Bye bye oDesk ... hello, Upwork? (9)
Received in my inbox today ...
Today we relaunched oDesk as Upwork. Upwork is a new name, and also a new platform for connecting you with great talent, faster and more easily than ever before.
Starting today you'll begin to see many new features roll out, including:
New messaging tools for faster collaboration
Real-time interviewing with freelancers who are ready to work
A new mobile app for iPhone and Android
A new Hiring Hub with helpful ideas, articles and guides
You'll see familiar oDesk functionality and your existing profile, but with a lighter and more mobile-friendly design. We'll keep you updated as new features are released—beginning with this post introducing Upwork.
As the company's new CEO and former head of product development, it's an honor to welcome you to Upwork!
The product of Elance and Odesk merging. 10+ million freelancers now. Unfortunately, the platform isn't much different than than the old odesk....
Realtime interviewing sounds pretty cool.
I do wish they get a better control of fake contractor profiles and the buying/selling/trading of high reputation contractor profiles.
This is getting worse than affiliates cloaking ads and buying/selling/trading Facebook accounts.
I dont understand how payments work on this. Postpay? Cause on freelancer I always just prepaid the deposit.
Anyone posted a job with the new site yet? Interested to hear what the practical differences (and improvements?) are.
I like the interface so far.. pretty minimal in space. The Odesk interface started getting weird. Too much padding all over the place.
Well it`s pretty much the same interface as Odesk, only neater fresher colors 
gonna be testing it this week.
Funny thing is that elance.com stayed the same, and only Odesk changed its url. i was sure Odesk was way bigger then elance, giving up their brand name is pretty crazy
Got a response from their support team regarding payments:
Please note that for an Hourly contract, clients are automatically billed for the authorized or appropriate logged hours by the freelancer using the Upwork Team Application or Time Tracker. Should any issue comes up on the payment method of the client, please note that Upwork Hourly Protection ensures that an hour worked is an hour paid. Your logged hours prior to the issue,are guaranteed payment. You may check this out via this link: https://support.upwork.com/entries/23116462
On Hourly contracts, clients get automatically charged on a weekly basis. That is based on your total logged hours for the work week. The client's payment method will be billed by Monday 12:00 noon, UTC timezone. The details here: https://upwork.zendesk.com/entries/23128372.
For a Fixed-price contract, Upwork Fixed-Price Protection uses escrow to help ensure that your clients get the work they’ve asked for and you get paid for work completed. Under this program, clients making fixed-price offers deposit a milestone payment into escrow before you begin working. Upon receiving and approving the work, your client releases the payment to you.
The client has 14 days from the most recent work submission on a milestone to review and approve or request changes. Approval releases the payment from escrow to you. If your client doesn’t respond to any milestone submission within 14 days, the deposit is automatically released to you. You may file an escrow dispute if the client refuses to release funds for a completed milestone. Escrowed funds won’t be released back to the client unless you approve their return or undergo dispute mediation.
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