Upwork

Schedule a Zoom meeting within Upwork

• Meetings live within message rooms. With meetings, Upwork means face-to-face meetings. AFAIK, it uses Zoom. I found it a bit confusing to schedule a meeting.
• You can't just schedule a meeting. You have to ask the other party to choose a time. Solution: Schedule the meeting just before the agreed meeting time [1]
• Maybe another way to schedule a meeting: Choose availability → You are about to schedule a meeting with yourself. Are you sure? → Go ahead and enter the meeting time

Contact outside Upwork

AFAIK, it's allowed to communicate outside Upwork, once a contract has been agreed upon:

• [2]: Communication is not allowed outside Upwork before a contract is agreed upon
• [3]: Once a contract is in place, communication outside Upwork is fine.

Finishing a contract

To finish a contract (e.g., because the job is done):

• Go to dashboard: https://www.upwork.com/nx/wm/client/dashboard
• Click the "..." behind the contract
• Select End contract

Pay a past due balance

Sometimes there are more payments in a month than my credit card allows. And sometimes I forget to add funds to this credit card to keep it going. And at least once I was so late with it, that Upwork suspended my amount. How to fix this? Just use the payment link in one of their emails and click on Pay now - really easy (after fixing the credit card, that is).

Sources

• https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402979123987-Schedule-a-Meeting
• https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/Is-there-a-way-to-schedule-a-meeting-with-a-client-for-a-certain/m-p/1202912