Contractor Guide
CONTRACTORS PROFILES
Creating Your Profile
To sign up on Freelancer Clone and create your profile:
1. Click on theSign up and Continue at the top of the freelancer-clone.com website.
2. In sign up to create your Contractor account is to select the membership level.
Congratulations, you have now joined the freelancer-clone in online work! Next you will want to setup and customize your online profile. To finish customizing your profile please follow these steps:
1. Go to the left navigation bar of freelancer-clone and click on My Profile.
2. Complete your basic information.
3. Then its time to get the profile started. On the next page you will upload your thumbnail photo, create a tagline, enter in a minimum hourly rate, create a contractor overview and enter in your skills.
Here is what your completed profile will look like.
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Creating Your Portfolio
After you have completed your profile,you can edit your portfolio.
To edit your portfolio:
1. Click on upload Portfolio and upload your work there shown in the picture below.
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Look of Your Profile to Friends and Potential Clients
Now after Completing the profile The look of the profile that Your Friends and Potential Clients can see is :
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FINDING JOBS
Searching the Jobs Index
After you have created your contractor profile,you can start submitting proposals for jobs. You can find and evaluate jobs by browsing the freelancer-clone site or by receiving invitations from potential clients to submit proposals for their jobs.
To browse jobs:
1. Go to 'Find Work' on the top navigation bar and choose Search Jobs .
2. You can browse jobs by a number of criteria:
Category
Latest Job
Job Name
3. Click the Job Name to view a particular job description.
4. For additional information about a client, click on client's username.
In addition to actively browsing freelancer-clone for jobs, you can also can create saved searches for jobs in your categories of interest and receive daily email notifications. For more information on , please click here.
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WORKING WITH THE CLIENT
Getting Hired
If the client selects your proposal and hires you for the job, the following will occur:
You will receive an email notification informing you that you have been selected.
The job can be found on your Dasboardl with Accept and Decline options.
You must then accept the job selection on freelancer-clone before the job can begin.
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Accepting Jobs
To accept the job:
1. Click the Accept button on Dashboard .
2. Click on the link for accepting job in the email.
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GETTING PAID
Sending Pay request to the Client
To Request for Pay to the client:
1. Go to the Fund Management link in the left navigation and click Milestone.
2. Select the job for which you want to send an request and click on action and select the request .
3. Click on Submit.
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Confirming Payment
To Confirm the Payment:
1. Go to the Fund Management link in the left navigation and click Milestone.
2. Select the job for which you want to send an request and click on accept amount .
3. Click on Submit.
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Withdrawing Funds
To withdraw the Payment:
1. Go to the Fund Management link in the left navigation and click Withdraw Funds.
2. Select the paypal and give the details for the withdrawal of money.
3. Click on click here to withdraw.
4. Mention the required details.
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VIEWING MEMBERSHIP
Upgrading Membership
To upgrade your current membership:
1. Click the Membership Plan button in the Dashboard.
2. Click the Membership link on the left panel.
3. Update your plan details. (The monthly cost will update at the bottom of the page)
4. Click Submit.
5. If appropriate, It will deduct amount from your current balance and update your membership.
6. You can have auto membership plan updation by clicking on the checkbox.
7. Later this auto membership plan updation could be edited through edit profile.
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