Client owes me the money!

[adeelahmed54]

The client owes me the money & he ended the project.

The client asked for a particular service & I had to pay from my pocket & I explained that to the client as well, He said he got confused, I paid $35 for buying the tools for his project & $15 was the price of my project that he bought, $35+15 = $45, and He paid me $20 in total. How can I open a dispute?

[spectralua]

You cannot. It was ToS violation from your side. Take your $20 and don't tell anyone or you might get banned. Don't make that mistake again.

[tlsanders]

What do you think violated TOS in this story?

[spectralua]

Outside payment from client behalf (or to client's favour).

As i understand that milestone was $20 total. It include and should cover all works. Job done, milestone paid, no reason for dispute here.

[tlsanders]

There is no rule against a freelancer making a purchase from a third party to complete a job and being reimbursed by the client.

It's true that there's nothing to dispute, but only because the freelancer didn't get the protection of escrow before spending money. 

[spectralua]

We don't know what the freelancer bought.

If I need a tool for work, then I buy it myself and include it in the cost of the work. Before the agreement. The work did not take place, these are my problems and my expenses.

[arooj78]

• If you've bought any tool, that's your tool, not the clients.
• If you've bought any domain, you shouldn't have & ask the client to buy it from his side.

Upwork can & should not enforce such transactions. You should know better. 
No prob, do well next time.