How Fiverr.ie makes money
We charge a flat referral fee to any freelancer we introduce to a buyer, payable only when the match turns into paid work. The fee is a fixed amount, not a percentage of the job, and is the same whether the project is €500 or €50,000. The buyer pays nothing to us.
Flat fees specifically because percentage fees create an incentive for us to steer buyers toward expensive freelancers, and we don't want that incentive in the system. A flat fee means we make the same whether we shortlist the cheapest capable freelancer or the most expensive — so we have no reason not to shortlist the best fit.
What we won't do
- We won't take paid placement. Freelancers cannot pay to appear in a shortlist. The only way onto the shortlist is for their rate, availability and specialism to match a specific buyer brief.
- We won't publish sponsored content styled as editorial. Buyer's guides, rate benchmarks, and all editorial content are written by us without payment from anyone. If this ever changes (for example, a freelancer-sponsored guest post) it will be clearly labelled above the article and in the article's URL.
- We won't use affiliate links. There are no "sign up for Fiverr using this link" buttons on this site, because we are not a Fiverr affiliate and are not trying to pass you off to them.
- We won't resell your brief. Your enquiry goes to a short list of Irish freelancers we've vetted and kept in contact with — not to a broader marketplace, not to a third-party platform, not to a lead-generation network.
- We won't recommend a freelancer we haven't corresponded with. Every freelancer in our shortlist pool has been contacted by us, confirmed their current rates and availability, and agreed to our referral model.
Editorial independence
If an article on this site says "in our experience, WordPress is cheaper than Shopify for X use case", that is our genuine editorial position, not payment from either platform. Where we have a financial relationship with anyone or anything mentioned in an article, we disclose it inline, in bold, above the content it affects.
Rate benchmarks are compiled from publicly-available sources and are not influenced by any freelancer or business. If a freelancer has told us their rate on condition of inclusion in a shortlist, we treat that as confidential and don't publish it — we only publish aggregated ranges.
Conflict of interest
Our referral-fee model is a potential conflict of interest because we earn more when shortlisted freelancers win work. We mitigate this by: (a) charging a flat fee regardless of job size, so we don't favour expensive freelancers; (b) only shortlisting freelancers whose rate and specialism genuinely fit the buyer's brief; (c) telling buyers honestly when a brief would be better served by an agency or studio than by any freelancer we have (which means we sometimes recommend not using our service).
Corrections
If we get something wrong, email info@fiverr.ie and we'll correct it with a dated note on the page. Material factual errors trigger an edit with a visible "corrected on [date]" note; typos and minor wording changes don't.
Verification
For directory listings (not yet live in v1) and any named freelancer or business mentioned in a buyer's guide, we will verify via public sources (company registration, rate card, portfolio) before publishing. This is specifically to prevent the fabrication risk that comes with LLM-assisted content generation; we have a clear internal rule that no named business, person or credential appears on the site unless it has been directly verified.