The payment timeline needs fixing
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Shalom Karunwi
Its four months into the post-Cirro era and personally, payments are now slower than ever. More often than not, freelancers get paid bi-weekly, and if payments are going to be monthly the expectation is that they come in swiftly to accommodate the wait-time. Last year it was a lot faster than it is now. Here's what I propose:
The payments request window should last a maximum of 3 days (10 days to initiate a payment request is quite unnecessary).
Payments should be sent on the 15th of every month and the wait period to receive payment should be from the 15th - 23rd of the same month.
Currently we work for 30 days and receive payments after another 21(+/- 9) days.
This proposed timeline shaves off at least a week off of that without any dramatic disruptions to the current system.
AV-Master
Shalom Karunwi Thank you for your suggestion.
I think that the process of optimizing payments is still underway, and maybe we will have the opportunity to request payment withdrawals 2 times a month. But in general this is a problem only for novice testers. For testers who have been working for a long time, this will not bring any significant changes. I judge by myself, since the change in the payment provider shifted the receipt of payment by 3-4 days, but it still happens monthly.
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Shalom Karunwi
AV-Master I appreciate your reply.
With the new payment provider, a faster system was promised. However, it seems to have regressed and 3-4 days does make a difference to some people as each individual is different. Personally speaking, I get payments a week later now. The process of setting up payments twice a month will probably take a considerable amount of time to implement, this at least speeds things up without any significant changes.
Afgan Sofyan
The solution of this "complete feedback" https://feedback.test.io/testers/p/please-adjust-the-date-at-which-payments-will-be-processed-to-a-sooner-date
Unfortunately, it wasn't what we expected. Even though there will be no quite difference in monthly cycle payment (~30 days). But we look at this matter on how long the time we receiving the payment from the time we proceeded it in Cirro. Or
how long the time we'll be appreciated from our works
. Freelance salary in the first place has already uncertain. In which more ideally we receive the payment more than once a month though (I heard test IO had plan for this). But shorten the payment request first now would a good motivation for us, and our life.