Switch from Lancers to Zinn Hub
Lancers (ランサーズ) puts bidding, contests, tasks and fixed-price packages under one Japanese-language roof. Zinn Hub covers the same ground with three earning channels — fixed-price Zinns, free proposals on Projects, and a public profile buyers hire from — and pays no attention to which one you use.
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.
Fixed-price packages buyers purchase at checkout — the same shape as a Lancers package listing. You set the price, scope and 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 a rate that moves with your volume
Zinn Hub’s seller rate is tied to lifetime sales: 0% on the first $500, then a ladder stepping down to 8%. A Pro Zinner membership is a flat 8% and Agency Zinner a flat 7%, whichever suits your volume.
You want to bid without paying to bid
Proposals on Zinn Hub Projects are free. There are no bidding credits to buy, and posting a project costs a buyer nothing either.
You want work that finds you
The Freelancer Directory is a public profile buyers browse and hire from directly — no listing to maintain and no proposal to write.
You want to sell beyond one language market
Zinn Hub reads in 45 site languages including Japanese, with 12 more you can be messaged in. Prices are set and paid in USD, and buyers can view an approximate equivalent in 59 display currencies.
You want the money to land in your account
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 their balance reaches the $50 minimum.
You want to keep your track record visible
The import tool carries up to 10 reviews per Zinn across, word for word with the reviewer’s name, star rating and date, badged as imported and the source URL you supply is recorded against the listing.
What Lancers publishes about its fees
Lancers documents its system fee in its own help centre, and it is the clearest fee page of any platform in this set. These are its published figures — and the only Lancers figures on this page.
| What it applies to | Lancers’ published rate |
|---|---|
| Freelancer system fee | 16.5% of the tax-inclusive contract amount, deducted from earnings |
| Client system fee | 5.5% of the tax-inclusive contract amount, added on top |
| Which engagement types | The same rate across project, contest, task, hourly, monthly and package work |
| Since when | The flat 16.5% replaced an earlier tiered structure on 1 October 2022 |
Source: Lancers’ own help article at lancers.jp/faq/A1034/936 and its announcement archive at info.lancers.jp, checked 13 August 2026. Lancers, Inc. is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market under securities code 4484, per its own corporate site. Rates are Lancers’ to change.
What Zinn Hub gives a Zinner
Our own terms, in one place — and no column of guesses about anybody else.
| Feature | 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 | Your own Stripe or PayPal at checkout — or the Friday payout run on platform-protected payments, once your balance reaches $50 |
| 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 Lancers listings across
No application to fill in and nobody to wait for: the 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 Lancers listing or profile and paste it into the tool — pick Other Platforms in the picker. 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 the source URL you paste in is recorded against the listing. 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 proposal bidding, the Freelancer Directory for inbound hires — one account.
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.
Your own payment accounts
Connect Stripe or PayPal and buyers pay you at checkout. Zinners on platform-protected payments are paid from the Friday payout run once their balance reaches the $50 minimum.
45 languages, 59 currencies
The site reads in 45 languages including Japanese, you can be messaged in 12 more, and buyers can view prices in 59 display currencies including the Japanese yen. Everything is charged 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 translation services, web development, content writing and video editing — and every other category is here.
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