RentACoder (vWorker) vs Scriptlance

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

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

Fees

Scriptlance charges $5.00 for selecting a worker whereas vWorker simply appends 15% to each project final bid to cover costs.

Bid Limits

Neither Scriptlance nor vWorker restricts the number of bids workers can make, which is a good thing since it increases your selection of qualified prospects and decreases the cost of projects.

Ratings

Current events can be found in our Scriptlance News section.

Scriptlance doesn’t offer a blind rating system, which could allow poor-performing workers to intimidate buyers into giving them better ratings than they deserve. As a result, buyers realize the only way to preserve their own ratings is to rate everyone highly, which compromises the accuracy and usefulness of the ratings system. At vWorker, you’ll find a blind rating system which prevents such fear-based or manipulative ratings.

Per Hour Monitoring

Scriptlance’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

Scriptlance does not offer a money back guarantee for any of its projects like vWorker does – not for its fixed fee projects nor its pay-per-hour projects.  In addition, Scriptlance doesn’t refund you if your worker misses a required status report the way that vWorker does.

Source Code Protection

Scriptlance 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

Scriptlance basically exempts itself from providing arbitration “except in limited situations” through its terms of service agreement. At vWorker, employers have access to free arbitration services in any situation. You can even read how vWorker’s arbitrators make their decisions on the vWorker website.

Support

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Unlike Scriptlance, vWorker offers 7 day a week phone support, 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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