Community Idea Exchange

As stated in subject line. Not that most scamees will actually read it before they get scammed, but at least it'll be easier for other people to find the post and link to it.  more

There are quite a few posts particularly concerning chargeback fraud and requests for refunds via PayPal, that are not being addressed by the moderators, who seem to be leaving this to other freelancers to answer.     The chargeback issue is becoming another major scam, and it seems that nothing can be done about it other than suspending accounts. But surely something can be done about clients who demand refunds via PayPal?    Would it be possible for moderators to address these concerns that crop up nearly every day, a little more closely?  more

Can you guys please write a little line of code to block all these jobs which say 'contact me on telegram...'. It shouldn't take more than a minute. These kinda jobs are against Upwork Policy and annoying for us as well.  Thanks, more

Hello Upwork Community, Hope everyone is doing great and grinding hard to win jobs these days 😄 Keep Grinding!  The idea I would like to share is that Upwork has successfully launched groups (Countries based) and further I would like to see cool Upwork swags giveaways or earn by participating in small competitions. This would show the love people have for Upwork and also it would be helpful in marketing and spreading the message of working independently. Upwork swag giveaways would be a great offer for its community members whether they are Freelancers or Clients. Let me know if you guys loved the idea 🙂   Ps. attached is the sample of swags. Cheers Ahmad Sameer more

Due to changes in fiscal regulations in Hungary the most popular legal form (known as KATA) for freelancers suffered considerable limitations: they are able to issue invoices for private persons only. When searching for work on UpWork currently there is no possibility to filter jobs posted by private person clients. At this time Hungarian freelancers invest a lot of time and effort submitting proposals for projects they may not be able to carry through, because of the invoicing limitations. Knowing beforehand whether the client is a private person or a company, would be a big help in submitting proposals only for jobs they will be able to complete and bill for the work. The advantage of this filter for the clients is not receiving irrelevant proposals. This feature would look like the attached image. more

Hi all! I have two suggestions for the Upwork team that I think would be very benefitial for freelancers. The first, which is more specific to languages, is if it would be possible to include "Interpreter" or "Language Interpreter" as an occupation option for when you want to create a specialized profile. I have a general translator profile but wanted to create a specialized profile for interpretation, since this is becoming a very sought after skill in the platform, but haven't been able to because it doesn't have the option. I had already written about this once before, and someone told me they were gonna look into it, but this was over a year ago and still nothing has changed.  The second, which would benefit everyone, is if it would be possible to include an option to add links to websites to the specific entries on our employment history. This because I've worked on several occasions with researchers and journalists who've produced articles and/or reports, etc., as a result of said work, however, these are not of my authorship and obviously I can't include them in my portfolio, but, they do provide a lot of very important information and context topotential clients, specially on the scope, subject and importance of the project, which I believe will definitely help our chances of finding more and better paid work.  Thanks and let me know if these are issues that already have a solution, or if they're not, what you think. more

Hi Upwork,   I see more and more job offers giving no job description but instead asking the freelancers to contact the Client outside Upwork channels, for example via Telegram or Whatsapp...  Those are, I guess, suspects job offers that will eventually be rejected by Upwork (I get such notification from time to time that jobs have been cancelled because outside of policy, which is a good thing).   Amongst the possible 'thumb down' options (just not interested, vague description, ...) wouldn't it make sense to add an option 'suspect job offer', for Upwork to specifically check, so that we, the Freelancers can contribute to removing such unadequate offers and thereby also ease or job review/selection in the future ?   Just a suggestion...   Yves more

Hello, hope you’re well.  During the job searching process it's taking so much time to close these all scam posts ( with telegram numbers) also soem jobs which is really not interesting to me .  For lcosing job post which I'm not interested in, I have to clock once on icon after it to choose reason, so 2 clicks. It's taking time.  When I want to close the job post it's no meters what , I jsut want not see that job posts.  Would be great to be able to do it by one click.  Here are 2 solutions, but may be you can find better one.  1. Just to close by one click of that button. ( But if Upwork need to get some statisticks there then another way) 2. Just to add one more icon, so we can click on that button and close that job post without loosing time.  Thanks a lot in advance.  Regards, Lilith more

Hi All, The recent addition of Groups is interesting. I was wondering if we could separate the group categories so that countrywise groups are listed on a different page and other general groups like Admin, Designers & Creatives on another page.   Currently, I don't think if 'all' freelancers are added to the group hub of the country they are signed up from. Could all freelancers from a particular country automatically become a member of their respective country's group?   Also, other than the number of members and messages on the groups, could we have more stats like number of active contracts being worked on in that group, or total earnings from that group in current year, or average hourly rate per group across all active hourly contracts, and average earnings on fixed-price contracts, and other related stats. more

Hello.  I have an idea , new feature for the job searching area on Upwork.    I've noticed, that when I'm trying to find job posts which are have for example uo to 40$/hr hourly rate budget and where they're looking for an experts. All these filters are not enough. Fater using these filters I see that person wrote a job lost with for example 40$-70$/hr and that client have avg paid rate 8$/hr . And that cleint have closed contracts for 5$/hr or so.      And I see many such a job posts , whcih is taking time. I don't know why clients are writing their budget and after it hiring someone with different budget. It's taking a lot of time to find job post which I want to find.      My idea is what if to add new feature in the filters where you can choose client's avg paid rate too. Like a hourly rate , for example I would like to find job posts of clients who is looking for an expert designer, who have budget 30$-50$ who had already contracts with 25$/hr-50$/hr . And that client's paid rate is something like 34$/hr . This is just for example.    It would be great to save a time during job searching period.    more

It is incredibly difficult to know in advance (before starting a contact), whether the freelance and client will be a good fit. With the intense competition in Upwork, I often feel that I am risking my reputation when I take on a new client, and I sometimes decline work that I would have taken on because I have been worried about the client's eventual feedback.  I imagine that clients have a similar concern, they do not want to agree to a full job with a freelancer, without "testing" their skills.  I would suggest that Upwork include the option of a probation period (that acts as the first milestone of the project) Once the probation period ends, the client and Freelance can either continue together or go their separate ways, without rating one another. This could come at a slight additional cost/credit cost but would help create a buffer, where the client and freelancer can test their compatibility without risking their reputations.   more