For those of you who work with international clients, how do you typically get paid? I'm adding a section to the Freelance page on the wiki, about how clients send payments to freelancers. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Freelance#Payment I do work for a variety of large and small companies, as well as with individuals. The…
from the EU, yes from the states, no no idea what odesk is but a lot of my clients as a freelancer have been US companies and now as our own studio it remains the same we wire everything, always. sometimes we worked with check but thats really really rare
Gumroad? Whereby the item for sale is a token certificate stating buyer is hiring you for x amount of mentoring time. If they don't have credit card, bitcoin could work if you both have wallets set up. Check exchange rate versus your preferred currency.
PayPal for most clients. Most of my clients are medium/small and PayPal keeps it consistent for me. I would rather take the hit on fees than wait for a check to hopefully show up at a decent time. I do have one client who continues to pay me by check but they are good about it :) Larger clients that I've had do wire…
Payments in excess of 1k are usually wire, less than are usually Paypal. If it is an ongoing and very steady/stable client we set up ACH payment (US clients only). Exceedingly rarely... people send me checks! Also I technically can take Credit Cards, but I havent actually had anyone request that in over a decade. No joke.
I even prefer wire transfers domestically as they're instant (within the EU) and insanely trackable. wire transfers from the US to UK usually take a couple of days to go through but i believe that's actually an issue of the US bank rather than wire transfers themselves, i'd rather take the time for that, than go through…