Being a software developer, it is very important that you get paid for all the hard work you put in while you do the programming. You must have spent a lot of time programming and working very hard for the project and finally must be expecting a good payment. But, if you had placed your bid and got this project through an unsecured site, then getting paid can be a problem for all the programming you have done or will be doing.
The buyer may promise you a lump sum initially, but may leave you without having paid for the programming you did. He may run away with your completed project, leaving nothing for you. So, to avoid such a situation, you have to make sure that you are being paid for all the programming you have done.
In order to be sure that you are paid for the programming, you have to take care of the following things.
1) You must place your bid only through a trusted and secured site like RAC (RentACoder.com). Although they charge you a part of your gain, they take care that of your financial security and will ensure that you are paid for the programming done. No
buyer can run away with your work, without paying you if you have done all that were
described in his bid request.
2) You must submit your project in time, with quality, so that the buyer need not send you back the stuff which you have developed over the period putting in your every skill for the development of the project. This will enable easy acceptance of the project and ultimately easy payment.
3) Avoid making private deals with your buyer. All the deals have to be done via the trusted site. Usually, people follow the procedure just to avoid paying commission to the site and welcome difficulties. Someday this could be a problem and once they know that you have settled anything outside the website, they will throw you out because they are doing the administration part to ensure that you are paid for the programming.
4) Avoid giving personal details such as address, phone fax etc… to the buyer. Always ask the buyers to contact you and communicate with you through RAC so that it is 100% confirmed that you will be paid for the programming you will do for the buyer.
Building up relationships to ensure you are paid
It is very important for you, as an offshore programmer, to maintain a good relationship with the buyer. You must ensure that you are very polite with the buyer and avoid any sort of conflicts with your client (buyer). If you maintain your relationship with the buyer on the basis of trust, honesty, and hard work then there will be no stopping in the long and
strong relationship and will be paid for every project you will be programming.
Once you are able to create trust in your client then it is sure that you will be given first priority over others for the next project from the buyer, who will be your long-term client and that will make sure that you are paid for the programming part you will play in all his projects.
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