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Matching, Automation, Alerts and Request Queue Policy

Policy for rule-based matching, availability, our authorised team request queues, alerts, risk flags and operational reporting.

Last updated: 26 May 2026

Preservation of existing terms: This policy supplements the existing Your IT & Tech Mates terms and does not remove any existing rights, obligations, exclusions, disclaimers, warnings, privacy notices or Australian Consumer Law statements already published.
Australian Consumer Law: Nothing in this policy excludes, restricts or modifies non-excludable rights, guarantees or remedies under the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable law.

Before you join or participate

Our referral, partner, ambassador, student, provider and community pathways are designed to help eligible participants explore suitable referral, support, service, campus, community, administration, marketing, project, technology and related opportunities.

Participation does not guarantee jobs, income, referrals, leads, bookings, reviews, skill tags, ongoing work, future paid work, commissions, margins, bonuses or any particular outcome.

Participants are not employees of thefixers.app or Your IT & Tech Mates unless a separate written employment agreement is made. Participation does not automatically create an employment, contractor, agency, partnership, joint venture or franchise relationship.

Participants must only accept suitable tasks or referrals, follow all safety, conduct, privacy, guidance and platform rules, comply with any campus, community, provider, customer or partner requirements, and meet any age, tax, legal, insurance, consent, qualification, licensing or parent/guardian requirements that apply.

Australian visa, work rights and eligibility obligations: Participants are responsible for ensuring they have the right to participate, volunteer, refer, provide services, receive payments or undertake any work-related activity in Australia. This includes complying with any visa conditions, work rights, tax, superannuation, ABN, reporting, study, placement, internship, volunteer, contractor or employment obligations that apply to them.

thefixers.app and Your IT & Tech Mates may request reasonable information or evidence to confirm eligibility. Participation may be refused, paused or ended if required information is not provided or if participation may breach legal, visa, work rights or platform requirements.

Student pathway eligibility and review

The student pathway is designed for Australian university and TAFE students whose course, skills or study area match the type of help they want to offer.

Students do not all need to be IT students. Suitable pathways may include technical and non-technical roles, depending on the student’s course, skills, experience and the type of task.

Students must only offer or accept tasks that match their skills, course area, confidence level, location, availability and any safety, legal, visa, work rights, insurance, consent or campus requirements that apply.

Student registration does not mean automatic approval. Before a student can be activated for suitable tasks, The Fixers may review their course or study area, skills, location, age, availability, eligibility and suitable task type. The Fixers may approve, limit, pause or decline student participation if the pathway, task type or eligibility requirements are not suitable.

Student insurance and suitability

Students must only offer or accept tasks that are suitable for their course, skills, experience, age, location, availability, visa conditions and work rights.

Students may be required to show that they are covered by suitable insurance before they can accept certain tasks. This may include public liability insurance for in-person, customer-facing, pickup, delivery, home, business, campus or community tasks, and professional indemnity insurance for advice, consulting, planning, tutoring, training, business support or technical recommendation tasks.

Insurance may be held by the student, their business, an approved provider, an education provider, a placement program, or another approved arrangement, where we accept that arrangement in writing.

Student registration does not mean insurance is approved. We may refuse, limit, pause or remove access to tasks if suitable insurance or eligibility evidence is not provided.

1. Matching is a support tool

Matching suggestions, availability indicators, fit scores, quality scores and risk flags are operational tools to help review by us requests. They are not guarantees of suitability, safety, availability, acceptance, result or legal compliance.

2. Our review and control

We remain responsible for review, assignment and approval. The system may suggest Masters or Campus Masters based on fields, tags, scope, availability, workload, safety checks, compliance flags, quality data and risk checks, but assignment remains controlled by the business unless expressly changed later.

3. Automation and reminders

Service request lists, reminders, alerts and checks may be generated from platform records. Automated reminders may be incomplete, delayed or incorrect, and do not replace manual judgement. We may modify, suppress or delete automated items where necessary.

4. Risk and compliance flags

Risk flags may be created for expired credentials, under-18 issues, open concerns, low quality scores, margin cap issues, campus mismatch, inactive sessions, evidence moderation, payout holds or other operational risks. Flags may restrict visibility, assignment, offer creation or public directory display.

5. Reporting and analytics

Reports, forecasts and dashboards are estimates based on available platform data. They are not accounting records, tax advice, financial advice, audit reports or guaranteed revenue predictions.

Master guidance, campus programs and customer portal terms

These terms are supplemented by new feature-specific policies for Master/Campus Master identities, Student Guidance Requests, private Guidance Offers, Guidance Packages, My Help dashboard, Provider Store orders, Resolution Centre links, matching/service coordination, payment records and public Master Directory trust cards.

Read these additional policies where relevant: Student Guidance and Master Guidance Offer Terms, Master Directory and Trust Card Terms, Campus Master and Campus Partner Program Terms, Guidance Packages and Follow-up Program Terms, Guidance Payout-Ready Ledger and Margin Policy, Matching, Automation and Request Queue Policy, Customer Portal, My Help and Resolution Centre Terms, and Provider Store Orders and Resolution Centre Terms.

No automatic payouts: Payout, referral, campus partner share and margin figures are payout-ready calculations only unless and until separately approved by our authorised team and processed under the applicable payment terms.
No bidding: Guidance Offers, provider interest and Master assignments are not bids, auctions, counter-bids, lowest-price competitions or public price races.

Cross-linked terms and policy framework

These terms must be read together with the other Your IT & Tech Mates terms, policies, notices, quotes, invoices, service forms and written approvals that apply to the relevant service. Where a specific service term applies to a repair, software job, data recovery attempt, pickup, payment, warranty, referral, ambassador, provider, partner, Quick Help request, website use or customer portal matter, that more specific term applies to that subject matter.

Nothing in any Your IT & Tech Mates term excludes, restricts or modifies any right, remedy, consumer guarantee or protection that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law or any other applicable law.

Related terms: Service Terms · Payment & Warranty Terms · Repair, Software & Data Risk Notice · Quick Help Terms · Referral Terms · Ambassador Terms · Provider Partner Terms · Device Pickup Terms · Electronic Consent Policy · Fraud, Scam & Integrity Policy · Booking, Cancellation & No-show Policy · Dispute & Evidence Policy · Privacy Policy.

Your IT & Tech Mates commission and referral model

Total platform commission: The standard total platform commission is 13.5% of the eligible paid job value, unless a different written program rule is approved by Your IT & Tech Mates.

Referral reward: The standard referral reward is 5% of the eligible paid job value. It is calculated as a percentage of the eligible completed and paid job value, not as a fixed dollar reward table.

Included inside the platform commission: The 5% referral reward is included inside the 13.5% total platform commission. It is not added on top of the customer price, and it does not create a separate extra charge unless a separate written customer-facing offer says otherwise.

Referral rewards, ambassador rewards, partner commissions, provider commissions, lead fees and incentives are manual and subject to review. Payment is normally after a minimum 14-day hold after customer payment is confirmed, subject to anti-scam, anti-cheating, duplicate, self-referral, refund, payment-clearance, chargeback, dispute, attribution, customer-consent and team checks.

Referral rewards are not lifetime rewards, recurring rewards, ongoing commissions, employment wages, partnership profits, franchise payments or automatic entitlements. Each job is reviewed separately and must meet the applicable Your IT & Tech Mates terms.

Minimum withdrawal balance: Approved referral, ambassador, partner or commission payments are manual only and generally require a minimum approved balance of $50 before withdrawal can be requested, unless Your IT & Tech Mates approves otherwise in writing.

Online platform payment required: A referral, ambassador, partner, provider, lead or commission payment only qualifies where the related job is properly recorded, approved, invoiced and paid by online payment through an approved Your IT & Tech Mates platform payment process. Cash payments, direct technician payments, direct provider payments, private bank transfers, PayID transfers made outside our platform, cheques, cash-in-hand payments, personal payment links, side deals, split payments, payment redirection, off-platform work and unrecorded payments do not qualify for commission, referral rewards, ambassador rewards, partner fees, lead fees or incentives.

This clause must be read with the Payment and Commission Integrity Policy, Referral Terms, Referral Policy, Ambassador Network Terms, Provider Partner Terms and Fraud, Scam and Integrity Policy.

Ambassador Network, share codes and local introductions

Our Ambassador Network may include local Ambassadors, Campus Ambassadors, Zone Leaders, Master Ambassadors, Building Captains, Street Captains, Suburb Leads, community referrers and approved local campaign participants.

Ambassadors may use approved share codes, QR codes, local campaign links, profile badges or public listing tags to help people find Your IT & Tech Mates. A code, badge, listing, zone or public tag does not make a person our employee, agent, franchisee, approved technician or authorised representative unless we separately confirm that in writing.

Zones, waitlists, profile visibility, provider or business introductions, customer referral attribution and reward eligibility are reviewed by the Your IT & Tech Mates team. Zone recognition is not permanent ownership of a suburb, street, building, campus or customer group.

Customer referral reward reviews, provider introduction reward reviews, campaign rewards and ambassador rewards are not automatic. Any approved reward is subject to eligibility, activity, attribution, fraud, refund, dispute, chargeback, customer consent and payment-clearance checks.

Ambassadors and referrers must not promise guaranteed work, guaranteed repairs, guaranteed discounts, guaranteed rewards, automatic payouts, official endorsement, provider approval, customer priority or exclusive access to a local area.

No bidding marketplace or price competition

Our Ambassador, referral, provider and local campaign tools are not a bidding marketplace. Ambassadors, providers and partners must not use our brand, share codes, campaign links or local pages to run auctions, counter-offers, price races, lowest-offer comparisons or public bid competitions.

Partner Service Referral Listing Update

Added 13 June 2026. These terms also apply where a provider, student, helper, ambassador, referrer or other approved participant displays another approved provider's service as a partner service referral.

The feature is a referral feature only. The referrer does not become the service provider, reseller, agent, employee, partner, franchisee, subcontractor, broker or authorised representative of the provider who performs the work.

The standard referral reward review remains 5% of the eligible paid job value for eligible paid bookings through the approved referral path, subject to the existing referral, payment, dispute, refund, fraud, privacy and our review checks. No automatic payout, separate booking process, separate commission arrangement or extra customer charge is created by this update.

For the full policy update, see Partner Service Referral Listing Terms.