---
title: "Uploading & getting paid"
description: "How to upload a session, how payment works, and the 20-second checklist to run before every upload."
---

<span className="otz-eyebrow">Recorder playbook · Delivery & payment</span>

## How to upload

<Steps>
  <Step title="Go to upload.opentez.com" icon="globe">
    Finish your session, then head to [upload.opentez.com](https://upload.opentez.com).
  </Step>
  <Step title="Upload the session's files" icon="cloud-arrow-up">
    Upload the files from that session. These recordings are long and high-quality, so
    uploads can take an hour or more.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Use a reliable, uninterrupted connection" icon="wifi">
    Start the upload on solid **Wi-Fi (not cellular)**, plug your phone in, and don't let
    the connection drop or the app close until it finishes. An interrupted upload may not
    go through.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Wait for confirmation" icon="circle-check">
    Payout only begins once the upload is confirmed as received. If you don't see a
    confirmation, the file isn't in. Try again before you delete anything.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Keep your consent records with the session" icon="file-signature">
    Submit any subject releases, location releases, or permitted Texas verbal-bystander
    records alongside the footage as instructed. Footage without its required consent
    record can't be accepted.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## How payment works

The opentez team reviews and annotates every clip that comes in. You are paid for the
**accepted footage delivered**. Each deliverable is measured in qualifying footage-hours,
which measure usable video rather than time worked or availability. Footage qualifies
when:

<Check>Your hands are visible and you're actively working,</Check>
<Check>There are no minors, faces without consent, or other PII in frame, and</Check>
<Check>The required consent is on file for anyone and any place shown.</Check>

Idle portions, out-of-frame stretches, and clips that break the privacy rules are excluded
from the accepted deliverable. Review takes place after upload, and payment follows
confirmation and acceptance.

<Note>
  If a clip is rejected, we'll tell you why so your next session is stronger.
</Note>

## Your 20-second pre-upload checklist

Run this before every upload:

- [ ] Headband on, hands in frame the whole time
- [ ] Standard **Video** mode, decent light, clean lens
- [ ] No minors, screens, badges, plates, documents, or other PII
- [ ] Every visible adult is covered by a signed release or permitted Texas verbal consent
- [ ] Consent on file for every person and private place shown
- [ ] Active work throughout, with idle bits trimmed or cut
- [ ] Uploaded on stable Wi-Fi at **upload.opentez.com**, confirmation received

<Tip>
  Questions about a task, a rejected clip, or whether something is allowed? Ask your SPL or
  the opentez team **before** you record. We'd much rather answer first than reject later.
</Tip>