Tips on how to use the Talent Exchange
The CTTE mobile site has been upgraded to allow you to take and upload photos directly from your mobile device (smartphone, tablet). You can now take pictures of offerings, wants, announcements and yourself directly from the web app. No longer do you have to take pictures with your camera, transfer them to your PC and […]
Add a photograph of yourself to the CTTE web site and brighten up the display for all. If you have no picture, a boring, generic face-shape will be shown. Now that the CTTE mobile site has been upgraded it is more important than before to ensure that you upload a photograph of yourself. Members like […]
A new function has been added to allow you to print a sheet of personalised CTTE membership cards for yourself. Such cards are useful at markets, where you should present yours to the seller to enter onto the trading sheet. Too often members forget their account numbers and then give someone else’s. This creates problems […]
Your smartphone or tablet’s home screen isn’t just for apps. Whatever platform you’re using, you can pin the CTTE mobile website to your home screen so you can quickly access it. Android Launch Chrome for Android and go to http://cell.ctte.org.za. Tap the Chrome menu button and tap Add to homescreen. Enter CES or CTTE for […]
The offerings list is not just for advertising goods and services for sale but a good way to recycle goods that you no longer want or need. There are other places where you can advertise goods that you would like to recycle, such as FreeCycle, but why not do it right here on the Talent […]
The word exchange appears frequently in the Cape Town Talent Exchange and the Community Exchange System but we rarely see it used in the regular Rand economy. Is there no exchange in the Rand economy; only buying and selling? From an early age we learn that if we can ‘get’ money then we can ‘get’ […]
If someone contacts you about something you are providing on the Talent Exchange, you should always check their trading record before agreeing to provide what you are offering. Many members are deeply in debit, meaning that they have received more than they have given. Some are right at the baseline of their debit limit (T500 […]
The main accounting system of CTTE is on a public ledger. This means that when you enter a transaction against someone the details are recorded on a single, shared and centralised ledger. Each transaction record consists of the following data: seller, buyer, seller’s exchange, buyer’s exchange, description, amount, levy and date. While each record records […]
Most of us think of money as some kind of universal phenomenon, like matter and energy. It has even been said that money IS energy, or it is LIKE energy because without it everything comes to a halt, just like a car without petrol! So is it possible to have a world without money? That […]
We have written several times in the past about the T500 default debit limit that every new user of the Cape Town Talent Exchange starts with, but there still seems to be confusion about this. There seem to be some CTTE members – whether they are new or old members we don’t know – who […]