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Examined Jul 27, 2026 Paid in TaskRabbit credit Three different programs TaskRabbit will not tell you the amount until you are inside the app.
TaskRabbit says it outright on its own program page: "Current Referral Reward amounts can be viewed in the app." Coupon sites fill that silence with $10, $20, and $25, all unsourced and mutually contradictory. Open the app, read the number, then decide.
The two programs that touch a new user
1. The Client Referral Program, the one most people mean. Book through a friend’s link and your reward is restricted "to be used toward their first Task booked on the Platform." It pays out only once you, as a genuine first-time user, book and pay for a task. It runs in the US, the UK, and Canada.
2. The TaskRabbit Delivery Program, formerly Dolly. There is nothing here for a new user: "Referred friends that have booked a task using a valid referral link do not receive Taskrabbit Delivery credits."
What pays what
| You, booking and paying for a first task through a friend’s link | Shown in app |
|---|---|
| You, referred through TaskRabbit Delivery | $0 |
| Your credit against the task price and TaskRabbit’s own fees | Covered in full |
| Your credit against tips, taxes, or expenses your Tasker paid out | Not allowed |
| Any of it converted to cash | No cash value |
Do this, in this order
- Open the app and read the actual number first. The figure is set in-product, varies by city and country, and can change. Any specific dollar amount you saw on a coupon site was invented.
- Confirm your friend is genuinely new. The client terms require that they "must not be an existing User of the Platform and must be a first-time User." An old dormant account voids it, and the program only runs on taskrabbit.com, taskrabbit.co.uk, and taskrabbit.ca.
- Book and pay, not just book. A quote, a scheduled job, or a cancelled one pays neither of you.
- Budget the tip in cash, separately. The credit "may not be used to pay for reimbursement of out of pocket expenses, taxes, tips, or other fees." It does cover the task payment itself, the service fee, and TaskRabbit’s Trust and Support fee. So it shrinks your bill but never your gratuity.
- Do not panic when the credit is invisible at booking. Credit is "automatically added to your account balance and applied to your next invoice", it "won’t show when you’re booking your task" because you are not charged until the task is finished, and the same page says client credit "never expires".
- Send the link privately. The terms carry "a general prohibition on posting of the referral codes on any website," and the Delivery terms name coupon websites, Reddit, and Wikipedia. TaskRabbit can remove all credit from an account it decides has broken the rules.
The fine print that can still cost you the credit
None of the three programs carries a visible "last updated" date, and each reserves the right to change or end without notice.
The client program’s own terms are not published anywhere. TaskRabbit rebuilt its help centre and the article carrying the client referral rules did not come back: the address now returns a "page not found", and no replacement appears among the live policy articles. So the client-side rules on this page are the last published version, not something you can go and check today.
It is credit, and credit only. Rewards "have no monetary value and may not be redeemed for cash", and there is no partial refund if a task costs less than the credit you hold.
The payout has no stated deadline. The client terms do not say when the reward arrives, only that "The Company may delay a reward for the purposes of investigation."
TaskRabbit can end all of it at any time. All three sets of terms reserve the right to cancel, modify, or terminate, and the Delivery terms add that they can be updated "at any time without prior notice."
Is it worth your time?
If you are already about to pay someone to build the flat-pack wardrobe, take the credit. It costs one message to a friend, it comes off a bill you were paying anyway, and the app shows the amount before you commit. What it is not is a deal worth manufacturing a task for. You cannot cash it, you cannot tip with it, and the only figure anyone will state is one you have to be logged in to see. A company that will not print its own number in public has told you something about how firm that number is, and the answer is not very.
Once you are an existing client, referring friends is its own source of credit: the client program pays you when a friend books and pays for their first task, capped at 50 friends or $500 over the life of the program, and the payout timing is not stated. TaskRabbit Delivery pays you credit once a referred friend completes their task, spendable only through Dolly.com and the TaskRabbit Delivery app, capped at $200 at any moment and expiring 30 days after you claim it, though the friend you refer through it gets nothing themselves. And if you become a Tasker yourself, a separate program pays you, as taxable earnings rather than a discount, for recruiting other Taskers who complete and invoice a first task, capped at $500 and varying by city, region and country.
