When completing a project, you may be eligible to receive payments for your work. Aside from feedback, getting your skills verified, and having additional work based experiences to put on your resume / CV, payments are obviously the best way to be rewarded for your efforts.
General
Eligibility
If the experience your project is in has payments enabled you will see this indicated on both the experience page itself and on the project page within the experience.
Payment configuration
Experience administrators configure each experience to have specific payment configuration options including:
What work product constitutes payment
Who is responsible for paying you: the experience, the employer, or both
Minimum thresholds for paid work
What payment mechanism will be used;
and more
Check your experience’s payment requirements first. If anything is unclear or missing, contact your experience administrator for clarification.
Invoice generation
As you complete work within paid experiences, invoices will be automatically generated for that completed work based on the invoice type set on the experience.
Hourly - an experience can be set to hourly, meaning that as learners make entries to their work logs, an invoice will be generated once they meet the experience's invoice hourly threshold. Any work log entries above the experience configured maximum hours for the project will not be invoiced.
For instance, if an experience is set to hourly invoices with a 15 hour interval, once you create 15 hours worth of work log entries, an invoice for 15 hours will be generated with any additional hours rolling over to the next applicable invoice. The invoice generated will be for the applicable (15) hours at the hourly rate set by the experience.
Flat fee - an experience can be set to flat fee, meaning that only once you make a final submission to a project, a single invoice is generated. The invoice generated will be for the full allotment of the payment amount.
Any time an invoice is generated, you will be notified.
Invoice payments
Your experience’s settings determine who is responsible for paying your invoice: the experience, the project, or both. If they share responsibility equally, two payments are created - one from the experience covering 50% of the invoice and one from the project covering the remaining 50%.
Invoice approval
Once an invoice is generated, the payers involved will be able to approve the invoice and thus allow the payments to be processed.
The employer has up to 7 days to review the invoice.
Riipen admin has up to 30 days to review the invoice.
If the payers do not review and approve (or dispute; see below) the invoice in this time, it will be automatically approved and payments will be processed.
To avoid work product quality issues, it is imperative that you:
Understand and meet the requirements to receive payment within your experience. Check your experience resources for details.
Always communicate, through Riipen, with your project administrators any progress towards the project.
Keep work log entries accurate, up to date and follow best practices.
Always make work product submissions through Riipen.
If an experience is configured with split payments, meaning both the project and your experience are making payments towards an invoice, each party will have a separate ability to approve the invoice and only once both parties approve (or automatically approve at the deadline) will the invoice be processed.
Invoice disputes
Your invoice may be disputed if your submission does not meet program requirements or clearly demonstrate your individual contribution. See Navigating invoice disputes for learners to learn more.
Set up your payment account You need a fully set up and enabled payment account to receive payouts. Learn how to create and manage your payment account.