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Join as a collector

Joining the network is free, and the site walks you through it the first time you sign in. In this guide we sign up as a collector, verify the email address, accept the agreements, say where we work from, list what we are certified to collect, send in our rates, and turn ourselves on so work can reach us.

Steps 1 and 2

Sign up as a collector

Everything starts on the sign-up page. Pick the right card there and the rest of the setup is built for a collector.

readicollect.com → Sign up → Collector

Does it cost anything to join?
No. Collectors join the network at no charge. You are paid per collection at the rates on your rate sheet.
I run a company with several collectors. Which card is mine?
Still Collector. A few steps in, the setup asks whether you collect yourself or manage a team of collectors, and the second answer creates your company so you can invite your own people.
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Click Collector, then fill in your details

The sign-up page offers two cards. Employer is for a company that requests collections. Collector is you: it is free to join, and the button underneath changes to Sign up as a collector once it is selected. Enter your name, your email address and a password, then click that button.

Read what the job looks like, then click Next Read what the job looks like, then click Next Read what the job looks like, then click Next Read what the job looks like, then click Next
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Read what the job looks like, then click Next

The opening screen is the shape of the work: offers arrive under Dispatch while you are active, each collection walks you through a checklist on site, and the finished report goes straight to the company that asked. Skip for now leaves the rest on a checklist you can pick up later.

Steps 3 to 5

Verify your email and tell us how to reach you

Next, the three short screens that make sure we can reach you.

Verify your email → Your phone number → Your birthday

Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link
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Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link

A verification link is sent to the address you signed up with. Click it, come back here and confirm. You can keep going with setup in the meantime, but you cannot go active until the address is verified, so do it now rather than later.

Enter your mobile number and click Save Enter your mobile number and click Save Enter your mobile number and click Save Enter your mobile number and click Save
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Enter your mobile number and click Save

This is the number dispatch uses to reach you about a collection, and the one texts go to. It is never shown publicly. Save it here, or add it later under Settings, Your Profile.

Enter your date of birth, then click Next Enter your date of birth, then click Next Enter your date of birth, then click Next Enter your date of birth, then click Next
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Enter your date of birth, then click Next

Optional, and never shown to anyone else. It helps keep your account unique and secure. You can add it later under Settings, Your Profile.

Step 6

Accept the agreements

Dispatch cannot send you work until these are accepted, so this is the step not to skip.

Accept the agreements → Review and accept

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Click Review and accept on each agreement

The collector terms, the privacy policy and the collector agreement, each opening in full, with a couple of declarations to answer while you are in there. Do this one properly rather than skipping it: dispatch cannot send you work until all three are done.

Steps 7 and 8

Complete your profile

Now the things that decide whether work reaches you. Fill this section out completely: it is what a company sees when they check who is coming.

Complete your profile → Save

Can the two addresses be the same?
Yes. Tick "Service address is the same as business address" and it is copied for you. If you are temporarily working in a different area, put that area in as your service address for the time being, and be sure to change it back when you return.
Why does it want my driver's licence?
Some larger clients require it before a collector can attend their sites. Having it on file also gives the company and the donor confidence in who is arriving. Fill it in.
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Click I perform collections myself

The first question decides what the rest of setup asks for. If you collect yourself, choose the first answer. If you run a company of collectors, choose I manage a team of collectors: that creates your company, and you invite your own managers and collectors from there. You can be both.

Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save
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Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save

Your driver's licence or other government ID, with its state and expiry. Then two addresses that do different jobs: the business address is where your paperwork goes, and the service address is where you work from, which decides which collections you are offered, because requests go to the collectors nearest the site. They can be the same. An address out of date here costs you work.

Steps 9 and 10

Credentials and rates

Next we add what you are certified to collect, and what you charge.

Add your credentials → Submit your rate sheet

What happens when a credential expires?
We remind you before it does. Once it has expired you stop being matched to the collections that need it, so renewing it is what puts you back in the running.
Add each credential you hold Add each credential you hold Add each credential you hold Add each credential you hold
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Add each credential you hold

One entry per credential, with its expiry date and a copy of the certificate. Credentials are what match you to a collection: a DOT urine collection is only ever offered to somebody who holds that credential. Add your W-9 here too, so we can pay you.

Enter your rates and click Save Enter your rates and click Save Enter your rates and click Save Enter your rates and click Save
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Enter your rates and click Save

What you charge, by service and by test type, sent to the READI team rather than published anywhere. Leave blank any service you do not offer. You do not need a rate sheet to go active, but a collection is easier to route to somebody whose rates we already hold.

Steps 11 to 13

Turn yourself on

Last part of the setup, and the one that actually starts the work coming.

Go active → your dashboard → Collector

Is there an app to install?
The web site is the app. It works in the browser on your phone as it does on a computer, and Topic 10 shows how to put it on your home screen so it opens like one. Sign in at app.readicollect.com.
It asked to share my location. Should I say yes?
Yes. Location is how READI Collect knows which collection requests to send you: offers go to the collectors nearest the site. Say yes when your phone or browser asks, and keep it on while you are active. Going inactive stops it.
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Click Go active

Active means available: nearby requests are offered to you under Dispatch. The screen tells you if anything still stands in the way, like a missing address. When you go active your phone or browser asks whether to share your location. Say yes: that is how requests find you, and going inactive stops it.

Finish anything you skipped Finish anything you skipped Finish anything you skipped Finish anything you skipped
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Finish anything you skipped

Whatever you skipped is on your dashboard as Finish setting up, with a link to each remaining step. It stays until it is done, so you can join in five minutes and finish the paperwork when your certificates are to hand.

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Bookmark the Collector page

Everything above has a permanent home here: Availability for the active switch, then Credentials, Agreements and your Rate sheet across the top. It also shows your last known location and explains how being active works. This is where you come back to add a credential, renew one, or go quiet for a fortnight.

You should now be able to
What is next

You are set up and active, so offers will start arriving. Topic 9 takes you through one from the offer to the finished paperwork.