Provider tools

Go to My services → Add service in your provider dashboard. You'll need:

• A title (e.g. "Boiler installation, 3-bedroom flat").
• A short description of what's included.
• A fixed price in naira. (Near-U is a fixed-price marketplace — no haggling on the platform.)
• An optional estimated duration so clients know roughly how long it'll take.

You can list as many services as you want under the trades you're verified for.

Three things move the needle:

1. Complete jobs. Volume drives ranking more than anything else.
2. Keep your rating above 4.5. That's the threshold for our "trusted" badge and category-page placement.
3. Reply fast. Bookings auto-expire after a few hours if you don't accept. Your average response time is shown on your public profile — faster pros get booked more.

You can also upgrade to Pro for ₦5,000 — that gives you priority placement in search, a gold badge, and removes booking caps.

Payouts run weekly. The cycle:

1. Client books and pays → funds held in escrow.
2. You complete the job and mark it done.
3. Client confirms → funds release from escrow.
4. Every week we batch every provider's released-but-unpaid earnings and transfer them to the bank account on your profile, minus our commission.

Make sure your bank details on My profile → Payout details are correct. If they're missing, your earnings sit in our system until you complete them — we can't pay you without them.

Your portfolio is a gallery of photos that shows off your past work and workshop. Clients see it on your public profile — it's a major trust signal.

Go to My profile → Portfolio, upload up to 30 images, and tag each as either a Past job or a Workshop photo. Every upload goes through admin review before it goes public (usually within 24 hours).