We’ve Moved… to Canada
October 16th, 2007 by laurenThe team at OnForce has been working for months to launch our first international expansion into Canada. As of today, buyers can begin creating and routing work orders to the growing population of approved service providers. We already have nearly 100 active service providers, with an additional several hundred close behind.
The “Canadian marketplace”:1 has all of the great features our buyers and providers have grown to depend upon in the United States:
* Task-based work orders that clearly define the required activities for each work orders
* Clear pricing definition (all prices are in US$ for both Canada and the U.S.)
* PowerMatch to help find the right provider for each work order
* Work order notes, sub-statuses, custom fields and all of the other important components to managing service events
* The OnForce rating system and other feedback tools to share information after the service is completed
In addition, we have taken into consideration the elements that are unique to Canada. Most notable are the complexities of tax for both buyers and providers. GST and PST are both fully calculated within the product to enable our users to more easily conduct business in Canada.
We are thrilled to be making the move north - many thanks to all that helped it happen. And a hearty welcome to our newest members of the OnForce community!
[1]http://canada.onforce.com
October 16th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I am on the US Onforce team I am looking to move to Canada for a few months possibly for a year can Onforce assist in getting work Visa for me to continue my work in Canada?
October 19th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I need onforce to sponsor me for work visa in Canada. Thanks onforce.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Brilliant! Here’s to many work orders ahead!
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Can you see about getting me a Canada work visa?
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Can Onforce invite providers to those parties? I’m in San Francisco
yeah I’m serious
JK
October 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Look here, prehaps instead of on blogs: http://www.cic.gc.ca/
October 31st, 2007 at 6:10 pm
hello how onforce can help me to move to canada
thanx
November 9th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Do you plan on answering any of these questions on here?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:47 am
OnForce cannot aid in securing a Canadian work visa. If you want to work in Canada, you must secure any necessary government documents and work visas on your own. Additionally, you cannot currently have an OnForce provider account and do work in both US and Canada.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
If you currently have an OnForce provider account in the US and wish to work in Canada, what are the steps to do that?
February 15th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
At the moment, a provider can only have profiles in one nation at a time. So, a US provider wishing to work in Canada would need to create a profile on the Canadian platform which would deactivate their US profile(s).