A trial is a short, defined test period before anyone commits to a long collaboration. One clear deliverable, an agreed length, and a real signed agreement — so both sides find out whether this works before the big commitment.
This page explains what actually happens, in order. Most disagreements come from one side expecting something the agreement never said, so it is worth five minutes.
This is the part people miss. Your agreement contains both the trial terms and the full deal terms — the equity, the revenue share, the commission, the cash, whatever you agreed. The full terms sit there dormant: written, signed, but not yet in force.
They activate only if you both convert. If the trial ends without converting, those dormant terms never take effect and nothing is owed under them.
Why it is built this way. Negotiating the real deal after someone has already done the work puts them in a terrible position. Agreeing it upfront means the trial decides one question only — do we want to keep going — instead of reopening everything at the worst possible moment.
Tawezy caps trial length, and the cap depends on the project:
These limits are enforced by the software. An owner cannot set a longer trial, whatever both sides agree to — the system will refuse to save it.
If a project is Live and generating revenue, the trial must be paid. That is not a guideline, it is a requirement — the project cannot be posted with an unpaid trial. If the owner has not said whether the project generates revenue, the system assumes it does and requires payment anyway.
Pre-launch projects may run unpaid trials. Payment is still worth negotiating, but it is not forced.
How the money moves. If the owner sets an amount when the trial is agreed, the collaborator can be paid through Tawezy: once the deliverable is accepted, a Pay button appears on the agreement and the money goes straight to the collaborator’s connected Stripe account. Tawezy takes no cut — the owner covers only Stripe’s processing fee.
Tawezy never holds the money. There is no escrow. Nothing is taken up front and nothing sits with us waiting to be released — the payment goes from the owner to the collaborator directly.
If no amount was set, the agreement still records what you agreed in words, and you settle it between yourselves exactly as before.
Being able to pay is not the same as being made to pay. Tawezy gives the owner a button and both of you a record. It cannot force a payment, and it does not decide who is right if you disagree. If a fee is owed and not paid, that is a matter under your agreement.
Not when the offer is accepted, and not when work begins. The moment the second signature lands, the trial start and end dates are stamped on the agreement automatically. Neither party sets them or can adjust them afterwards.
A trial is not a filled role, so the listing stays visible in Explore and any paid boost keeps running. This is deliberate: an owner who is only trialling someone has not committed, and should not lose visibility for it.
For collaborators, the honest reading is that you are in a trial, not in the job, and the owner may still be talking to other people. That is what a trial is.
The collaborator submits the deliverable through the agreement page. The owner then either accepts it or requests changes, with a note explaining what is needed.
Silence counts as acceptance after five business days. If an owner does not respond to a submitted deliverable within five business days, the agreement treats it as accepted. Owners: read submissions promptly. Collaborators: submit through the platform, not over email, so the date is on the record.
You will also have check-ins at whatever cadence you agreed. Keep them in the platform — a written trail of what was asked and what was delivered is worth a great deal if anyone later disagrees about what happened.
A trial ends one of two ways, and both are normal:
On your public profile, every completed trial counts as completed work, whether or not it converted. Tawezy deliberately does not distinguish between them, and shows collaborators no conversion rate at all. If ending at a trial looked like a failure, people would avoid trials, and a trial-first platform would end up punishing exactly the thing it exists to encourage.
Owners are treated differently, and should know it: an owner's conversion rate is published on their profile once three trials have resolved. Running many trials and converting none is visible to everyone considering you.
One side proposes converting; the other confirms. Both acts are required.
If one side simply never confirms, Tawezy cannot force it. We are not a party to your agreement and we do not adjudicate. If you believe the conditions were met and the other side is stalling, raise it in writing in the platform messages, keep your check-ins and submissions on the record, and take your own advice about the agreement you signed. The trial still counts as completed work on your profile either way.
We would rather tell you this plainly now than have you discover it at the worst moment.
Questions about how trials work on the platform? Email hello@tawezy.com or use our contact page. For what the agreement means for you specifically, ask a lawyer — that one genuinely is not something we can answer.
This page describes how the platform works. Where it differs from your signed agreement, the agreement governs. See also our Terms of Service.