A Workchute party can both post work and bid on work. Customer and vendor are activities, not separate account types. Post a Job starts the posting flow; a signed-in user needs completed personal onboarding, a receipt for the current agreement, and Manage jobs access before Workchute allows the party to save or publish a job. Every active party member can read the party's jobs and drafts, but only the owner or a Manage jobs member sees mutation controls.
A guest can prepare a private, expiring draft in the same browser. After sign-up or sign-in and onboarding, Workchute recovers that draft for the same identity and browser only when that user has Manage jobs. Choosing Sign in to post on the completed guest review authorizes posting after sign-in and any required onboarding. Workchute then opens My Jobs without another confirmation. An unfinished guest draft is not published automatically.
Start with a few words
Published Job Detail places compact category tags above Description. Below the description, Property, Location and Urgency share a compact summary, followed by Desired start and Desired completion. Unspecified desired dates show Flexible. The existing view count appears beneath the title.
On Home, enter a short introduction under Got a problem? and select Find your problem solver. The Description step opens with your introduction filled in and a prompt to keep describing the problem. Expand it with what needs doing, the affected item or area, and the result you want.
If the browser already holds a saved guest job, Continue saved job opens that job unchanged. Start a new job replaces the saved guest job in this browser and opens a fresh Description step with your new introduction. The previous job's title, pictures, and location are not copied. Finish the saved job first if you still need it.
This introduction is a starting point, not a completed listing. You can edit it before continuing, and the ordinary posting checks still apply. It stays in the same browser for a limited time; if it expires or you open the link in a different browser, enter the description again. The words are not included in the page address. Post a Job in the navigation remains available if you prefer to start directly in the wizard.
You can also use Sign in or Sign up from the unsaved Description step. Workchute carries the original homepage introduction through sign-in and any required onboarding into the signed-in Description step. Use Continue to save any additional edits before leaving the form. A saved guest draft follows the ordinary review-and-recovery flow instead.
Build the draft
The posting flow moves through Description, Pictures, Location, and Review. Choose Continue to save a section and reveal the next one. The page scrolls there without reloading. Use the section locator or scroll back to edit earlier sections; their Cancel and Continue buttons stay hidden. Only the latest section has actions. Earlier edits save when you use its Continue or Post job button. If saving fails, your entries remain and the next section stays closed. Without browser enhancements, use the ordinary Back and Continue buttons.
Enter a clear description of the work. The remaining-character count updates as you type, up to 5,000 characters. On a new signed-in draft, Workchute saves this first so pictures have a private job to belong to.
Add pictures if they help explain the work. Pictures are optional. Choose Continue without Pictures when none are attached, or Continue after adding pictures. The button keeps the same size in both states.
Choose the service location and property type.
On Review, enter or correct the title and choose one or more current service categories up to the limit shown by the form. Set urgency and optional proposed dates, then review every value before selecting Post job. A saved draft remains private until this succeeds.
Categories and property types come from the current Workchute catalogs. Search and select from the choices the form presents; a value retained in an old tab can be rejected if it is no longer available. Each category can be selected only once, and Workchute asks for either a parent category or one of its subcategories rather than both. The current posting policy sets the maximum; Workchute validates and saves the complete set instead of truncating it. Proposed dates must satisfy the current form rules, including their order and whether they are still in the future.
If the current draft allowance has been reached, use the link to the Jobs tab, resume an existing draft, or delete an unneeded unpublished draft. The limit is set by the running Workchute environment and is intentionally not frozen in this guide.
Choose the service location
A signed-in Manage jobs user can select an active address already saved to the party or enter a new job-scoped one through the single location lookup. Workchute validates saved addresses against the current party again inside the authorized job transaction; a submitted address identifier is not authority to use another party's property. Generic saved-address and Head office management remains owner-only.
When choosing or correcting a location, also choose an enabled property type. A supported Canadian postal code or US ZIP may be accepted as a coarse location without inventing a street address. If the lookup cannot resolve the value, use a complete supported value and try again. The public listing shows only the coarse service location, not the private street address or coordinates.
An already-published job can move to another valid service address only within the same country. Its original country-based currency remains attached to the listing.
Add and arrange pictures
Use Add Pictures or the file chooser. With browser enhancements available, the upload starts as soon as you confirm your file selection; no separate upload button is needed. Add Pictures is aligned to the right in the wizard. You can also drop files, watch progress inside a thumbnail-sized tile, delete pictures with the × control at the top right of each thumbnail, and drag to reorder successful pictures. To reorder with a keyboard, focus a picture and press Alt + Left Arrow or Alt + Right Arrow. Without those enhancements, save the draft first and use the ordinary upload and remove forms.
The current form is the authority for accepted image formats, file limits, and whether uploads are available. Workchute processes originals privately. A picture can be waiting for upload, processing, ready, rejected, deleted, or expired; only a successfully processed picture appears in its thumbnail tile. Filenames and status labels are not shown beside the pictures. The first ready picture in the saved order becomes the listing thumbnail. There is no separate Set cover control.
An unfinished picture upload belongs to the exact coworker who started it as well as the party and job; another member cannot take over that temporary upload. Once committed, the picture is readable to every active party member. Permission removal blocks further user actions but does not prevent Workchute's system cleanup from expiring temporary objects.
If an upload or processing fails, its preview tile disappears. A processing failure has a separate Discard unsuccessful picture action above the grid; use it to free that picture slot, then choose a suitable image again. If reordering reports that the picture order changed, refresh the manager before trying once more. Deleting or reordering is allowed only while the owned job is still a draft or an active open listing.
Review optional suggestions
For a new signed-in or guest draft, Workchute may make one automatic, policy-gated attempt to suggest an editable title and category set from the description. There is no customer AI switch and no promise that suggestions will appear. The feature can be unavailable because of current policy, usage, catalog, provider, or readiness conditions.
Suggestions prepare in the background while you add pictures and location. They depend only on the description. Location, pictures, urgency and proposed dates do not restart or invalidate them. Editing either the title or categories protects your choices from a late suggestion. Changing the description clears its old generated suggestion without making a second attempt; enter your own title and categories in that case.
Suggestions never publish the job and never replace the customer's review. Correct the title and complete category set on Review just like any other field. Workchute applies a valid suggestion as one all-or-nothing result; it does not keep only part of an invalid or stale set. A skipped, unclear, timed-out, or failed suggestion does not block ordinary posting; keep completing the form yourself. Workchute rechecks Manage jobs before provider use and again before the final write; permission removal stops the draft update while usage settlement and cleanup can still finish safely.
Publish, edit, close, or expire
Publishing changes a valid private draft into an open listing and gives it the current listing deadline. While the job remains open and unexpired, its owner or a Manage jobs member can use Edit to change details and pictures in place. The actions appear below Posted by on the left. Edit becomes Done in the same position. Valid changes save as you edit. Done waits for pending saves and uploads; errors keep your input available. Workchute checks both live permission and that the job has not changed in another tab before accepting revision-sensitive saves.
The section locator sits on the left on wide screens and wraps above the content on narrow screens. Each heading sits above its fields in the vertical posting flow. The locator highlights the section you are reading or editing. You can return to every revealed section without restoring its old buttons. An owned unpublished draft has Cancel on the latest section, including a guest draft recovered into the signed-in posting flow. A successful deletion removes the draft from active work immediately, invalidates its same-browser guest recovery receipt, and schedules private picture cleanup in the background. Open jobs do not have an ordinary delete, cancel, or extend-listing control. The owner instead uses Close Job with Cancel, Close complete and Close incomplete. Complete opens the review step and only closes on the final Skip or Submit. Completion claims, closing consequences, and reviews are explained in Bids, completion, and reviews.
If its deadline passes first, an open listing expires and leaves the public marketplace. Expiry does not say that the work was completed and does not create a review cycle. Closed, expired, cancelled, and otherwise terminal jobs cannot be edited or accept new pictures.
Refresh an archived job
An owner or member with Manage jobs can open an owned job in Completed jobs and select Refresh as new draft. Workchute copies the approved job fields from that exact historical version into a new private draft under the current categories, property types, posting policy, and draft limit. It never reopens the old job, reuses its identifier, or restores old bids, conversations, permissions, deadlines, completion state, or reviews.
Retained pictures are copied server-side into new private objects that belong to the current draft; the draft never points at Archive storage. If a picture cannot be copied, the valid draft remains available and reports a partial copy. Open the archived job and choose Refresh as new draft again to resume the same active draft and retry its exact historical pictures. A past proposed date is cleared, and a retired category, property type, unsupported address, frozen account, or current draft limit can block the refresh instead of silently changing the historical meaning.
Recover from a stale or failed action
Field errors return to the relevant step with the invalid values identified. Correct those fields rather than starting a second draft. When Workchute reports a revision conflict, reopen the job from the Jobs tab and apply the change to the current version.
Controls are persona- and state-aware. If Edit, Post job, picture controls, or Close Job is missing, first check that you are an active member with Manage jobs and that the job is in the required state. After a serious submission error, reopen the canonical job page and inspect its current status before retrying; the previous outcome may be uncertain.