Fees and Charges

For Buyers (Hiring a Drone Operator or Dronelancer)

Projects

The Dronelancer Marketplace is free to sign up, post a project, receive bids from drone owners (or Dronelancers), review the Dronelancer portfolio and discuss the project requirements. If you choose to award the project, and the Dronelancer accepts, we charge you a small project fee relative to the value of the final bid. You have the option to feature your project on the homepage for a small fee as detailed in the table below.

If you subsequently pay the Dronelancer more than the original bid amount we will also charge the project fee on any overage payments.

You may cancel the project from your dashboard at any time for up to 3 days after the project has been accepted for a full refund of your fee.

Services

At the time of accepting a bid, buyers must provide funds equivalent to the total project price. The payment is protected by Dronelancer and held in a financial account. Only release the payment once you are 100% happy with the work that has been delivered.

For Sellers (Offering Drone Services)

The Dronelancer Marketplace is free to sign up, create a profile, select skills of projects you are interested in, upload a portfolio, receive project notifications, discuss project details with the employer and bid on projects.

Projects

For fixed price projects, if you are awarded a project, and you accept, we charge you a small project fee relative to the value of the selected bid, as an introduction fee. If you are subsequently paid more than the original bid amount, we will also charge the project fee on any overage payments.

Services

Submitting a listing to Dronelancer Service is free. If you are subsequently hired to perform that Service a fee of 5% of the total service price is charged. This is charged when the service is ordered by way of a deduction from the payment you receive.

Other Fees

Projects

The following fees are optionally charged for additional services.

Bid Fees

Transaction Fees

Arbitration Fees

The arbitration fee for a dispute is $5.00 USD or 5%, whichever is greater.

Our dispute resolution system is designed to allow both parties to resolve issues regarding payments amongst themselves without arbitration.

After 5 days of a dispute being filed (or 7 days if the dispute is filed by the Dronelancer) either party may elect to move the dispute to paid arbitration. The other party will then have a further 5 days to agree to pay this fee and for both parties to submit any final evidence. If the other party fails to pay within time, they will lose the dispute.

The arbitration fee will then be refunded to the winner of the dispute.

Withdrawal Fees

Fees may be optionally levied depending on the method of withdrawal. Additional fees may be levied by the third party offering the withdrawal method.

We impose a minimum withdrawal, after fees, of USD $30.

Maintenance Fee

User Accounts that have not logged in for six months will incur a maintenance fee of up to $10.00 USD per month until either the account is terminated or reactivated for storage, bandwidth, support and management costs of providing hosting of the user’s profile, portfolio storage, listing in directories, file storage and message storage. These fees will be refunded upon request by users on subsequent reactivation.

Taxes

Florida residents are subject to 6%. Other government taxes may apply, depending on your region.

User Agreement

The fees and charges summarized on this page are governed by the terms of the Dronelancer User Agreement and related site policies. The User Agreement includes other important terms and should be read in full.