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Truelancer Workflow Tutorial for Freelancers

May 24, 2022 by Kanika Phogat

A Workstream on Truelancer is a collaboration tool to facilitate all sorts of communication between the Freelancer and Employer on Truelancer. It provides all the management tools and options that you need to get a project done on Truelancer. It is very important that you discuss all the details, scope, terms regarding your Project in the Truelancer Workstream to keep your Project going on smoothly on Truelancer. Even if you discuss the terms outside, we encourage you to post it on Workstream and have your employer agree to those terms (This will only help you get your refund in case a conflict arises).

Are you looking for Workflow tutorial for Employers?

Step-by-step guide to using Workstream (For Freelancers):

Step 1:

After logging in, click on “Find jobs” on the top of the page and this web page will appear. On right side you can add the filter according to the field you want the job in. Refresh the page. You will get the jobs according to the skills you fill. Now, You can click on the job to view the job description.

Step 2:

Once you are sure that you want to send a proposal on a Project, you can click on the Green “Send Proposal” button.

Step 3:

Proposal form opens up once you click on “Send Proposal” button. Fill in the proposal details, the amount and deposit .

What is amount – It is the money demanded by you for the completion of the project.

What is Deposit – It is the amount you demand for the client to start the project. Generally, for Big projects, The client can be requested for 45% of the total amount and for smaller projects it’s the entire amount.

Note: Once the client hires you, the “deposit” amount would be deposited in Truelancer’s account. Other than what you put in your proposal, you can make your proposal better by using the following two add-ons :

Featured: Only one featured proposal is taken for a project. Your bid is featured at the top of other proposal & therefore is 40 times increased chances to be awarded You will be charged $5 to feature one proposal.

Elite: Highlight your proposal to stand out from other bidders. You will get more attention. You will be charged $1 to feature one proposal.

After completing the proposal form, you can click on “Send” button at the bottom of the form.

Step 4:

After the proposal is sent, you will be taken to the Project description page. Wait for a response from the Employer, you’ll be notified by an email/notification if the Employer contacts you/responds back or takes an action

Step 5:

Once the Employer contacts you, a workstream is created between you and the employer.

If you are a pro member a workstream is automatically created between you and your freelancer. This is the workstream where you can discuss the project details with the employer before he/she accepts your proposal. You can chat, discuss the Project and update your employer.

Step 6:

If the client finalises to hire you and you want to change the amount, you need to follow these steps :

Click on withdraw proposal on the right side.

Refresh the page.

Now, You will get the new proposal at the bottom left of the workstream from here you can update and change the amount.

Step 7:

You will get the underlined message from the Admin once your proposal is accepted. You can begin working on the project after the Proposal acceptance message.

Now, client has awarded the project, kindly put all requirement in the document with the tentative deadline in the workstream. In order to be secured in case of any conflict arises.

*This payment is securely held with Truelancer and is transferred to you once the freelancer has completed the Project (payments can also be released partially to the freelancer in case the Project is worth more than INR 15000 / USD 235). Being a Freelancer, you should always ensure that you have the amount in Truelancer Safe Deposit on which you are working on.*

Step 8 :

You need to update project progress in terms of percentage time to time from the bottom of the workstream.

Step 9:

If the initial deposit amount was less than the total project amount, then the freelancer can ask for more deposit by sending a “Deposit Request” request as the Project progresses.

Steps 10:

You can also ask for a partial release of the payments from your Employer if the total Project cost is greater than INR 15,000 or USD 235. You will get the option of partial payment in the bottom left of the workstream.

You will get at Max. 3 times partial payments apart from work completion request.

Step 11:

Upon completion of the project, send the file/link to the employer for review and make any necessary changes that he asks for if they are within the scope of your Project.

Step 12:

Send the “Mark Complete” request once you have completed the project as per employer’s requirement and wait for the employer to approve it.

Step 13:

Once the employer has approved your “Mark Complete” request, the feedback pop-up will open where you can share your feedback regarding the experience you had while working for the employer.

Step 14:

Once you have given a feedback, Truelancer Moderators may take some time to review the work and once they’ve reviewed it, you will get a message from the Admin saying that the money has been transferred to your Truelancer wallet.

Once you have the money in your Truelancer Wallet, you can withdraw it to your Bank Account/Paypal Account/Payoneer Account or by other payment withdrawal methods available at Truelancer.

You can read this tutorial on how to withdraw money from your Truelancer Wallet.

Important DO’s and DON’Ts

Please make sure that you discuss all important terms, specifications, the scope of the Project in the Truelancer workstream itself and make your freelancer agree on it before accepting his proposal.
Give regular updates to your employer in the Truelancer Workstream. (Even if you are talking outside Truelancer), this helps you in case a conflict arises.

Happy Truelancing!

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Why Truelancer Mobile App is the Best freelance Job Search Mobile App

August 20, 2016 by Fawnia Clarissa

If you are one of many people who has a smartphone on your possession, there’s no doubt that you find the device very versatile. Not only used for entertainment, your smartphone is a handy tool to get your jobs done. For some, even, mobile applications is a great way to start a freelance job search. The best freelance job search app at the moment is undoubtedly Truelancer mobile app. This freelance job search mobile app provides a huge help for those who are interested in becoming a freelancer and start searching for freelance jobs. This freelance job search mobile app is also available on Google Play for Android users and is ranking high among similar apps for freelance jobs. But why should you download the app, and what makes Truelancer mobile app the best freelance job search mobile app?

Here are some of the many reasons that make Truelancer Mobile App the best Freelance marketplace app:

1) No Lag

There’s no use in getting a mobile app that’s slow, lags often, and in general, makes job search even more difficult. With Truelancer mobile app, you don’t have to worry about the app crashing or lagging, since the app works relatively fine on most users’ mobile phones. This is important, especially if you consider that you have to manage all your projects on your mobile phone. Since you probably can’t access your computer or notebook all the time, it’s always better to get Truelancer mobile app so that you don’t miss any of your project updates.

2) Communicating with Freelance Clients is easier and convenient

If you’re signed up to Truelancer, you must have known that although you’ll be getting email notifications regarding messages sent by your clients, replying to the message can be quite a challenge. You would have to open your browser, log-in, then reply the message. The whole process may be time-consuming and also, data-consuming.
Truelancer understands this, and that’s why the app provides the answer: simplified messaging system that allows you to chat with prospective clients and even with your clients in the workstream. Responding to messages immediately is a vital step many freelancers failed to do; and this causes them to lose employment opportunities. Make sure you don’t make the same mistake!

3) Highest-ranking freelance job search mobile app in PlayStore

With the rating 4.5 stars, Truelancer mobile app is by far the most favorite app for freelance jobs among Android users. Compared to similar mobile apps, Truelancer mobile app has received much more positive feedback, with 426 users ranking the app with a 5-star. Both clients and freelancers have expressed their satisfaction, and much more are eager to install the app and start using it.

4) Lightest Freelance App in Playstore

Truelancer Android App is less than 6 Mbs and is the lightest and most feature loaded Freelance Mobile App in the Playstore. The same app can be used by both Freelance Clients as well as Freelancers. Truelancer App automatically adjusts and shows you the most relevant options based on your current role (Employer or Freelancer).

5) Most Feature-packed Freelance Mobile App

Truelancer Android App is a fully functional tool for both Freelance Employers as well as Freelancers. It is the most feature packed Mobile App in the Playstore, you can do the following things on the Truelancer Mobile App:

Features for Employers

Post a Project
Post a Contest*
Buy Gigs/Services
Project actions (Like Accept proposal, Reject Proposal, Shortlist Proposal)
Live chat with the Freelancer
Search & Invite Freelancers
View Freelancer’s profile/feedback/reviews.

Features for Freelancers

Search for Freelance Projects & Bid
Project actions (Like Send Proposal, Deposit Fund Request)
Live chat with the Freelance Employer
View Freelance Employer’s profile/feedback/reviews.
Post a Service

6) App Only Offers

Truelancer runs many App only offers for all its loyal Mobile App users. You can check the current App only offer that allows you to bid on 2 extra Projects everyday if you bid from Truelancer Mobile App.

The reasons listed above is a definite proof that Truelancer mobile app is the best freelance mobile app. If you haven’t sign up for Truelancer, then I strongly suggest you to do so.

If you have joined the rank of freelancers in Truelancer but haven’t made the best use out of this free provision, you need to grab your mobile device and start download the truelancer mobile app now. The Truelancer Mobile app will surely make your job-searching experience more enjoyable and easier!

The Truelancer App Story

April 15, 2016 by Adhish Lal

It all started with the arising need of faster communication and hyper growth. We, at Truelancer felt that our users are failing to get instant updates of the work invites or updates of their work and we then decided to solve this problem. First we started monitoring each user by boosting our backend algorithm and increasing customer support but somewhere it was lagging behind. Then we started discovering the root cause of the whole scenario and found that many users don’t prefer switching on their PCs to chat, search or post jobs as they remain busy in their so called scheduled life. But they will do work on big screens. So, finally we decided to extend the Asia’s largest freelancing platform on finger tips. And the solution was ‘Truelancer Mobile App“.

The next decision that was lingering in front of us was the platform? We figured that our major user base is composed of Android users so we decided to start the development of Truelancer Android application.

In the first phase we focused on requirement gathering. The team sat together and listed each feature that should go with the version 1.x of app. We listed almost all features that was there on our web platform and then started shortlisting the features according to its priority (according to users). The list was composed of more than 110 features of the web which included all major components of our website. We listed all these along with the timelines on Asana (https://app.asana.com/), probably the best tool for work management. It really help us to manage and track the progress of each task and its sub tasks along with the scheduled notification to the person for it was actually listed. We also used Trello (https://trello.com/) so that the team members can put up their thought or say feature that must be included in the app.

Second phase started with the UI/UX design. Truelancer’s web platform is really like a vast ocean and displaying it on hand-held sized screen device was a competitive task but thanks to the team, the coders figured out designs and Adobe Illustrator started flashing on my PC screen. Finally the complete design was there and we used InvisionApp (https://www.invisionapp.com/) to put all designs on one page so that it becomes quite easy for us to navigate through all screens whenever we wanted! Not only this, it actually gave the feeling as if we are actually using the app and this became simpler for us to figure the app from the user’s point of view.

The third phase of the product development was re-planning. Re-planning? Yes, we actually summarized the whole planning that was done till now and added few more tasks that was left. These tasks were actually very important for the product so that we can serve our users much better with the increasing app versions. The list was populated by adding few toppings which are listed below:

Google Analytics (https://www.google.co.in/analytics) – We wanted see that actually how many users are actually using our app per second and from which device, screen size or location. It also helped us monitoring that on which screen users are actually spending much time.
Deep-links (http://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.html) – At Truelancer, we use to send emails for several purposes. For example, if the user has received a job invitation email and he/she is viewing that email on his/her android mobile device pre-installed with Truelancer app, then he/she should be able to view the job detail by clicking a button right in the email. It will actually land up on the job detail screen for which that freelancer was invited right in the Truelancer Android Mobile Application!
Push notifications – Probably the most important feature of having the mobile app. If the user is not using Truelancer web app or checking the mail box then he/she can get notification of all the work updates on his/her android mobile device’s notification panel making the navigation simpler for him/her.
Fabric Crashlytics (https://fabric.io/kits/android/crashlytics) – One can never predict the crashing of an android application due to its distribution on 81% of the total mobile devices (according to a survey and Google) ranging from lowest memory to having memory more than your PC’s. So, tracking of each crash report when user’s device is neither in debugging mode nor he/she is few miles away from us. Basically Crashlytics provides complete data along with line number of Java class due to which actually app crashed (just like Android’s SDK logcat).
Answers (https://fabric.io/kits/android/answers) – This is same as Google analytics but it rather provides results around total user acquisition and app errors/crashes.
Branch Metrics (https://branch.io/) – We used Branch Metrics for app attribution.
Cognalysis (https://www.cognalys.com/) – For missed call based mobile number verification system.
Fone Verify (http://www.foneverify.com/) – For SMS based mobile number verification system.

Now, prior to app development, we added BitBucket (https://bitbucket.org/) to our system to keep the codes safe. It’s free!

In the fourth phase, the app development finally began. Few things were there which became a real challenge for us, like LinkedIn login! According to LinkedIn documentation, it was clearly saying that it does not provides same auth token for server and mobile platform. It had to be different. But at the same time we didn’t wanted our web to go off from using mobile app who signin to Truelancer via LinkedIn. So we contacted LinkedIn and somehow managed to build the most secured system.

Now summarising,

The app has 4 types of login/signup modules, namely – Email, Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn.
2 phone verification systems – Foneverify and Cognalysis.
Complete different UI for employer and freelancer.
More than 500 views dynamically generated during runtime!
And most important – The Truelancers Android app’s APK uses just 6.2 megabytes of your phone’s memory!
The app is compatible with almost all Android devices – ranging from Android Jellybean to the latest one.

Don’t believe? Give it a try now!

This is just the beginning of freelancing era, we have tonnes of stuffs planned for you in Truelancer app. Stay tuned.

Download Truelancer app from http://bit.ly/truelancer-app and let me know how you like it.

Introducing the New Unified Project Management page

August 25, 2015 by Truelancer

At Truelancer, we’re always trying to provide you the true values of your efforts and your work. In this era of Bullet trains and super-sonic planes, Truelancer takes one step further to reduce the efforts of its users by making things quicker. Important and essential things are now easily accessible on Truelancer.

Project management is even easier now. You can post projects quickly and get all the essential details about your project from the New Project Details page itself.

The New Project Management page is the epicenter of all your Project activities.

One step reduced (View proposals page now deprecated)

Now you can see all your project proposals on the New Project Management page itself. You can filter, shortlist, and compare the proposals received from the New Project Detail page.

Precise proposal Details

Its not just filters and actions, proposal details now have prominent position. So you can get quick and decisive overview of all the proposals.

Now you can see Freelancer’s important details like Project completed, Services delivered, Recurring buyers, and Feedback percentage (which is ratio of feedback received on number of projects completed).

By clicking View details, you can see the proposal description like the one shown below.

We have taken time to understand and research our users’ behavior to make things better by improving User Interface so that you can get a seamless experience on Truelancer. Here are a few changes that we are bringing to improve your experience at Truelancer.

Quick project status, budget and popularity (views) details.
Prominent actionable items to help you understand what to do next.
Project is now in your full control you can easily edit and close them.
Easy sharing to social media to get more proposals and to attract more freelancers.
You can now post similar projects with almost or exact same details in just one click. You can do it by clicking on “Post similar project” link from the New Project Description page.
Project detail is now hidden for Employers and always visible to freelancers by default.
Employer’s details now has a prominent visibility on the New Project detail page.
Required Project skills are now shown in Bold, so that it helps freelancers to bid accordingly and employers to review proposals based on required skills.
Project featuring has got even fancier.

Desserts in the end! Introducing actionable guided tour on New Project details page. Have doubts what to do next? Our guided tour will now assist you take required actions.

We are making efforts so that we reduce your efforts. We received commendable response from entire community on our revamped Dashboard and “Shortlist and Compare” features and we would like to thank you for that. We are committed to keep innovating and making Truelancer a better place to work, hire and collaborate.

Do tell us if you liked the new UI on our Facebook page or tweet to us @Truelancer_

Jitendra Vaswani: Transforming Blogging into a Successful Online Business

September 13, 2017 by Jessee R

It was November 2014, a young guy with loads of dreams decided to leave his safe job and concentrate completely on his part time blogs which he wanted to make an online business. Not even an year has passed and Jitendra Vaswani is a top notch blogger and a rising internet entrepreneur. I still remember my first meeting with him. I was a struggling freelancer back then, finding it difficult to make ends meet. Jitendra found me on Truelancer. I had no idea who he was or what he did! We scheduled a meeting and I started to research on who this guy was. Today most of you might know him as one of the top ten bloggers in India, the brand ambassador of Payoneer and a kickass blogger with top notch blogs on Blogging: BloggersIdeas and Technology: Technoven; a person with a sure-shot successful online business. Moments after I met Jitendra Vaswani for the first time, I knew he was onto something big.

When you interact with Jitendra you get an Idea of what successful people generally do!

With successful people, it is not always about creating a new product or a new commodity. The bottom line is to create a new experience. In Jitendra’s case this new experience was in his innovative idea to successfully monetize a blog and use the influence to garner a business built around the internet of things. The fact that he is the brand ambassador of Payoneer (along with Chitraparna Sinha) is a testament to the success of his ideology.

Today he is running a successful online business, with a portfolio of formidable clients like Payoneer and Infolinks. I won’t disclose his exact earnings but he is doing far better than one could do at a job. Self-independence, the power to explore and experiment and all the time you need to pursue what you love. What else does one want?

Jitendra met me when his idea was still in gestation. He trusted my skills in content and worked with me to devise comprehensive content strategies to take his blogs up a notch. I was a writer, a person who could give people something to read. But it was always Jitendra who knew what people liked to read and that is where our partnership bore fruition. But it is not just operational ideas which make a man successful. I mean, there are an umpteen number of blogs out there with good content but not all of them are successful. That is where entrepreneurship comes in with an amalgamation of your professional skills and the hunger which drives you. Running a successful online business is no different.

What makes Jitendra tick?

To know the answer to that we need to find out:

What makes Jitendra Vaswani run a successful online business?

If you look at it, there is not much difference between someone like Jitendra and a bloke working in the online marketing department at NBC. Jitendra knows all the essentials to a successful online business: SEO, SMM, Link Building, Backlinking, Digital Marketing, WordPress and what not. The differences arise when it comes to the beliefs and passion of each individual and what he is willing to do to not let them go. Same is the case with Jitendra Vaswani running his own successful online business.

Experience

Jitendra has worked with top brands like FirstCry, Zopper, and RailYatri among others. After gaining good corporate insight from these firms while he was ‘on the job’, he imagined his own business knowing exactly where the pitfalls and associated risks would be. The point is experience allows you to know the risks and opportunities around an idea. The better you know them, the better you can manage them! His insights would go on to help me establish my own firm.

Showmanship

It’s a thing with most successful entrepreneurs. They know how to turn a crowd in their favour. Jitendra tries to know his audience and that is what helps him interact better with them. In his blogging world it means loyal readers and constant traffic. In the business world it means loyal clients, good PR and heightened brand exposure. Helps all around, doesn’t it?

Dexterity, Persistence and Patience

You have to be willing to give it all into your idea. You have to be passionate enough to believe that your idea will work and work your ass off to bring it to fruition. That is one thing Jitendra consistently does. Many a times he would call me up at 4 in the morning to discuss an exciting content niche or a remarkably innovative link building strategy. Persistence is the key to a successful online business or any business for that matter. These attributes are what make him deliver the best results to his clients.

Networking

A business needs leads and there is no way to find them other than to network and associate yourself with people in the same industry. If you look at Jitendra’s facebook profile, you will get what I mean. Most of his friends are online entrepreneurs, bloggers, digital marketers, content and SEO strategists and so on. He frequents startup events, blogging events all across the country. He speaks amicably at these events about his trysts with a successful online business and people know instantly that this guy means business. It is as simple as that.

Top Digital Marketers in India — Jitendra Vaswani with Ritu David, another popular Digital Marketer

Realization

Jitendra always tells me that somebody else is doing some incredible stuff at the moment, why shouldn’t we. That is an essential realisation one needs to do something great like a successful online business. The moment you realise that you can change and create things irrespective of your college degrees and your job profiles; you are set on a wonderful path.