Get Started on Creating a TrovaPage Service
Tags: Freelance, Extra Income, Extra Money, Side Hustle, Business

On TrovaPage, you can sell many things as a service by posting as many services as you want. Let’s look at how to post a service that best suits your business model to maximize your revenue.

Come up with a service idea

On TrovaPage, you can sell many things as a service — a helping hand, skills and knowledge, events and parties, spaces, homemade goodies and home grown products…You could be creative in terms of business ideas, then start by Post a service, and give it an eye-catching, easy-to-read service title.

Next, it’s time to dig into Service details. Explain what you are selling or what you’ll be doing for this service, and what your customers need to be aware of before booking it. Additional information such as your qualification, equipment or technical information, and expected outcomes will also be helpful. You could utilize different formats such as text, images, table charts to better convey your service information.

Price your service or create a menu

Pricing is required for services on TrovaPage. Every customer will see the estimated cost before placing an order. Although the price for each booking is finalized by the invoice you generated, it shall not go too far from the customer’s expectation while booking.

If the service you’re selling has different variations or prices, we strongly recommend you to create a menu for your customers to select while booking.

Decide how your service is being scheduled

On TrovaPage, we classify all services into 3 types: outcome delivery, preset schedule, and appointment required.

Based on your service type, the way of scheduling your service will be different, and you’ll need to perform different actions when accepting it.

Define where your service is happening

This part of setting is crucial for where your customers need to be and how your service is delivered.

Let people know the service location or pick-up location by entering the address in ‘My Location’.

If your service requires you to visit your customer’s location, or you’re willing to provide in-door service, or your service involves shipping and delivery, select ‘My customer’s location’ to acquire your customer’s address on their booking information.

If you select ‘Service location to be determined’, no address will be shown to the public, customers will need to chat with you privately to acquire location information.

For online services, simply select ‘This service does not have a physical location’.

Visual presentation of your service

Here’s an unquestionable fact — humans are visual creatures. It helps a lot for people to choose your service by showing them more visuals. As many as you want, Upload pictures into your Service Album to visually present anything related to your service.

Next, choose an image you uploaded to be your ‘Service Album Cover’, which will be the first image displaying in your service album, and the thumbnail representing this service. You could ‘Edit cover thumbnail’ to crop and position your album cover image when it’s being used as a thumbnail.

Choose your customer base

After previewing all service information you input above, it’s time to decide who’s able to find and book your service. You could control the customer base and business scale by toggling access permissions, whether your service is for everyone, or exclusively for your friends, or you only wish to take customers upon referral.

It’s time to spread the words

After publishing a service, your service will become immediately searchable, being showcased in newest listings, and all your connections will see your new business on top of their community page. However, we strongly recommend to kick-start your new service by sharing your service link to social media or to people you know, in order to give it more publicity.

Keep your service informations updated

Last but not least, feel free to edit and update any of your service information anytime. The service information pages are the frontiers of your TrovaPage income, so remember to keep the information updated, or toggle some settings to test out different business models.