Setting up for Deferred Payments

[5e1d91bd]

So, I have posted a job, and I have multiple people who have already agreed to accept deferred payment for their work(s). How do I hire them and make sure that they are not payed until I have the money to do so?

[jmlaidlaw]

You cannot. Once a job is completed, you have to pay on Upwork's schedule. I guess that you could make it a fixed-rate job and ask the freelancers to delay submitting work until you are ready to pay them.

Why would any freelancer want to work in this way?

Is this a commission payment? 

[versailles · Accepted solution]

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@Graham L wrote:

How do I hire them and make sure that they are not payed until I have the money to do so?

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You cannot do that on Upwork. It's not how the platform is meant to be used.

[AveryO]

Hi Graham, 

While deferred payments is not a practice common to most clients here, I would like to note that you will need to setup a contract with these freelancers. I would recommend setting up a fixed-price contract, to be able to release pay for the work they completed through the fixed-price milestone system. 

Since you are new here, I would recommend that you read up these resources we have compiled both for freelancers and clients to help you get started on Upwork.