Your Fiverr portfolio helps potential clients understand your skills, experience, and working style. By sharing past projects from Fiverr and outside Fiverr, you can build trust and show clients what to expect when working with you.
Overview
Your portfolio can include two types of content: portfolio projects and reviews with files (Live Portfolio). Both types appear on your profile page, your Gig page, and your profession page, giving clients multiple opportunities to see your work.
- Portfolio projects are manually added projects. They can include work you completed on Fiverr or work from outside the platform. You create and manage these yourself.
- Reviews with files (Live Portfolio) are work samples pulled automatically from completed Gig deliveries, when the Live Portfolio feature is enabled on a Gig. These appear in your portfolio tagged as "Made on Fiverr."
Within your portfolio, projects and review files appear in the following order:
- The first two projects you selected and pinned
- The three most recent review files from your deliveries
- All other manually added projects (up to 18), in the order you choose
- All delivery files (up to 17), from most recent to oldest
While a portfolio does not guarantee orders, it helps clients better understand your skills and experience, which can increase trust and improve conversion.
Before you begin
- All freelancers are eligible to add a portfolio.
- Portfolio editing is only available on desktop. You can view your portfolio on iOS and Android, but you cannot edit it from the app.
- Each portfolio project must include at least one file and can include up to five files.
- You can upload between one and 20 portfolio projects to your profile.
Portfolio projects
Portfolio projects let you manually showcase your work, whether it was completed on Fiverr or outside the platform. There is no client approval flow for manually added projects. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to display the work, especially if it was completed under a confidentiality agreement.
Adding a portfolio project
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- Go to your profile by selecting your profile picture from the dropdown menu.
- Scroll to the Portfolio section and click Add projects, then select Create new project.
- Fill in the project details (see fields below).
- Click Continue, then Publish project.
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- From your freelancer dashboard, click on your Profile Strength widget.
- From the list in Profile Strength, choose Showcase portfolio.
- Fill in the project details (see fields below).
- Your profile changes are automatically saved.
Project details
This is a required field.
Choose a clear, descriptive title. Minimum 15 characters, maximum 50 characters. Use the format: [Client or brand name] – [Project focus or type].
This is an optional field.
Select the most relevant option from the dropdown.
This is a required field.
Select from the dropdown. Up to six months.
This is a required field.
Select from the dropdown. Prices are in USD only.
This is a required field.
Select the month and year.
This is a required field.
Minimum 120 characters, maximum 1,400 characters. Explain the client's needs, your approach, and the outcome.
This is a required field.
Upload one to five files per project. Accepted formats include JPEG, JPG, PNG, GIF, MP4, AVI, PDF. Maximum file size: 50 MB. Recommended image size: 1,280 x 769 pixels (aspect ratio 5:3).
You can upload PDFs to showcase writing samples, reports, case studies, or presentations, as long as they meet Fiverr's content guidelines.
For portfolio videos, the first frame is automatically used as the thumbnail. You cannot change it. To control how it looks, make sure the first frame clearly represents your work.
Editing or removing a portfolio project
You can edit or remove manually added portfolio projects at any time from your profile. Hover over the project to see the Edit and Delete buttons.
- If you click Edit, you will be taken to the project details page.
- If you click Delete, you will be asked to confirm the action.
Organizing your portfolio
You can reorganize your projects by clicking the Reorganize button on your portfolio page, then dragging and dropping them into the order you want.
Note that you can only reorder manually added projects. You cannot reorganize the review files.
Live Portfolio
Live Portfolio is a feature that automatically displays review files from your completed Gig deliveries in your portfolio. When a client leaves a public review and approves the display of the delivered work, the file appears in your Gig gallery and in your portfolio alongside the client's written review.
Live Portfolio shows your most recent 17 eligible files. As new review files are published, older files are removed.
Live Portfolio cannot be disabled for Gigs in the Logo design and Illustration subcategories. These Gigs show "Live Portfolio On" with no checkbox.
Enabling or disabling Live Portfolio
Live Portfolio is enabled by default for each Gig. To change the setting for a specific Gig:
- Go to My Business and click on Gigs.
- In the Gig list, click the dropdown next to the Gig you want to update.
- Next to Live portfolio, check the box to enable it or uncheck it to disable it.
If you disable Live Portfolio and then enable it again, it will only apply to deliveries made after you re-enable it. Files from orders delivered while it was disabled will not appear.
File eligibility
You can choose which delivery file appears in your Live Portfolio by selecting the file in the delivery message. Once you deliver the order, you cannot change the file that will appear in the review.
For a file to appear in your Live Portfolio, it must meet the following requirements:
- Accepted file types include PDF, audio files (AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, and others), video files (MP4, MPEG, WebM, and others), and image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WebP, and others).
- Files delivered in compressed folders, through third-party file-sharing services such as Dropbox or WeTransfer, or as source files will not be included.
How client approval works
Clients can choose whether to allow their delivered work to appear alongside their review. This is their decision and cannot be controlled by you.
If a client wants to remove the delivered work from their review after it has been published, they can do so at any time. Once a file is removed from a review, the action cannot be undone. There is no time limit for clients to remove a file.
For a client to remove the file:
- Go to the order page and scroll to the review section.
- Click the ellipsis menu.
- Click Remove files from review.
- Confirm the action.
Client approval to share a delivered file does not guarantee its inclusion in the Gig Gallery and Live Portfolio. Fiverr may choose not to display content that does not meet its policies or legal requirements.
Best practices
Use these tips to get the most out of your portfolio.
Use the following structure to give clients useful context:
Goals: Describe what the client needed to achieve.
Challenges: Explain the key obstacles or constraints involved.
Solutions: Describe your approach and the tools or methods you used.
Outcome: Share measurable results where possible.
Focus on quality over quantity. A focused, well-curated portfolio is more effective than a large collection of unrelated work.
Update your portfolio regularly as you complete new projects.
Remove outdated or less polished work over time.
Show variety across different styles, industries, or project types where relevant.
You may include client names or logos only if you have their permission. If not, use general descriptions such as "E-commerce brand" or "SaaS startup."
Do not upload projects that include confidential or personally identifiable information, such as taxpayer ID, Social Security number, or credit card number. Always remove or anonymize any restricted data before adding files.
If your work cannot be shared publicly due to copyrights, you can share personal projects you have completed and use approximate pricing and timeframes.
FAQs
- Portfolio projects are visible to clients in three places:
- Your profile page, scrolling past your Gigs.
- Your profession page, scrolling past your Gigs.
- Your Gig page, scrolling past your description.
- Yes. Portfolio projects can include work from Fiverr or from outside the platform.
- Yes. You can edit or remove manually added portfolio projects at any time from your profile. Hover over the project to see the Edit and Delete options.
- Yes, by selecting the file in the delivery message. Once the order is delivered, you cannot change the file.
- Yes. You can upload PDFs to showcase writing samples, reports, case studies, or presentations, as long as they meet Fiverr's content guidelines.
- Yes. Clients can remove the delivered work from their review at any time by clicking the ellipsis menu on the order page review section and selecting Remove files from review. Once removed, the file is also removed from your portfolio and cannot be restored.
- You must have the client's explicit permission to use delivered work as a work sample on other platforms.
- Possible reasons include: the file type is not supported, the file was delivered in a compressed folder or through a third-party service, the client did not approve the file display, or your Gig is in a category where review files are not supported, such as Legal Consulting, Accounting, or Tax Consulting.
- Do not upload projects that include confidential, private, or sensitive information. Always remove or anonymize any restricted data before adding files to your portfolio.