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---## A concrete example

**Lisa is a freelancer and Steve is her client.** Steve needs Lisa to build him a brand new website.

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**Lisa creates a project** she names _Steve's website_.

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**She populates the project with a milestone** titled _Homepage_. She fills the _Due date_ and _Price_ fields, suggesting respectively a week from now and £250.

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Note she leaves the _Deliverable description_ field blank for Steve to fill.

Lisa previews the milestone:

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She then sets _steve@gmail.com_ as the client for the whole project.

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She sends it to Steve by clicking on <span class="button blue-gradient" > Send</span>

If Steve has not already signed up to Freelancer Protocol, he'll be sent an invitation to join. If he already is a user, he'll receive an email along with a notification:

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This is what the _Homepage_ milestone looks like to Steve at this point:

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Steve chooses to <span class="button secondary-green" > Modify </span> so that he can write the _Deliverable description_.

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When he previews the milestone, Steve is warned he needs to **enter his payment info for the milestone to be able to start**, so he does just that.

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Now Lisa will has to approve of the edited milestone. This is what the project looks like from Steve and Lisa's respective dasboards.

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**Lisa accepts the edited milestone.** Freelancer Protocol deducts the full £250 from Steve, and both parties receive an email and a notification. This is what the dashboard and milestone status now look like for Steve and Lisa:

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**Lisa now has to upload a demo.** It only takes Lisa 3 days to make a static version of the page that's good enough for a demo, so she submits it.

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Steve is now asked to either approve or reject the demo:

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**It's ok for the demo to have a few minor glitches that will have to be fixed for the final version.**
Steve mostly likes what he's seeing so he approves the demo.

The milestone will now finalize for sure, as soon as Lisa uploads the deliverable.

When she does, **Lisa will receive the funds, and Steve will receive the deliverable**.

**This milestone is completed**, on to the next one!

_Go to [this section](https://docs.freelancerprotocol.com/how.html#if-things-go-south) for the cases where Steve rejects the demo or Lisa doesn't upload the deliverable by the deadline._

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