How it works
Trade to Save is similar to what trades people have been doing for years, helping each other out by trading their individual skills and services to save money. Now, through Trade to Save, we are bringing this ability to all people in all fields and industries, between individuals and businesses. To make it even more exciting we have added products and accommodation into the mix. Now you can trade, barter, and swap almost anything with anyone and get more value out of your skills, services, product, and accommodation and save money in the process.
It's now easy to get more value out of what you already have. Here is a trade example.
How it works, trade example
1. Choose and save your trade items
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My trade item
Hair dresser |
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Trade items can be any combination of work skills, products, services, money or accommodation. You may have several Trade items to offer. Click here to see examples of trade items. |
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2. Select the trade items you may want in exchange for your trade item
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Trade item wanted
Interior Designer |
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If you are not looking for anything specific you can simply advertise your trade items to see what people are prepared to offer in exchange. |
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3. Use Trade to Save to find a match then you can barter your exchange
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| Hair dresser
Four of these |
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Interior Designer
One of these |
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Use the search facilities to find a match with other members interested in exchanging trade items. Your trade Item along with the trade Item wanted will be displayed in the main trade to save search list and added to our database to match your requirements with other users. Once you are happy to discuss a trade with another user you can exchange contact details as a full member.
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What are trade items?
Trade Items are the items that you want to exchange on Trade to Save. A trade item may be a service that you provide, a trade skill, a business service or any general handy work that you have to offer. It may also be some temporary accommodation you could let or a product you own which someone else may want, like a car, books, spa pool, subwoofer, golf clubs, pool table and so on!. Oh, and if you don't want to swap your trade items and prefer to pay or be paid in cash like an ordinary trade site, then that's fine too.
A trade item can be your personal, physical and business skills, generally labor, any products you own, a room in your household residence or a service your business provides and money (if wanted). Use these trade items to barter in exchange for other items you want with out the need to use money.
Examples of trade items
| Trade Services |
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| Professional and Skilled Services |
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| General and Personal Services |
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| Product |
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| Accommodation |
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User Types
Private Skilled Working Individuals
You may be skilled in your existing service or profession but you do not run your own business. In this case you can get additional value from your skills by bartering them for other services, products or accommodation on Trade to Save.
Businesses
Save your cash flow by exchanging products or services with other individuals or businesses. You choose when, how and what you want to exchange and only when it suits your business situation.
Non Skilled People
Any non skilled services like section clearing home handyman and maintenance services can be used to exchange and barter for items you need but just don't have the money to spend.
Fund Raising
Organise a group to provide any type of service or product you can barter for raising funds or getting specific items needed for your organisation.
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Product Trading |
You may want search for specific items you want to swap or trade for yours. Or just list your item to see what other users may offer in return. |
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Making the Trade
The terms of trade are defined between the two parties exchanging trade items. The Trade to Save site allows you the option to exchange contact details (as a full member) where you would progress discussions off-line. Depending on what is being traded you may require site visits to establish the value of the proposed services or product to be provided, including delivery and payment before reaching an acceptable agreement. If you are unable to come to an agreement don't worry, as full member you will have continued access to other full members through the entire term of your elected membership. Click
here to learn more about the
membership options. You may like to look at some of the areas to consider in our section on Trading Guide & Safe Trading Tips.
Trading Guide & Save Trading Tips
Trading of any type be it through a news paper, advertisement or yellow pages usually involves dealing with people you don't know. The usual common sense in dealing with other people needs to be applied. Trade to Save wants to ensure you have a safe and happy trading experience and we have incorporated a section on trading tips and trading safety. Click
here to be taken to this section.
Tax for Businesses Bartering
Trade to Save can provide considerable advantages to businesses and private individuals who want to use bartering to attain needed products and services without having to draw upon existing cash resources. Depending on your trading status you may be subject to comply with the Department of Inland Revenue GST and tax requirements. Trade to Save has sought professional guidance on this matter and listed a guide in our section on
Businesses Bartering Guide. Click
here to
learn more.
Registration & Membership Options
Contact Details
It is important that you provide accurate and updated registration details so the system can function properly. The system generates automated emails to from Trade to Save to your external email address informing you when other users make enquiries about your listing.
Your Privacy
None of your personal details are released by Trade to Save. Please review our
Privacy and Policy section for more details. You may wish to use an alias trading name for your own privacy.
Passwords
Passwords are case sensitive so please be sure you remember how you entered your specific details. If you have problems logging in please use the
Contact Us section to notify trade to save of your difficulties. Trade to Save may on occasion confirm with registered users the validity of their details.
Account Removal
If you wish your account to be removed from Trade to Save please send a request for removal via our
Contact Us page.
Membership Options
There are two levels of membership, a Casual Member and a Full Member.
Casual User (Free) 
Full Member 
Casual membership is free and you are able to use most of Trade to Save user functions. Please click
here or go to our
Membership Options page to view the site features available for the casual and full members.
Some of the functions you can use as a free registered member of Trade to Save:
- List your trade item for others to view and offer their trade items to exchange
- List with your trade item the trade item you are wanting in exchange
- List trade items for payment and offer payment as a trade item
- Exchange any combination of services, accommodation, money and product
- Send and receive messages of interest in listed trade items
- Have open communication with other members (Full Members Only)
Upgrading Your Membership
You can upgrade from a Casual to Full Member through the upgrade membership option in your "my trade to save page". Use the drop down boxes to select your preferred term of membership.
Fees, Payment and Site Security
Fees
Users of the site have the option to purchase full membership status for an elected period of one, two or three months. Once the term of your full membership expires your membership status will revert back to casual membership status. To view our
Fees page click
here
On Trade to Save:
- You do not get charged settlement fees
- You do not get charged listing fees
- You do not get charged for every trade you make and you can make multiple trades until your term expires
Payment Options
| On-line Direct Payment |
Trade to Save recommends using the online secure credit card payment service. |
| Payment by Cheque |
Payment can be made by cheque by sending your cheque to:
Administration Services
Trade to Save Limited
PO Box 300 677, Albany
Auckland.
You will be notified by email when your service is activated once the cheque has been cleared. This is usually within 2 days after receiving payment. |
Payment Security
Trade to Saves electronic credit card payment process is independently operated by Ebiz Secure third party payment gateway who are certified by Bank of New Zealand to provide their Buy-Line direct payment application.
The service meets the banking standards and compliance for online secure payments. All transactions are secured using industry standard SSL server certificate (Secure Socket Layers) to encrypt data transferred between your browser and our servers. The security certificate used is issued by Thawte utilising High-grade Encryption (RC4 128 bit) Public Key encryption. Your card details are sent directly to BNZ in real-time and will not be disclosed to Trade to Save.
Formalities
Terms & Conditions
Trade to Save is committed to providing a safe trading environment for all our users and have provided Terms & Conditions to help to achieve this objective. Click
here to view the Trade to Save
Terms & Conditions
Privacy and Policy
Trade to Save respects the confidentiality of our members and is committed to protecting your private and personal information. You can view our Privacy and
Policy information by clicking
here
Rules of Conduct
Trade to Save is committed to ensuring we have a safe and secure trading environment. Our Rules and Conduct are provided to protect the interest of our members. Members who do not comply with the sites Rules and Conduct will be removed from the site and prevented from any future use. The Rules & Conduct detailed below. Please check for any updates to the list below by referring to our
Terms & Conditions.
Making Request or Complaints
Trade to Save welcomes any opportunity to improve our site and maintain a satisfied user base. We will make our best effort to rectify any user concerns and include any suggestions that may make the site easier to use. Please use the "contact us" section to provide Trade to Save with any appropriate information.
Getting Started
You first need to register (its free) to see the following side menu options. The side bar provides the access to your messages and your "My Trade to Save" page, where you can manage your personal details as shown below.
How to manage my details and trading items
All functions are managed in the "My Trade to Save" page which is accessed via the side bar menu as shown above.
There are three main sections in the My Trade to Save page which provide you access to the following functions.
1. My Personal Details - by clicking on "Edit Details" you can edit the following
- Name
- Password
- Email
- Location
- Fax
- Business Name
- Upload your business logo.
2. Update / Upgrade My Account -
- Upgrade from a casual to full membership
- Renew your membership
- Select your membership Term
3. Items I'm selling or wanting / Items I want
- List an Item (List your product or services)
- Edit My Listed Items (Edit any of your listings)
- Listed Items I Want (List items you want for cash or trade)
- Edit My Wanted Items (Edit the items that you are wanting)
- My Watchlist (View items in your watchlist)
The layout of the "My Trade to Save" page is shown below.
Listing your Trade Items and Trade Items Wanted
You can list and edit the items you want to sell or exchange, and the items you want, from the menu below which is located in the "My Trade to Save" page.
To list your item select "List an Item" to list an item you are wanting, select "List Items I Want" This will take you to the following screen where you use the menu's to create the item.
Click on the category of your trade item, Service, Product or Accommodation and tables will appear. Use the tables and drop down boxes to select and save your trade item.
Repeat the process above to list more trade items. When listing a wanted item, a list of your own trade items will appear at the bottom of the screen (See example below) so you can choose which one of your items you want to offer in exchange for the wanted item along with the option just to offer payment. Once completed, your listing will now display the item you're offering and the item you're wanting in exchange.
Your trade items and trade items wanted, will be listed on the site and stored in the "My saved trade page" where they can be viewed or edited at any time.
Once you have saved your trade item(s). They will be listed you can go directly to the section for finding a trade item wanted by choosing the "find a trade item to exchange" option in the pop up window. If you list no item wanted in exchange for your trade item the words "Make Me an Offer" will appear as the default item wanted. You can also have payment as the default item wanted. (see trading for payment in the help section)
Offering Your Trade Item to Exchange
Browse the site using any of the search methods. When you view an item you want, your items will appear at the bottom of the screen as shown in the example below. Select which of your items you want to trade in exchange for the items you're looking at and click "Send a message of interest" to the other trader. You also have the default option box to offer money. They can reply (if they're a full member) and you can both negotiate the details.
Trading for Payment
Users on Trade to Save are able to offer and receive payment for trade items.
Wanting payment for your item
If you want payment for your trade item, simply check the option box "I am willing to accept payment for this trade item" A Money symbol will appear againts your listing indicating that you are prepared to accept cash as an option.
Offering payment All users have a presented with a default t option to offer payment for other listed items.
Searching Functions
Trade to Save provides two search options for our users.
- Quick Search
- Category List Search
Quick Search
Use the Quick Search to:
- Find trade items users are offering
- Find what trade items users are wanting
- Find items provided or wanted by "Key Word" search
- Find items provided or wanted by location or catagory
Use the category and location options to narrow your search criterion then select key words to find what you are wanting. Quick Search will search upon part words so you may need to experiment with various key words options to before you get the perfect match.
NOTE: Quick is the only area where you can search on
trade items wanted
Category List Search
The Browser offers the ability to search by the three main categories and step down through each sub category where a trade item is listed. This is ideal to find the specific items of interest.
Message of Interest
Messages of interest are used to inform other users that you have an interest in their trade item. When you view a users trade item you are presented the option of selecting one of your trade items to exchange for the trade item being viewed and send this in a automated Message of Interest.
The content of the message depends on the membership status of the sender or receiver of the Message of Interest. The content for the different options is shown below.
Content of a Message or Interest received by a Casual User
Received by a Casual User from either another Casual User or a Full Member
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A MESSAGE OF INTEREST
The sender of this message is interested in your trade item. You will need to become a full member to start discussions.
To learn more about the membership options please click here.
To become a full paying member go to My Trade to Save and choose a payment option under 'Update /Upgrade My Account' Click here to go back to My Trade to Save and become a paying member
Content of Message of Interest received by a Full Member
When a Message of Interest is sent to a Full Member from a casual user, they are presented with the trading name of the casual user sending the message and the trade item that is being offered, as shown below. They are also presented with the option to send an automated Message of Interest response to either request further discussions or decline the offer.
Content of a Message or Interest Automated Response from a Full Member to a Casual User
Response being "Interested in further discussions"
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A RESPONSE TO YOUR MESSAGE OF INTEREST
This person has responded to your message of interest and is interested in further discussions about your trade item. If you wish to reply you will need to become a full member to start discussions.
To learn more about the membership options please click here.
To become a full paying member go to My Trade to Save and choose a payment option under 'Update /Upgrade My Account' Click here to go back to My Trade to Save and become a paying member
Response being "
Not Currently Interested"
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A RESPONSE TO YOUR MESSAGE OF INTEREST
This person has responded to your message of interest and is not currently interested in your trade item at this point in time.
If you would like to learn more about the benefits of the full membership options where you can contact other full members at any time, please click here.
Service -
Product -
Accommodation -
The user is happy to accept payment either as their main preference or optional to exchanging a trade item.