Hiving Review – Is Hiving Worth It?

Hiving (JoinHiving.com), founded in 2012 and headquartered in Paris, France, are an online survey panel that expanded to include more tasks to help their users to earn money online with them. 

The tasks you can earn money with include: 

1. Completing Paid Surveys. 
2. User Testing Of Products.
3. Taking Micro Jobs.
4. Their Sweepstakes.
5. The Hiving Referral Program

Currently Hiving is available for citizens in 50+ countries worldwide. Just Click the "Choose Your Country" Text on their homepage to see if your country is on the list.

They offer you a variety of payment methods for getting paid and thankfully have low and easy to obtain minimum payout thresholds. 

Getting started with Hiving is simple you can either join by email using the form on their home page or sign up directly using your Facebook Account. 

If you join by email you will need to confirm your email address. 

You next step is to then complete your profile information and getting ready to complete some tasks and get paid for them. 

Making money with Hiving is as easy as completing as many of the 5 tasks that they have available on their site, which are: 

1. Completing Paid Surveys. 
2. Their Sweepstakes.
3. User Testing Of Products.
4. Taking Micro Jobs.
   
5. The Hiving Referral Program.

As smart and clued up individual you will know to start with the highest paying tasks and then work your way down the list to the lower paying ones. 

1. Completing Paid Surveys

Being a survey site that expanded to include other tasks naturally you can expect that they have some surveys for you to complete. 

You can check frequently for when surveys become available, in the most part they will email you when a survey becomes available. 

You will be informed as how long each survey should take you on average but rather strangely no mention of how much you will earn for completing the survey. 

All 300+ survey sites that I have reviewed to day tell you how much you will be paid prior to deciding to take part (or not) in the survey. 

To find out how much you will earn for a survey you will need to check on their website as this information is not provided in the emails.

There are not so many surveys available for the average person, around 3 to 4 per week at most. 

Each survey you will need to qualify for by taking a pre-qualifying survey. Naturally, some you will be disqualified for. It's nothing personal it only means that you did not meet the target audience for that particular survey. 

2. Their Sweepstakes 

Once every so often there is a sweepstake that you can take part in. There is no indication as to when the sweepstakes are or any form of regularity to them. 

To participate you need to keep an eye on the members area where they will be announced. Taking part will cost you some of your hard earned points which is not something I like to see at all as it is encouraging gambling and to a degree gamification of the platform. 

Many other rewards sites the participation is free and only requires you to be active on their site - thus not encouraging gambling which is more palatable in my opinion. 

3. Product Testing

Product Testing a new feature added that allows you earn for testing products and providing feedback. 

....And as a bonus you get to the product for keeps!. It has to be said though this is not available globally and only in select countries. 

Product Testing, on its own is a legitimate way of earning money as there are a few specialist sites like: 

1. User Testing
2. Validately
3. American Consumer Opinion
4. Slice The Pie

If you see product testing available jump in give it ago, get paid and grab yourself a free product!. 

4. Micro Jobs

Micro Jobs is a fun way of earning some extra money for completing short, quick and easy tasks that can range from completing captchas, leaving comments, checking websites for errors and a variety of data entry Jobs. 

The micro jobs are not provided by Hiving themselves but by a 3rd party provider Figure Eight, who are owned by Appen. 

The pay tends to be low when you get started and the tasks you are limited to are the lowly ones. Once you build up a trust rating you can rise and get better paying tasks unlocked and available to you . 

Other viable specialist micro jobs sites include: 

1. Picoworker.
2. Clickworker. 
3. Amazon Mechanical Turk.
4. Microworkers.
5. FOAP

Longer term if you manage to stick at it micro jobs could lead to a being a reasonable side gig. 

5. The Hiving Referral Program

This referral program is very disappointing as the majority of the programs with other rewards site pay you and percentage, typically 10% to 20% of what your referral's earnings are, without affecting their income. 

Here you are only awarded 600 points per referral which is currently only 60 cents with no percentage of their earnings as a bonus. 

How you can earn is going to very depending on your location as more tasks will be available to you for you to complete. 

Also a large contributing factor will be how active you are on the platform.

After investigating this site and my experience of reviewing 300+ other similar sites I can estimate that with reasonable amount of effort and tasks being available to you will be able to earn around US$60 or so per month for around 50 to 60 hours of effort. 

Once you have accumulated enough points you can then exchange them for cash, use them to take part in their sweepstakes, gift them to a friend or a charity. 

To get cash you are limited to only using PayPal. Minimum pay out threshold is 1,000 points which is US$1.00 or 4,000 points US$4.00 for PayPal. 

I have not seen any Hiving income proof and I am unlikely to either. Sites of this nature and their users are really not into the habit of posting income proofs as the earnings are usually low. 

I am always encouraging readers to be proactive in their background checks and staying safe online. 

As little thanks for checking my independent reviews I always check out their listing and rating with the Better Business Bureau. 

Due to being a French company Hiving are not subject to the BBB and are not listed on their database. Their official standing, if there was to be one would be unaccredited and not rated. 

There are something that I did like about Hiving which were: 

• It's free to join and you can make money with them. 
• They are an international opportunity.
• You can get paid by PayPal. 
• There are many different ways for you to make money with them.

There are a few things that I did not like about Hiving which were: 

• There is a lack of payment options. 
• Earnings are limited with this platform. 
• You are not likely to earn at All that much with them.

Yes, 

It is very clear that you can earn money with hiving, this is not in any doubt but your are only likely to earn a sideline income and nothing significant. 

There are some claims that Hiving are a scam due to some irate reviewers claiming not to have been paid by the platform and that they are very unresponsive to emails. 

Despite this I can't prove beyond a doubt that this site is a scam or committing fraud in any particular way. A couple of complaints is not enough to go by. 

I'll err with caution and say that they are not a scam as it cannot be proven, you too I advise caution not only in regards to the allegations but the low pay also!. 

Hiving is in my opinion not a scam and is something that I do not recommend due to the low income potential. 

Rewards sites and survey sites can be fun and easy ways of earning a few bucks here and there but that is all you will be earning - a few bucks. 

My suggestion is to move forward forget about rewards sites and survey sites and seek out earning a full time income from something that you are passionate about, a hobby, a passion or personal interest. 

Do this and life will be much more enjoyable. 

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