Customers can now pay upfront or with scheduled payments using AWS IQ

You can now pay your experts upfront or with scheduled payments on AWS IQ. With scheduling, you pay experts based on a preset schedule that is set in the proposal. With upfront, you pay for work in advance upon accepting the proposal. You can also pay as you go with milestone payments. As a customer, you review these different payment types in the proposal and can work with your expert to select the option that best fits your project needs. Experts can now select a payment type while creating a proposal. After setting the proposal amount, select one of three payment types: milestone, upfront, or schedule. Milestone will allow you to send custom payments requests to your customer as work is completed throughout the length of the proposal. Upfront will request payment from your customer upon acceptance of the proposal. Schedule will request on-going payments based on the schedule you set in the proposal. AWS IQ is available to customers globally excluding China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet) and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). [Post a request](http://iq.aws.amazon.com/?utm=WNA) or l[earn more](https://iq.aws.amazon.com/?utm=WNLM) about IQ. Partners or independent consultants can register as an Expert today to help customers and get paid for AWS Certification expertise. [Learn more](/iq/experts/) about becoming a Certified Expert.