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About
rentAfreelance.com
rentAfreelance.com is an online freelance
marketplace that provides a secure place for outsourcing people's
project requirements to a pool of highly qualified Freelancers or Companies.
Here anyone can post their project requirements and can receive bids
from various freelance coders/providers in a very short span of time.
Started in 2006, rentAfreelance carries a clear vision -
"Provide an equal opportunity to everyone to help their business/career
and create confidence among the community to outsource their work to skilled
providers."
Apart from providing a secure marketplace for freelance
outsourcing business, rentAfreelance.com also provides Project Management
facility for the buyers who are non-technical and want us to manage their whole
project. rentAfreelance.com also provides unique facility of testing or
completed projects before coders can be paid.
rentAfreelance.com is unique freelance portal in the sense that
we do not charge anything either for posting or for bidding on the
project. Everything is free. Nominal fees are charged only if the project comes
to a successful completion. There is no registration fee and no subscription
fees.
One more unique feature of rentAfreelance.com is that we accept
credit card or PayPal payments and especially for
buyers/coders/provides in India, we have uniquie facility of receiving
earnings either by PayPal or by cheque in Indian rupees (Currency
conversion will be decided by rentAfreelance.com and will be communicated to
users before selecting mode of payment receiving) so that users in India may
not need to wait for long time to receive earnings of their hard work.
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Fees
Registering with
rentAfreelance.com as well as posting any number of bids on any number of
projects is absolutely FREE.
Once a project is successfully
completed on rentAfreelance.com, we charge 10% project amount or $3 whichever
is more as commission to Service provider / software coder.
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Posting
your resume / profile to rentAfreelance.com
You can post your profile while
registering with rentAfreelance.com. The registration page has field called
“Profile” as shown below. You can Write your areas of expertise or paste your
text resume here. Please make sure to mention all your areas of expertise here
as this will help buyer identify suitable coder for their projects.
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Getting
new projects alerts
Once you register with
rentAfreelance.com, we will send you periodic alerts with details of newly
posted projects. Also you can visit rentAfreelance.com regularly to know about
latest projects posted at rentAfreelance.com. The ticker on each page displays
latest projects posted on rentAfreelance.com. In case if you want to
unsubscribe from new projects email alerts then send email to
support@rentAfreelance.com
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Searching
for projects
You can search for projects of
your choice by clicking on “Search” link on top of
any page or by clicking on “Search Projects” link in
Providers menu on left side of any page.
Following are the criteria based
on which you may search for projects.
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Bid request title
With this,
you may search for projects with title containing this text. You may even write
some keywords, based on which it may search projects.
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Category
This is major
category in which the project may fall.
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Status
You can
search all projects, open projects (projects open for bidding) or even past
projects just to see kind of projects completed on rentAfreelance.com
You may also
search on following criteria
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Posted between
You may
search projects which are recently posted (for higher chances of getting
responses from buyers) or projects which are posted within specified dates
range.
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Bid amount between
You may
search for smaller, medium or larger projects depending on the price range you
specify.
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Bidding
for a project
Once you have identified the
project you wish to bid on, follow these steps to bid on a particular project.
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Open the bid request by clicking on the project title link.
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In case if you are not already logged in, it will ask you to login
first before bidding on the request. If you are new user, you might need to
register first before login. Once you open the bid request, it may
prompt for following details for bidding on the project.
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Enter bid amount.
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In case if you are sure about how much amount you want to suggest in your bid
then please enter the amount in “Bid Amount” text box.
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In case if you first want to communicate with the buyer and then suggest bid
amount then leave this field blank.
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Enter bid details.
Please enter
your bid details. You can explain to the buyer how you are fit for this bid by
providing details of your previous work. Also you can provide details about
your skill set.
Please read
the details in the bid request carefully and please do not bid if you feel that
you may not be able to complete this in the given deadline or with given
specifications. Buyer might have attached additional files which may contain
more details about the bid request. Kindly read them all before bidding on the
project.
Please
mention any specific conditions if any in the details field before buyer
accepts your bid as once buyer accepts the bid, whatever was posted before that
only will be considered. Also mention how you may want to carry on this project
so that buyer may get confidence in your bid.
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Upload file (optional)
You can also
upload small files which may add mode detail and value to your bid.
rentAfreelance.com reserves right to remove unnecessary files posted with bid
requests.
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Viewing
your bids history
You can view your previously
posted bids by clicking on “My bids” link in
Providers menu on left side of any page.
It shows following details.
1.
Bid Request:
Title of the bid request for which
the bid was posted
2.
Owner:
Owner of the bid request /
project.
3.
Bidding ends on:
Specifies the date on which the
given bid request / project expires for further bidding by other bidders.
4.
Bid posted on:
The date when you posted this
particular bid.
5.
Posted amount:
This specifies the amount you
specified in your bid for this project. It will show “Not Yet” if you have not
yet posted any amount for the project.
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Viewing
your messages inbox
Whenever you login to your
rentAfreelance.com account, the very first page which comes up is your messages
inbox.
You can visit your messages inbox
also by clicking on “My Messages” link in the
Providers menu on the left side of any page.
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Working
with buyers
Please communicate as much as
possible with the buyer while bidding as well as while working on a particular
project.
Please keep following in mind
while bidding
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Bid only if you feel that you are fit for the particular project.
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Don’t suggest too optimistic project deadline for the project
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Don’t bid with exceptionally low value or suggest free of cost work just for
the sake of winning the bid. This is considered as violation of
rentAfreelance.com policy.
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communicate only on the personalized message board for a particular bid request
and do not share personal contact information with the buyer. Please refer
rentAfreelance.com Terms and conditions
and you must agree with the same.
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Be precise and explain how you wish to complete the project with your expertise
level and given time frame.
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Please make all things clear before proceeding with project work as this may
help you in case if a dispute arises.
Please keep following in mind
while working on the project
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Please communicate any issues arising while working on the project.
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In case if you feel the given deadline is not sufficient then kindly
communicate the same with the buyer and ask for approval.
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Upload regular status reports if agreed with buyer before starting project
work.
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Submitting
completed work
Once you are done with your work,
please upload the completed work as soon as possible to rentAfreelance.com. If
your project size is high then you can send email to
support@rentAfreelance.com with project details so that
rentAfreelance.com may suggest you alternative way to upload the files.
Sometimes it may happen that you might had completed work on time but somehow
if you do not upload the project before deadline then you might lose project
amount if buyer opens a dispute for the project.
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Meeting
project deadline
You must make sure that you agree
on the project deadline before starting work on the project. If you set very
optimistic deadline in mind and inform the buyer about the same and then later
realize that it is not possible to complete within this deadline then you may
end up in a dispute with the buyer and there is a potential change that you may
lose in arbitration. So it is always advisable to discuss and document project
deadline with the buyer before starting the project and you must stick to your
project schedule and submit full project or milestone modules as agreed with
the buyer. You may also need to provide status reports if agreed with buyer
before starting the project.
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Managing
your rentAfreelance.com account
You can update information about
your Full Name, Country, City, State/Province, PayPal account id and your
profile. For this you can click on “My Account”
link on Providers menu on left side
of any page.
You should periodically update
your profile by visiting your account page periodically so that you can attract
more buyers to invite you.
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Viewing
your transactions history / financials
You can click on “My financials”
link in the menu on left side of any page to view your previous transactions on
rentAfreelance.com
Here you also have an option to
update your PayPal account id so that we can transfer the amount to your PayPal
account in case if you have any earnings or refunds in a particular month.
For users in
India
, you can also choose to receive your earnings by cheque in Indian
Rupees. For this you may select Payment by Cheque option. Here you must provide
your correct postal address so that we can send the cheque to your address. The
currency conversion rate will be posted by rentAfreelance.com on website before
sending payments and you will be notified by email as well so that you can
choose between these two options.
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Dispute
resolution
In case if the coder or service
provider fails to submit the completed work by the deadline agreed upon, then
buyer may wish to open a dispute with the provider.
rentAfreelance.com always suggests
first communicating with the other party and trying to resolve the issue in an
amicable manner. This is very important because if the issue gets resolved at
this point then both the parties will benefit from this and no party will be
losing anything.
Please note that opening a dispute
always puts wrong impression on other party and also prevents long term
business relationship.
rentAfreelance.com suggests buyers
and service providers both to keep initial agreed project details in mind and
try to compare it with the final product and buyer should either extend project
deadline or if everything is fine then should accept the work.
If at all both parties cannot
reach to a final resolution then you may request arbitration from
rentAfreelance.com
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Arbitration
If
a dispute arises between buyer and service provider, our goal is to resolve
such dispute quickly and cost effectively. Please allow 5 business days to the
other party before seeking arbitration from rentAfreelance.com. For any claim
arising between buyer and service provider, the party requesting relief may
elect to resolve the dispute in a cost-effective manner through binding
non-appearance-based arbitration. A party electing arbitration should initiate
such arbitration by either visiting contact us page
or sending email to dispute@rentAfreelance.com.
Both the parties must comply with the following rules: (a) the arbitration will
be conducted either online, by telephone, and/or be solely based on
written submissions, the specific manner will be chosen by rentAfreelance.com
on situational basis; (b) the arbitration will not involve any personal
appearance by the parties or witnesses unless otherwise mutually agreed by the
parties; (c) Once rentAfreelance.com sends communication to a party, the other
party will have maximum 5 business days to respond to the communication and in
case if the party does not respond in 5 business days, the final decision will
be in favor of the other party. Both parties must abide by the resolution
suggested by rentAfreelance.com and that will be considered as final and no
party can choose to take any legal route nor can disagree with the resolution
provided for further looking into the matter. It is implied that both parties
agree to these conditions once a bidder is chosen and initial transaction is
initiated at rentAfreelance.com. Also please understand that rentAfreelance.com
will decide the percentage of amount being refunded as well as being paid to
the service provider.
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Contacting
rentAfreelance.com
If you wish to report a
violation of Site Policies, have any questions or need assistance, please
contact rentAfreelance.com Customer Service at Contact us
page.
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