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Zoom is coming to the Upwork Marketplace!

daryl_sando
Community Member

Dear Upwork Community,

 

Zoom is coming to Upwork! We know many of you have requested updates to Upwork’s video/call feature. Given that our Terms of Service require all pre-contract conversations to take place via Upwork, a lot of customers have requested access to an improved resource for making calls on our platform. We heard your concerns and feedback, and we’re responding.

 

We are excited to announce that Upwork is rolling out an integration with Zoom that will allow users to quickly initiate Zoom calls right from the Upwork platform.

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To help make sure this integration is seamless, we’re making the new feature available to a small subset of randomly selected Upwork users to start. Once we’re comfortable with how everything is working for those initial users, all Upwork users will have access to the new Zoom integration. Be on the lookout for the rollout of this feature in Upwork Messages!

 

We have included a few more details here

 

Best, The Upwork Team

36 Comments
blakecodes
Community Member

Great feature here, next up is scheduling inside of UpWork (that syncs with calendars like Google).

 

Very happy to see this moving in the right direction.

wendy_writes
Community Member

Daryl, can you share an ESTIMATED roll-out date for all users?

 

And a heartfelt thanks for listening to us!!!

lysis10
Community Member

oh this is a good addon.

lucioric
Community Member

Oh, wow!. You are really working together with freelancers!.

m_acc_des
Community Member

Yep. Good move!

m_terrazas
Community Member

Let's see how it works.

Let's wait for the comment of some of the "graceful" with the test.

vipulnandan
Community Member
This is certainly welcome news.

As per the new ToS regarding communication before contract, would Zoom meetings via Upwork also qualify for communication channel pre-contract?
a_lipsey
Community Member
Maybe next time implement this before disastrous new TOS are put in place?
VladimirG
Community Manager

Hi Wendy,

 

We are gradually adding users and while we don't have an ETA that we could share, we'll offer it as quickly as possible. Thank you for your interest!

VladimirG
Community Manager

Hi Vipul,

 

That's a great question and the answer is - yes!

 

Just to make it clear, I'm referring to initiating Zoom calls by using the integrated Zoom option in Upwork Messages, which is in line with Upwork TOS and users do not need to have a Zoom account to use the feature. This doesn't apply to communicating via Zoom directly, outside Messages, before a contract is in place, which is still a TOS violation.