Good Things
Are Coming
Daala is a marketplace for local work in South Africa — you post the job, taskers nearby bid on it, and the money waits in escrow until it’s done.
The first gig posted on Daala appears here.
Two sides of the same counter.
One marketplace, serving both directions. Whichever side you walk up on, the protection is the same and it works the same way.
If you have a skill
Get paid for what you can already do.
- Put up a Gig Post for your trade — painting, cleaning, plumbing, hair, tutoring, moving.
- Bid on Gig Requests from Buyers in your area, in real time.
- Get paid into your wallet the moment the Buyer marks the job complete.
You stay self-employed — a Merchant on Daala, never our employee.
If you need something done
Hire someone nearby without a referral.
- Post a Gig Request and let taskers close to you bid on it.
- Or book a tasker's Gig Post directly, at the price on the card.
- Release the money yourself, once you have seen the work.
Taskers can have their identity checked by VerifyNow and carry a verified badge on their profile.
Nobody has to trust anybody.
Two strangers can do business on first contact because neither one is carrying the risk. From the moment an offer is accepted, the money sits with a regulated third party — and it stays there until the Buyer says the work is done.
An offer is accepted
The Buyer picks a tasker's bid, or books a Gig Post outright.
The money leaves the Buyer
Debited immediately, before a minute of work is done.
TradeSafe holds it
A regulated third-party escrow account. Not Daala's account.
The work happens
The two of you sort out the details in the app's chat.
The Buyer says it's done
Escrow releases to the tasker, less Daala's standard 15% commission.
What Daala is not.
- Not a bank
- We are not a financial services provider under the National Payment System Act. We never hold your money — TradeSafe does.
- Not an employer
- Taskers work for themselves, set their own prices and choose their own jobs.
- Not a guarantor
- We don't promise anyone's workmanship. If it goes wrong, either side can log a dispute before the money is released, and we decide on the evidence.
Read this part twice
All of it only works inside the app.
Escrow, verified identities, mutual ratings, dispute mediation — every protection on this page exists because the transaction happened on Daala. Take the job off the platform and you have none of them, and we cannot help you.
What isn’t here yet.
Marketplace pages usually open with numbers. Ours doesn’t, because we haven’t earned any. The boards are up and the prices are blank — here is exactly what that means.
No gigs yet
Nothing has been posted here, because nobody can post here.
No ratings yet
The first stars will be earned by real people, not seeded by us.
Not in the stores
There is no App Store or Play listing for us to send you to.
No launch date
We would rather say nothing than promise a day we might miss.
Talk to us before we open.
If you have a skill and you want the first gigs, or you’re weighing us up before trusting us with money or an ID number — write to us. A person reads it.