This sign up process applies to version 1.x.x of the Hefe Platform. Version 2.x has significant changes to streamline this process.
For Agents, once you login in for the first time is super critical to choose “I want to work”.
To become an agent, you’ll need to pick “I want to work” in order for the referral feature to become available to you. The reason behind this is on the billing and payment side. We only allow one way payments, if you can’t receive money, we can’t pay you money.
Of course when you are signing up a business, you’ll want them to pick “I need help” but the referral agent feature will not be available to business side due to billing/payment safety limitations which I will get into in a moment.
You can have accounts on both the hiring side and working side, just use separate Gmail or FaceBook accounts. As an agent, you will probably want to do this so you can demo to prospective businesses you are enrolling.
Of course there is all the registration steps.We have tried to streamline it as much as possible. For example, we are only asking for your photo id and do a quick background check once during the Stripe financial account setup as part of fraud detection. On other platforms, you’d need to submit your Photo Id much sooner.
Statement on Financial Information
In the registration process, you will have to enter your financial information into Stripe to get paid. With a worker account, we can never take any of your money. It is one-way only, to your pocket. On the business side, they’ll be asked to put information is to enable payment. Which is a one-way out that they control. That is why you selected “I want to work” in the early part of the process.
Also, let me stress, we NEVER store your financial information on our servers.
We use Stripe as an independent, secure financial platform to handle all payments and protect us all from fraud and abuse. They run billions of dollars of transactions on a daily basis. If there is ever any problems with your money, we will work with Stripe to resolve those problems quickly. After all, they do take a third of the transaction fee from our platform.
Also, even though we as Hefe instantly pays you on the transaction. Many times the money will take 2 or more days to be deposited into your actual bank account. This is Stripe’s security and fraud prevention trying to prevent criminals from exploiting the financial network and the Hefe platform. So say a criminal were to steal someone’s financial information and try running a series of fake jobs. Both Hefe and Stripe’s fraud detection would prevent the money being stolen from being deposited into the thief’s account.
These are one of many steps we are taking to ensure the platform stays safe and protects us all from criminal activities. We know we will be targeted, we know we can’t stop everything, but we are doing our absolute best to fight criminals that lurk everywhere.
If you are a would be criminal looking for an exploit, please go somewhere else. We are not evil rich people with deep pockets. We are trying to help real people with real opportunities. We personally take almost no profits, what money we keep goes into supporting and growing the platform. Attacking us only hurts the people that we are trying to help. There is countless of other evil companies you should go after that are actually outright stealing from the people…I can think of a long list of evil companies. And if you do find an exploit, we are more than willing to reward you. But please be reasonable.
Responsibility of Payment. Per the terms and conditions, if there is any problems with payment to the worker, it is the hiring party that is responsible for settling disputes with the workers. We hope this will never happen, but we do know there will be problems, eventually. The Hefe platform will try its best to help resolve the problem, but we don’t have a lot of fat to insure workers from loss of income. This is why it is important as agent that you build personal relationships on the hiring side. You will be able to work faster and better being on the ground there in your community than someone sitting in a remote call center that doesn’t care. You care. They don’t. You can figure out the best solution for all parties.
One last note on financial. Some folks will may not have a bank account right now. Or have other concerns about using their existing bank account on an internet platform. We highly recommend using GreenDot bank for this. The same GreenDot you see at Walmart as prepaid credit cards. We have worked with them for more years now, it takes a couple minutes to setup a brand new bank account with debit card and checking. They won’t kill you fees either. Last time I checked, it was $10/month for a checking account.
Now back to registering to be an Independent Agent…
Once you have complete the registration. Added the bookmark to your home screen for the iPhone users to make it look and operate like an installed app from the Appstore. Now you are ready to sign up to be an agent. We have made this super easy.
Congratulations! You are now a Hefe Independent Agent.
From now on, to invite anyone the platform, all you need to do is send the magic link from the app. It will connect them to your account so you can learn from every transaction. Just so you are clear on what the magic link is, mine is https://bit.ly/3fMlZFC. Yours will have a slightly different code that will work in any browser.
You can embed this anywhere and everywhere. In your blog, on a Facebook post, etc. Though don’t expect people to just sign up and become successful. That never happens. You need to create high value content to educate the users. Speaking of which, let’s do a quick tour of the app.