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Join as a collector

Joining the network is free, and the site walks you through it the first time you sign in. In this guide we sign up as a collector, verify the email address, accept the agreements, say where we work from, list what we are certified to collect, send in our rates, and turn ourselves on so work can reach us. If you run a company of collectors, the last three steps set that company up.

Steps 1 to 3

Sign up as a collector

Everything starts on readicollect.com. The collector link there opens the sign-up page with the right card already picked, and the rest of the setup is built for a collector.

readicollect.com → Join the READI Collect Network → Sign up as a collector

Does it cost anything to join?: No. Collectors join the network at no charge. You are paid per collection at the rates on your rate sheet.
I run a company with several collectors. Which card is mine?: Still Collector. A few steps in, the setup asks whether you collect yourself or manage a team of collectors, and the second answer creates your company so you can invite your own people.

1
**On readicollect.com, click Join the READI Collect Network**
Right under the Schedule Today banner is the invitation for collectors: "Are you a certified mobile drug and alcohol collector? Click here to join our nationwide network." The Join the READI Collect Network box further down the page does the same job. Either one opens the sign-up page with Collector already chosen.

2
**Check Collector is selected, then fill in your details**
Arriving from the home page link, Collector is already selected; if you came in another way, click it. The other card, Employer, is for a company that requests collections. Joining as a collector is free, and the button underneath reads Sign up as a collector while that card is selected. Enter your name, your email address and a password, then click it.

3
**Read what the job looks like, then click Next**
The opening screen is the shape of the work: offers arrive under Dispatch while you are active, each collection walks you through a checklist on site, and the finished report goes straight to the company that asked. Skip for now leaves the rest on a checklist you can pick up later.

Steps 4 to 6

Verify your email and tell us how to reach you

Next, the three short screens that make sure we can reach you.

Verify your email → Your phone number → Your birthday

4
**Open the verification email, click its link, then click I've clicked the link**
A verification link is sent to the address you signed up with. Click it, come back here and confirm. You can keep going with setup in the meantime, but you cannot go active until the address is verified, so do it now rather than later.

5
**Enter your mobile number and click Save**
This is the number dispatch uses to reach you about a collection, and the one texts go to. It is never shown publicly. Save it here, or add it later under Settings, Your Profile.

6
**Enter your date of birth, then click Next**
Optional, and never shown to anyone else. It helps keep your account unique and secure. You can add it later under Settings, Your Profile.

Step 7

Accept the agreements

Dispatch cannot send you work until these are accepted, so this is the step not to skip.

Accept the agreements → Review and accept

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**Click Review and accept on each agreement**
The collector terms, the privacy policy and the collector agreement, each opening in full, with a couple of declarations to answer while you are in there. Do this one properly rather than skipping it: dispatch cannot send you work until all three are done.

Steps 8 and 9

Complete your profile

Now the things that decide whether work reaches you. Fill this section out completely: it is what a company sees when they check who is coming.

Complete your profile → Save

Can the two addresses be the same?: Yes. Tick "Service address is the same as business address" and it is copied for you. If you are temporarily working in a different area, put that area in as your service address for the time being, and be sure to change it back when you return.
Why does it want my driver's licence?: Some larger clients require it before a collector can attend their sites. Having it on file also gives the company and the donor confidence in who is arriving. Fill it in.

Click I perform collections myself

The first question decides what the rest of setup asks for. If you collect yourself, choose the first answer. If you run a company of collectors, choose I manage a team of collectors: that creates your company, and you invite your own managers and collectors from there (steps 15 to 17 show those pages). You can be both.

Enter your ID and your two addresses, then click Save

Your driver's licence or other government ID, with its state and expiry. Then two addresses that do different jobs: the business address is where your paperwork goes, and the service address is where you work from, which decides which collections you are offered, because requests go to the collectors nearest the site. They can be the same. An address out of date here costs you work.

Steps 10 and 11

Credentials and rates

Next we add what you are certified to collect, and what you charge.

Add your credentials → Submit your rate sheet

What happens when a credential expires?: We remind you before it does. Once it has expired you stop being matched to the collections that need it, so renewing it is what puts you back in the running.

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**Add each credential you hold**
One entry per credential, with its expiry date and a copy of the certificate. Credentials are what match you to a collection: a DOT urine collection is only ever offered to somebody who holds that credential. Add your W-9 here too, so we can pay you.

11
**Enter your rates and click Save**
What you charge, by service and by test type, sent to the READI team rather than published anywhere. Leave blank any service you do not offer. You do not need a rate sheet to go active, but a collection is easier to route to somebody whose rates we already hold. Topic 10 explains what each rate covers and how to invoice us.

Steps 12 to 14

Turn yourself on

The part of the setup that actually starts the work coming.

Go active → your dashboard → Collector

Is there an app to install?: The web site is the app. It works in the browser on your phone as it does on a computer, and Topic 11 shows how to put it on your home screen so it opens like one. Sign in at app.readicollect.com.
It asked to share my location. Should I say yes?: Yes. Location is how READI Collect knows which collection requests to send you: offers go to the collectors nearest the site. Say yes when your phone or browser asks, and keep it on while you are active. Going inactive stops it.

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**Click Go active**
Active means available: nearby requests are offered to you under Dispatch. The screen tells you if anything still stands in the way, like a missing address. When you go active your phone or browser asks whether to share your location. Say yes: that is how requests find you, and going inactive stops it.

13
**Finish anything you skipped**
Whatever you skipped is on your dashboard as Finish setting up, with a link to each remaining step. It stays until it is done, so you can join in five minutes and finish the paperwork when your certificates are to hand.

14
**Bookmark the Collector page**
Everything above has a permanent home here: Availability for the active switch, then Credentials, Agreements and your Rate sheet across the top. It also shows your last known location and explains how being active works. This is where you come back to add a credential, renew one, or go quiet for a fortnight. Further down, Run a collection company? lets you set up a company of your own at any time.

Steps 15 to 17

If you run a collection company

Only for collectors with a team of their own. Setting up a company makes you its Team Manager, so you can add other managers and invite your collectors. You stay a collector yourself, and the company is free.

Collector → Run a collection company? → Set up my company

Do I stop being a collector when I set up a company?: No. You keep taking collections yourself, and your credentials, agreements and rate sheet stay as they are. The company is added alongside, with you as its Team Manager.
Do my collectors have to get an invitation email?: Adding a Team Member normally sends them an email with instructions to create a password and sign in to their own portal. You have the option to add them without sending it.

15
**Enter your company name and click Set up my company**
On the Collector page, under Run a collection company?, type the name your collectors and clients know you by and click Set up my company. The company is free, you become its Team Manager straight away, and setup opens on the two pages that follow.

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**Add any other Team Managers**
Team Managers can add and disable the collectors in your team and see the collections they have taken. You are already one, so add others only if somebody runs the team alongside you. Enter their name and email address to add them, or click Next to go straight on.

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**Invite your collectors as Team Members**
Team Members are the collectors in your company. They accept collections only for themselves and only see the collections they were involved in. Adding one sends an invitation email with instructions to create a password and reach their own portal, and you have the option to add them without sending it. Click Start using READI Collect when you are done.

You should now be able to

Sign up as a collector and verify your email address.
Accept the agreements that let dispatch send you work.
Say where you work from, and explain what that address decides.
List your credentials so the right collections reach you.
Turn yourself active, share your location, and turn yourself off again.
Set up your own collection company from the Collector page when you have people to add.

What is next

You are set up and active, so offers will start arriving. Topic 9 takes you through one from the offer to the finished paperwork.