How it works
How Help Barter works
Everything on Help Barter in plain words — the coins, the seven ways to trade in Exchange Place, and the listings — each with a full step-by-step guide.
The idea in one minute
Help someone. Get helped. No money changes hands.
- Join free and get 200 Time Coins
Finish your profile — country, region and a language unlock the site.
- Help somebody for 15 minutes
Something you are good at. When they confirm, you earn 200 Time Coins.
- Spend the coins on help you need
A request costs 200, so one help you give pays for one help you get.
- Grow
Win weekly rewards, invite friends, and use listings to bring customers to your business.
Step by step: Getting started · Time Coins and Store Coins
Exchange Place
Seven ways to trade
Every section has a full guide with each step and the buttons you will press.
Ask for Help
Find someone offering their time and ask for 15 minutes of help. You pay 200 Time Coins when it is done.
- Pick a member with the skill you need
- Press Ask for help
- They start, deliver, and you confirm
Offer Help
Find someone who needs your skill, help them, and earn 200 Time Coins.
- Pick a member you can help
- Interested → they accept → Start work
- Mark it done and get paid
Mutual Swap
You help them while they help you — two helps at once, and nobody ends up owing anything.
- Propose a swap
- Each says Interested and Accept Help
- Both start, both finish
Elite Works
Bigger jobs from Elite members, paid 400 Time Coins per job or in money.
- Read the brief and say I am interested
- Get selected by the lister
- Deliver by the deadline and get paid
Business Cross-Promotion
Two businesses promote each other and help each other sell. Free, with a public record of every result.
- Put your business on the board
- Agree terms; both press Start partnership
- Promote, record, confirm
Website Traffic Generator
Visit websites and earn 300 Time Coins a challenge — or list your site and get real visitors.
- Open each website for 15 seconds
- Choose what kind of site it is
- Finish the set and collect your coins
Group Rotation Works
Everyone in a group posts one task and does everyone else's. Each completed round pays 200 Time Coins.
- Join or start a group
- Post your task before the deadline
- Tick off everyone else's
Listings
Pages that bring you customers
Buy a listing in the store, write it from My listings, and a person reviews it before it goes live — at its own address, on its board, and in search engines, with a link to your website and every way to contact you.
- Buy it in the store — choose how long it runs.
- Write it from My listings.
- Review — the admin team monitors all listings.
- Live — on its board and at its own address.
Business Listing
A shopfront page: logo, contact details, map and up to 24 products.
Profile Listing
Your personal page: about you, experience, portfolio and what you offer.
Organization Listing
A page for a school, hospital, NGO, trust or charity.
Featured Post
An article the whole community can read, at its own address.
Featured Ad
An offer or discount on the Featured Ads board, with your button.
Image Ad
A square picture shown beside every Featured Post.
Coupon Listing
A discount or coupon code, filed by category and country.
Website Listing
Put your website in the Website Traffic Generator and get visitors.
Board features (Premium places)
Put a Business, Profile or Organization Listing at the top of its board.
Earn more
Rewards, referrals and invitations
Weekly rewards
2,000 Time Coins to the top contender in each Exchange Place category, every week.
7-day login streak
Sign in seven days in a row and earn 400 Time Coins. Then it starts again.
Refer and Earn
Real money when people you brought pay for a membership — on renewals too, for a year.
Invitations
200 Time Coins for every friend you invite who joins.
Trust
What keeps it fair
There is no money to chase, so the protection is a public record and a person reading what goes up.
- Coins are held when work starts, so nobody can promise the same coins twice.
- Every member has a track record of helps completed and contests raised and received.
- Admin team monitors all listings.
- Members can report a conversation, a group or a coupon, and block anybody.
- Coins cannot be sent between members — they only move for work done.
Ready to trade?
Join free and get 200 Time Coins. Compare plans when you want more.