A new online venture vying to revolutionise the way we offer and procure service-based jobs is soon to be launched in Malta and Gozo. At Kwotani.com.mt, there is a full directory of freshly signed up freelancers and businesses in the fields of home improvement, events and lessons, all waiting to receive consumer-led requests, automatically and in an instant.

Kwotani asks consumers pertinent, industry-researched questions about the job that needs completing and responds with further modified questions depending on how a consumer answered the previous question about their job request.

Kwotani gives power to consumers and professionals

In need of a biology teacher? Users can log on to Kwotani, identify the category of work required (biology lessons) and allow the system to ask between seven and 15 related questions. Once completed, the totality of the answers will form a request that is instantly sent out to all teachers on the Kwotani database that are registered under the Biology Lessons category. If the user’s request interests them, the teachers can opt to respond by offering a quote, broken down by an hourly rate within a standard quotation format.

Each professional’s quote that the request maker receives will be supported by a full profile page detailing their experience and portfolio of work. The user will receive a maximum of seven quotations in response to the request that was sent out.

If a quote is considered to be attractive to the consumer from a price and reputation perspective, the user may choose that business or freelancer to fulfil the job requirements.

“Kwotani therefore gives power to both consumers and professionals alike in that consumers are able to source quotes without hassle and in a perfectly competitive environment, while professionals do not pay for any marketing and subsequent interest but are only charged a small fee on success,” a company spokesman said.