How Do Freelancers Get Paid?
Like how do they actually ask for and receive MONEY??
This is not an article about how to find clients or make money. This is the nitty-gritty: the technical details of how freelancers actually request and receive payment.
Have you agreed on payment terms?
The most important first step after agreeing on payment is to put it in the contract.
You can choose to design your payments to be in advance, upon completion, on a schedule, whatever you want. But whichever you choose, put it in writing in the contract and do not start any actual work until the contract is signed.
The way you design the payment schedule may be different for each project or client. For example, I charge per word rates for blog posts and articles, and I send an invoice with the total AFTER it is written and sent to the client. I invoice for the total word count times my per word rate.
However, for manuscript editing, I require 25% up front as a deposit to start editing and the rest…
