Hourly Contracts Expire?

[barbpruz]

Does an hourly contract expire? My client sent me a message that they received notification that the contract was going to expire. Do they need to take action? (both of us are rework newbies).

Note: contract is going fine but project is not complete yet.

Thanks!

[petra_r]

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Barbara P wrote:

Does an hourly contract expire? My client sent me a message that they received notification that the contract was going to expire. Do they need to take action? (both of us are rework newbies).

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His job post is expiring, the contract is not.

The client should have cancelled the job post to avoid people wasting their connects on a job post that has already hired you.

And this platform is called upwork. There is no "rework" as far as I know.

[prestonhunter · Accepted solution]

re: "Does an hourly contract expire?"

Short answer:

No.

My guess about what this might be about:

If an hourly contract is set up with a credit card, then the credit card date may expire, and that means the payment method is no longer valid. Maybe that is what the message is referencing.

EDITED TO ADD:
I just saw Petra's note, and that's probably what the client saw: notification that a JOB POSTING is about to expire.

Which has nothing to do with you.

[mwiggenhorn]

Also, if you have not worked on hourly contract for some time, Upwork will set it as "paused" which is no big deal.  To resume work, the client just needs to click a button.

[petra_r]

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Mary W wrote:

Also, if you have not worked on hourly contract for some time, Upwork will set it as "paused" which is no big deal.  To resume work, the client just needs to click a button.

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No, they don't. They used to, but haven't for a couple of years or more.

[mwiggenhorn]

Petra - thanks for the update.  I had one paused last year and didn't realize that it had changed.  Good to know.

[prestonhunter]

Getting rid of auto-pausing of non-active contracts is a great improvement that Upwork made. I much prefer the current situation.

[petra_r]

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Mary W wrote:

Petra - thanks for the update.  I had one paused last year and didn't realize that it had changed.  Good to know.

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By Upwork or by a client? (Clients can still pause contracts) And is paused, not put on hold?

Maybe I am losing all sense of time, I could have sworn that Upwork pausing hourly contracts for inactivity was stopped at least 2 years ago... But that was purely from how I remember it.

[mwiggenhorn]

Petra - I have no sense of time, either.  I've had clients pause and I've had UW pause and I truly don't know when it was.