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What Are Status Reports?
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<p>Keeping clients up-to-date with the status of a job is crucial in delivering a great result. Status Reports help providers and clients stay in close communication and exchange information about the current status of a job, including tasks, hours, logs and journal entries, attachments and plans for the upcoming week. Status Reports are tied to Elance's invoicing system and make it simple to create invoices with one click.</p>
<p>Each week's Status Report is due from the provider to the client by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Once a Status Report is submitted, the client may accept or contest the report while providing written comments.</p>
<p>Status Reports can be created from the Status Report link on the left panel. They may also be auto-populated by using the Tracker to help manage your time.</p>
<p><br />Each Status Report includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>The week's starting date</li>
<li>Current Job Status as assessed by the provider (for example: ‘OK’, ‘Problem’ or ‘Complete’)</li>
<li>Milestone Progress Updates in the form of the percentage completed of any project milestone </li>
<li>Plan for Next Week and Other Notes letting the client know about planned activities for the upcoming week</li>
<li>A Log of Activity to indicate the quantity of work delivered (for example: hours worked, bugs fixed, claims processed, calls made, etc.). Note: logging hours worked is never required for fixed price work.</li>
<li>File Attachments as needed</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Example Status Report with Job milestones:</p>
<p><img src="/attachments/570840" border="0" alt="status.jpg" /></p>
<p>Keeping clients up-to-date with the status of a job is crucial in delivering a great result. Status Reports help providers and clients stay in close communication and exchange information about the current status of a job, including tasks, hours, logs and journal entries, attachments and plans for the upcoming week. Status Reports are tied to Elance's invoicing system and make it simple to create invoices with one click.</p>
<p>Each week's Status Report is due from the provider to the client by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Once a Status Report is submitted, the client may accept or contest the report while providing written comments.</p>
<p>Status Reports can be created from the Status Report link on the left panel. They may also be auto-populated by using the Tracker to help manage your time.</p>
<p><br />Each Status Report includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>The week's starting date</li>
<li>Current Job Status as assessed by the provider (for example: ‘OK’, ‘Problem’ or ‘Complete’)</li>
<li>Milestone Progress Updates in the form of the percentage completed of any project milestone </li>
<li>Plan for Next Week and Other Notes letting the client know about planned activities for the upcoming week</li>
<li>A Log of Activity to indicate the quantity of work delivered (for example: hours worked, bugs fixed, claims processed, calls made, etc.). Note: logging hours worked is never required for fixed price work.</li>
<li>File Attachments as needed</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Example Status Report with Job milestones:</p>
<p><img src="/attachments/570840" border="0" alt="status.jpg" /></p>
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