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One of the things I’ve noticed about working with these field agent apps is that each of the companies seems to have a certain lane they migrate to in the type of jobs available. I have to imagine this is because once you secure a contract with one particular company, expanding to other companies in that field is easier than trying to break into entirely new industries. iVueIt seems to do a lot of things right and it appears like they have a large mix of companies they work with, but where they go so much right – the app, the submission process, the payments, the types of jobs and frequency they’re available – it’s the app that I most rarely use because of two big factors.
Types & Frequency of Jobs Available
When I first started using iVueIt, the jobs were almost exclusively partnerships with corporations that had multiple store locations that needed to audit the current condition of things like their landscaping, parking lot, and general store conditions. Even still, the majority of jobs available on the app property reports where corporate/regional managers are looking to get eyes on the overall state of a store location. For instance, one example recently had me go to a location of a large gas station chain and take photos of their lot and note areas of large cracks or other disrepair in preparation for winter season so repairs could be made before snow plow crews were hired.
Lately, though, I have been seeing an influx of other types of property condition reports available that involve verifying occupancy, posting a notice, and taking a few pictures. So it appears the type of businesses they contract with are expanding into new areas of financial services like mortgages. And on a few occasions, I’ve also seen shelf audits where you go into a store and take a few pictures of product placement.
Overall, I feel like there’s a wide assortment of available job types and of all the apps, they appear to have the most variety, but the “Vues” as they are called in the app are only available to be completed during a very specific window of time. This window of time is usually between 7:00am and 5:00pm, which isn’t horrible, but you have to accept the “Vue” on the same day you intend to complete it and if you don’t complete it within that window of time, it’s gone. There appear to be plenty of jobs to complete, but since you’re given a certain window in time to accept a job and finish it, it can make it a challenge to introduce jobs from iVueIt into a schedule of other jobs from other apps because you can’t really accept a job and hold onto it for a period of time while you wait for other opportunities to become available elsewhere. As a supplemental app, it works great. So if you’re already in a town because of “Look” from WeGoLook and some property inspections for Sand Castle, it’s a good idea to open it up and see what’s around those towns.
Income and Payment
And that brings us to income, the leading reason for why this is just a supplemental app for field agent work, and why despite so much going for it that it often ends up not being worth my time.
The pay on iVueIt, unlike other apps that seems dependent upon the type of job performed, seems to be more associated perhaps with the underlying customer of the job. I’ll often see a number of exterior inspections with a requested acceptance of $8 and another handful with an acceptance of $12, but then I’ll also see them sometimes pop up for $15 and $18. The same is true for the other types of inspections as well. I’ve done a parking lot store shelf audit for $15 and then turned around and went out to the parking lot and did an inspection of the curbs for $8. It didn’t quite make sense to me because the shelf audit took so much less time and work. I see a lot of situations like that and so I really have to put extra thought into choosing what jobs I accept.
So, for the one I just mentioned, I was able to make $23 total at the same location, but if they had been two separate jobs the pay structure wouldn’t have made sense to accept the $8, especially if it was far away.
And this is because the second issue in regards to pay is that the inspections requested are much more akin to actual inspections than just general observations. So not only are you being requested a one time payment in exchange for showing up to a location that is nearly half what the other apps start at for a lot of jobs, but then you’re going to spend more time on site.
The property inspection jobs request lots of pictures and notes. I’d say I’m usually asked to take a total of 20 or so photos per job.
I remember one of the first jobs I performed, I had accepted for $12 as an extra stop since I was already going to be in the area 2 hours from where I live for other jobs. It was a property condition report on a property that had been sitting vacant post foreclosure and so the owner just wanted to keep an eye on the condition through reports and photographs. So I finish my route north of other field agent jobs and this is the last job I have just 8 miles north of where I’m at. I drive up there and get out and open the app, realizing I need to walk around this property and take multiple photos of each side and in addition to the photos notate important things I see.
I’m there for roughly 30 minutes and I’m thinking “alright $24 an hour is still a pretty fair wage”, and then I leave. I submit the “Vue” and as I’m on my way home I get a notification that it was declined for failure to provide internal images and information. The door was locked with a lockbox and there was no code provided anywhere in the app for what the code was. Apparently, I was supposed to reach out to customer support for this code, but there was nothing evident (that I could see) in the app that even mentioned I was supposed to go inside. By this time, I’m 45 minutes away from the site, and I decide to just cut my losses.
But even if I had stayed, spending another 30 minutes inside would have put me at $12 for an hours worth of work less travel expenses. That might be worth it if you live in the same town, but definitely a waste of time and fuel for anyone more than a few minutes away.
Interface
The app works well and it’s designed in a way that makes sense, which is why it irks me so much that the pay is so low. Between this app and the Field Agent App, it’s a tie on who gets the interface the best, but if there were plenty of jobs and better pay, this app would be perfect.
The main search page pulls up a map showing dots where all the available “Vues” are located and tapping on a dot pulls up the information about the “Vue”. There’s also a list mode that will list available jobs based upon a radius you set, but that radius only goes up to about 50 miles from your current location. I prefer using the list mode, because it shows the location along with the rate of pay, but if you’re someone like me that travels around a particular area a lot, I like to check the map and see what’s available before I head that way. It’d be nice if there was a way to “search an area” and then display that as a list – which is something Field Agent app does – but it’s not a major complaint. One feature that’s kind of cool is that if there are “Vues” too far away, you can use the “Referral” button to list reviews you can refer to someone else via a link and you have an opportunity to get $3 if they input your referral code.
Once you’ve accepted a review, it gets placed in the “My Vues” tab as a To Do and that tab also includes options to display those in review by iVueIt and those you’ve completed. And once you’ve completed a “Vue” and it’s been approved, the funds are added to the Wallet tab that includes your profile information. When you’re ready to cash out, you just click the balance and then request it to be sent to a PayPal address.
One of the coolest parts of this app is that they have immediate payments, so you’ll see it show up in your PayPal account a few minutes after you request a withdraw.
Agent Support
I don’t have anything note worthy about agent support. They were prompt and courteous about responding while I was needing help on a “Vue”, but you also won’t see them doing negotiations on payments and they can’t help much if something goes wrong a “Vue” where it’s declined (like I talked about above). I know on a couple of occasions, I just barely dropped the ball on a job with another agency and while they informed me that I needed to do something different next time, since I got the bulk of information they needed they went ahead and paid me.
If you need help on a “Vue”, it appears most of their support is by way of text messaging. I don’t mind it, but it’d be nice to get speak to someone for some people. To get help, you can just click a Help button inside the “Vue” you’re doing and it will autopopulate a text message with the details needed.
Final Thoughts
As I’ve worked my way through using these apps, I’ve found myself appreciating different things about different ones. I wish I could take various different pieces from different apps and cobble it together into an app that has all of my favorite things about each one, and if there was an app closest to what that would be iVueIt would be it.
But ultimately, the whole point of using these apps is to make money and given the low rates of pay compared to their competing apps, it really makes the overall opinion of the app a disappointment.
I’m hopeful that overtime, the rates of pay will increase, but until then I definitely think this is an amazing app to have available and I think there are good opportunities to be found on it. I just wouldn’t make it be the first app I open when attempting to schedule my field agent route.
As the founder of FieldAgentResource.com, I’m passionate about helping individuals looking to earn extra money find value in becoming a Field Agent. I’ve been a field agent since 2023 and in that time I’ve made an effort to learn as much as possible about maximizing my revenue in the field. Through informational articles and submissions from field agents in the community, I hope to empower individuals to make the most of their field inspection endeavors.
