Upwork

I used Upwork for the first and it was the last time. Their freelancer delivered not functional website, I asked for a full refund, they said I need to ask freelancer. When I contact him for refund, he blocked me. I contacted Upwork again, sent them all necessary information about the work I was promised and what I recived, all messages... and after several emails they said that they just connect freelancers and clients and they cant do anything about my case. I lost my money and received very very poor website.

Elance has 161 complaints with BBB in last 3 years! FACT!

Do not use their services.

They provide no protection for you and allow their freelancers to do what ever they want! I paid over $5000 for a website that never worked, they won't do anything and will continue to allow this freelancer to take money from unprotected customers.

Plus this freelancer held my passwords ransom unless I gave them a good review.

BE WARNED!
ELANCE can't protect you!

*I would have left no stars checked if I could have!

Upwork is a great freelancing platform with many interesting projects. I have joined Upwork in 2007 and have found many interesting jobs in my field of 3D graphics. Upwork team is very nice and supportive. Five stars from me.

Upwork is a great platform for freelancers to find both one-off jobs and consistent work. The interface is simple, and the variety of work is diverse enough to cater to myriad of disciplines, whether part-time, full-time or chaotic availability.

As a freelancer, I've worked on Upwork and it is really great... Through Upwork, I managed to learn and to hone my skills. The site allowed me to gain experience that I can use to apply for more jobs. Upwork is a good site but it is hard to get a job.

I was without a job one year ago even though I had great skills in digital marketing. I looked for jobs on Upwork, and started getting jobs, now I am top 50 Internet Marketing freelancer on Upwork. I can't thank enough to Upwork. Upwork literally changed my life. I have nothing but gratitude for Upwork. Thank you Upwork.

Just a short note. I have hired over 23 freelancers and completed over 30 jobs on elance in the last 4 years. I had a problem with one freelancer and attempted to resolve via their very confusing process. I could NEVER get anyone to speak to me on the phone. In short, I paid a freelancer $219 for work that was never performed correctly and Elance did not speak with me to resolve. They would only send emails. Not acceptable to me. I am moving away from them.

Upwork rules is very right, it protect both clients and frelancers. As a freelancer i have spend much time working on a project for a clients but after all she refuse to pay me but talking about upwork all their rule and condition are excellent for you to gain money from the confort of you home and for clients to find skillful freelancers that handle your task perfectly

Upwork is deducting 20% commission on our hard earned and also taking from us about 1$ for each proposal submission. J It is showing popups to buy connects to apply on jobs. I pray God to put a lock on Upwork doors and the CEO of the company should see a path to Hell.

When all this Covid thing started i thought i am lost. Luckily, few months before that i registered at Upwork and was just starting using it bit more seriously. Now, about a year later, this is the only place i find jobs at. It enables me to focus on work and not deal with all problems i usually encountered as freelancer before. It protects me and makes sure i am getting paid for my work fairly, which is more than i expected honestly when i started. It reminded me that Free in Freelancing stands for Freedom, freedom to work for whom i want, when i want! I love it and hope to use it for a long, long time!

What the $#*!. Screenshots deleted automatically for my 3 jobs at night (40 +20+9 hours). Up-work is just a piece of $#*!. Mother$#*!ers are not solving it. Same issue happens with my friend, and they are not solving his issue, since 3 months, they just say ask your client to allow manual hours and add manual hours. But most of the clients do not allow that and hard work go into vain. This time, i will $#*! you harder. Hey mother$#*!ers, i will kill you if you will play with our hard work. Give me my money back now... Clients have not allowed manual hours, how i will get paid... Mother$#*!ers... username: rahul*******

Upwork has a credit card verification process that is extremely burdensome for businesses. The customer and the freelancer have to spend numerous hours and a ridiculous amount of time verifying a couple hundred dollar credit card payment. Meanwhile, the freelancer has done the work and Upwork will not process process payment and pay the freelancer. Upwork has turned a great experience with my freelancer into a payment time-sink where I will no longer use the service. Too bad!

Upwork is really great platform for talent appreciation. I am a fresh freelancer with professional skills in Presentations designing and Upwork is providing me a great opportunity to showcase my skills and earn a good reward.

I'm Forhad a professional UI/UX Web Designer with over 9 years of experience working on Upwork. "Upwork" Product features are really easy to understand the users. A user can easily understand their features like apply for a job, profile setting, account setting, get paid, tax information, connect & membership etc. I also work on other freelancer platforms like Fiverr, Freelancer, PeoplePerHour but when I compare to Upwork I realize that Upwork is the best platform where I can build my carrier. Recently Upwork came to bring a new feature which called "Project catalog". This feature is really awesome. I really like the feature. I work here full-time & I'm really happy to work on Upwork.
I highly recommend to anyone to register on Upwork & start their freelance journey.
Thanks, Upwork.

Upwork is a great place to start a career for young people. I am a young architect and 3d artist, after graduating from college I started working in an architectural firm, at some point I tried Freelance through the Upwork platform, and with a little luck and good skills for the first month, I earned about 1 000 $, since then I transferred my entire career and development path in business to Upwork. I think that this platform is very useful for young people who want to gain experience, skills, and money, especially in a smaller country such as Serbia. Most countries in Europe, America, Asia have a higher standard of living, so living in Serbia with a foreign salary is very comfortable.

It's a great place to work for freelancers. I am really grateful to be a part of Upwork as a freelance graphic designer. If you have really talent and have skills then it's a great place for you. Keep up the good work and more careful about us. Thanks :)

Upwork has given me an opportunity to upskill myself and showcase to help clients with their businesses. This is indeed the best and secure platform for both Freelancers and Clients. Definitely recommended.

Upwork is a waste of money and time. I hired a copy editor, who actually left out a sentence in the first paragraph of my book. I next hired a proofreader who was so bad I made her give me my money back. If you want either, find someone through word of mouth.

I had a profile with Elance for several years and had no complaints.

I was able to keep my location and my earnings private if I chose to. This isn't the case with Upwork.

After a phone call and several postings in the forum, I had made it clear that freelancers have the right to decide whether or not they want to display their earnings and location because this is a personal decision. There are several other freelancers in agreement - and hundreds of complaints in the forums.

No change whatsoever.

These are privacy violations, and Upwork doesn't care. People are unhappy - they've spoken about this - and Upwork doesn't care.

Up work is a very good platform for every hardworking freelancers.
I did working on upwork 2 years, i am top talent now, yes begining is difficult, you need open up a new prospect by you talent or Professional knowledge and communication and judgment...
but if you really have sth, don't worry, you will find you will got fair treatment.

I never thought I would be working full time online, I was content with my normal 9-5 job and the hustle that it entails but Covid-19 changed that. With limited access to my job, I turned to work online as an alternative, and ever since I have been on a journey of self-discovery. Finding Upwork was relatively easy, I heard about Upwork from a friend, so I did my research and decided I would join Upwork. I have not regretted being a member of Upwork, they provide you with resources to be knowledgeable and successful on the platform.

Beware, Upwork publishes everything you put in your profile, because they don't properly block it from search engines, even if you set your account to private. If you complain they either don't know how, or don't care enough to fix it. And if you close your account it doesn't delete your profile, it just deletes your login information, basically just blocking your own access to your own content, but still allowing it to be found in search engines.

I have been working on the freelancer platform for more than three years, and UpWork is one of the best platforms that I have a chance to experiment. UpWork did well in attracting the Clients and control the risks for the Client and the freelancers through their policies and algorithms.
The unique thing that I am not totally satisfied with UpWork is that I must take a few time to discover all of their functions.