You can have your production product or latest beta build submitted to testers within minutes with just a few easy steps.

Step 1 – Sign up for a Pay4Bugs Customer Account

Sign up is quick and easy.  You can sign up for a Pay4Bugs PayGo account for free with no monthly fee or sign up for a Pay4Bugs Monthly Plan for access to more advanced features perfect for teams and enjoy a free 1 month trial.

You will be selecting how much money you are willing to pay for each bug and will need purchase enough Pay4Bugs Credit to cover the budget of your assignment.  Unused credit is refundable according according to our generous refund policy, so there’s never any risk.

Step 2 – Create a new Project

Once you’ve signed up and logged in, click on the “Projects” menu option and then click on “New Project” to create a new project!

Enter your product’s name and provide a brief description.  Provide a link to your product website or a place to download your software.  Click on the “Create this project” link when you’re done.

Step 3 – Create a Testing Assignment

Now that your new project has been created, you need to create an assignment for testers so that they know what you want them to test. Click on the “create one” link to make a new assignment.

A project can have one assignment or multiple assignments.  The scope of each assignment is up to you. You can ask testers to stress your product according to the protocol you provide, test a specific new feature, look for typos or simply report anything they would consider a bug. For this example, we’re going to create a single assignment asking testers to report any problems they find with our new product.

You set the the Bug Bounty, the price testers are paid per valid bug, on a per assignment basis.  Set it higher for more difficult assignments.  A higher Bug Bounty attracts more testers and entices testers to spend more time testing your product.  The budget you set will help you control spending.  Your budget must be no more than your available credit balance.

In the example below, the customer has $219.00 of credit that has not been assigned to the budget of another assignment and can be budgeted to this assignment.  The customer has decided to set the budget to $100 and pay testers $3.00 for each bug.  This assignment will automatically be paused after 33 bugs have been submitted until the customer logs on and reviews the submitted bugs for validity. Since this customer has purchased our Enterprise monthly plan, she pays no additional per bug fee.

Click on “Add new assignment” when you’re finished

Step 4 – Start the Testing

Your new Pay4Bugs assignment is ready to go! Click on the green start button to enable your assignment.

Step 5 – Sit back and relax as the bug reports come streaming in

You will be notified by email when testers submit new bugs and have the opportunity to approve or reject each bug.

If you feel that a certain bug report is a waste of your time, click the Junk/Spam button and the offending tester will be banned from ever submitting a bug report to any of your projects again.

Use the reasoning box to let testers know why you made your decision.  When you receive an excellent bug report, don’t hesitate to offer praise!

Questions? Contact Pay4bugs Support. Start your risk-free Pay4Bugs trial today!

87id, Attigo

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 10:00 – 13:00 (Hong Kong Time)

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 21:00 – 00:00 (US Eastern Time)

Pay4bugs, Attigo

Friday, January 22, 2010, 14:00 – 18:30 (Hong Kong Time)

Friday, January 22, 2010, 01:00 – 05:30 (US Eastern Time)

We will be upgrading servers, launching an update of Pay4Bugs with numerous revisions and deploying bug fixes to Attigo’s account management system. During these time blocks you may be unable to access the affected services.

Thanks for your patience and support!

Before the new platform makes its debut, we are using Pay4Bugs to on itself! There are many updated assignments for the new Pay4Bugs site available to our testers, and plenty of bounty to be earned. If you’re not yet a tester, sign up today, it’s free!

We’re also proud to announce that leading online brokerage firm Firstrade has created an assignment to test their new mobile trading system Firstrade Mobile. Testers with mobile internet access are encouraged to try it out now!

For today’s launch, we have an updated version of SmugJCU, a recursive command line uploader for the popular SmugMug photo site.

In other news, our colleagues at our Hong Kong subsidiary launched an exciting new product called Pay4Bugs at midnight on Valentine’s Day. Pay4Bugs is a unique software testing service that brings together a worldwide network of testers to help customers test their software products. Featuring no commitment needed to sign up and clear and upfront pricing, Pay4Bugs helps customers get early feedback regarding problems with their products from real humans.

Anyone can be a tester! If you made it to this blog, you already have the computer skills necessary.

CET students who returned from summer study abroad in China have been participating in our beta testing program as a way to bring the language immersion provided by CET home to the States with them.  CET students accepted in the the January and Spring 2009 terms in one of their China programs will be offerred similar access to the program as a way to ease their transisition into a 24×7 Chinese-only language environment.