Working on Furrsati, start to finish.
How the work reaches you, how you know the money is really there, and how it gets from a client's card into your hands in Lebanon.
10 steps, in order
The profile is the pitch.
An account is free. What decides whether a client opens your proposal is what is on your profile: your field, a real rate, and work somebody can look at.
You can list up to three fields, so a designer who also writes is findable as both. Portfolio pieces, a clear title and a rate you will actually hold to are what the ranking reads.
Profile strength
Strong
- PortfolioSix pieces of real work
- Title and bioWhat you do, in one line
- Categories and skillsThree categories, twelve skills
- Identity verifiedThe rung that lets money leave
- First reviewAfter your first finished project
Get your ID checked.
You upload an identity document and it is reviewed by a person. It does not gate signing up, browsing or proposing, it gates taking money out.
Do it before you finish your first milestone, not after. It is also what makes the marketplace worth a client's trust: everyone who gets paid here has been checked.
Find the work.
Open projects are listed with their budget and how many people have already applied, so you can tell in a glance whether it is worth writing for.
Work reaches you three ways: you apply, a client invites you directly, or somebody buys a fixed-price service you have already published. The third needs no proposal at all.
Send a price and a plan.
A proposal is not a cover letter. You give a figure, you split the work into milestones, and you say when each one lands.
The client can counter, and so can you, there is no limit on rounds and either side can walk away before anything is funded. Nothing is committed until money is placed.
The money is there before you start.
The client funds the milestone before you begin, and you can see that it is funded. It is held by Furrsati, not in the client's account, and not something they can pull back on their own.
This is the whole reason the platform exists, and it is the one rule worth being strict about: if a milestone is not funded, do not start it.
$250
Waiting with Furrsati- 01You pay
- 02We hold it, not them
- 03You approve, they get it
0%
Furrsati's standard fee to you. We charge clients nothing to post, hire or pay.
5%
Standard card processing, added at checkout and shown before you pay.
A $250 milestone costs you $262.50. Nothing else, ever.
Deliver on the project.
Messages, files, voice notes and calls stay on the project. You submit the milestone there, and the client approves or asks for changes there.
Keeping it on the platform is what protects you, not a formality. A client who asks to move to WhatsApp and pay outside is asking you to give up the only record that proves you delivered.
Approved work lands in your wallet.
When the client approves, the held amount is released to your wallet in US dollars, less the standard platform fee. The app shows what you will receive before you accept the work, not after.
Your balance separates what is still held for you from what is available to take out, so you always know which is which.
Take it out, locally.
You request a withdrawal from your wallet and choose how it reaches you: OMT, Whish Money, a bank transfer, or crypto.
The four exist because a Lebanese freelancer's problem is rarely earning the money, it is getting it out. Your ID check has to be done before the first one is processed.
$225
You delivered and they went quiet.
The money is already held, so silence does not cost you it. Either side can open a dispute on the milestone, both submit what they have, and a decision comes within 48 hours.
The evidence is the project itself, the brief, the messages, the files and the dates. It is the reason the work belongs on the platform rather than in a chat app.
Milestone 2 · Held by Stripe
$250
- 1. Done
- 2. Done
- 3. Current step
- 4. Upcoming
- Released to you
- Refunded
- Split
The record is the point.
Finished work and the review that follows it sit on your profile, and they are what the next client reads instead of taking your word for it.
From there you can publish fixed-price services that sell without a proposal, offer paid consultations, or move a good client onto a retainer.
Create your profile.
It is free, and the work you take on is funded before you start it.