Understanding Submissions
Track your applications and understand what each status means.
A submission is your application and work for one opportunity. It is created when you start an application and follows you through screening, tasks, review, and payment.
Where to Find Your Submissions
On Home, the Your opportunities section groups them in tabs:
- Your turn: there is something for you to do next.
- Waiting on review: you have handed something in and it is being reviewed.
- History: opportunities you have finished.
- Paused: when more than two of your opportunities are paused, they move here. A paused one says This opportunity is paused for now. Your progress is saved for when it resumes.
Click Show all to open your full history at terac.com/me/opportunities/history. You can filter it by All, Approved, In review, Screened out, or Rejected.
How a Submission Moves
Not every opportunity has every step, and review can happen more than once: after your screening, after a task, or both. On a project-based opportunity, you work from the project handbook once you are in, and you are paid on the project's schedule. See Project-Based Work.
What Each Status Means
| You see | What it means |
|---|---|
| In Progress | You are applying, screening, or working on the tasks. On a project, this lasts for the whole engagement |
| Awaiting Review or In review | You have handed something in and it is being reviewed. There is nothing for you to do |
| Approved, Processing, or Paid | Your work was accepted, and the payment is on its way or has landed in your balance |
| Not a match or Screened out | You did not match what the opportunity needed |
| Not Selected or Rejected | Your submitted work was not approved |
| Application closed | The application ended before it finished, for example because you declined it |
| Study cancelled | The research team cancelled the opportunity |
Once your work on a one-time opportunity is approved, the earnings are added to your balance, and you can cash out once you reach the $12.50 minimum.
Review
Depending on the opportunity, your work is reviewed by our automated review, by our team, or by the research team. The screen you land on after handing something in says who is reviewing it and what happens next, and we email you when there is a decision.
- Automated review shows We're reviewing your responses, and when it finishes you carry on automatically or, on some opportunities, are declined.
- The research team's review shows Your application is with the client, and we email you if you are selected.
Review time depends on the opportunity. If yours has been awaiting review for more than 7 days, ask Sophia and we'll chase it up for you. See Rewards and Fair Pay for more.
Leaving an Application
There is no button to return a submission you have started. You can close one in two ways:
- Decline an invitation from Home, using the X on its card.
- Choose I'm not interested on an opportunity's agreement step.
Both close the application for good, and you cannot take part in that opportunity later. Leaving a study you are not comfortable with does not harm your account standing.
If a study's content is not right for you, see Your Wellbeing and Sensitive Content for more options.
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