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Whatever you create,
work protected.

Agreements, invoices, bookings and a reputation you own. For every freelancer in India, whatever your craft and however long you've been at it.

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TAX INVOICEINV-0042
Total invoice value₹2,12,400
RAISED FROM THE AGREEMENT
Freelance services agreement
FEE₹5,00,000CREDITDoPDATES4–8 Aug 26
P. Sharma
FREELANCER
R. Iyer
PRODUCER
SIGNED · OTP VERIFIED
Today's tasks1/3 DONE
Send agreement · R. IyerIN PROGRESS
Raise invoice INV-0042DUE TODAY
Update availabilityDONE

Sound familiar?

FREELANCERS
“We’ll settle it after delivery.”//“Budget got cut, yaar.”//“Accounts runs on net-90. You’ll get it.”//“Your invoice is incorrect. Please resend.”//“The scope changed. The fee didn’t.”//“One more revision. It’s small, promise.”//“Don’t worry, just trust me.”//“We’ll push payment to next month.”//“The client hasn’t paid us yet.”//“We’ll settle it after delivery.”//“Budget got cut, yaar.”//“Accounts runs on net-90. You’ll get it.”//“Your invoice is incorrect. Please resend.”//“The scope changed. The fee didn’t.”//“One more revision. It’s small, promise.”//“Don’t worry, just trust me.”//“We’ll push payment to next month.”//“The client hasn’t paid us yet.”//

Every one of these is survivable, if the deal was on paper first.

How it works

Sign once. The rest follows.

Your client signs from a link, no account needed, so you can put your whole existing client base on paper right away. The same deal drives everything else: your calendar, your invoice, your reminders, and the rating at the end.

STAGE 01
STAGE 02
STAGE 03
STAGE 04
STAGE 05
DEAL
DRAFTED IN MINUTES
Your own client, or a producer who found you in the directory. The agreement assembles itself and goes out as a link.
SIGN
NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Your client opens the link and signs. No account, nothing to install.
DATES
CALENDAR AUTO-BLOCKED
The signed dates block your calendar on their own. Work worry-free, with your schedule managed for you.
INVOICE
ONE CLICK · REMINDERS ON
Raised from the same deal, with GST worked out and the TDS section named. Reminders chase politely till it's paid.
SCORE
SCORE ON RECORD
You rate your client, they rate you. The engagement closes into your Goodwill Score.
// the strip walks the engagement on its own. everything runs from the one signed deal.
Signing

Verbal to written in three moves.

Handshakes still matter. They just stop being the only thing holding a deal together.

STEP 01

Enter the deal details.

Project, deliverables, dates, fee, revisions, usage rights. A few minutes, in plain language.

GW-2041 DRAFT READY
STEP 02

Sign it, send the link.

Add your signature and the agreement goes out as a link, straight from the deal. Any email works.

thegoodwill.network/d/GW-2041 SENT →
STEP 03

They open and sign. Any device.

An email OTP unlocks the signature box; they draw or upload their signature. Binding under the Information Technology Act, 2000. The signed PDF lands in both inboxes.

OTP 4829 ✓ SIGNED
01 · Get found

Get listed. Get seen. Get booked.

Producers and clients search the directory by role, city and dates. Your work, your availability and your Goodwill Score do the pitching.

Found by date
Not a static listing. A producer searching the 10th to the 15th sees who is not already booked those days.
Your work up front
Your showcase and credits sit on your profile, so the pitch is made before the call.
Holds and requests
Producers can pencil your dates or send a booking request. You accept or decline.
DIRECTORY SEARCH
ROLE Editor CITY Bangalore AVAILABLE 10–15 Sep
PSPriya SharmaEDITOR · BANGALORE · AVAILABLE 10–15 SEP91SCORE
ANArjun NairEDITOR · BANGALORE · AVAILABLE 10–15 SEP88SCORE
VRVikram RaoEDITOR · BANGALORE · AVAILABLE 10–15 SEP84SCORE
3 available · priority listing first, then by Goodwill Score
02 · Bookings and calendar

Your dates, your rules.

Your availability, the holds you accept and the work you sign, on one calendar.

A calendar you control
Share your availability once. You decide what shows and when.
Holds that behave
Producers place pencil holds that expire and promote automatically. Nothing stays blocked forever.
No double booking
Clashing dates are flagged before an agreement goes out, whichever side drafts it. No more accidental double bookings.
August 2026SYNCED ✓
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booked pencil hold
03 · Agreements, in depth

Any deal, on paper in minutes.

A one-day shoot, a twelve-article retainer, a wedding, a feature film. If you work for yourself, it's covered.

Built per deal
Every agreement is assembled for the engagement in front of you: scope, fee, dates, credit, usage rights, revisions. Custom because it is modular: structured clauses, arranged for your deal.
Milestones and tranches
Split the fee across stages: advance, delivery, release. Each tranche carries its date and its amount, agreed upfront and signed.
Vetted and verified
Legally vetted clauses. OTP-verified identity. SHA-256 document hash. A timestamped signing certificate attached to the signed PDF, executed under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
FREELANCE SERVICES AGREEMENT
FEE₹5,00,000 CANCEL FEE₹3,50,000 CREDITDoP DATES4–8 Aug 26
P. Sharma
FREELANCER
R. Iyer
PRODUCER
SIGNEDOTP VERIFIED
04 · Invoices, in depth

The bill writes itself.

Raised from the agreement, with the tax worked out and the reminders set.

From milestones, not retyping
Invoices are created from the agreement's milestones. You never retype a deal into a bill.
Compliance handled
GST worked out by place of supply. You pick the TDS section and SAC code; we do the arithmetic and the declarations.
Tracked till paid
Due-date reminders that chase politely. MSME and Udyam payment terms supported.

// You don't need to know what the abbreviations mean to get them right. That's the point.

TAX INVOICEINV-0042
Colour grade, brand film₹1,80,000
CGST 9% + SGST 9%₹32,400
Total invoice value₹2,12,400
TDS, if applicable: u/s 393(1), Income-tax Act, 2025
GST-COMPLIANT · CREATED FROM THE AGREEMENT
05 · Presets and My Circle

Repeat work gets faster every time.

Save your terms and the people you work with, and the next agreement fills itself in.

Presets
Save your terms once: fee structure, kill fee, cancellation, late fees, revisions, milestone splits. The next agreement fills itself in.
My Circle
Save the people you work with again, with their company and GST details, whether or not they are on the platform. The second engagement takes a fraction of the first.
My Circle4 SAVED
RIR. IyerGSTIN SAVED · 3 DEALSRETAINER PRESET
ABA. BhattNOT ON PLATFORM · 2 DEALSSHOOT DAY PRESET
SKS. KhanGSTIN SAVED · 5 DEALSRETAINER PRESET
// next agreement: prefilled in one tap
// 324 ROLES AND COUNTING

Whatever you do,
it signs the same.

See every role →
Also in the box

The rest of the kit.

Secure vault
Every signed record kept to statutory retention, ready whenever you need to prove the deal.
GW-2041.PDF RETAINED ✓
The app in your pocket
Installable on your phone. Agreements, invoices and bookings from wherever the work is.
ON THE HOME SCREEN ✓
Google Calendar sync
Connect your Google Calendar in a few clicks. Holds you accept, bookings you confirm and agreements you sign sync to it on their own.
HOLDS → CALENDAR SYNCED ✓
Featured Work
Put your best piece in front of the directory. One featured slot a month.
YOUR WORK · FRONT PAGE LIVE
Dispute reporting
Flag a broken deal from the engagement itself, with the signed record already attached. Every report is reviewed by our team.
GW-2041 · FLAGGED UNDER REVIEW
Legal Help Access
Share your case in a few taps and get connected to specialist lawyers who understand creative work. You engage and pay them directly.
CASE SHARED LAWYER CONNECTED
Illustration of a freelancer working at her desk, signing paperwork across monitors and a tablet

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The Goodwill Score

Reputation has a number.

Goodwill Score
80
/ 100
Building Goodwill
// earned, never bought

Members rate each other after every completed engagement, and those ratings build a score from 0 to 100. One review per signed deal, only from people you've actually worked with. Everyone starts at 80. Slow to build, easy to lose, and it cannot be bought.

Producers see your score before they ask. Turning up, delivering and being easy to work with stops being a claim and becomes a record.

It runs both ways. When a producer sends you a booking request, their score and testimonials arrive with it. Know who you're saying yes to.

Nobody is above the score.

Try it: drag to any score80/ 100 · Building Goodwill
85 · ring closes
The tiers
Risky Business0–69
Regaining Trust70–79
Building Goodwill80+
Trustworthy85+
Trusted Professional91+
Goodwill Elite96+
Goodwill Champion100
// drag the score or tap a tier. everyone starts at 80.
Pricing

A flat subscription. Never a commission.

You pay what you see. Prices include GST.

Starter
Protection basics, priced to start.
₹499 / month
Agreement credits a month: 1
Add-on agreement ₹349 each
Directory listing
Booking calendar
Legal Help Access: Included
Booked & Busy
When the gigs keep coming.
₹999 / month
Agreement credits a month: 3
Add-on agreement ₹299 each
Everything in Starter, plus:
Projects and tasks
GST-compliant invoices: Create
Report page
FREE FOR FOUNDING MEMBERS · 3 MONTHS
Topliner
Everything, unlocked.
₹1,499 / month
Agreement credits a month: 5
Add-on agreement ₹249 each
Everything in Booked & Busy, plus:
Priority placement in the directory
GST-compliant invoices: Create and send
Google Calendar sync
Presets (saved terms)
My Circle (saved clients)
Featured Work: 1 a month
Legal Help Access: Included, with a discount
Early access to new features

Founding members pay none of this for three months.

Become a founding member →
Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Both, and here is how each works. When you join, you build a profile: your role, your city, your work and credits, and an availability calendar you control. That profile sits in a directory that producers and clients search when they need someone. They filter by role, city and dates. Say a producer needs an editor in Bangalore from the 10th to the 15th of September: the directory shows them editors who are not already booked on those dates, with their work and their Goodwill Score. From there they can place a hold on your dates or send you a booking request directly. Your availability and your score do the pitching for you. And for the work you find yourself, the way most freelance work arrives, the platform turns that deal into a signed agreement in minutes and an invoice after that. Finding work and protecting work live in the same place.

No. Most people arrive with nothing in writing, and that is exactly the situation the platform was built for. From the day you join you can set up your profile, list your availability, and appear in the directory where producers and clients search. When your next deal comes, whether through the directory or your own network, you put it on paper in minutes: fill in the project, the fee, the dates and the terms, send it as a link, and get back a signed document. There is no requirement to bring anything with you except the work you already do.

No, never, and this matters more than it sounds. You create the agreement on your side and send it. Your client receives an email with a link. They open it on any device, read the full agreement, and sign it with a one-time password sent to their email. No signup, no app to download, no learning curve on their side, nothing for them to pay. The moment both of you have signed, the final PDF with its signing certificate lands in both inboxes, and you can raise your invoice from the same engagement. The entire deal runs end to end even if only one of you is on The Goodwill Network. Which means you can put your whole existing client base on paper starting tomorrow, without asking anyone to join anything.

A flat monthly subscription, starting at ₹499 a month. Each plan includes agreement credits, the number of agreements you can raise in a month. Higher plans carry more credits, priority placement in the directory, Google Calendar sync and more. If you need an extra agreement in a busy month, you can add one without changing plans. Two things we never charge: commission and hidden tax. The Goodwill Network takes no cut of your fee, ever; your money moves directly between you and your client. And the price you see is the price you pay, because we absorb the GST on our own fees. For the plan-by-plan breakdown, and what all of this costs when done piecemeal without the platform, see the freelancer plan comparison.

It happens far less than you might fear, and when it does, it tells you something worth knowing. Refusals are rare because signing costs your client almost nothing: the agreement is short and in plain language, it opens from an email link, and signing takes about two minutes with no account needed. It reads as professionalism, not suspicion. Asking to put a deal in writing is not an accusation; it is how work is done everywhere else, and it protects them just as much as you. If a client still refuses to put in writing what they promised out loud, you have learned that before the work started instead of after the invoice went unpaid. That knowledge, uncomfortable as it is, is the protection working.

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Our Ethos

Nobody sets out to break a promise.

Nobody sets out to break a promise.

Nobody sets out to break a promise.

Nobody sets out to break a promise.

But budgets shift, dates slip, and good people on both sides of the table pay for it: invoices that wait, credits that vanish, and work that falls apart. Some promises break by accident, some by design, all of them because nothing was holding them up.

To earn trust, we must back our words. So we give every promise something to stand on. Commitments in writing, made in minutes, honoured on both sides.

From “don’t you trust me?” to “of course we’ll sign, everyone does.”

Never work on a promise again.

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// A little goodwill goes a long way.