Yea it will be a simpler job than creating the task functionality, so I would have that part custom-developed for the site later. Actually, you may be able to use a membership plugin for the subscription functionality and then simply hire someone to integrate that plugin with the theme. That would be cheaper and probably more reliable.

Hey Salim,

Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad you found my tutorial so helpful 🙂

This first question is tough, but I think you may want to consider the DirectoryEngine theme by EngineThemes based on your revenue model. That theme makes it easy to charge businesses to list themselves on your site rather than taking a commission from the services they sell. Otherwise, if you are more focused on the the Fiverr features, you could start off with just that functionality and then hire a developer later with your profits to add the monthly subscription option.

Your hosting and domain will be annual expenses. Bluehost will be about $60/year and your domain will be around $12/year. The theme is a one-time payment but after one year you may choose to renew your license if you want to continue receiving updates.

2.) Just to verify with you, which of all the things i buy to do this entire website will be a monthly payment and a one time payment?

Thank you soooo much for your time!

Hey Jake,

Thanks for the kind words! MicrojobEngine can certainly help with this. All of the content is fully customizable, so you’ll be able to create your own categories like bookkeeping on the site.

Hey Ahmed,

MjE doesn’t have custom colors but this can be edited with CSS. There are a few child themes included that make changes to the style of the theme and you can edit those for further code customizations. I believe the sellers have an option in their dashboard to withdraw funds, so they can do it on their own without you needing to manually release it.

2-For future expansion, I may need to add some features, remove some and change some, is that possible? In other words. Is the source code editable and can I outsource a developer to change some of the codes in it?

3- How to switch between Seller/Buyers in the main profile page.

4- The most important part is how this theme can handle the payments, we know that the money will be held in escrow until the seller finishes the job and get approved by the buyer, then the website will release the payment and keeps the commission, is that function available without human control?

Thanks and have a great day.

WordPress themes always use an open source license which they are required to inherit from WordPress, so yes you will be able to edit the code in the theme if needed.

Any managed web host should be able to handle the site without issue. WPX is a solid choice if you want a recommendation. As the site scales, you may need to transition to enterprise resources, but that probably won’t be an issue until your monthly visits are well in excess of 100,000 and you have hundreds of concurrent visitors.

I would recommend copying the payment plan that existing businesses in this niche use. They have likely already tested a lot of pricing and revenue models, so you can benefit by simply copying them.

Secondly, I highly recommend you choose a complete WordPress theme instead of an HTML template like that. The template you linked to only has the design. None of the functionality required for creating a gig website is included.

MicroJobEngine should work with a wordpress.com install if you have a Business account.

I have a few questions

1)I have a problem, the problem being the payment plan I’m not sure it is a good idea to get commission for every job done because i believe other clients will want their money in cash so what do you think of a subscription based business

2) https://themeforest.net/item/hireo-job-board-freelance-services-marketplace-html-template/22202212?s_rank=1

This is a very nice template but is not supported by WordPress but instead html so how do i go about this predicament