Hi Eniola,
Thank you for reaching out to us. You may want to consider using the Direct Contract option with the clients that are not on Upwork. Direct Contracts let you manage contracts in the Upwork platform with your clients who don’t have an Upwork account. Enjoy the benefits of escrow services, simple contract management, faster payments, and dispute assistance should a problem arise.
With Direct Contracts, you can create and send contract proposals to your clients who aren’t on Upwork. Just like your other contracts on Upwork, you can have a fixed-price or hourly contract, and your client will deposit project funds in escrow before the contract starts. When you’ve completed work on a fixed-price contract, you’ll request payment. We’ll release fixed-price funds to you after the client accepts your request. For hours you work on an hourly contract, we’ll bill the client weekly on Mondays and release funds to you on Fridays after your client has had a chance to review your hours.
As a freelancer, you’ll pay a processing fee of 3.4% of the total contract amount but you won’t pay any freelancer service fees to Upwork. Your client won’t have to create an Upwork account, keeping the experience easy for them to use, as well.
You can find more information in this help article. Let us know if you have further questions.
Hi Eniola,
Thank you for reaching out to us. You may want to consider using the Direct Contract option with the clients that are not on Upwork. Direct Contracts let you manage contracts in the Upwork platform with your clients who don’t have an Upwork account. Enjoy the benefits of escrow services, simple contract management, faster payments, and dispute assistance should a problem arise.
With Direct Contracts, you can create and send contract proposals to your clients who aren’t on Upwork. Just like your other contracts on Upwork, you can have a fixed-price or hourly contract, and your client will deposit project funds in escrow before the contract starts. When you’ve completed work on a fixed-price contract, you’ll request payment. We’ll release fixed-price funds to you after the client accepts your request. For hours you work on an hourly contract, we’ll bill the client weekly on Mondays and release funds to you on Fridays after your client has had a chance to review your hours.
As a freelancer, you’ll pay a processing fee of 3.4% of the total contract amount but you won’t pay any freelancer service fees to Upwork. Your client won’t have to create an Upwork account, keeping the experience easy for them to use, as well.
You can find more information in this help article. Let us know if you have further questions.
