pamb10 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I would love to be able to schedule jobs to begin on a specific date.I have been very busy with jobs and have to turn down jobs as I do not have time for them in the current week. I would love to be able to schedule a job to begin when I know other jobs will be complete rather then lose a potential client.If this is possible, please let me know. Otherwise I would love to see this feature built in to the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattboa Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 You can only limit specific gigs from receiving more than X orders from the Gigs page. It’s the order limit function. But you can’t schedule order timers or such, everything has to be done concurrently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamb10 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 You can only limit specific gigs from receiving more than X orders from the Gigs page. It’s the order limit function. But you can’t schedule order timers or such, everything has to be done concurrently.Thank you for the confirmation. I think this would be a great feature to add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
english_voice Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 You’ve hit upon a good idea in my humble opinion. However, I also suspect that there are many other good ideas - and it would soon get to a point where if too many were implemented, the whole system would become overwhelming for the average user.We’re in a similar line of work. I deliberately offer a three day turnaround for jobs that might take me just 20 minutes or an hour or two. This way I can choose to juggle jobs around should a larger order come in without impacting on the expectations of existing buyers, or else super serve my buyers by delivering quickly when I have the time. My point being that 99% of the time I’m in control.This works for me because my buyers tend to be patient and prepared to wait for the result. I rarely get approached by people asking for a 24 hour delivery (which I mostly refuse as experience tells me these buyers are often the worst kind), and when I do have a request for a larger order that I can’t take on for another couple of days I respond with a custom offer with a delivery time of say 5 days. This often secures the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamb10 Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 You’ve hit upon a good idea in my humble opinion. However, I also suspect that there are many other good ideas - and it would soon get to a point where if too many were implemented, the whole system would become overwhelming for the average user.We’re in a similar line of work. I deliberately offer a three day turnaround for jobs that might take me just 20 minutes or an hour or two. This way I can choose to juggle jobs around should a larger order come in without impacting on the expectations of existing buyers, or else super serve my buyers by delivering quickly when I have the time. My point being that 99% of the time I’m in control.This works for me because my buyers tend to be patient and prepared to wait for the result. I rarely get approached by people asking for a 24 hour delivery (which I mostly refuse as experience tells me these buyers are often the worst kind), and when I do have a request for a larger order that I can’t take on for another couple of days I respond with a custom offer with a delivery time of say 5 days. This often secures the work.Thank you for your reply. Yes I have learned that I have to extend the delivery time just so I can accommodate the workload that I have. I have learned by the mistake of offering 1 or even 2 day turnaround because you never know what may be ordered from you without any preceding discussion. I have since been increasing timeframes for jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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