Offering work

An offer states the terms you are proposing. Accepting it starts an engagement, which is the record everything else hangs off: hours, contracts and invoices.

What an offer contains

The type of work, a rate, a currency, what the rate is per, an expected number of hours, and a start date.

What the rate is per is a real choice rather than a formality: per hour, per day, per week, every 2 weeks, per month, or something else in your own words. A full-time offer is quoted monthly in this market and a short piece of work is often quoted by the day, and forcing either into an hourly number makes you do arithmetic to say something you already knew.

Choosing "something else" asks you to name the period, in three to forty characters, exactly as the freelancer will read it. "Per finished video" is a real answer. It is used verbatim everywhere the rate appears, including on a signed contract, and it is never converted or interpreted. Two things follow from a period nothing can compute against, and both say so where you meet them: an approved week of hours will not turn itself into an invoice line, and your spend forecast names the collaboration rather than folding a made-up monthly number in.

The rate field starts at the freelancer's own asking price in pesos. Starting anywhere else would be the platform nudging a negotiation it has no part in.

Where it lands

In your conversation with them, as a card. It leads with the terms as a list rather than as prose, because an offer is a definition and not a message.

The card never disappears. Accepted, declined, withdrawn or ended, it stays where it was, because the conversation is a record and a card that vanishes takes the terms with it.