Long Term Contracts (fixed price) - minimum time between first and last jobs?

[Alexandr M]

I have noticed that long term contracts available at fixed price too.

I woul like to know the minimum time between first and last payment that required to calculate it as long term contract.

[Ramesh K]

There is no such time limits.

If a customer gives you the projects repeatedly over few weeks or months, you may consider them as long term contracts. Also if a customer didnt ends a contract on a single project and keep on working on that, you can consider that too as a long term contract.

With your direct clients how do you calculate a long term contract? Same approach you can keep here too.

[Alexandr M]

Not "Long-term contracts", but "Long-term clients" - sorry.

I mean "Long-term clients" field on page: https://www.upwork.com/my-stats/

[Ramesh K · Accepted solution]

Oh Ok.

Long-term clients are the clients you work with for at least three months.

This could be over one or multiple contracts and could be hourly or fixed-price work.