✓ Add and use activity tags

Activities on Upwork help categorize freelancer time within hourly contracts for clearer invoicing. Clients can manage Activities across contracts, assign them to freelancers, and edit them in work diaries. Activities are distinct from memos, which describe specific tasks and are written by freelancers during time tracking.

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Activities are used to tag your freelancer's time to different types of work, projects, or other trackable items within a single hourly contract. Freelancers can select from these tags when tracking time so all time is properly billed. You can also edit Activities in your freelancer's work diaries if you prefer to handle it yourself.

Use Activities to improve invoicing by:

1. Tracking time on multiple activities for a single freelancer
2. Tracking time on a single activity across multiple freelancers
3. Tracking time on multiple activities across multiple freelancers

Activities can be controlled from

• Activities management: Go to Reports then select Budgets and click on Manage Activity Codes. This is the main page where you will create Activities and assign them to contracts. You can also archive Activities. Data for archived Activities will stay in reports and they may be unarchived to be used again.
• Contract room: On the Terms & Settings page in a Contract Room you can view and edit the list of Activities that are related to the contract. This is where you can add many Activities to a contract at once.
• Work diary: The Activity will be displayed above the screenshots with the memo in the form "[Activity]:[Memo]." Click on the Activity to edit it.

• Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between an Activity and a memo?

• Activities are client-defined categories or tags. Contracts can be set up so your freelancer selects from these labels when tracking time to enable organized invoicing for the client. Clients can edit Activities in the Work Diary.
• Memos are written by freelancers to describe what they are working on while they log time. Clients can't edit freelancers' memos.

Activities and memos may be used together to complement each other, improve the accuracy of billing, and enhance transparency.