Payouts and reputation
How and when you are paid, what the platform fee is, and how reviews build the rating a company sees before it can see you.
When you are paid #
You are paid per milestone. The company funds a milestone into escrow before you start it, and the amount is released to you when the company approves your submission. Earnings lists every funded, released and pending amount across your contracts.
The platform fee #
Auditly keeps a percentage of each released milestone. The price you bid is what the company funds; you receive it minus the fee. The rate is published before launch and shown wherever a fee applies.
Where the money is today #
The platform records funding and release and shows both, but the payment provider that settles them is not connected yet. Until it is, a release is a record of what is owed and no transfer is made; the ledger says "settlement pending" on each line. Payouts will go to the bank account you register, by bank transfer, once settlement is live.
Reviews and your rating #
After a contract is completed, both sides write a review with a rating from one to five and a note. Reviews are double-blind: yours is sealed until the other side writes, or until the window closes, so neither review is written in reaction to the other. Published reviews are shown on your profile, and your rating is their average. A company sees the rating and the reviews before it can see your name, so this is the reputation that wins bids.
A reply to a review you received is shown under it.
Completed engagements #
The platform counts the contracts you completed on it and shows the number beside your experience. This is the platform's own record and cannot be edited, which is why companies rely on it.
Disputes #
Disputes are rare when milestones are specific, so write proposals whose deliverables are easy to judge; a mediator can only judge what was written down.