How To Create Agency Account On Upwork

Thinking of starting your freelance career with Upwork agency account? There are multiple ways to work on Upwork. Apart from methods, you can work on several skills available. If you are a professional writer or web developer, Upwork can be the right choice. I also work on Upwork as a freelance writer. Depending on your skills, you can locate jobs and apply. Before doing that, you might have the idea of a working mechanism on Upwork.

Do you know about accounts on Upwork? Upwork offers freelancers with two types of accounts. If you are an individual freelancer, you can register as an individual freelancer. In this article, before proceeding to the Upwork agency, we will focus on its difference with individual freelancer account.

What is an Upwork agency?

As the name indicates, it is a group of freelancers. You can consider it as a team of freelancers working in either the same niche or different categories. Some freelancers want to collaborate and try to handle big projects with teamwork. In such a case, they have to work through an Upwork agency account.

What is the difference between an Upwork agency and an individual freelancer account?

As already mentioned, Upwork offers two types of accounts. Depending on your interest, you can select any one of them. Before moving on to the creation of an account, you must know both of these.

Individual Freelancer account is for independent freelancer who directly communicates with the customers. There are no teams in this option, and you have to handle the whole project on your responsibility.

Upwork agency account has multiple freelancers collaborating and carrying out the whole project. The members of the agency are dependent as compared to the individual accounts. If a client communicates with one of the members, it means he is connecting with the agency itself. Upwork agencies might include owners, project managers, and other freelancers.

How can you create an Upwork Agency Account?

Upwork agency account is quite similar to the individual account except for some other changes. If you want to create an Upwork agency account, you have to register yourself as an agency owner. So, first, create your freelancer account and move forward with the following procedure.

Once your account is active, you can follow the instructions given below.

Go the your profile settings and choose "Contact Info."

You will observe an icon click on"New Agency Account."

After that, you'll be redirected to fill in all the information such as agency name and other details.

Upwork allows only one account per freelancer. So, make sure you have created one account.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Upwork agency:

Before creating an Upwork agency account, you should acknowledge its multiple aspects. From the aspect of freelancing, I have added some special pros and cons of the Upwork agency. Here are these.

Pros :

You can create a team of an unlimited number of freelancers with premium customer support from Upwork.
Normally, freelancers can collect up to 200 connections with one-year expiry. But, in the case of the Upwork agency, your connects rollover limit is 400.
Before applying for the job, you can access and view the bids from other agencies or freelancers.
You can get a detailed report about your performance on Upwork.
If you don't want to show your earnings, you can make it private as well.

Cons :

You need to pay for some bucks each month. It is a waste of money when you don't win any project.
You have to depend on other members being in the agency.

FAQs:

Who is eligible for Upwork Agency?

I have seen many beginners ask these questions so I added them to the article. Upwork doesn't restrict anyone to create the Upwork agency account. If you are a newbie or an expert, you can create your Upwork agency.

How can you join an agency?

If you want to join the already working agencies, you need to have permission. Mostly, the agency owners invite other freelancers to join their team and collaborate further on the project. Let's suppose, you received an invitation. In such a case, you can either accept or reject the invitation depending on your choice. Once you are a member of an agency, clients will contact you on the behalf of that agency.

What is the fee for the Upwork agency?

Being an agency owner, you need to pay for the membership. Upwork charges $20 per month.

Do you have to pay for purchasing connections?

Obviously, like other members, the agency has to spend $0.15 per connect purchase.

Who can purchase connects?

Not all members are allowed to purchase connections and use them. Only the agency owner or admins can do the job.