change in duration options on fixed-price proposals

[Wes C]

At the moment, the only thing you can do is select "less than a month" and explain your expected timeline in your proposal.

[Mania E]

Thank You, Wes
But I think it is not as impressive as selecting "less than one week" from the drop-down box.

[Wes C]

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Mania E wrote:

But I think it is not as impressive as selecting "less than one week" from the drop-down box.

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Agreed.

[Mania E]

Could it be relevant to the number of submitted proposals?
For example, if you had more than 20 submitted proposals, you can not able to complete a new project in less than 1 week?

[Vinod K]

Hi

For the time being, till this gets fixed, hope the clients can be given a notification that "for all fixed price jobs the freelancers can only choose less than 1 month duration. Kindly do check their brief to undestand their duration for each project"... wow, now thats quite a mouthful😊 but something of this stature... hope it would help freelancers as well, i guess???

[Jerry M]

Hello Joanne,

I have noticed this change as well. I feel that clients will be put off by this is a freelance can not turn an easy job around within a weeks time. Will UpWork please put this back? Will they notify the community?

Thank you,

Jerry

[Gabriel L R]

Has anyone else had the "less than one week" option removed from "how long do you think this project will take"?  Now it only says less than one month as the fastest option!

[Christine A]

There should definitely be a "less than one week" option - please put it back!!! Most of my clients want a quick turnaround and I want to communicate that I can handle projects with short deadlines. "Less than one month" would not be an acceptable timeline for the majority.

[Kathryn M]

Recently the dropdown for "How long will this project take?" in the Submit a Proposal section changed. The new options are:

6+ months

3 - 6 months

1-3 months

less than 1 month.

In the past there was an option for "less that 1 week" which was the option I chose unless the job indicated otherwise.

Over the years I've been on Upwork most of my jobs were completed in days or weeks. It seems to me that "less than a month" is vague and does not really give the prospective client a realistic idea of turnaround time.

Perhaps some consideration can be given to bringing back "less than 1 week."

[Imran Islam I]

Less than one week option should be added again because I have got some jobs which I can finish within 1-2 hours but I have to select less than one month which is ridiculous. 

I am requesting to Up Work to add "Less than one-week" option again and also add less than a 1-day option if possible.

Thank you