Hello, everyone and welcome back to my channel Jennifer Marie vo where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. In my last tutorial, I discussed
the difference between fixed price contracts and hourly contracts on Upwork. And Upwork is a
freelancing platform where you can find different jobs that you can do online. So in today's video,
I'm going to show you how to install the Upwork desktop app so that you can get started tracking
your hours and get paid per hour once you start a new contract with a client on Upwork.
If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos just like this one
on how to become a work from home freelancer. Before we get started, I just want to make it
clear that I have not been sponsored by Upwork. To create this video. All opinions in this video are
my own. I'm simply sharing with you my experience working on Upwork. I am currently a top rated plus
Freelancer on Upwork. As of the time of creating this video, I have a 100% job success rating
and have earned over 80,000 US dollars since I started freelancing on Upwork at the end of 2017.
I have a whole bunch of different tutorials you can follow about freelancing on Upwork,
which I will link you to in the description below. So let's get into the video. To start
doing hourly jobs, you need to download the Upwork desktop app by going to upwork.com slash AB slash
downloads. The app allows you to track time by running the time tracker as you work.
This also gives you payment protection on hourly contracts, you're going to go ahead and click
on your download version. If you don't know what version of computer you have, type in about your
PC. And then under system type, you'll see if you have a 64 bit operating system or 32 bit,
choose the standard version of whichever operating system you have. And then click
Download up work desktop app. So once the dot e xe file downloads, go ahead and double click on it,
then agree to the license agreement. And then use your login credentials to log into Upwork.
Now you'll get a bit more information about the app Upwork on your desktop is a time tracker and
instant messenger. You'll run the time tracker and describe your activity as you work
for payment protection on hourly contracts, you can access the time tracker and messages through
the Upwork icon in the system tray or menu bar. Okay, so now we've opened up the time tracker,
you can click on this message icon to open or close your messages with your clients.
If for whatever reason the time tracker hasn't popped up, you can right click on the Upwork icon
in your system tray right here. And go open time tracker. So now you have your clients here.
And now you'll select the client you want to start working for. So you can see that right
now the time tracker is off. To start working simply click the on button. So now it will be
tracking the work that we're doing. It will start to track time as you do work for this client,
you can fill out a memo here of whatever it is that you're doing. And click Update. You can even
set a reminder to create a new memo at a certain time interval if you want to update what you are
working on. This is a way to keep your client updated about what you are doing. To turn it off
just click the off button. If you have done work for a client and you want to add work manually,
you can click Add manual time and enter the date and time slot where you worked for the client and
also add a memo. But remember that the manual time does not qualify for up work hourly protection.
So once you start tracking your hours your hours will pop up here for how many hours
or minutes you have worked today. And then here we'll show you how many hours you have
worked for this client this week. If there is an hourly limit, it will show you right here.
So where it says latest screen capture the Upwork desktop app automatically uploads a screenshot and
activity summary to the work diary for every 10 minutes that a freelancer tracks time.
So as you are working the app will take screen captures that will be saved in your work diary so
clients can review your progress and check that you are actually doing your job. Whether that
is video editing, graphic design, translating, writing, data entry or whatever else you have been
hired to do on your computer. So once you have finished working or if you are stopping to take
a break, you'll just click the off button, you can turn the on and off button as needed to track your
time working with the client. To view your work diary, you can click View work diary. And this
will direct you to Upwork website where you can view all the hours you have worked for this client
and also toggle through different clients. So here you can toggle through your different clients
and you'll be able to see the time autotrac reflected by The green squares you can see here,
and manually tracks will be reflected by the yellow. Alternatively, you can click on my
jobs and then go to work diary as well. So from here, you can also delete anything that you want.
So this has been automatically tracked time and I wasn't actually doing any work here, I just wanted
to do this as a demo. So I'm going to press Delete. And this will delete the screenshots,
memos and activities for this. So once I delete that now it will show that I haven't done any
work for this client so far. So let's go back to the time tracker, you can change the settings by
clicking on the gear icon and going to settings. And here you can select the screen capture,
either to capture the active monitor or capture all monitors. And you can also adjust the
notifications for when the app takes a screenshot. You can turn off the notification or sound in case
you find it distracting while you work. And you can test it out as well by clicking test it out.
And you'll hear a little click sound. So you'll know when the app has taken a picture
or screenshot of your screen while you're working. There's also other things you can change as well
the time zones, you can take a camera shot while with screen shots while you're tracking as well.
And if you are working on hourly contracts with multiple clients,
and you want to change between them to start working for a new client,
so let's say I did an hour work for this client here. I can go back select
another client and click Start and this will start tracking for my next client as well.
And that is basically all you need to know about using up works desktop app
and time tracker. I will be creating more Upwork tutorial soon and giving you more
tips on how to get more jobs and secure more clients. So if you haven't already,
make sure to subscribe to my channel and click like on this video. It really does help me out.
Thanks again for watching and I'll see you in my next tutorial.