Sawubona. Molo. Dumela. Hello.
You’re already good at the work. Not enough people know it yet.
Right now your next job depends on somebody remembering your name. Mendly puts your name where people are already looking.
- No email needed
- No password
- No CV, no documents
- No registered business
- Free to join
It takes about two minutes. If you know someone who should be on here, you can sign them up yourself.
The informal economy already runs on trust. It just can’t travel.
A good painter known by forty people and a mediocre one known by four thousand — that’s not a skills gap, it’s a distribution gap. It’s the only thing standing between you and a full week.
Mendly does not vouch for you
Your clients do. Every finished job adds a rating that stays on your profile.
Mendly does not price you
You put in your day rate. Nobody bids against you, nobody knocks you down.
Mendly does not take your money
What she pays you for the work is between the two of you. Mendly does not hold or release job payments.
Four things. That’s the entire app.
Go available so clients nearby can find you, track your work, see how much you’re earning, and vouch for the people you’d put your own name behind.
Get found for work
Step 1 of 4
Your phone number is the whole application
Four steps: your cell number, the code we text you, your name, the work you do, and a pin on the map so clients nearby can find you — they only ever see your suburb.
Mrs Pillay
Reservoir Hills
Your turn — quote your day rate or decline.
Paint two bedrooms and a passage. Walls only, ceilings are fine. Paint already bought.
She tells you the job. You name your day rate.
Not a bidding site — not an auction where five people undercut each other until nobody makes money. She asks, you quote your day rate, she says yes or no. Declining costs you nothing.
Mrs Pillay
Reservoir Hills · Day rate agreed
Your turn — start the job once Mrs Pillay arrives.
No transport of your own is not a problem. Being fetched is a normal step in a Mendly job.
Being fetched is a step in the job, not a disqualification
Confirmed → being fetched → in progress → done. She marks that she is on her way to fetch you; you tap Start job when you arrive together and Job done when it is finished.
Vouch for others. Then outgrow this page.
Sign up the people you’d put your own name behind, and see when they’re available and how much work they’re getting. Complete jobs with good ratings on the Community track and Mendly may invite you to graduate to the Standard track — quotes, invoices, a client book, same account. There’s no deadline on it — stay Community for as long as it works for you.
Read more about graduationQuestions people ask before signing up
What does it cost me?+
Nothing to join and nothing per month. The client pays a small booking fee to Mendly when she books you — what she pays you for the work is between the two of you, and Mendly does not hold or release that money.
I don't have data.+
The app opens in the browser you already have and installs to your home screen. There is nothing to download from an app store and nothing filling up your storage.
I don't have my own transport.+
"Being fetched" is a real stage in a Mendly job — she marks that she is on her way, you both see it, and nobody has to explain anything.
I am not a registered business.+
You don't need to be — that's exactly why this side of Mendly exists. Complete jobs with good ratings on the Community track and Mendly may invite you to the Standard track without reapplying, or you can request it yourself whenever you're ready. Staying on Community for as long as you like is always fine too. Full details are in our Community Provider terms.
Who can see where I live?+
Nobody. You drop a pin so the app knows roughly where you are, but clients only ever see your suburb — and they only get your number once you have accepted a job.
What if I am busy, or it is a Sunday?+
Tap "Stop showing me". You disappear from browse until you switch back on, so nobody wastes your time and you never look unreliable for a call you couldn't take.
Put your name on the map.
Two minutes, your phone, nothing else. Or sign up someone you’d vouch for.