A marketplace is only as good as its rules. Ours are built into every step of every job, and they work the same whether you're posting or seeking.
Follow one bounty from posted to paid. At every station, the rules do the worrying so you don't have to.
A job only goes live on the map once the poster has a verified way to pay. Every card is checked the moment it's added.
There are two kinds of jobs. Express jobs go to the first seeker who claims them, and the job locks to that person on the spot. Matched jobs take applications instead: up to five seekers can apply, and the poster picks. Clear communication between both sides is easy too. The contact button opens your phone's own messaging or the apps you already use, like WhatsApp. We know that's where people actually talk.
The payment is secured in advance, reserved rather than taken. If it can't be secured, the job cancels itself and both sides are told immediately.
Both sides confirm the job has begun, and each side has a 10 minute grace window of their own, not one shared clock. A job can also only be started on location: seekers must be within 200 metres of the job before the app lets them press start.
The same fairness, mirrored: the seeker marks the job done and the poster confirms. If either side goes quiet, a structured resolution system weighs what actually happened and settles the outcome fairly for both sides, rather than simply closing the job out.
Money moves through Stripe, straight to the seeker's bank account. No cash, no awkward conversations, and every transaction is recorded.
Life happens, so cancelling early is simple and free of drama. Cancelling late is different: it costs the person who cancels, and part of that automatically compensates the person they let down.
Disagreements get a human, not a chatbot. Open a dispute in the app and a real person reviews it and gets back to you.
Every account is tied to a verified email and a verified payment or payout method. Ratings run in both directions: seekers rate posters, posters rate seekers, and your track record travels with you, visible before anyone commits.
All payment data is handled end-to-end by Stripe, the same payment infrastructure trusted by millions of businesses. Bounty never sees or stores your card number.
Bounty is made in Switzerland and runs on servers in Zürich. Your data stays close to home, under some of the strictest privacy standards in the world.
Claims, starts, finishes, payments, cancellations: every step of every job is timestamped and kept in your history. If a question ever comes up, the answer is already written down.
Short video guides live in the app's help section, and behind them is a team that answers: contact@bounty-labs.com.
Exact timings, fees and compensation amounts are always shown in the app before you post, claim or cancel, so you agree to the specifics, not the summary. This page describes how Bounty works in principle; the app is the source of truth.