vWorker.com
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Below are step by step instructions on how the site works. If you'd rather see a quick overview, then click here to view "How it works (for workers)".

 
Outsourcing
1. Receive projects from employers
(or find them online)
2. Make a bid
3. Do the work.
File weekly status reports.
Send end product to your employer.
4. Your employer approves work / timecard
5. Receive payment
6. Rate your employer

Crowdsourcing
Trialsourcing

  
Do the work.
(File weekly status reports.
Send end product to your employer.)


If your bid is chosen by the employer as the winner (usually after some negotiation back and forth), you'll receive an email notification. 

You've won the project!

Thanks to vWorker.com's payment guarantee, the bid amount for the work (or timecard) has already been taken from the employer and put into escrow. So you no longer have to worry about the employer being a 'deadbeat', like most independent consultants do. And now you're ready to do your thing!

How you continue depends on the project payment type the employer chose when they posted this project:

Pay for deliverables

We cannot over-emphasize the importance of corresponding regularly with the employer to best guarantee that they sign off on the finished work. There are 2 ways to do this:

1) Via the same vWorker.com bidding system that you used to communicate with the employer before they accepted your bid.

This method is recommended for the majority of projects because all correspondence between yourself and the employer (as well as associated documents) are archived on the site. This is helpful when:
a) The employer and yourself disagree over what is to be delivered. This is the #1 best way to protect yourself should a disagreement arise and you need to go into arbitration. Without this documentation, you may not be able to prove that you did not or did agree to the item in dispute.

b) You'd like to have a complete reference of all conversations, as well as associated documents are stored in one convenient to access place.

c) You have multiple bids open on the site and you want a more convenient way to manage them.

2) Simply email the employer directly.

This is only recommended for small 1-2 day projects where no formal documentation is required. To email a employer directly, use their email address as found in the 'contact information' section of the project.

To facilitate good communication, every Friday you are working on the project, you must file a status report. Do this using the 'file new report' button. Don't forget to do this, or you will forfeit your payment guarantee. Note: If your project is < $150 then no status report is required.

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      When you're finished with the work, click on the "Report Work Complete", and the employer will be notified.
Report work complete

   If your deliverables are at all time sensitive, don't forget to email them directly to the employer, in addition to filing them on this site, as the site attachment delivery can get backed up during peak times. This is the best way to cover yourself!

 

Pay for time

To report your time to the employer, you download and install the AccuTimeCard™ application onto your computer. This application allows you to report your time. To prove to the employer that you are working, every few minutes, it takes an image of your desktop (and webcam, if the employer has required it on this project).
  • Startup the application and choose the project you're working on from the list, and click "punch in" to begin work. Once you do, it's important to work only on the employer's project (to avoid a possible arbitration and poor rating/loss of account as detailed in the next step).
  • You can see an overview of your time on the weekly timecard page:
     
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  • You can click on any item to see the detailed daily view. This shows you all the images and you can also notate items as well as exclude them from being paid for:
     
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  • If you forget to log time (or wish to subtract time), you add manual entries back on the weekly timecard page:
     
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    Remember that the employer is under no obligation to approve manual entries. So it is much safer to remember to login and logout using the desktop timecard application, instead of relying on manual entries to record your time.
     
  • Click here for more information on using the AccuTimeCard™ application.