Does the customer want to throw upwork in such a situation?

Question

Upwork

The customer wants me to transfer the work to his server before he pays me in full for upwork this work. At the same time, I posted it on my server, sent him a link so that he would check everything, after that he paid me, and then I would transfer it to his server. And if as he wants, then the code can be safely copied and said after that for now. On Russian freelancing, I would never give up work before payment. The project funded one third of the project amount.

Is this a normal practice on upwork (discard work before payment)?

Answer 1

Require the full amount to be reserved. The amount that is reserved is almost always payable to the employee if the work is done in accordance with the TOR, everything else is just in words.
Whether he wants it or not, I am not a psychic, but I would not transfer the work before the entire amount is reserved.

Answer 2

This is normal practice with familiar clients. Don't do this with new ones.

Answer 3

Why do you use crappy upwork?)
Let's think logically. In this case, your question has a psychological context.
The reasons for this behavior:
1. The customer does not trust you
2. The customer wants to deceive
3. The customer has no money now, he is
playing for time In this case, the customer can easily deceive the contractor. By lenient punishment, I mean an account ban.
Fraud is possible if the account is new or the customer has decided to "leave beautifully" by making the last order. If the customer constantly uses upwork, then he will not risk his account.
Conclusions: Check his account, rating, how many orders are successful, date of registration. If everything is fine, then you can safely work without prepayment. Perhaps your account is "fresh" and that's why such seemingly strange requests from the customer.

Answer 4

Ask for payment in full

Answer 5

Wants is not known. Yes maybe. Even if I know the client for as long as I like, I prefer to establish trust with an agreement, because for various reasons the client may have problems due to which he will not be able to pay you.
If the client dies, Upwork will cover the amount under the contract in 100% of the amount if they see that the work was done as described in the contract.
I already had such cases, Upwork paid the full amount. There was also a case when the client was lost, but Upwork refused to pay for the hourly contract, because I did not indicate the tags when tracking the time, the amount was small, I just scored.