retention of first two payments by upwork

[riacost]

Wanted to verifiy if infact upwork holds the first two initial payments so when the contract ends, upwork releases those payments. I will be hired by hourly rate. Thank you

[BojanS · Accepted solution]

Hi Ricardo,

Please check the Weekly Billing Cycle article for more information about the schedule to release hourly payments. It takes about 10 days for payments to be processed. The first week is when you log time on an hourly contract, which ends every Sunday. The client then has 5-days to review, and/or, dispute any the hours logged on the Work Diary. If there are no issues with the hours logged, the payment for the contract will then go to a 5-day security period before it becomes available on your account. 

Please, make sure you check resources in this post to help you get started.

Thank you!