RentACoder (vWorker) vs PeoplePerHour

If you’ve heard about outsourcing through PeoplePerHour, but aren’t sure if it’s the best choice, take a look at this.

Here, we compare PeoplePerHour to RentACoder (now vWorker) on some some of the most important points to the online outsourcer, so you can see how both PeoplePerHour and vWorker stack up against not only each other, but against what you need as an outsourcer as well.

Fees

PeoplePerHour charges a flat 1.9% charge on funds transferred into your deposit account via credit / debit cards and Paypal, subject to a minimum of £0.50. For Google Checkout transactions, the payment processing fee is 3.9%. There are no charges to deposit funds at vWorker.

Bid Limits

PeoplePerHour workers can’t make more ten bids a month unless they pay a monthly fee of £7.95 (for 40 bids) or £14.95 (for 80 bids). That could not only limit qualified prospects, it could increase the cost of projects since workers are prone to pass these fees onto you. The majority of outsourcing sites, like vWorker, do not charge subscription fees.

Ratings

Current events can be found in our PeoplePerHour News section.

PeoplePerHour allows its workers to “import” feedback obtained prior to working through the service. While that may sound like an ethical idea, the service can’t verify the imported feedback is truly genuine, as its verification system is a simple email exchange between PeoplePerHour and purported clients. At vWorker, you’ll find a rating system based on work performed through the vWorker site only.

Per Hour Monitoring

PeoplePerHour’s time clock mechanism is limited in that it doesn’t allow you to verify the time worked on a project with an application that records a worker’s desktop and webcam (like vWorker’s time clock mechanism).

Money Back Guarantee

PeoplePerHour does not offer a money back guarantee for its projects like vWorker does, but it will refund money if a worker (in PeoplePerHour’s discretion) has not delivered.

Source Code Protection

PeoplePerHour doesn’t offer source-code protection, but vWorker allows you to require all workers who bid on your project to be Chaperon enabled. Chaperon makes it virtually impossible for a worker to copy or pirate your source code by protecting it from creation and transport to storage and retrieval. See the vWorker website for more information regarding Chaperon.

Arbitration

PeoplePerHour does not offer arbitration. Any disputes remain between the employer and the worker, though the site refers to an undisclosed Dispute Resolution Process. vWorker does offer arbitration on the other hand, and you can read how vWorker’s arbitrators make their decisions on the vWorker website.

Support

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Unlike PeoplePerHour, vWorker offers a requirements wizard and a project posting wizard to help you build a project that’s easy for workers to understand. And it’s the only service that offers one like it!

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