Switch from Epwk to Zinn Hub
Epwk (epwk.com) is a Chinese witkey marketplace weighted towards creative design — logos, visual identity, packaging and print — run in Simplified Chinese and in RMB, under rules that apply within mainland China. Zinn Hub sells the same kind of work worldwide, in 45 languages, priced in USD.
Three ways to earn · 0% on your first $500 · Whole fee ladder publishedWhat Epwk publishes about itself
This section is taken from Epwk’s own published rules and help centre. Where Epwk publishes nothing, this page says so rather than borrowing a number from somewhere else.
A witkey creative-services marketplace
Epwk describes itself as a digital creative-design trading service platform. The weight of the catalogue is creative design — logos, visual identity, packaging and print — with development, video, marketing copy and industrial design alongside it.
Escrow is the model
Epwk’s published rules put the employer’s bounty into a dedicated platform bank account and release it to the winner on completion. That custody arrangement is written into the rules themselves.
Six transaction modes plus a shops layer
Bounty and contest, piecework, tender, hire, direct hire and buy-a-service all exist side by side, and sellers can additionally open a paid shop.
No commission rate is published
This is a firm finding, not a gap in the research: no commission rate appears in any of Epwk’s nineteen published agreements, nor in the help centre sections on top-ups, withdrawals, payment methods or commission. Its rules do contemplate a withdrawal fee, but set it by reference to the platform’s latest published information rather than fixing a figure. So no Epwk percentage appears on this page.
Paid listing services and memberships are named without prices
The rules name paid extras — hiding submissions or bids, pinning a brief to the top, blocking search engines — and prepaid contract-term shop and membership service fees, refundable only for unserved days. None of them carries a published price.
Simplified Chinese, RMB, mainland China
The operating company is in Xiamen, Fujian, the platform is Simplified Chinese only and priced in RMB, and its rules state in terms that they apply only within mainland China.
Source: Epwk’s own published rules at m.epwk.com (rules 711, 712, 713, 714 and 852), its own help centre, and the epwk.com footer. No commission figure appears in any of them, so none is stated here. This page also quotes no user, revenue or corporate-status figure for Epwk.
Three ways to earn on Zinn Hub
One account, three routes to a sale. Use one of them, or all three — there is no extra charge for any of them.
Publish a service at a price you set. Buyers pay at checkout, exactly like buying a product. You can also list Micro Zinns — small fixed-price tasks at $5, $10, $15 or $20 — as a low-friction way for a new buyer to try you.
Buyers post a brief and you send a proposal. Posting a project is free for the buyer, and proposals are free to send — there are no bidding credits to buy. Browse the open briefs in Projects.
A public profile in the freelancer directory with your skills, rates and portfolio. Buyers browse it by category and by skill and hire you directly, without you listing anything at all.
Why designers add a second, international channel
Creative work travels further than most services do — a logo does not care what language the brief was written in. These are the things a worldwide channel adds.
A published rate you can plan against
Zinn Hub publishes its whole ladder: 0% up to $500 in lifetime sales, then 20%, 15%, 13%, 10% and 8%, with two optional flat-rate memberships. You can work out what an order nets you before you accept it.
Buyers outside one market
Your listings are published across 45 site languages, so a packaging or brand-identity Zinn is discoverable by buyers who will never search in Chinese.
Contests are not the only way in
On Zinn Hub you can publish a fixed-price Zinn a buyer simply buys, send a free proposal in Projects, or be hired straight from your profile. Speculative work is optional, not the default route.
Paid in USD, into your own account
Connect your own Stripe or PayPal and the buyer pays you directly at checkout. Every order is priced and settled in USD.
No deposit and no listing fee
Registration is free, publishing a Zinn is free, and sending a proposal is free. There is no seller bond and there are no bidding credits to buy.
A cheap first order
Design buyers like to test before they commit. Micro Zinns at $5 to $20 give them a way to do that without a negotiation.
What you get on Zinn Hub
A single column, every row a Zinn Hub fact. There is no Epwk column here because Epwk publishes no rate to put in one, and inventing a cell is exactly the failure this page is built to avoid.
| What you want to know | Zinn Hub |
|---|---|
| Commission | Zinners pay 0% commission on their first $500, then tiered rates that fall as you sell — as low as 7% on Agency Zinner |
| The published ladder | 0% up to $500 in lifetime sales · 20% to $2,500 · 15% to $10,000 · 13% to $15,000 · 10% to $20,000 · 8% above |
| Flat-rate memberships | Pro Zinner is $25 a month for a flat 8%. Agency Zinner is $50 a month for a flat 7%. Both replace the ladder |
| Buyer platform fee | None. The price a buyer sees is the price they pay |
| Currency | Every listing, order and refund is in USD. Buyers can view an approximate equivalent in 59 display currencies |
| Getting paid | Connect your own Stripe or PayPal and buyers pay you directly at checkout. Zinners on platform-protected payments are paid from the Friday payout run once the order completes and their balance reaches $50 |
| Site languages | 45 — your listings are published across all of them |
| Messaging languages | 57 — the 45 site languages plus 12 more for messages, notifications and emails |
| Ways to earn | Three from one account: fixed-price Zinns, free Project proposals, and a public freelancer profile |
| Posting a project | Free for buyers |
| Sending a proposal | Free — there are no bidding credits to buy |
| Micro Zinns | Fixed-price tasks at $5, $10, $15 or $20 |
| Buyer payment methods | Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfer and 200+ cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT |
| Refunds | Credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD |
| Zinner verification | Zinners are verified with government-issued photo ID and evidence of their skills and past work |
| Reviews | 4.9 average from 39,000+ verified-purchase reviews. A review on Zinn Hub requires a confirmed purchase |
How to move your listings across
Keep selling wherever you sell now. This takes an evening, and nothing goes live until you have looked at it.
Create a free Zinner account
Registration is free and there is no subscription to start. Sign up at Become a Zinner.
Run the two setup wizards
The Store Setup Wizard builds your storefront — logo, banner, bio and portfolio. The Payment Setup Wizard is where you connect your own Stripe or PayPal, or choose platform-protected payments.
Import your listings
Open Import My Services in your dashboard, paste a listing — or your whole public profile — and the tool rebuilds it as ready-to-review Zinns. It is free, with 10 free imports and images included.
Preview, confirm, publish
Nothing is submitted until you preview and confirm it. Then use the Zinn Creation Wizard for anything you would rather write from scratch, and start sending free proposals in Projects.
Bringing your listings and your reviews across
Import My Services is a free, self-serve tool in your Zinner dashboard. Paste one listing and it rebuilds the title, description, packages and FAQs as a single Zinn; paste your whole public profile and it proposes up to three Zinns and you tick the ones you want. Up to 10 of your reviews come across per Zinn, word for word — reviewer name, star rating, review text and date. You also paste the address of the page you copied from, because our team checks every import, and especially the reviews, against your original page before the Zinn goes live.
What to expect in your first month
What comes with you, what you rebuild, and what is different about being paid here.
Your listings, in 45 languages
Zinn Hub is available in 45 site languages, and your Zinns, profile and project proposals are published across all of them. You can be messaged in 57 languages in total — the 45 site languages plus 12 more for messages, notifications and emails.
Paid into your own account
Connect your own Stripe or PayPal in the Payment Setup Wizard and buyers pay you directly at checkout — there is no payout queue to wait for. Zinners on platform-protected payments are paid from the Friday payout run once the order completes and their balance reaches the $50 minimum.
Payment protection, when the buyer wants it
A buyer who chooses a Platform Protected Zinner has their payment held by Zinn Hub for the whole order until it completes. Refunds are credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD.
Reviews you can point at
A review on Zinn Hub requires a confirmed purchase. Across the marketplace that is a 4.9 average from 39,000+ verified-purchase reviews, and up to 10 of your existing reviews can be imported per Zinn, word for word.
Micro Zinns as a way in
Fixed-price tasks at $5, $10, $15 or $20 give a cautious new buyer a cheap first order with you. Browse them by category or by price: $5, $10, $15 and $20.
Where creative work lives here
List under logo design, branding, illustration or graphic design; take briefs in Brand Identity & Style Guides and Print Design; or appear under a skill such as Adobe Illustrator.
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