A setup is one bidder. It watches a filter, writes a proposal from a template, and submits it under the rules below. Run several setups side by side, one per service, profile or client type.
Open Auto-Bidding and click Create setup. To change an existing one, open it and switch to the Settings tab.
Leave Setup Name as it is and Vollna names the setup after the filter you pick. Type your own name before the first save to keep it.
Status off pauses the setup. A paused setup skips the jobs it already had queued, and resuming does not bring them back.
Job filter
The dropdown lists your active filters and the ones your team shared with you.
Tick Schedule jobs via API to send jobs yourself instead of using a filter. See Create a job.
Proposal template
Only templates created with an Agency profile appear here. A template built on an individual profile cannot be used for Auto-Bidding. Open the template and switch its profile to the agency, or create a new one.
Test two templates against each other
Click A/B test another template to add a second row. Add up to five. Each job draws one template at random, weighted by the shares, so all templates see the same stream of jobs. Every share must be above 0%.
Turn on Automatically select the winner to route all future jobs to the better template once the test ends. Pick the metric, Reply rate or View rate, and when to decide: 10 to 500 proposals sent, or 3 to 60 days.
Changing which templates are in the test restarts it and resets the clock. Changing only the shares, the metric or the stop rule keeps the running test and its data.
Bidding schedule
24/7 bids whenever a job matches. Run on custom schedule opens a grid of days and hours.
Vollna keeps finding jobs around the clock. Catch up after off-hours bids on jobs found outside your hours once your hours resume. Set the job age limit under Bid only on jobs posted within the last. A job older than that at the moment of submission is skipped. Jobs you approve or apply to by hand always go out, whatever their age.
Switching back to 24/7 turns catch-up off.
Notifications
Turn on Notifications to get an alert in Slack or Telegram before each bid, with a window to review, edit or skip it. The window is the built-in delay plus whatever you add under Additional Time Delay.
Each message carries the job, the budget, your bid and the cover letter preview, and updates as the job moves. A job waiting for you offers Approve, Skip and Edit Proposal. A skipped job offers Schedule Again, an AI-disqualified one Process Anyway. In Telegram you can also change the bid, the cover letter, the boost and the screening answers from the message.
Manual approval
Turn on Manual approval to hold every job until you approve it. Turn on Notifications as well, otherwise nothing tells you a job is waiting.
If no action taken sets how long a job waits, from 15 minutes to 8 hours. Then decides what happens after: Auto-approve and bid or Skip job. Approve or skip from Slack, from Telegram or from the jobs list.
Limits & timing
Daily Proposal Limit caps the setup at 1 to 50 proposals a day. The count resets at midnight in the setup timezone.
Additional Time Delay waits 1 to 60 minutes longer before submitting, on top of the built-in delay. Use it to widen the review window.
Do not apply if another bidder already applied keeps this setup off jobs another setup of yours already bid on.
AI job qualifier
The qualifier reads each job and decides whether it fits before a connect is spent. See AI Job Qualifier for writing the prompt.
A disqualified job is skipped and shows AI Disqualified with the reason in the jobs list. Process anyway bids on it regardless.
Proposal boosting
Fixed Bid is the number of connects added to each proposal, 1 to 999. Daily Boosting Budget caps the spend per day, 1 to 500, and resets at midnight in the setup timezone. Upwork refunds the connects when another freelancer outbids you.
Invite teammates to chat
When a client replies, Vollna adds the teammates you name to the Upwork conversation, so they can answer without access to the bidding profile.
Use general settings follows the team-wide list from Settings in the Auto-Bidding header. Custom people list picks people for this setup only. Room admin can add and remove other participants, Room member cannot.
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