Staffing marketplaces for Edinburgh, written under Scots law and ready for August.

Festival venues and pop-up bars create an account, verify the business and add a card in a few minutes. Seasonal hirers can be limited to card payment with a deposit on large bookings, while long standing hirers keep invoice terms, so new accounts carry no credit risk during the busiest weeks.

Before August, applications from students at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Napier, and from seasonal arrivals, rise sharply. A staged onboarding flow collects documents, queues them for review by priority role, and lets your team bulk approve straightforward cases while flagging anything unclear.

Roles that count as regulated work with children or protected adults are marked in the admin. A worker can only be booked into them once their PVG scheme membership with Disclosure Scotland is recorded and checked. Care roles can also require SSSC registration, and hospitality roles can require personal licence or staff training records.

Scotland's bank holidays differ from England's, including 2 January, the summer bank holiday at the start of August and St Andrew's Day if you choose to honour it. Rate cards apply holiday uplifts from a Scottish calendar, and festival weeks can carry a seasonal rate that hirers see in the listed price.

The hirer sees one total that includes your booking fee and VAT before paying, in line with the drip pricing rules now in force under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Card payments use Strong Customer Authentication, and pay by bank is offered for larger bookings.

Hirer and worker terms prepared by your Scottish solicitor are shown at the right step and accepted with a timestamp and version number. If you trade across the UK, the platform can show different governing law and dispute clauses depending on where the hirer is based.

When hours are approved, the payment provider splits the hirer's payment between the worker or supplying agency and your commission. Hirers receive a VAT invoice for each booking or a monthly statement, and payouts reach workers by Faster Payments with the shift reference attached.

Hirers and shifts are grouped into zones such as Leith, the Old Town, the West End and Edinburgh Park, with Ingliston and Lothians towns added where you supply them. Workers choose the zones they can reach, and festival road closures can be noted on affected listings so arrival times are realistic.

A hirer can raise a problem with hours, conduct or a no-show within a fixed window after the shift. Check in records, messages and the accepted terms are attached automatically, and only the amount in dispute is held. Your team records the outcome, which stays on file for as long as your retention policy allows.

After a completed, paid shift both sides can leave a review, and hirers can save good workers to a favourites list for next season. Reviews come only from real bookings and are moderated under a published policy, which matters now that fake reviews are a banned practice in UK consumer law.