FAQ for TechLao Suppliers

1. How to I participate as a TechLao supplier?
To register as a TechLao supplier, you may log on to our website to register. Documents needed are your Company Name, contact number, email address, name of representative, ACRA latest report and your company logo. If you are an individual service provider, you may provide personal details such as the last 4 characters of your NRIC, Full name as in NRIC, email address and contact number.

2. How do I get paid?
We will pay our suppliers at the end of the calendar month. Should your service falls after the 10th of the month, you will get paid latest by end of the following month.

From the First Payment collected, Tech Lao will levy a fixed $25/- fee. Tech Lao will do a consolidated processing of all completed job orders for a particular month in the first work week of the new month. Tech Lao will then do a payment of the balance of the First Payment collected to the Service Provider before the end of the new month.

For example: Let's supposed the First Payment as defined by an aircon service provider is $90/-. The end user made a booking on 10-Jun-24, and there was a successful match with the aircon service provider. The end user would pay $90/- to the Tech Lao Platform. Tech Lao would issue a receipt notice to the end user that $90/- had been collected on behalf of the Service Provider.

The Service Provider then performed and completed the relevant job within the month of Jun-2024 for the end user. It is possible that the entire service costs is say $300 which was more than the First Payment of $90/-. In this case, the end user would pay the remaining $210/- to the Service Provider directly. The Service Provider would issue its invoice for the whole service to the End User upon the completion of service.

During the first week of Jul-2024, Tech Lao would do a consolidated processing of all service jobs completed in the month of Jun-2024. For the relevant aircon service job, Tech Lao had collected $90/- as the First Payment from the end user. Tech Lao would then pay the balance of payment of $65/- to the service provider before the end of July-2024.

3. How does your service work?
Our customers will be able to select from a list of suppliers from our app. Upon selecting their preferred service provider, the customer will need to pay some fees in advance. This fee will be used to offset any additional cost that may incur depending on the complexity of the job rendered. The advance payment is to prevent wasted trips which would cost our Suppliers. When job is ascertained on site and with additional costs incurred, our Supplier can use our app to generate a complete quotation and would request customer to make a full payment. Supplier will then be notified of a full payment and proceed with works.

4. Are there hidden costs for the Suppliers to be featured on TechLao app?
No, there are no hidden costs for the Suppliers. Only when a payment is made by the customer then TechLao will take a small percentage of the total invoice.

5. What is the commission payable to TechLao?
We charge 25% of the total invoice paid by the customer. Supplier will receive 75% of the amount they quoted.

6. What other incentives will Suppliers get?
We work on a merit system. They more job and ratings the Supplier get, the higher in order will be displayed on our app. This will ensure the best supplier get the most eyeball in our app.

7. How do I quit being a Supplier?
Suppliers can quit by giving TechLao notice not less than 30 days and no outstanding jobs within the last 30 days of service from our app. Upon quitting, we will settle any outstanding amount payable with the terms spelt in Q2.

8. As TechLao supplier, can we join other website or app or take jobs on our own?
TechLao's suppliers can take any job any where. We do not restrict the freedom of our suppliers in whatever ways. We only request our Suppliers to be on-time for any job they undertake from our app.

9. How do Suppliers get more attention on your app?
The best method is to undertake more jobs and get higher ratings from customers. This will ensure that your company name be featured on the highest spot. In addition, we have advertisement spaces for our Suppliers to feature their products/services at a reasonable cost.

10. Which platform is your App on?
Our TechLao app is featured on both iOS and Android.