View and understand your Upwork weekly summary and billing reports—see who has access, who receives reports, and what each section includes for hourly and fixed-price work.
What’s the weekly summary?
It's a week-by-week breakdown of your payments to freelancers on hourly contracts, deposits for fixed-price projects, and other manual payments. It does not include Marketplace fees or Business Plus fees.
The weekly summary has three sections:
- Weekly summary: An overview of spend by contract type. It shows time logged with the Upwork Desktop App under Timesheet, time entered manually under Manual time, and deposits, weekly salary, bonuses, and other manual payments under Fixed-price and other.
- Hourly: The day-by-day breakdown for the time your freelancer logged the previous week. A yellow triangle next to a timestamp indicates that your freelancer added manual time that day. You can select the timestamp to review your freelancer's work diary.
- Fixed-price and other payments: A list of deposits on fixed-price contracts and other manual payments—like a one-time contract bonus or recurring weekly salary.
Note: All times are based on UTC so that payments and reports are consistent.
What are weekly billing email reports—are they different than the weekly summary?
A weekly billing email report is an emailed copy of the weekly summary. For the company owner, it also includes Featured Job purchases. For other members, what’s included will vary by their role.
Who has access to the weekly summary?
Team members with "hiring " or "view work diaries" permissions can access the weekly summary. Users with work diary access can only view the time logged and don't have visibility into spending.
Who gets the weekly billing report emails?
We send a version of the weekly billing email to the company owner, admin, and hiring managers. Only the company owner gets the full report, while an overview is sent to any team member with admin permissions. For users with "hiring" access, we’ll send the breakdown for their assigned teams only.