Oneflare review 2026: retired

The short version

Best for

Nothing new. Oneflare stopped operating on 30 June 2026. You can't join, buy credits or quote through it anymore; the website and app redirect to Airtasker.

What it costs

Nothing now. While it ran, credit packs went from $25 to $2,500 and expired one month after purchase, with each lead's credit price set by demand, location and job size.

Watch for

If you were a member, the old terms still bite: fees were non-refundable, cancelling needed 15 days written notice, and no public policy covers unused credits from the shutdown.

Reviewers say

4.4 out of 5 from 5,642 reviews on ProductReview.com.au (retrieved July 2026), mostly from the hiring side. Business-side reviews were far rougher on lead quality and billing.

Each figure is unpacked below, source by source.

What happened to Oneflare?

Airtasker retired Oneflare on 30 June 2026 and folded everything into its own platform. Oneflare's website and app now redirect to airtasker.com, a change you can watch happen by typing the old address. Airtasker had owned Oneflare since buying it for $9.8 million in 2022 (Airtasker support centre, July 2026).

Both sides were offered something to make the move. Homeowners who had used Oneflare to hire got a voucher for $25 off an Airtasker task over $100, which expired on 30 June 2026, the same day Oneflare shut down. Businesses were offered a migration incentive of their own between 21 May and 30 June 2026: no service fees, and their Oneflare review rating carried across to Airtasker. Airtasker also turned off auto-renewals from 1 June, so nobody was charged again on the way out (Airtasker support centre migration articles, linked below, retrieved July 2026).

The gap is not in what was offered. It is in what was already paid. Airtasker published terms for the voucher, terms for the business incentive, and a date for switching off auto-renewals. On the money businesses had already handed over, the unspent quoting credits sitting in their accounts, every one of the five published articles is silent. The business-side notice says only that you could use your existing credits as normal until the shutdown, and then it stops. No refund, no transfer, no expiry, no forfeiture. Detailed terms for everything except the money already spent. If that was you, the question now sits with Airtasker support.

The traffic now lands on Airtasker. How that platform stacks up for a trade business gets the same treatment as this page in the Airtasker review.

How much did Oneflare cost?

Leads were bought with Quoting Credits. Pay-as-you-go packs ran from $25 for 20 credits to $2,500 for 2,500 credits, and every pack expired one month after purchase. Subscription Credit Plans came in eight tiers from 110 to 5,000 credits, with dollar prices quoted only through account managers (Oneflare Help Centre, archived 2025).

How the credits behaved is where the arguments started:

• No fixed lead price. A system Oneflare called Dynamic Pricing moved the credit cost of each lead with demand, location and job complexity.
• Up to three registered businesses could respond to each job request, so up to three businesses could spend credits chasing the same job.
• Every pack expired one month after purchase, whether the credits were spent or not.
• Credits bought through the iOS or Android apps cost more than the same credits on the web, to cover app-store fees.

What a single lead cost in dollars was never published. The pack table works out to roughly $1.00 to $1.25 a credit depending on pack size; how many credits one lead ate is the part the reviews below argue about.

The fine print that caught members out

To be fair to Oneflare, all of it sat in the published Terms for anyone to read, and notice periods and expiry windows are standard lead-platform plumbing. The clauses only hurt when they met real life: a cancellation email sent 12 days out instead of 15, a pack bought before a quiet month.

The guarantee change deserves a note. For most of the platform's life, a lead that never picked up could be claimed back as credits within 72 hours. Oneflare's stated reason for ending that was mandatory phone verification of every person posting a job, meant to stop dud leads at the door. The timing was rough either way: it left the final ten weeks of members carrying unresponsive leads at full price.

What did Oneflare reviews say?

Read that score knowing who wrote it. The ProductReview listing leans heavily toward people who used Oneflare to hire, and they mostly got what they came for. The businesses paying for the leads tell a rougher story, and theirs is the seat you'd have been sitting in.

Trustpilot tells much the same story, and its listing is still live even though the platform is not: 4.1 from 179 reviews, checked in July 2026. The two scores land close enough together that there is no hidden verdict waiting in the second source. The split that matters here is not between review sites. It is between the people who hired and the people who paid for the leads.

One complaint came from the hiring side too: despite the up-to-three-businesses design, some people reported fielding 20 or more calls after posting a job. The shared-lead economics driving both complaints didn't retire with Oneflare; they're alive on every platform like it. We've run that maths against owning your own channel in hipages leads vs your own website.

Oneflare vs hipages: which was better?

hipages wins by forfeit: it's still operating and Oneflare isn't. Until June 2026 the two ran similar credit-based models, with the main differences in how you paid and how you left. If you're comparing marketplaces today, the comparison that matters is hipages against owning your own channel.

Oneflare figures from its archived Help Centre and Terms pages, linked at the end of this page. hipages figures as published by hipages in its plan pricing and FY25 investor results, retrieved July 2026; source links sit in the full hipages review.

The exit rows are the ones to sit with. Oneflare's 15-day notice window sat behind a run of billing complaints; hipages asks for a six-month commitment that renews in twelve-month blocks. If hipages is on your shortlist, the full hipages review covers its costs, contract and reviewer patterns at the same depth as this page.

Where does the lead budget go now?

If Oneflare was feeding your pipeline, the money has three places to go.

The owned route is the one we build, so weigh our numbers the same way: Quick Mick's, a Blue Mountains plumber, gets around 10 new clients a month from page one of Google with no ongoing ad spend. More client numbers are on the work page.

Where do we stand in this?

This page is written by an agency that sells the owned route: websites, SEO and Google presence trade businesses hold outright. That's a bias worth knowing about, and it's why every figure above is sourced, dated, and mostly pulled from Oneflare's own archived pages. Oneflare didn't fail its members through malice. It was bought, weighed against a bigger platform, and switched off. That's the lesson worth keeping: when the channel belongs to someone else, so does that decision.