There are many freelance websites that offer escrow services to its users. Escrow service main purpose is to protect buyers/business owners that request projects on freelance websites.

This protection is great in the sense that the buyer feels confident that if freelancer/provider/coder doesn’t finish the project according to what he/she requested then buyer doesn’t release all funds to him/her or at least does a partial release for partial work completed.

Escrow basically gives protection and more control over what buyers can and can’t do with their money in order to ensure that their chosen freelancer actually dedicates to work on his/her project without feeling afraid of losing any money.

That’s why many buyers prefer to outsource their projects on freelance websites because the majority of well known freelance sites offer escrow.

Working outside freelance sites is in a sense a risk since you never know if you are going to get the work completed by the person you hire or if you will end up losing your money by hiring a freelancer on the other side of the world.