Switch from Freelancer.com to Zinn Hub
Freelancer.com is built around bidding, contests and milestones. Zinn Hub keeps the proposal route, adds fixed-price Zinns a buyer purchases outright and a directory profile they hire from — and charges 0% commission on your first $500 in sales.
Three ways to earn · Free proposals · 0% on your first $500Three ways to earn on Zinn Hub
A move is only worth making if there is more on the other side. The same skills feed three separate routes to a sale here — use one, two, or all three from a single account.
Packages a buyer purchases at checkout. You set the price, the scope and the delivery time. Browse live Zinns.
Buyers post a brief, you send a proposal, they choose. Proposals are free and there are no bidding credits to buy. See open projects.
A public profile with your skills, rates and portfolio that buyers hire from directly — no listing and no proposal. Browse the directory.
Three acquisition channels, one set of skills.
The work does not change; the number of ways a buyer can arrive at it does. A Zinn they buy outright, a Project you win with a free proposal, or a directory profile they hire you from — plus Micro Zinns at $5 to $20 as a low-risk entry point.
Six things worth weighing up before you move
Every marketplace is a set of trade-offs. These are the questions worth asking of any platform, answered for Zinn Hub.
You want to be paid for work, not for entries
There are no contests on Zinn Hub. Work is bought as a fixed-price Zinn, won with a free proposal on Projects, or commissioned directly from your directory profile.
You want to stop paying to apply
Proposals are free and there are no bidding credits to buy. Your membership tier sets how many you can send in a rolling 30-day period.
You want a rate that falls as you grow
The seller rate is tied to your lifetime sales: 0% on the first $500, then a ladder that steps down to 8%, or a flat 8% or 7% on a paid membership.
You want a simple payment model
A project on Zinn Hub has one agreed price, not a chain of staged releases. Connect your own Stripe or PayPal and buyers pay you directly at checkout; on platform-protected payments the whole order is held by Zinn Hub until it completes and you are paid from the payout queue afterwards.
You want work that arrives without an application
A published Zinn sells while you sleep, and a directory profile lets a buyer hire you with no listing and no proposal — both from the same account as your proposal work.
You want buyers outside your own language
Zinn Hub renders in 45 site languages and you can be messaged in 12 more — 57 in total. Buyers read your listing in their own language; you read their message in yours.
What Zinn Hub gives a Zinner
Our own terms, in one place — and no column of guesses about anybody else.
| What it covers | Zinn Hub |
|---|---|
| Commission on your first $500 | 0% — you keep 100% |
| Commission after that | Tiered on lifetime sales: 20% to $2,500, 15% to $10,000, 13% to $15,000, 10% to $20,000, then 8% |
| Flat-rate memberships | Pro Zinner $25/month — flat 8%. Agency Zinner $50/month — flat 7% |
| Buyer platform fee | None — the price a buyer sees is the price they pay |
| Ways to earn | Three: Zinns, Projects and the Freelancer Directory |
| Cost to submit a proposal | Free — there are no bidding credits to buy |
| How you get paid | Connect your own Stripe or PayPal and buyers pay you directly at checkout; Zinners on platform-protected payments are paid from the payout queue after the order completes |
| Payment protection | On a Platform Protected Zinner the payment is held by Zinn Hub for the whole order until it completes |
| Refunds | Credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD |
| Currency | Priced, charged and paid in USD; viewable in 59 display currencies |
| Languages | 45 site languages, and 12 more you can be messaged in — 57 in total |
| Buyer payment methods | Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfer or 200+ cryptocurrencies |
| Seller verification | Government-issued photo ID and evidence of skills and past work |
Commission is charged on the seller side only. The full six-tier ladder and both memberships are on the Zinn Hub pricing page.
Work out what the tiers mean for your volume
Put in your average order value and monthly volume; the calculator applies the real Zinn Hub ladder, commission-free first $500 included.
How to move your Freelancer.com listings across
No application to fill in and nobody to wait for: the free Import My Services tool does the rebuilding, you check it and confirm.
Register as a Zinner
Registration is free. Create your account, then save your My Details preset in the AI Zinn Creator — a two-minute one-off that unlocks Import My Services in your dashboard.
Paste a listing into Import My Services
Copy your public Freelancer.com listing or profile and paste it into the tool — Freelancer.com is not one of the named platforms in the picker, so choose Other Platforms. It rebuilds the title, description, every package with its price, delivery and revisions, the FAQs and the requirements. About two minutes per Zinn, and every Zinner gets 10 free imports.
Bring your reviews, then preview and confirm
Up to 10 reviews come across per Zinn, word for word, with the reviewer’s name, star rating and date — badged as imported and checked against the source URL you paste in. Images are generated free, or upload your own. You edit the full preview before anything is submitted.
Turn on the other two channels
Publish your directory profile so buyers can hire you without a listing, and send free proposals on Projects. Connect your own Stripe or PayPal to be paid at checkout.
What to expect, honestly. A star rating and a seller level belong to the platform that issued them; no marketplace can move them to another. Imported reviews travel and are shown as imported, but your Zinn Hub rating itself starts again and builds from confirmed purchases here — reviews on Zinn Hub require one. Expect to run both accounts side by side for a while: nothing here asks you to close anything.
What you get on Zinn Hub
Included for every Zinner, from the day you register.
Three revenue streams from day one
Zinns for fixed-price sales, Projects for free proposals, the Freelancer Directory for inbound hires — one account, one profile.
0% on your first $500, then a falling rate
0% commission on your first $500, then tiered rates that fall as you sell — as low as 7% on Agency Zinner. Buyers pay no platform fee at all.
Your own payment accounts
Connect Stripe or PayPal and buyers pay you directly at checkout. Zinners on platform-protected payments are paid from the payout queue after the order completes.
45 languages, 59 currencies
The site reads in 45 languages, you can be messaged in 12 more, and buyers can view prices in 59 display currencies. Everything is priced, charged and paid in USD.
Verified Zinners and protected payments
Zinners are verified with government-issued photo ID and evidence of their skills and past work. On a Platform Protected Zinner the payment is held by Zinn Hub for the whole order until it completes, and refunds are credited to the buyer’s Zinn Wallet in full, in USD.
Micro Zinns for small, fast work
Fixed-price services at $5, $10, $15 or $20, with their own categories and price pages. See how Micro Zinns work.
Bring your listings over free, in your own time
Import My Services is self-serve and free: paste, preview, confirm. Building a Zinn from scratch instead? Our guides cover how to sell web development services, graphic design, content writing and AI development — and every other category is here.
Open Import My Services →What you can actually sell here
If your work reaches buyers through bids today, it can reach them three ways here. Web development, graphic design, content writing, AI development and e-commerce each have a selling guide of their own.
A fixed-price Zinn is the part that changes the economics: you package the work once and it sells without another proposal, so the time you used to spend bidding goes back into delivery. Free proposals on Projects stay available for briefs that do not fit a package, and your directory profile lets a buyer hire you without either. If you want to test an idea cheaply first, publish a Micro Zinn at $5 to $20 and see whether it sells. Browse all categories to find yours.
Switching from Freelancer.com — your questions answered
Switching from a different platform?
Moving on from Freelancer.com?
Related switch guides, alternatives, marketplaces and categories on Zinn Hub
Other Switch Guides
Show 30 more ▾
Related Alternatives
Show 15 more ▾
Related Marketplaces
Browse Categories
Sell Your Services
Compare Platforms
Buyer Guides
Ready to sell the same work in three places?
Registering is free, importing your listings is free, and your first $500 in sales is commission-free.
Connect with Zinn Hub
Follow us for platform updates, tips, competitions, and community news. We’d love to connect with you.
- Facebook @zinnhub
- Instagram @zinnhub
- TikTok @zinnhub
- X (Twitter) @ZinnHub
- YouTube @ZinnHub
- LinkedIn Zinn Hub
- Telegram @zinnhub
- Pinterest @zinnhub
