Financial Activity
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The Financial Activity page gives you a summary of your debits and credits. When selecting dates, remember that all dates and days are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, also known as GMT). You can download all the data for your records or create custom reports on your own. The downloadable CSV (Comma Separated Value) file is compatible with most spreadsheet programs: Excel, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, etc.
- Go to Payments > Financial Activity.
- Set the date range and press the Go button or use the Jump to menu.
- Set filters for transaction type, provider and buyer, if desired.
- [Optional] To download your data, click the Download as CSV link at the top of your results.
For your convenience, hourly payments are linked to their corresponding timelogs - just click the description. Buyers' invoices are linked to their payments' Ref IDs.
We recommend you print your monthly statements (in the Jump to menu) or a yearly summary (date range 01-01 to 12-31), for you tax records.
Affiliated contractors do not have access to financial activity for their affiliated assignments.
At the top of your financial activity you'll see two totals: balance and pending.
- Balance:
- Total amount owed or available on your account. If this is negative, you owe money and your active payment method will be charged at the end of the day. If it's positive, you have money available for withdrawal (or credit to use against your next payment).
- Pending:
- Transactions currently being processed. They will be applied to your balance after the security period. (See also the weekly pay schedule.)
All payment transactions on your financial account are linked to official invoices you can print for your records. Do not submit payment with one of these invoices with payment - your verified payment method is charged automatically.
- Go to Payments > Financial Activity.
- Set the date range and press the Go button or use the Jump to menu.
- Set filters for transaction type, provider and buyer, if desired.
- To download your invoice, click the payment's Ref ID link in your results.
Time logged on hourly assignments is automatically invoiced and paid each week. (Read more about the weekly pay schedule). All other payments are charged the day they are submitted and become available after a security period.
oDesk is the first and only service to guarantee that an hour billed is an hour worked and that an hour worked is an hour paid. (Read more about the oDesk payment guarantee.)
