Elance University

Elance delivers an immediate, cost-effective and flexible way to hire, manage and pay independent professionals and contractors online.

Businesses who tap into Elance's skilled talent pool to distribute their work, love Elance for:

• Flexibility. Staff up when you need it, scale back when you don’t.
• Results Orientation. Emphasis is on actual results received (output) versus billable hours (input).
• Predictability of Cost. ‘Milestone’ based payments help prevent runaway costs.
• Control. Release payment through Escrow only when requirements are met and results are delivered.

The Elance Work System guides the entire online work process to ensure great results by providing a standardized way to set up work engagements, manage the work and exchange payment for results.

The Elance Work System facilitates structured communication, brings clarity on what needs to be done and when, provides tracking, updates and regular reviews of the work in progress, solicits feedback throughout the process and helps release payment from Escrow for the work delivered.