1. Post your project 2. Receive bids from workers (and communicate further) 3. Choose your worker and put payment in escrow 4. Work is done by your worker 5. Receive and approve work/timecard 6. Rate your worker
1. Post your contest 2. Receive submissions from participants (and communicate further) 3. Award prize to winner
1. Post your project 2. Receive trial submissions from participants (and communicate further) 3. Award prize to winner 4. Winner does one-on-one portion of project
We highly recommend corresponding regularly with your worker to best guarantee that the end result is exactly what you want. There are 2 ways to do this: 1) Onsite Communication: Via the same vWorker.com bidding system that you used to communicate with your worker before you accepted their bid. This is the recommended method for communication, because it fully protects you in case of a dispute. Onsite communication is legally binding, and offsite communication (for example, via direct email) is not. If a dispute occurs, we cannot protect you concerning non legally binding changes to the contract. As an example, if you communicate via direct email and the worker agrees to add 3 features to the deliverables, and later changes their mind...they could do so without penalty. That is because you would have no legal proof of the change to the contract. On the other hand, if you communicate onsite, then the 3 features become a legally binding part of the contract. On your behalf, we would either force the worker to complete the terms or face the penalties for not doing so. The other reason to communicate onsite is that it is a convenient place in which to save a complete reference of all your conversations about a project. 2) Communicate offsite with the worker (Email, IM, Skype, etc.). This can be a fast way to contact the worker. However it is potentially dangerous because everything you agree upon is NOT legally binding. Despite this, it is possible to communicate offsite AND still protect yourself at the same time against a possible dispute. To do this, after your offsite session, simply come back onsite and summarize everything you agreed upon. Then get the worker to post onsite that they agree to everything that you posted. In this way you can have the convenience of offsite communication with the protection of onsite communication. If your project is > $150, then you will also be receiving weekly status reports from your worker via email. This helps you keep tabs on the project progress so you can make adjustments, if necessary. You can see a complete history of status reports online at the bottom of your project, as well as in your private message thread. Status report email If there are problems at any time, you can contact a facilitator to work out difficulties. Or if you do not get 100% of what you asked for, you can initiate an arbitration for a full or partial refund (Simply click on the 'contact arbitrator' link from your employer control panel).
We highly recommend corresponding regularly with your worker to best guarantee that the end result is exactly what you want. There are 2 ways to do this:
1) Onsite Communication: Via the same vWorker.com bidding system that you used to communicate with your worker before you accepted their bid. This is the recommended method for communication, because it fully protects you in case of a dispute. Onsite communication is legally binding, and offsite communication (for example, via direct email) is not. If a dispute occurs, we cannot protect you concerning non legally binding changes to the contract. As an example, if you communicate via direct email and the worker agrees to add 3 features to the deliverables, and later changes their mind...they could do so without penalty. That is because you would have no legal proof of the change to the contract. On the other hand, if you communicate onsite, then the 3 features become a legally binding part of the contract. On your behalf, we would either force the worker to complete the terms or face the penalties for not doing so. The other reason to communicate onsite is that it is a convenient place in which to save a complete reference of all your conversations about a project. 2) Communicate offsite with the worker (Email, IM, Skype, etc.). This can be a fast way to contact the worker. However it is potentially dangerous because everything you agree upon is NOT legally binding. Despite this, it is possible to communicate offsite AND still protect yourself at the same time against a possible dispute. To do this, after your offsite session, simply come back onsite and summarize everything you agreed upon. Then get the worker to post onsite that they agree to everything that you posted. In this way you can have the convenience of offsite communication with the protection of onsite communication.
1) Onsite Communication: Via the same vWorker.com bidding system that you used to communicate with your worker before you accepted their bid. This is the recommended method for communication, because it fully protects you in case of a dispute. Onsite communication is legally binding, and offsite communication (for example, via direct email) is not. If a dispute occurs, we cannot protect you concerning non legally binding changes to the contract. As an example, if you communicate via direct email and the worker agrees to add 3 features to the deliverables, and later changes their mind...they could do so without penalty. That is because you would have no legal proof of the change to the contract. On the other hand, if you communicate onsite, then the 3 features become a legally binding part of the contract. On your behalf, we would either force the worker to complete the terms or face the penalties for not doing so.
The other reason to communicate onsite is that it is a convenient place in which to save a complete reference of all your conversations about a project.
2) Communicate offsite with the worker (Email, IM, Skype, etc.). This can be a fast way to contact the worker. However it is potentially dangerous because everything you agree upon is NOT legally binding. Despite this, it is possible to communicate offsite AND still protect yourself at the same time against a possible dispute. To do this, after your offsite session, simply come back onsite and summarize everything you agreed upon. Then get the worker to post onsite that they agree to everything that you posted. In this way you can have the convenience of offsite communication with the protection of onsite communication.
If your project is > $150, then you will also be receiving weekly status reports from your worker via email. This helps you keep tabs on the project progress so you can make adjustments, if necessary. You can see a complete history of status reports online at the bottom of your project, as well as in your private message thread.
Your worker logs the time they are working on your project in the AccuTimeCard™ application. Every few minutes the application takes an image of their desktop (to confirm that they are not working on another project) and optionally their camera...if you've chosen that option previously (to confirm their presence). This information appears on the timecard page, which you can find by clicking on "Time Card List/Review" in your project shortcuts: Time card list / review and then clicking the current time card. The weekly view shows you an overview of the worker's weekly progress: Click here to see full size You can click on any colored space to view the detailed images and notes (if any): Click here to see full size While vWorker.com can guarantee that your worker is working, it is still up to you to confirm that they are working to your level of satisfaction. We highly recommend checking the worker's work at the end of each day, to make sure that you are satisfied with what you are paying for. Back on the time card weekly view page, you can also stop/restart the time card (for example, if you go on vacation or want to stop the worker while you review work), as well as view a list of any manual timecard entries the worker is requesting: Click here to see full size As an employer, you have the right to reject any manual entry at any time. You can do this in the above screen by clicking on "reject". Click here for more information on using the AccuTimeCard™ application.
Instant Messaging (IM) information: