Hourly Contracts
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Weekly billing cycle
This article explains how billing and payments work for hourly contracts on Upwork. You’ll log your time in the work diary, and clients are automatically invoiced weekly. Paymen...
Continue readingChange your contract’s hourly rate
You might want to change your rate on an active hourly contract for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the work is easier or harder than you expected, or you want to show appreciatio...
Continue readingContract Paused
To help protect both you and your clients, we pause contracts in certain situations. For example, if there is a problem with your client’s Upwork account or billing method, we’l...
Continue readingContract Weekly Limit
For hourly projects, there is a maximum number of hours freelancers can invoice to a client in one billing week. This limit is set by the client and should be mutually determine...
Continue readingContract Workroom for freelancers
To help you organize and complete your projects, we created contract workrooms. A contract workroom is a page with everything you need to collaborate with your clients in one pl...
Continue readingPropose a new contract
Building longer-term work relationships is one of the many benefits of using Upwork as a freelancer. When you finish one contract, you can propose another to continue working to...
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