Today I wanted to talk about a very important thing. That is: many new service providers ask the question that whether they can get payment from the buyer outside GAF or not.
Simple answer is: NO
This is not a good thing to do. Some people do this to avoid the fee that is deducted from the money that you receive at GAF for every completed project.
Here are few reasons why you should always use GAF to take all the payments from the buyers:
When you complete a project and buyer pay you the money in your GAF account, GAF then charge a small fee on that project. If you completed a project worth $50 and the buyer paid you this money then instead of $50, you will see $45 in your GAF account. This is the fee that GAF charge. Now can you avoid this fee, that is, is there a way to not give this fee to GAF?
Some people say YES: why not tell the buyers to pay you directly [outside GAF]. So in this way you will get the full payment for the work. This really works?
NO: this is not a good thing to do. Most importantly, when you win a project, your GAF account will go in negative balance status.
After 35 days of negative balance in a account, GAF will automatically suspend such accounts.
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