You are here: Home » Freelancer Press » Freelancer.com acquires Scriptlance!

Freelancer.com acquires Scriptlance!

Posted on by corpadmin - 115 Comments

All Scriptlance users should have received an email with your Freelancer.com login details. If you have not received this email, please contact Freelancer.com Support at  customer-support@freelancer.com.

spacer Freelancer.com is very excited to announce that we have just acquired Scriptlance – the fifth largest freelance marketplace in the world. We are delighted to welcome Scriptlance members to Freelancer.com. This is great news for both Scriptlance and Freelancer.com members and makes Freelancer.com an even stronger marketplace.

Scriptlance members will immediately notice that outsourcing work and winning projects is easier and faster than ever on Freelancer.com. Employers will find a much deeper pool of world-class talent, with over 4 million skilled freelancers ready to complete your projects. Also, with over 2.3 million projects completed to date in over 450 skill categories, the opportunities available to freelancers are now greater than ever before!

What does this mean for existing Scriptlance members?

All Scriptlance members will be automatically transitioned to the Freelancer.com platform. This process will commence immediately to minimise disruption to members and active projects. You can rest assured that it’s business as usual as your user information and projects are moved across to Freelancer.com, including: account balances, user profiles, messages, milestone payments, active projects and past projects.

Members who have accounts on both Scriptlance and Freelancer.com, will have their accounts merged into their existing Freelancer.com account. This will allow members to continue completing work without interruption.

All affected members will receive information via email outlining the transition process in more detail as well as any action they may need to take to complete the transition. If you have any questions during this migration process, please contact Freelancer.com Support by emailing customer-support@freelancer.com.

FREE Memberships and other great benefits to welcome you to Freelancer.com!

To help Scriptlance members transition to Freelancer.com and to show our appreciation for the great Scriptlance community, Freelancer.com is giving FREE memberships to all Scriptlance users as of midnight, 8th July 2012 EDT! Freelancers and employers will receive the following benefits:

For Employers:

  • 6 months FREE Premium Membership (valued at over US$300) for any new Employer who has transacted on a project on Scriptlance in the past and spent over $400. Premium Membership means no Employer fees on projects plus many other great benefits!
  • 30 days FREE Standard Membership (valued at US$24.95) for all other employers.
  • Your profile will be highlighted with a special “Foundation Scriptlance Member” badge.

 

For Freelancers:

  • FREE 30 day Premium Membership (valued at US$49.95) for Certified Scriptlance members.
  • FREE 30 day Standard Membership (valued at US$24.95) for Verified Scriptlance members.
  • FREE 30 day Standard Membership (valued at US$24.95) if you are a new Freelancer.com member
  • FREE 30 day Basic Membership (valued at US$4.95) for all other Scriptlance members
  • Your profile will be highlighted with a special “Foundation Scriptlance Member” badge

(For more information on the great benefits memberships have to offer, check out the Freelancer.com Memberships.)

What does this mean for Freelancer.com members?

We are excited about the growth in the marketplace that this presents for our members. Our employers will be able to draw from an even deeper pool of freelance talent, so you can get your projects completed even faster and to greater quality. Freelancers will have more projects and clients than ever to choose from to more easily earn money and develop their skills. This is a great development for all Freelancer.com members and presents a very exciting time for the Freelancer.com platform.

Post a Project FREE now to get the most out of the Freelancer.com platform.

(For more information read the full Freelancer.com Press Release.)

This entry was posted in Freelancer Press. Bookmark the permalink.

115 thoughts on “Freelancer.com acquires Scriptlance!”

  1. Niladri says:

    Hi, that is excellent news. But what about Payable? Will I still be able to login to Payable using Scriptlance ID, or will it be my Freelancer ID now?

  2. Marc Bah says:

    This is horrible news

    I’m really disappointed in scriptlance.com

    how can we do this, we who have decided to be set on their sites, they want to kill us,

    how they could accept to be bought by Freelancer.com

    I sincerely do not agree, not at all, they just lost nearly 2000 programmers.

    frankly, I had a bad impression on freelancer.com, the monthly subscription rates, costs of projects they do not pay back as you come across a bad buyer.

    I say no, no, no, this contract, I do not agree.

    Freelancer.com is big business and receives the right to do anything with its programmers.

    This is the end of the line work for us.

    I request the creation of a new scriptlance.com that all who are for this creation, contact me immediately or clic on like of the new webpage.
    www.facebook.com/pages/Clubivoirecom/484265604935706

  3. Silviu says:

    What happens to the Payoneer withdraw service?

  4. Anjan says:

    I am a verified member of SL. So I will get 30 days free Standard membership. Then what will happen after those 30 days?

  5. Polash says:

    Great Idea , If i have and account in scriptlance and username : itplanet20 and If i create same usename to Freelancer.com ? Then ?

  6. Gennady Kovshenin says:

    ScriptLance had a painstakingly long withdrawal process, Freelancer was always much faster. However, ScriptLance had a supreme open-skill policy which allowed anyone to just bid, regardless of the skillset. What happens to our reviews and ratings? Will these be merged, too?

  7. Pawanvir says:

    Great! and i think we old Freelancers on freelancer.com will be getting more projects posted by scriptlance employers (now freelancer employers)

  8. Sumon @ Lets Learn Coding says:

    I’m registered with the both…

  9. Ivo Carvalho says:

    Will my scriptlance reviews be imported into my freelancer account ?

    What will happen to the Ranking system ? I’m currently ranked #2 in Software.

  10. Agata says:

    Does it mean that my project dispute that I have on Scriptlance will finally be handled? I’ve been waiting for 3 months to get my money back and Scriptlance have been refusing to review the case. I will appreciate if Freelancer.com finally looks into it.

  11. andres says:

    Exellent news! Congratulations!
    Will it be possible to import employer reviews from scriptlance into my freelance account?

  12. gyanendra says:

    Good to hear that !!

  13. waqas says:

    This is wonderful for scriptlance users.

  14. jcreation says:

    When will this transformation be done? As mentioned in the blogpost, all script lance members will receive an e-mail, but is there also some date set already when this will happen? The news was made yesterday, but until now I didn’t received anything…

    For us Freelancers, it’s important to know when we will have to switch.

    Thanks
    JCreation

  15. Christopher says:

    Great! I am also a scriptlance basic member. But also I am a standard member of freelancer currently, so does this mean that I will get one extra standard membership month added to my current plan? If this is the case I should say WOW! spacer

  16. Stock Market Report says:

    Ohh..that’s great.May I get my reviews(i have more than 40 reviews on SL) on freelancer.com ?

  17. Ali says:

    Good news, I have a few questions.

    I have different username on Scriptlance and different on Freelancer, I have about 10 reviews on Freelancer and about 60 on Scriptlance,

    Will all my reviews merged ?
    What if I want to keep the username at Scriptlance and rename it at Freelancer ?

    thanks

  18. chris says:

    Does this mean that after 30 days, we will need to pay money in order to search for projects? I like the current method better where we are charged a fee if we begin working on a project. There is plenty of competition on Scriptlance and sometimes I go months without having a project to do, which would mean it wouldn’t make sense to pay a monthly fee if I’m not even being awarded projects. Perhaps I read this wrong. thanks

  19. Eftikharul Alam says:

    When the automatic transition process will be done? Excited to see new badge on my profile spacer

  20. vijay adhikari says:

    ohh great…its awesome news…

  21. Web Developer says:

    Sounds great. Hopefully, we will get more professionals who will be helping us out to keep all development projects up. I am not a Freelancer.com member, so I wish they have an escrow option, which is very helpful for employers. Will see if it is going to be better, because I was absolutely satisfied member of scriptlance.com

  22. Sab says:

    I tried scriptlance today and I saw the message. I tried to Login here with my SL account but it says error, now we have a problem. I hope I can have access to my account later today.

  23. work4quality says:

    What if i had reviews on both accounts??

  24. Raj says:

    i got mail that my account is activated but when i tried to login its giving error
    “Login failure

    bxxxxxxxxxyip, your account has been closed.

    If you have further questions, please submit a ticket with our online helpdesk.
    ”
    and when i click on helpdesk button its giving login failure error.

    please let us know where to contact as on freelancer.com i’m not able to find contact us button.

    Raj

  25. sonuinfy says:

    Indeed a good news. Now I can focus on freelancer.com more. Great News !

  26. Ali says:

    What about the existing running projects, scriptlance used to charge 5% where freelancer.com charges 10% from programmers.

    I would be expecting a detailed reply on this.

    Bye

  27. santhosh says:

    I have profile with freelancer.com and also scriptlance.com i want to know how it will work out?

  28. Layout.PH says:

    hi I have both accounts in scriptlancer with funds and some good star feedbacks from my past employers. Can I merge it with my old Freelancer.com account?

  29. Sharad Upadhyay says:

    Scriptlance management was a nightmare to deal with – for programmers. All thanks to Freelancer that they ended it right here, and now we programmers can be assured that we’ll be paid for our hard-work, and buyers won’t be able to escape by raising disputes on sloppy/fake grounds. Hats off, Freelancer!!!

  30. Devin says:

    Freelancer cannot be scriptlance. freelancer.com killing another freelance community spacer

  31. Jaiprakash says:

    Can you clearly call out the changes that will be affect to scriptlace members migrated to FreeLancer?

  32. prem p singh says:

    i am member on scriptlance since 2 year have great review on that we r very happy to hear that freelancer acquire sl

    prem p singh (founder)
    twc group

  33. SEO-Peace says:

    Freelancer.com really got bigger now…. may it will worthy for this market place too …

    Cheers and all the best

  34. chx101 says:

    I have accounts on both sites. Actually freelancer was my first site. lol.

    Well, I was worried about getting the accounts screwed up but after reading this I’ve been assured they know their work.

    Good to be back here.