Refund given

[lismey]

Hi guys!

The contract with my last client was suddenly put on Hold On. Then, I received a notification from Upwork related to this, but after 2 weeks I received another message from Upwork like this: You sent a refund of $ to Client's name. Can someone explain me a little? Why should I have to give a certain amount of money back to this client?

Thanks in advantage.

[BojanS · Accepted solution]

Hi Lismey,

Unfortunately, when the client fails to pay for hours logged by the freelancer, any hours that aren't covered by Upwork Hourly Protection may be reversed. 

Our team will reach out to you directly via email with more information about your specific case.

Thank you!

[lismey]

Hi Bojan S, 

Thank you for your message. By the way, how long can it take for Upwork team to contact me? Because yesterday I only received an email with a simple message of the amount of money to send and without any other explanation.

Thanks!

[g_vasilevski]

Hi Lismey,

If you have any additional questions feel free to follow up directly on your ticket with number 28130095. Our team will assist you further as soon as possible. Thank you.

[singh132]

This type of fraud happen with me also

[LuiggiR]

Hi Ghanshyam,

Can you please share with us more information about your case so we can better assist you?

Thank you,

[luka00]

This happened to me as well.

1. Worked on hourly contract and logged in working hours

2. Two days later the contract was put on hold

3. There was an additional work to be done (on that same contract), so I informed the client that I can not continue with work until the contract is on hold

4. 8 days later i.e. today, I only received a message stating that I refunded everything, while clearly I didn't do such thing

Now how is this possible? I mean there was no prior warning that I will have to refund everything. There should be a possibility for a freelancer to file a dispute for cases like this.

Hoping to get some further assistance on this.

Thanks

[BojanS]

Hi Luka,

If the client fails to pay for hours logged by the freelancer, any hours that aren't covered by Upwork Hourly Protection may be reversed. One of our agents will reach out to you directly via email with more information about this concern. 

Thank you!

[5331170f]

same issue to me upwork refunded fully approved money Refund of FP - ref# 512614077

[ArjayM]

Hi Gamika,

I'm sorry to hear about the payment reversal on your Upwork account. The appropriate team will send you notifications with more information about the reversal of funds. We highly suggest you coordinate with the team through that email or you can also update this support ticket that was set up when you reached out to us so that you'll be assisted accordingly and more efficiently.

[5331170f]

check the support ticket it was closed with solved tag how its possible?

[NikolaS]

Hi Gamika,

Thank you for following up. I shared your report with the team handling your case and one of our agents will follow up with you on your support ticket as soon as possible to assist you further. 

[d_gulmatov]

Hello, I have the same issue specific amount of refund automatically given to the client

[sofia2008]

Hi, what kind of job?

[d_gulmatov]

Hello It is hourly job. In the middle client had problem with his account so contract was paused and at that time client asked me to work without tracking and you will add worked hours manually and after contract was resumed I added my worked hours manually, and again client has problem with his account and the hours I added manually is automatically refunded by Upwork