Understand Marketplace pre-payments

Smartcat clients on the Forever Free subscription plan are required to prepay for all linguists hired through Smartcat Marketplace. This ensures that Smartcat Marketplace linguists always receive payment for work provided via Smartcat.

For organizations that prefer to make linguist payment after jobs are completed, we recommend upgrading your Smartcat subscription plan .

You can pay the translators that you hire from Smartcat Marketplace with a credit card, wire transfer, or via Paypal.

When you agree a commission with a linguist, you will be presented with the following screen to make pre-payment.

This way, Smartcat Marketplace linguists are guaranteed payment for their work.

Rather than make payment when hiring linguists on Smartcat Marketplace, you might prefer to process payment after work is complete.

Once you upgrade to the Starter plan, linguist pre-payments no longer apply. Instead, Smartcat clients pay Smartcat Marketplace linguists after the work they are hired for is done.

1. 150,000 Smartwords for AI translation
Get immediate allocation of 150,000 Smartwords for AI translation use.

2. Post-payment for Marketplace
Clients on the Smartcat Starter plan make payment only when the job is complete.

3. Lower Marketplace fee
Forever Free clients pay a 20% fee for all Marketplace payments. This fee decreases to 10% when you upgrade to Starter.

4. No project expiration
Forever Free plan projects have a lifespan of 45 days maximum. On Starter, your projects never expire.