#ziptask

The international outsourcing market is giant-sized, hundreds of billions of dollars strong. A numerous amount of web platforms aims to monetize that marke

Today we launched 'Product Studio', an extension of our platform, designed to help design, document, and polish your project before you get it developed.  In Product Studio, we gather together 4 experts (an architect, designer, analyst, and project manager) to connect with you over 3 video-chat sessions, where they work with you directly on your website, mobile, app, or any other type of project. They each create specific deliverables (wire-frames, mockups, requirements, flowcharts, research, and a tech stack recommendation), that catapult you forward towards a far better outcome for your development project.

We are excited and optimistic at how this model could further solve the challenges and pain of outsourcing to freelancers online. 

Just onboarded, they come from a variety of technically-focused backgrounds. We have handpicked these 20 from over 316 applicants over the last few months. Welcome and congratulations! 

So here we go. In order to comply with federal regulations surrounding the Dodd Frank act, and the US Federal Government's OFAC financial procedural checks, Ziptask has incorporated strict identity verification policies, including a KYC (Know Your Customer) policy. As such, there are completely new features created for identity verification, in order to prevent money laundering and fraud. Customers, freelancers, and project managers will all have to become "verified" by uploading legitimate, government issued identification and awaiting administrative approval from the Ziptask operations team (in 24 hours or less typically, especially during the work week). You will see an alert when you login in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, asking you to 'get verified' by either adding a bank account, or going through the manual process of identity verification through another set of steps. 

Move over PayPal! We can do this cheaper now! That's right... Bank accounts for 38 countries (list attached) can be added for direct deposit at a cost of $5 usd per transaction. Add a bank account in the settings area, second tab, ('cogs' / 'gear' icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen once logged into your Ziptask Dashboard). 

Here is the list, in case you were interested... Most of the planet is represented below. 

Ziptask is fully managed outsourcing. It's a new web app for outsourcing, with a built-in cloud-based project manager. Never hire a freelancer again. Hire a project manager instead, who can find, hire, and manage all your freelancers for you.

Today we release a feature to the Ziptask dashboard which allows project managers, customers, and freelancers themselves, to assign work items to each other on the project. This small task creation and assignment feature emulates very closely what you would see in any typical project management and task management system, like asana, basecamp, blossom, etc. Below shows visually this feature in action. 

Once you add someone to the project (above), they will be available in the drop-down list of “assignees”.

Clicking on the small person icon reveals the assignee pop-up overlay area, where you can start typing the name of the person you wish to assign this work item to, and they show up in the box for selection.