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50 definitions in plain English, each one linked to the guide that teaches it. Some carry a Tagalog gloss.
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8% income tax option
A flat 8% on gross receipts above ₱250,000 a year, in place of graduated income tax and percentage tax. The thresholds are set by law and change, so confirm on the BIR page.
A
Async (asynchronous work)
Working without being online at the same time as your client. You leave a complete written update, they read it hours later and reply. It is the default across time zones.
Trabahong hindi kailangang sabay ang oras ninyo ng kliyente.
Automation
Making a repeated task run without you, from a spreadsheet formula to a scheduled workflow. Anything you have already done twice is a candidate for it.
B
BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue)
The Philippine tax agency. Self-employed professionals register with it, choose how they are taxed, and file on a schedule. Its official pages outrank any guide, this one included.
BIR Form 2307
The certificate a Philippine client gives you showing the tax they withheld from your payment. You attach it to your return so that amount counts as already paid.
Patunay na may kinaltas nang buwis ang kliyente mo.
C
Chargeback
A client reversing a card payment after you have already been paid, pulling the money back out of your account. A written scope and a clear paper trail are your defence.
Context window
How much text a model can hold in mind at once, counting your prompt and its own reply. Past that limit the earliest parts drop out and it starts forgetting.
CRM (customer relationship management)
Software that stores every contact, conversation, and deal in one place. HubSpot and Salesforce are common ones. Much of client-facing remote work runs inside one.
D
Deliverable
The finished thing a client can open, use, or ship: a reconciled ledger, a working dashboard, an edited video. Effort is not a deliverable; the artifact is.
Desirable difficulty
Study that feels harder while you do it and leaves more behind afterwards, like shuffling problem types. Smooth studying usually means you are recognising rather than remembering.
E
Escrow
Money a client deposits with a marketplace before you start, released to you once the work is accepted. An unfunded milestone means the money is not there yet.
F
Fractional
Working as a senior operator for several companies part-time, a few days a month each, instead of full-time for one. It is how experienced independents price seniority.
Freelancer vs contractor vs employee
Three relationships, not three job titles. An employee receives benefits and direction. A contractor or freelancer sets their own methods, invoices for the work, and carries their own coverage.
G
GTM (go-to-market)
Everything a company does to reach buyers: the campaigns, the outreach, the tooling underneath. A GTM engineer builds and runs those systems instead of doing outreach by hand.
H
Hourly vs fixed vs retainer
Three ways to charge: by the hour, by the project at an agreed price, or monthly for an ongoing scope. Hourly caps your income at the hours you have.
I
Invoice
The document you send to be paid, carrying a sequential number, the dates covered, the scope, and the amount. Registered professionals here issue invoices and keep books.
Ang papel na ipinapadala mo para mabayaran ka.
K
KPI (key performance indicator)
The number a client uses to judge whether the work is going well, such as replies per week or cost per lead. Ask for it in your first week.
M
Micro-task
A small, self-contained job you can finish without a client, ending in a real artifact. It is how you build proof before anyone has hired you.
Maliit na trabahong kaya mong tapusin mag-isa, may aktwal na output.
Milestone
A named chunk of a project with its own deadline and its own payment. Milestones stop you from carrying weeks of unpaid work if the relationship goes wrong.
N
NDA (non-disclosure agreement)
A contract saying you will not share what you see inside a client's business. Sign it, then behave as though it applies to every client, signed or not.
Niche
The lane you specialise in, such as bookkeeping for e-commerce or ads reporting for agencies. A narrower lane means fewer competitors bidding against you.
O
Onboarding
Your first days with a new client: getting access, learning their tools, and agreeing on how you will report. What you set up here shapes the rest of the engagement.
OR (official receipt)
The older proof-of-payment document for services. Recent BIR rules moved service providers to issuing invoices instead, so check what your own registration requires before printing anything.
Overlap hours
The hours when your workday and your client's workday are both live. Two to four is usually enough for calls and quick answers, and it decides how early you wake.
Ang oras na magkasabay kayo ng kliyente sa trabaho.
P
Pag-IBIG Fund
The national savings and housing fund. Voluntary members contribute monthly and can borrow for a home. MP2 is its separate five-year savings program.
Payment rail
The service that moves your fee from a client abroad into pesos, such as Wise, Payoneer, PayPal, or a bank. Each converts at a different rate, and that gap is real money.
Ang daanan ng pera mo mula sa kliyente hanggang sa'yo.
PhilHealth
The national health insurance program. Self-employed professionals enroll as direct contributors and pay on their own schedule. One hospital stay without it can cost more than years of contributions.
Portfolio
The set of finished pieces you show instead of describing yourself. Two real deliverables with their context and result beat a page of adjectives.
Primary source
The original document behind a claim: the agency page, the dataset, the paper itself. If a number only leads to another blog post, it has no source at all.
Prompt
The instruction you give an AI model. A good one carries the role, the context, the format you want, and what the model should do when it is unsure.
R
Rate card
A written list of your services and what each one costs. Having one stops you from inventing a number under pressure and makes a price rise a scheduled decision.
Red flag
A signal that an opportunity is a scam or exploitative. Some are hard stops on their own, like an upfront fee. Others only matter once several appear together.
Retainer
A fixed monthly fee for an agreed scope of work, paid whether or not much comes in that month. It gives you a predictable floor and gives the client priority access.
Buwanang bayad para sa napagkasunduang saklaw ng trabaho.
Retrieval practice
Closing the book and pulling the answer out of your head instead of rereading it. Harder and slower in the moment, and far better at making knowledge last.
Subukang alalahanin nang hindi tumitingin, bago mo balikan ang notes.
Reverse-sourcing
Finding a business that has the problem you solve and reaching out before they write a job post. There is less competition because no queue has formed yet.
Ikaw ang lumalapit sa kliyente bago pa sila mag-post ng trabaho.
RevOps (revenue operations)
The role that keeps sales, marketing, and support running on one set of data and one process. It is a common end-goal role for people who start in reporting.
S
Scope
The exact list of what you will deliver, how many revisions are included, and by when. Anything outside that list is a new agreement rather than a favour.
Scope creep
Small extra requests that pile up until you are doing far more than you priced. Each one sounds reasonable on its own, which is why it needs naming early.
Unti-unting paglaki ng trabaho na wala sa usapan.
Search operators
Symbols that narrow a search: quotes for an exact phrase, site: for one domain, a minus sign to cut noise. One precise query beats an hour of scrolling.
SOP (standard operating procedure)
A written procedure for a task that repeats, detailed enough that someone else can run it without asking you. Writing one is how you stop explaining the same thing twice.
Nakasulat na hakbang-hakbang para sa trabahong paulit-ulit.
Spaced retrieval
Recalling the same material again after gaps of days rather than minutes. The gap is what makes it stick. Reviewing while it still feels fresh teaches you little.
SSS (Social Security System)
The government fund covering sickness, maternity, disability, unemployment, and retirement. You can join as a self-employed or voluntary member with no employer involved.
STAR method
A four-part shape for answering interview questions: situation, task, action, result. It stops a story from wandering and puts the outcome at the end where it lands.
T
Time zone
A region that keeps the same clock. You pick a client market partly on how far its clock sits from yours, because that decides your working hours.
Tracker
A sheet holding one row per thing you are following and one column per fact about it. Applications, invoices, and content calendars all use the same shape.
U
Upfront fee (red flag)
Any payment a supposed employer asks from you before work starts, for training, a starter kit, or registration. No real client charges you to work for them.
Walang totoong kliyente ang naniningil sa'yo para makapagtrabaho.
UTC+8
The Philippine time zone, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Every overlap calculation on this site is measured from it.
V
Vendor-grade data
Numbers published by a company that sells the thing being measured, with no disclosed method. Useful as a rough direction, never as a fact. Most pay guides are this.
W
Withholding tax
Tax a Philippine client deducts from your fee and remits to the BIR for you. You receive less cash now and credit that amount against your own return later.
Workflow automation tools
Services that connect apps so an event in one triggers an action in another, such as Zapier or Make. You describe the trigger and the steps, no code needed.
Definitions last checked 2026-08.