Create, Collaborate, **Control** Projects
Resource and project management tools to ensure compliance and transparency while working with the top 1% of freelancers.
How Does **Direct** Work?
Take full control of your creative projects and freelance resources with you in the driver's seat.
Remain Legally Compliant
Customise your compliance processes to ensure every engagement with a freelancer satisfies the standards set by your procurement team.
Engage Globally, Pay Locally
Effortlessly manage invoices and streamline payments in 28 different currencies across 40+ countries, all while guaranteeing safety and reliability.
From Planning to Post-Production
Manage projects of all shapes and sizes with detailed progress tracking, effective resource allocation, and financial budgeting to ensure every project stays within scope.
Shield Yourself from Risks
Minimise your business risk by upgrading to Premium, this allows you to contractually transfer compliance responsibilities to PLAYE, ensuring greater peace of mind.
Effortlessly **Manage** Your Work
With all of your creative work and freelancers in one centralised project management platform.
Automated Contracts
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Select your freelancer talent, establish payment terms and engagement specifics, and generate a legally-binding contract.
Legal Compliance
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Set your insurance, workers' compensation, tax standards, and more, ensuring every engagement is compliant.
Secure Payments
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Handle all payment transactions for upcoming and completed work seamlessly with secure payment processing.
Project Management
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Set milestones and tasks that match your project criteria, while tracking costs and budgets at the line-item level.
Seamless Communication
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Capture and store all email threads linked to the project, enabling quick reference and easy access to communication history.
And Much More!
The top 1% of creative freelancers
Manage creative projects with ease and confidence. Speak to our team to learn more about our extensive capabilities.
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FAQs
It’s easy! Simply book a demo with our team and we'll work together to understand your project scope and ensure the best fit solution based on your needs, budget and use case.
While other platforms may boast about having thousands of creators in their talent network, we prefer to grow our community slowly with only the best creators being accepted.
We can confidently say that our community can cover all project types and spans all corners of the world.
Yes! Many brands have trusted freelancers who they’ve used before. After inviting them to the platform, they’ll be saved in your PLAYEbook and accessible at any time.
In addition, when you bring your own creator to PLAYE, you’ll pay a lower fee on all projects with that freelancer.
PLAYE has implemented a rigorous vetting process, ensuring all creators meet high standards of experience and skill before granted access to our community.
All creators are legally compliant in accordance with local labour laws.
Throughout the contract, you're able to engage directly with the freelancer through the PLAYE platform or directly via email or WhatsApp - these communications are integrated and sync into the platform for an audit trail.
Brands will pay PLAYE for the services, and PLAYE then handles all payments to freelancers, paid the month following job completion or instant payment for a small fee, ensuring that freelancers are paid promptly and correctly every time.
With Direct, PLAYE takes on the risk of hiring the freelancer. We manage all compliance aspects, including tax compliance, NDAs and worker's compensation.
Pricing depends entirely on the scope of the project and the level of work required.
As Direct is a self-managed tool for working with freelancers, you have the option to work with your own freelancers or access our community of freelancers.
With Direct, you contract with PLAYE and we contract directly with the freelancer. This removes any possible risk for your business, as the risk is instead shifted to PLAYE.
The Direct subscription is tiered according to the number of work contracts engaged, with the subscription fee billed monthly or annually.
Book a demo with our team to learn more about Direct and Direct Premium.
Unless otherwise agreed to by us in writing, our standard payment terms are 100% of the costs paid upfront, 30 days from the invoice date. This is to ensure fast payment to the freelancers, one of the many benefits of them working through PLAYE.
We accept credit card payments.