Switch from Upwork to Zinn Hub
Upwork is a proposal marketplace: you find a brief and bid for it. Zinn Hub gives you that route and two more — fixed-price Zinns a buyer purchases outright and a directory profile buyers hire from — with 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 stop paying to apply
Proposals on Zinn Hub Projects are free and there are no bidding credits to buy. Your membership tier sets how many proposals you can send in a 30-day period; the free tier is enough to work with from day one.
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. It is not fixed for life on the day you join.
You want work that arrives without an application
A fixed-price Zinn sells while you sleep and a directory profile lets a buyer hire you with no proposal at all. Both run from the same account as your proposal work.
You want the money in your own account
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.
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. A buyer in Sao Paulo reads your Zinn in Portuguese; you read their message in English.
You want a low-risk way to test a new service
A Micro Zinn is a fixed-price service at $5, $10, $15 or $20 — cheap enough for a buyer to try you on, and a fast way to find out whether an idea sells.
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 Upwork 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 Upwork listing or profile and paste it into the tool — Upwork is one of the 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 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, content writing, digital marketing and graphic design — and every other category is here.
Open Import My Services →What you can actually sell here
Zinn Hub is a general marketplace, so the categories a proposal marketplace covers are all here as fixed-price listings too. If you write code, the web development guide walks through packaging a build as a Zinn; if you write copy, start with content writing or copywriting. Designers have graphic design, and marketers have digital marketing, SEO and social media marketing.
The practical difference from an hourly, proposal-led model is that a Zinn is a product: you write it once, price it once, and it keeps selling. Most Zinners start by turning their two or three most repeatable deliverables into fixed-price Zinns, keep bidding on Projects for the bespoke work, and let the directory profile pick up the buyers who would rather hire a person than read a listing. Browse all categories to see where your work fits.
Switching from Upwork — your questions answered
Switching from a different platform?
Moving on from Upwork?
Related switch guides, alternatives, marketplaces and categories on Zinn Hub
Other Switch Guides
Show 30 more ▾
Upwork Alternatives
Show 29 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
