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.
- IT, cybersecurity, networking, software, web and digital media students may be suitable for technology-related tasks.
- Business, management, marketing, accounting and administration students may be suitable for support, coordination, content, customer follow-up, local outreach, ambassador or business-help tasks.
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.
Student Partner Service Referral Policy
Added 13 June 2026. This policy applies where a student, student helper, ambassador, campus helper, neighbourhood helper, live-resume participant or other referrer displays or shares another approved provider's service as a partner service referral.
1. Skill-gap referral use
A student/helper may use a partner service referral listing where they do not yet have the skill, approval, licence, insurance, certification or experience to provide the service themselves.
This is allowed only as a referral/introduction pathway. It does not make the student/helper the service provider, technician, agent, contractor, employee, reseller, franchisee or authorised representative of the provider who performs the work.
2. Separate personal services from partner services
Student/helper profiles and service lists should separate:
- Services I can personally provide — services the student/helper is approved to perform; and
- Partner services I can connect you with — services delivered by another approved provider.
A partner service must not be described as the student/helper's own repair, technical service, qualification, experience, certification, licence or insurance-backed service.
3. Customer disclosure
Customer-facing wording should explain that the partner service is delivered by another approved provider and that the student/helper may receive the standard referral reward of 5% of eligible paid job value if the booking is eligible, paid and recorded through the approved referral path.
Recommended wording: “This partner service is delivered by another approved provider. I may receive the standard referral reward of 5% of eligible paid job value if you book and pay through this referral path.”
4. No guaranteed income or automatic payout
The standard referral reward of 5% of eligible paid job value is manual and reviewable only. It is not a wage, guaranteed income, placement payment, scholarship, employment payment, reseller margin, hidden markup, customer surcharge, automatic payout or guaranteed entitlement.
5. Student, campus and under-18 safeguards
Where the referrer is under 18 or connected with a school, TAFE, university, club, care setting or disability/accessibility pathway, extra safeguards may apply. These may include parent/guardian approval, campus/school approval, supervision, communication limits, Working with Children Check requirements for relevant adults, moderation, visibility limits or removal of direct-contact features.
6. Marketing and no-pressure rules
Students/helpers must not pressure classmates, family, teachers, vulnerable customers, seniors, carers, NDIS participants, local businesses or community members. They must not spam, scrape contact lists, hide referral benefits, create fake leads, make fake reviews, exaggerate income, imply campus endorsement or claim they can perform a service they cannot perform.
7. Related terms
Read this policy with Partner Service Referral Listing Terms, Student Ambassador Upskilling Policy, Referral Terms, Payment and Commission Integrity Policy, Privacy Policy, Fraud, Scam and Integrity Policy, Advertising, Branding and Logo Use Policy and Vulnerable Persons Safeguarding Policy.
Core platform functions covered by these terms
These terms are intended to cover customer help requests, quotes, bookings, payment and warranty steps, support follow-up, urgent support guidance, scam safety help, device custody, pickup and handover, provider verification, provider profiles, referral and ambassador pathways, student pathways, campus and community help, senior and vulnerable-person support, partner service referrals, directory listings, reviews, media uploads, customer status updates, and customer portal use.
Some functions may be available only in selected locations, for selected service types, or after manual review. A feature being visible on a page does not mean a job, referral, reward, student task, provider approval, warranty outcome or payment is guaranteed.
Scam, referral and platform integrity
Customers, providers, students, ambassadors, referrers, partners and visitors must use the platform honestly and only for lawful, safe and genuine service purposes.
The following conduct is not allowed: fake referrals, self-referrals, related-party manipulation, fake jobs, fake reviews, duplicate accounts, nominee accounts, circular activity, reward misuse, artificially splitting or changing jobs to increase rewards, referral link manipulation, bots or automated activity used to generate rewards, scraping, unauthorised data harvesting, attempts to copy protected platform processes, attempts to interfere with platform security, evidence tampering, bad-faith chargebacks, false refund claims, harassment, pressure selling, misleading advertising, impersonation, brand misuse, and attempts to move customers, payments or job records outside approved Your IT & Tech Mates processes.
We may delay, review, limit, refuse, cancel, reverse or hold a booking, referral, reward, payout, profile, listing, review, message, payment, warranty claim or account access where we reasonably believe there is a safety, privacy, scam, payment, eligibility, referral integrity or platform misuse risk.
We may preserve relevant records, request reasonable evidence, contact affected parties, restrict access, remove content, report serious conduct to appropriate authorities or take other lawful steps to protect customers, providers, students, referrers, partners, our business and the public.
Student, provider and referral feature review
Student, provider, referral, ambassador, campus, community, pickup, urgent support and safety-related features may require manual review before activation or use. We may check eligibility, suitability, insurance, work rights, service type, location, customer risk, provider capability, payment status and referral integrity before allowing access to tasks, listings, rewards or customer-facing activity.
Provider registration, checks and insurance
Providers must have suitable business, professional and insurance arrangements for the services they offer. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, a provider may be required to hold an active ABN, business registration, licence, professional registration, certification or other suitable identifier for their service type.
Providers who perform in-person work, pickup or delivery work, home visits, business visits, senior support, campus support, neighbourhood help or other customer-facing services may be required to hold current public liability insurance with cover of at least AUD $5 million.
Providers who give advice, consulting, tutoring, training, planning, repair guidance, business support, technical recommendations or other professional services may be required to hold suitable professional indemnity insurance.
Providers must keep their ABN, licences, registrations, checks and insurance current and provide evidence when requested. We may refuse, limit, pause or remove provider access if suitable evidence is not provided, expires, or does not match the services being offered.
QA update: online platform payment required
This QA pass confirms that referral rewards, ambassador rewards, partner commissions, provider commissions, lead fees, incentives and similar payments are only available where the job is properly recorded, approved, invoiced and paid by online payment through an approved Your IT & Tech Mates platform payment process.
Offline payments and external payment methods do not qualify. This includes cash payments, direct technician or provider payments, private bank transfers, private PayID transfers, cheques, card payments taken outside our platform, personal payment links, side deals, split payments, payment redirection, off-platform work and unrecorded payments.
We may refuse, hold, cancel, reverse or recover any reward, commission, fee or incentive connected with an offline, external, redirected, side-deal or unrecorded payment arrangement.