Invoices and paying
What an invoice shows, how paying works, marking it paid, and disputing one.
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We are not part of the payment
You pay the freelancer directly, by whatever method the two of you use. An invoice here is a document and a record. The payment button on it opens the freelancer's own payment link, on somebody else's site, and the page says so before you press it.
We hold no money, take no cut, and have no view of whether a transfer actually happened beyond what the two of you record here.
What an invoice shows
A number, the dates, the line items, any discount and tax, the total in the currency it was issued in, and the freelancer's payment details as they were at the moment it was sent. Changing a payment link afterwards cannot rewrite a document you are about to pay.
If the currency is not yours, a courtesy estimate is shown beside the total at the rate frozen when it was sent. The number you owe is the one in the invoice's own currency.
Paying it
Press "Pay via ..." and you leave the site. Then come back and mark it paid, which tells the freelancer.
Marking it paid is your claim. The freelancer confirms it separately, and only a confirmed invoice counts as paid in any figure this product shows you, because a total built from one side's claim would tell you something the other side has not agreed to.