You can temporarily and immediately pause a contract to stop a freelancer from logging more hours or wait until you are ready to proceed with the next part of your project.
To pause the contract
- Go to Jobs > My Jobs and find the contract.
- Click the (...) options menu choose Pause contract.
To restart the contract
- Go to Jobs > My Jobs and find the contract.
- Click the (...) options menu choose Restart.
Important: Upwork Payroll contracts will always show as paused because they use a separate billing system.