories must be current and unique, and a parent plus its subcategory cannot be selected together. Workchute preserves the complete category set through sign-in and materializes it as one unit; it does not choose an arbitrary primary category or partially keep an invalid set. If a choice becomes unavailable, return to the relevant step and select a current value.
Choose Sign in to post after reviewing the job, then Create account or Sign in in the same browser. After sign-in and any required onboarding, Workchute posts the reviewed job and opens My Jobs. The signed-in user must have Manage jobs access. There is no second confirmation. Without JavaScript, use the Post job fallback after signing in. If publication fails or the draft changes in another tab, your saved job remains available for correction and posting. If sign-up detects a pending Team invitation, Workchute completes that invitation first and applies the invited user's actual party permission before materialization.
Begin from the homepage
If you begin on Home with Find your problem solver, your short introduction is filled into the Description step. Keep describing the problem in more detail there before continuing. This starting action does not create or publish a job and does not replace any of the guest steps above.
If you already have a saved guest job in this browser, Workchute first shows You have a saved job. Choose Continue saved job to keep working on it unchanged. Choose Start a new job only if you are ready to replace that saved job in this browser. The new Description step contains your homepage introduction; it does not inherit the old job's pictures, title, or location.
Before saving the first step, Sign in or Sign up carries the original homepage introduction into signed-in posting after any required onboarding. Use Continue to save further edits before leaving the form. Once you have saved a guest draft, sign-in follows guest recovery. Only a job submitted with Sign in to post continues to publication automatically.
Prepare a guest bid
Open a public job that still accepts bids and start the guest bid flow. Pricing is optional; when supplied, choose a current pricing unit. Workchute determines the currency from the job. The opening message is required.
Select Save bid draft, then create an account or sign in from the same browser. After onboarding, the recovery page displays the job, pricing, and opening message for one last review. Send bid requires Bid + chat and creates the bid and its opening conversation exactly once. It is never sent merely because you signed in. The customer must reply before another chat message can be sent, and an initial guest bid cannot include a PDF.
The send step can stop if the job closed, no longer accepts bids, or already has a bid from your party. Return to the current job page to see what actions remain available.
If an initial job or bid form expires, was already submitted, or needs an input correction before a private draft exists, Workchute keeps the entered form values and issues a fresh form. Review the values and submit again; do not reuse an old page from browser history.
Cancel a guest job
Cancel on the latest section leaves the wizard and clears this browser's current guest draft recovery. Its private media follows the existing expiry and cleanup process. A new wizard starts at Description with its actions restored. A task already claimed by a signed-in account keeps its separate identity-bound receipt.
Recover or restart safely
If sign-in fails, use Sign in again on Workchute's recovery page without leaving the originating browser. If onboarding is incomplete, finish it and Workchute returns to the recovered confirmation.
If the signed-in party access does not allow the recovered action, sign-in still completes and Workchute explains that the account needs more access. The draft stays unexecuted in the originating browser. Ask the party owner to grant Manage jobs or Bid + chat, then sign out and sign in again, or use another account with the required access. Repeating sign-in never bypasses the live permission check.
If Workchute says no recoverable draft is available, or that it expired or does not belong to this browser, the old draft cannot be moved or searched by email. Start a new guest task. If a final confirmation was interrupted, reopen the recovery destination first: Workchute can return you to an already-created job or bid instead of creating another one.
Copying ready pictures can delay final confirmation. If it fails, return to the recovered review and follow the displayed retry guidance. Workchute checks current party access and categories again before creating the draft, including when another tab or the party owner changes them during that delay. An identical retry returns the existing draft; a competing category change cannot overwrite it. Cleanup of incomplete copies continues automatically and never publishes the job for you.
After a recovered job becomes a party-owned unpublished draft, using Delete draft removes it from active work and invalidates the original recovery receipt. Reopening the old guest recovery flow cannot recreate that deleted draft; start a new guest task if another job is needed.