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Hi, I’ve read a lot of negative and positive comments about up work and I just created an account to take a leap of faith. I’ve been looking for a job or a client and I’ve noticed that I need to send a proposal. But my issue is I thought that upwork was supposed to be international meaning I can apply to different clients and the different parts of the world, but every time I try to apply, it says that I can’t submit a proposal because I do not meet the requirements or like the location.

A client I've worked with a few times sporadically over the last year messaged me out of the blue this week saying it was time they gave me a raise - and they did! $10 more an hour. They also sent me a TOTALLY unexpected $150 bonus. Triple the largest bonus I've ever gotten.

So it's not all negative people! Good clients are out there!

I am new to freelancing and I want to get a start. I don’t know what to do I continue to write proposals that don’t work and I am in need of asístanse

Every week since I turned on the option to get these emails, it's the same thing. Here's X jobs. All of which are in specific markets from one side of the country to the other. All of which you would physically need to be there to do the job. None of which you live in.

Why are you doing this to me Upwork? These emails serve me no purpose and reflect poorly on your ability to properly connect me with people who can use my skills. Can this not be improved to remove gigs that are location specific? Can't imagine anyone is willing to travel cross country for a $200 gig.

I just got hired from the 1 interview I did this week 🥳 After not being active on Upwork for 2 years, I thought that it basically went to sh*t (been on Upwork for 4 years total). But, after applying only to jobs that 100% fit my skills, I think that it is not bad for my first week back 😊 For reference, I'm in the writing niche, specifically medical, academic writing and reseach.

I applied to a job post that has several supposed odds against me:

1. The job has been up for 2 days.
2. There are already 20-50 proposals.
3. My rate is slightly overbudget.

I applied anyway because I saw the requirements and thought, “I’d be a fool not to try when this is a 150% match with my skills and experience.” Heck, I even boosted the bare minimum (4th place) since I was pretty confident I can get the job done. But then I got refunded my boost connects since someone out-boosted me. Fine, I didn’t think much about it and was glad to log off for the weekend.

I accepted the contract offer today.

It doesn’t matter how many days, how many proposals, how many connects. If you’re a damned good fit and your proposal and portfolio sell that compatibility, you can arrive late to a party and still get the choice meal.

On the first week of march, i was supposed to receive $3 bonus from a client. I haven't received it as of today. Today, I completed a different contract with the same client. When I went to the transaction history page, the date of that pending bonus changed to 11th april but the invoice still states the date of march (the date when client initiated the bonus). I am confused. Can someone please tell me what's going on?

Its called innersourcing

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Hi i have 2 clients in upwork and working at the same time

1st client schedule: 7am - 4pm 2nd client schedule: 9am - 5pm

It saya time overlaps when i do adding the time manually. Please help

Hey im a beginner level data analyst and i submitted a lot of proposal and haven’t got any. Can you guys share some tips please ;-;

I have been freelancing for 3+ years now with a 100k+ account. I feel that the quality of jobs has been really low recently (last few months). I haven't been able to find long term clients despite utmost effort applying to 100s of jobs. I am curious how is everyone else's experience been.

I operate in the data category. Mostly data engineering: data extraction, APIs, data pipelines related work.

I've been working on an hourly contract for scraping and organizing the data, and we are halfway through (6 out of 12 categories listed by the client done). The client was communicative initially, but it’s been 3 weeks since I last heard from them after submitting the last batch of work. I’ve sent multiple follow-ups on Upwork with no response.

All hours have been paid for up to this point, but I’m unsure how to proceed:

1. Should I continue working on the remaining categories?
2. Is it better to wait a bit longer, or should I consider closing the contract?
3. I had shared those data through Dropbox and I do have his email, so should I reach him through email?

Two weeks ago, I started on Upwork, taking underpaid jobs to prove myself and earn some good reviews. While most of the clients were great, leaving generous tips after excellent work and hiring me again for better pay, there was this other guy.

With a 4.97 rating and $70k spent on the platform, he promised that if I proved myself, he would have more work for me. Initially, he split a $20 contract into two milestones: $5 "to start" and $15 "to finish". I went above and beyond, working for days, and accepted all his added tasks, understanding that he would pay for those. He didn't. After I finished everything, he ignored me for two days before paying those $20.

A few days later, he added a new milestone to the contract: $10 for a similar task which would take me at least a day. He was offended after I declined to take it, and that's where I am now. Sitting on an active contract with an offended client, fearing to end the contract in fear of retaliation.

What should I do? How to get out of this?

As an Upworker I've always had trouble efficiently calculating my taxes, because at least in my country I have to pay different taxes for clients from different countries. So I've had to manually go through each invoice and calculate the total sums for each client. The Upwork's transactions list and the CSV UX are not too great IMO for this.

Because of this I created a small tool that takes an Upwork transactions CSV for a given time period, and extracts only the 'invoice' entries from the table and puts them into another neat small table, so you can easily see all your invoiced amounts and which clients you invoiced them for.

Here is a screenshot of the tool that I just made:

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Upwork invoice extractor tool

So I was just wondering, would anyone be interested in such a tool? It'd probably be free, and I could add any additional features that you'd like. Let me know if any of you are interested and I'll polish it up a bit and put it up somewhere online!

Beloved Clients of Upwork, here is how to make sure you NEVER need to pay a filthy freelancer again, proven with a real case, in 3 easy steps.

Step 1) Create a $700 contract split into 2 milestones of $350.

Step 2) After freelancer delivers work and revisions for milestone 1 following your guidelines, simply say it’s nothing like you imagined, end the contract for $0 pay.

Step 3) Refuse the mediation or arbitration suggestions if the annoying freelancer disputes the case. The reason this will work is because when the client refuses to split the arbitration cost the freelancer would need to pay the total $680 arbitration cost. Paying $680 for a chance of earning $350 doesn’t make much logical sense for a freelancer to pursue the case further.

Now you can repeat this cycle with all freelancers!

TL;DR Upwork’s solution to a scam client refusing to pay for $350 worth of complete work is for the freelancer to pay $680 to an arbitration agency to review the case.

Hello everyone i have a question regarding some type of job that i come across a lot in upwork. the job consists of a client giving you an android app aab with the necessary play store experience like app logo and screenshots and all you have to do is to publish the app in your app store , some times the budget can reach up to 50$ and this is what scratch my head. Fresh new account can cost him 20$ why he choose to pay double just to have an app upload by someone else. I thought first that the app my contains some virus or scams however this is not the case most of time plus even if the app got suspended by google and removed from the play store you can still use the account to upload new apps or update existing ones. Any idea about what’s going on there?

I recently had a bad experience with a client, he ended the contract with 90 percent of the work done, he didn't knew what he wanted, asked for a lot of changes that were not even in the original description he provided, It caused the work to go late like by 4 hours so he ended the contract abruptly without even asking me that he is ending it

I filed a dispute that it's not fair that i did so much work but ultimately refunded him as the agent told me the work was late

he left negative private feedback after which i lost my top rated badge, jss down to 84 percent now

can i remove his feedback even though the contract ended in dispute and no earnings or i can only remove feedback from with completed contracts with earnings

Hello all, I submitted a proposal and received a response from the client. We had a long discussion and agreed on a two-week delivery period.

However, for the past 10 days, the client has been continuously sending questions without starting the contract. During this time I received other projects. Should I withdraw my proposal or should I inform the client that the timeline may need adjustment due to their prolonged inquiries?

With upwork recent change on direct contracts it became unbearable (having the client to pay extra in fees) and hard to use (forcing the client to make an account). I was wondering if there’s any other service that offers what upwork used to do nicely , I mainly use it to receive PayPal payments because I can’t receive money on it , and then it sends me the money to my payoneer or wise account. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hello! I am relatively new to Upwork, I am a data analyst with more than two years of experience. I have made several bids, but I can't get my first project. Could you give me some tips to get my first project? And I know that after that and having some reference everything will improve :D.

Thank you!

I've got invite to web3 project. Client asked me for some code samples.
I sent him my github repos. On my github profile email is public.

Then he sent me cold mail that asks me to share my phone number so I could hop on call. To be honest, I didn't like it. I didn't answer to this mail and I don't want to. I knew that sharing socials violates TOS, my bad.

~2 hours later..

Client messages me directly to Upwork asking of my $/h rate.

My current rate is 10$/h. I raised it to 15$/h. Now client playing rude, saying that quality of my code "low" and saying that 50% is too much and "usually freelancers add 10-15%, max 20%".

No one really want to apply and he is trying to bargain. My guess that other applicants ain't relevant.

Should I play solid and ask him for such money? His job post literally has like 5 applicants. Only 3 of them has active interview stage.

FYI: made report to Upwork as soon as I got this cold email. Still no responce.

update: Just got answer from him about his mail. He said that "this is bug". Yes, the thing that he literally sent me mail is "bug".

And now he is trying to manipulate me saying that he has another dev that is ready to work for 12$/h. Why he even keep conversation with me on going then, huh?

So, can we count him as obvious scum, liar and red flag being?

I follow all the TOS. I'm not sure super worried, but every day there's a post about someone being suspended. It seems like Upwork is cracking down, which is a good thing, but anyone else paranoid their account will be suspended even following all the TOS?

Or just me?

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