One account for a team of Sellers?

[nandinimajumdar]

Hi! I joined Fiverr about (less than) a month ago, as an individual seller. I do illustrations in anime style, and have completed two orders till now.

I want to be a part of a team of illustrators (people I know personally), and we want to use one account only, creating different types of gigs (some concept art, anime, character designing, etc) and maybe one or two content writers as well. The reason is that we want to donate all our earned $ to a charity organization here and hence we would link only one bank account to our Fiverr account. Is this possible?

We do not have our own bank accounts (under 18) but we really want to do this, the coronavirus outbreak has affected a lot of volunteer organizations adversely. Please tell us whether this is permitted by Fiverr or not!

Thank you so much :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

[imagination7413]

Multiple people using a single account is permitted, but you’re only permitted 7 gigs when you’re first starting off.

Most profiles that are teams usually do the kind of work that is team projects. Like (using the drawing as an example) the team consists of a sketch artist, an inker, a person who does the color and shading, and someone different on backgrounds. and in a project like that it’s also good to have a team lead that can help coordinate, PLUS someone who handles the customer service side (for consistency in communications).

Multiple people doing their own thing on a single profile is… I think it’s doable, but it’s going to take a LOT of work.

There’s some advice I was once given, to NEVER become a roommate to your best friend. Fastest way to end a friendship, right there. Working together carries some of the same risk, as it’s now a job for pay. You and your friends might be doing this for charity, but your clients aren’t likely to care much, if at all, about that. They just want to see the work done, to their standards.

I’m absolutely NOT trying to discourage you from doing work for sake of donating to charity, but I would suggest starting locally. Test how well you actually work together when there’s deadlines, and homework interference, and the client is screaming because you used the wrong shade of blue. As for how to get work locally…

(Give me a few minutes to think and type.)

[imagination7413]

Firstly, you’ll need a simple contract, something like:

This work is being done in exchange for Company QRS to make a donation of $X to Charity XYZ. When work is complete, an additional $X shall be donated by Company QRS to Charity XYZ. Should the work be incomplete by XX date/time, our team shall forfeit the promise of the second donation.

My suggestion is 50/50 down-payment/final-payment.

As long as the charity you are supporting is legitimate, most businesses probably wouldn’t have any problem making a small donation anyway. Your work is basically asking them to double-down.

Actually, just thought of a potential hiccup. Did you mean 100% proceeds, or just post-expenses proceeds? (Cost of material, tools, etc.) I ask because businesses have to put ‘charitable donations’ as a separate item on their balance sheets, and keep it separate from ‘expenses’. Plus there’s receipts and proofs of purchase/delivery.

I’m getting too technical. (And WAY off-topic.) You’ll have to talk to someone in your area about local business law and charities.

Back on-topic.

The first step of knowing how to approach, is knowing who. Knowing a bit about a potential business client. Lets say there’s four businesses on an intersection: a well-known national bank, a family-owned bakery, an old and somewhat worn-down but still well-maintained laundromat, and a McDonalds.

Which do approach with your offer of ‘my team will draw your business a four-panel comic and donate the proceeds to charity’?

[nandinimajumdar]

Firstly, you’ll need a simple contract, something like:

This work is being done in exchange for Company QRS to make a donation of $X to Charity XYZ. When work is complete, an additional $X shall be donated by Company QRS to Charity XYZ. Should the work be incomplete by XX date/time, our team shall forfeit the promise of the second donation.

My suggestion is 50/50 down-payment/final-payment.

As long as the charity you are supporting is legitimate, most businesses probably wouldn’t have any problem making a small donation anyway. Your work is basically asking them to double-down.

Actually, just thought of a potential hiccup. Did you mean 100% proceeds, or just post-expenses proceeds? (Cost of material, tools, etc.) I ask because businesses have to put ‘charitable donations’ as a separate item on their balance sheets, and keep it separate from ‘expenses’. Plus there’s receipts and proofs of purchase/delivery.

I’m getting too technical. (And WAY off-topic.) You’ll have to talk to someone in your area about local business law and charities.

Back on-topic.

The first step of knowing how to approach, is knowing who. Knowing a bit about a potential business client. Lets say there’s four businesses on an intersection: a well-known national bank, a family-owned bakery, an old and somewhat worn-down but still well-maintained laundromat, and a McDonalds.

Which do approach with your offer of ‘my team will draw your business a four-panel comic and donate the proceeds to charity’?

Bakery.

100% of the $X will be donated. We’re not planning on annoying the buyer about what we’ll do with the money. If they ask, we tell them.

Thank you for those insights. Teamwork is hard, it is.

We’ll just be delivering our services and completing order as any individual account would. Only thing is that the $X will be withdrawn by the org.

[imagination7413]

Bakery.

100% of the $X will be donated. We’re not planning on annoying the buyer about what we’ll do with the money. If they ask, we tell them.

Thank you for those insights. Teamwork is hard, it is.

We’ll just be delivering our services and completing order as any individual account would. Only thing is that the $X will be withdrawn by the org.

We’re not planning on annoying the buyer about what we’ll do with the money. If they ask, we tell them.

That’s… If you say ‘for charity’ and don’t state which charity, that makes you look suspicious. You’re kids. I don’t know about where you’re from, but here, that would be grounds for an immediate “not interested”.

Transparency is necessary for trust in the business world.

Consumers like choice. And they hate being tricked. If you say ‘for charity’, without stating which, that can drive people away, because the might be donating towards something that they disagree with. As an exaggerated extreme example, let’s say you’re donating to the CountyTown Animal Shelter, but this particular shelter has a ethnicization policy. Animal lover Mr. Smith would never donate to this particular shelter, but doesn’t ask you and you don’t tell him. The job is finished and you go to turn it in, and Mr. Smith suddenly does ask. You say who, and Mr. Smith is suddenly MAD. No he is NOT going to donate to that place and is insulted that you (seemingly) tricked him, and refuses to accept the order. Mr. Smith starts complaining to anyone who will listen that your group is horrible for supporting a shelter that kills animals.

Informing your client ties in to ‘knowing your client’. If you had known that Mr. Smith hated that particular shelter, you would likely have never approached him as a potential client. Likewise, if Mr. Smith knows the charity (or non-profit) that you’re supporting, he won’t bother to come to you but that would have saved you a lot of headache.

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Back to your answer. I’ll admit that was a bit of a trick question. The answer is all of them. It’s the how that’s different.

You’re goal is to raise money for a charity, right? Yes, you’ve phrased it as funds-raiser, but if you were hosting a carwash and someone drove by offering a few bucks but don’t want their car washed, you wouldn’t turn away the donation, right?

This is another reason for the transparency. A high-end business might never hire a group of teens to make them a comic, but they are generally interested in their reputation, and charitable donations make them look good.

This is, however another part of knowing the client. A bank might already be a sponsor of your local children’s football league, but if that’s who you’re asking for donations for (again, example), they’d probably find that insulting.

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Third point: the ‘why’.

Not only is it a good idea to state the charity, but also why. As mentioned above, some companies and businesses already donate, but it’s usually general funds. If you’re specific, it can help. Ex: That football team is rough on their equipment, but you’re specifically raising money to purchase new balls because the old ones are all going flat.

Lets say you approached the bank and asked if they would be willing to donate enough to cover the price of one ball. They might say no altogether, it’s highly likely even, but there’s also the tiny chance that they might say, ‘you know what, I’m going to donate enough to buy two balls’.

[wordsfire]

If I understand you right, you’re not asking for donation but selling your services and using the money earned to donate to the charity.

You’ll need a Paypal or Payoneer account to withdraw the amount to your bank. And being a minor, you cannot have those two. If you use your parents’ accounts, the money earned will be added to their income and they’ll have to pay taxes.

The best way possible would be to let the charity takeover this Fiverr account.

Of course, the charity would need to appoint you (and your friends) as the volunteers who handle the account for them.

That will make things a lot easier.

Xx

[bigrose21]

Hi! I joined Fiverr about (less than) a month ago, as an individual seller. I do illustrations in anime style, and have completed two orders till now.

I want to be a part of a team of illustrators (people I know personally), and we want to use one account only, creating different types of gigs (some concept art, anime, character designing, etc) and maybe one or two content writers as well. The reason is that we want to donate all our earned $ to a charity organization here and hence we would link only one bank account to our Fiverr account. Is this possible?

We do not have our own bank accounts (under 18) but we really want to do this, the coronavirus outbreak has affected a lot of volunteer organizations adversely. Please tell us whether this is permitted by Fiverr or not!

Thank you so much :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

You may want to contact Help & Support. Simply scroll down to the very bottom of your Fiverr page and let Customer Service know your situation/problem. They will help you.

[nandinimajumdar]

If I understand you right, you’re not asking for donation but selling your services and using the money earned to donate to the charity.

You’ll need a Paypal or Payoneer account to withdraw the amount to your bank. And being a minor, you cannot have those two. If you use your parents’ accounts, the money earned will be added to their income and they’ll have to pay taxes.

The best way possible would be to let the charity takeover this Fiverr account.

Of course, the charity would need to appoint you (and your friends) as the volunteers who handle the account for them.

That will make things a lot easier.

Xx

You’re right! That’s what I meant. I got a bit confused about the donations and all, but we’re not going to ask for any donations (tips) or such. The buyers would just pay for services like they usually do, but the money would not be withdrawn by us to use for personal profit. That’s what I wanted to say.

[nandinimajumdar]

You may want to contact Help & Support. Simply scroll down to the very bottom of your Fiverr page and let Customer Service know your situation/problem. They will help you.

Thanks! Can I type in my custom questions there and maybe explain the situation a bit?

[nandinimajumdar]

We’re not planning on annoying the buyer about what we’ll do with the money. If they ask, we tell them.

That’s… If you say ‘for charity’ and don’t state which charity, that makes you look suspicious. You’re kids. I don’t know about where you’re from, but here, that would be grounds for an immediate “not interested”.

Transparency is necessary for trust in the business world.

Consumers like choice. And they hate being tricked. If you say ‘for charity’, without stating which, that can drive people away, because the might be donating towards something that they disagree with. As an exaggerated extreme example, let’s say you’re donating to the CountyTown Animal Shelter, but this particular shelter has a ethnicization policy. Animal lover Mr. Smith would never donate to this particular shelter, but doesn’t ask you and you don’t tell him. The job is finished and you go to turn it in, and Mr. Smith suddenly does ask. You say who, and Mr. Smith is suddenly MAD. No he is NOT going to donate to that place and is insulted that you (seemingly) tricked him, and refuses to accept the order. Mr. Smith starts complaining to anyone who will listen that your group is horrible for supporting a shelter that kills animals.

Informing your client ties in to ‘knowing your client’. If you had known that Mr. Smith hated that particular shelter, you would likely have never approached him as a potential client. Likewise, if Mr. Smith knows the charity (or non-profit) that you’re supporting, he won’t bother to come to you but that would have saved you a lot of headache.

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Back to your answer. I’ll admit that was a bit of a trick question. The answer is all of them. It’s the how that’s different.

You’re goal is to raise money for a charity, right? Yes, you’ve phrased it as funds-raiser, but if you were hosting a carwash and someone drove by offering a few bucks but don’t want their car washed, you wouldn’t turn away the donation, right?

This is another reason for the transparency. A high-end business might never hire a group of teens to make them a comic, but they are generally interested in their reputation, and charitable donations make them look good.

This is, however another part of knowing the client. A bank might already be a sponsor of your local children’s football league, but if that’s who you’re asking for donations for (again, example), they’d probably find that insulting.

---

Third point: the ‘why’.

Not only is it a good idea to state the charity, but also why. As mentioned above, some companies and businesses already donate, but it’s usually general funds. If you’re specific, it can help. Ex: That football team is rough on their equipment, but you’re specifically raising money to purchase new balls because the old ones are all going flat.

Lets say you approached the bank and asked if they would be willing to donate enough to cover the price of one ball. They might say no altogether, it’s highly likely even, but there’s also the tiny chance that they might say, ‘you know what, I’m going to donate enough to buy two balls’.

I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear, I don’t want to ask for ‘donations’. Buyers pay when they place an order for a service to get done, right? That’s exactly what we want to do. Just because we’re not going to use the earned $ for personal gain does not change anything much, I suppose?

I would probably ask my parents to withdraw the funds and then transfer them to the shelter, or maybe my school because it’s a Protestant church and helps many shelters and charitable organisations. Either way, we just want to earn some $, withdraw them, give them to those who need it.

[imagination7413]

On Fiverr, yes. But I did suggest trying this locally first. To get experience.

[bigrose21]

Thanks! Can I type in my custom questions there and maybe explain the situation a bit?

Yes, you can. Customer service is helpful and will answer your questions.

[nandinimajumdar]

On Fiverr, yes. But I did suggest trying this locally first. To get experience.

Locally as in…?

There’s lockdown here, we can’t go out 😦

[nandinimajumdar]

Yes, you can. Customer service is helpful and will answer your questions.

Thank you! Do you know how long they take to respond?

[bigrose21]

Thank you! Do you know how long they take to respond?

Sometimes fairly quickly.

[enunciator]

Fiverr is not really designed for fundraisers or operators of charities. I think there are probably other websites that better cater to volunteer groups and charitable causes.

I could be wrong and there might be a big, successful Fiverr seller who operates an account solely to fund a charity, but I don’t believe there is one. :thinking:

Also, if someone advertises on their gigs that order proceeds go towards a charitable cause, Fiverr cannot really validate how the withdrawn money will be utilized and might take exception to such claims.

[nandinimajumdar]

Fiverr is not really designed for fundraisers or operators of charities. I think there are probably other websites that better cater to volunteer groups and charitable causes.

I could be wrong and there might be a big, successful Fiverr seller who operates an account solely to fund a charity, but I don’t believe there is one. :thinking:

Also, if someone advertises on their gigs that order proceeds go towards a charitable cause, Fiverr cannot really validate how the withdrawn money will be utilized and might take exception to such claims.

But as long as there are no buyer-seller problems and no one is going against Fiverr TOS, why should it matter? I mean, we’re just going to deliver and earn like any normal individual seller on Fiverr, and what we do with the withdrawn money, whether we use it for own purpose or pay bills or buy a camera or do anything else with it, does it really matter? We could link an individual bank account to the Fiverr account and withdraw the money, right? I was actually asking whether teaming up on Fiverr is allowed or not in the first place 😅

I did think of including the charity thing so as to answer a question like ‘Why would you team up in the first place?’, such that you have a clear idea about our motives, and we do not want to hide anything. My emphasis wasn’t exactly on the charity donation, it was on rules for/against a group of sellers using one account 😅 Sorry if I could not explain it properly at the beginning

[enunciator]

But as long as there are no buyer-seller problems and no one is going against Fiverr TOS, why should it matter? I mean, we’re just going to deliver and earn like any normal individual seller on Fiverr, and what we do with the withdrawn money, whether we use it for own purpose or pay bills or buy a camera or do anything else with it, does it really matter? We could link an individual bank account to the Fiverr account and withdraw the money, right? I was actually asking whether teaming up on Fiverr is allowed or not in the first place 😅

I did think of including the charity thing so as to answer a question like ‘Why would you team up in the first place?’, such that you have a clear idea about our motives, and we do not want to hide anything. My emphasis wasn’t exactly on the charity donation, it was on rules for/against a group of sellers using one account 😅 Sorry if I could not explain it properly at the beginning

I focused on the charity aspect. I would say, it would definitely be safer not to mention proceeds going towards a charity on your gigs, as Fiverr cannot really verify such a claim and might deny the gigs due to that.

There are numerous “group of people within a single account” sellers. That’s not really an issue as long as there aren’t multiple accounts operating within the same IP or multiple accounts tied to a single pay account.

[nandinimajumdar]

I focused on the charity aspect. I would say, it would definitely be safer not to mention proceeds going towards a charity on your gigs, as Fiverr cannot really verify such a claim and might deny the gigs due to that.

There are numerous “group of people within a single account” sellers. That’s not really an issue as long as there aren’t multiple accounts operating within the same IP or multiple accounts tied to a single pay account.

Alright! That’s OK, I wouldn’t mention the charity thing in gigs or such. I mean, it will feel kind of weird to the buyer as well.

And thank you so much - that is what I wanted to be ensured of, that one single account being operated by multiple IPs from different devices wouldn’t raise suspicion or anything. Thanks again! 😀

[enunciator]

Alright! That’s OK, I wouldn’t mention the charity thing in gigs or such. I mean, it will feel kind of weird to the buyer as well.

And thank you so much - that is what I wanted to be ensured of, that one single account being operated by multiple IPs from different devices wouldn’t raise suspicion or anything. Thanks again! 😀

that one single account being operated by multiple IPs from different devices wouldn’t raise suspicion or anything.

Ehh. I don’t know for sure how Fiverr will react to several simultaneous logins from several different IP’s on a single account, so don’t take my word to heart. I don’t run a “team” and don’t have any personal experience in that regard, but know that teams within a single account is a thing and seems allowed.

[itsmunnabd]

yes. you can. customer service very helpful.