What Buyers Ask For When They Outsource Messy Spreadsheets
Businesses post data-cleaning jobs on freelance marketplaces every day, then wait for bids and messages. Here is what they ask for, what they say they will pay, and a faster way to get your own file done at a fixed price.
Four Recent Requests and What Buyers Offered
Record deduplication
A customer or property list where the same record appears more than once, matched on name and address.
£250 – £750
budget posted by the buyer
With us: Exact repeats and same-email duplicates are part of every fixed-price level. Matching on name and address needs a person: ask for a quote.
Merging several files
Several Excel or CSV files combined into one clean sheet, with one date format and duplicates removed.
₹12,500 – ₹37,500
budget posted by the buyer
With us: Complex Cleanup merges up to 3 files for $79; Large Cleanup up to 5 files for $149.
Product data standardization
Product records with prices, sizes, weights and units written many different ways.
$250 – $750
budget posted by the buyer
With us: Units and product attributes are outside our standard rules: ask for a quote with a sample of the file.
Text cleanup
Text fields with inconsistent capitalization, stray spaces and typos, plus a list of entries that could not be checked.
₹12,500 – ₹37,500
budget posted by the buyer
With us: Spacing and name capitalization are in every level, with a change log. Spelling corrections need a quote.
Each budget is what the buyer wrote in one of four public data-cleaning listings on Freelancer.com that we viewed on October 12, 2026, shown in the currency the buyer used. Four listings are a snapshot, not a market average, and listings change daily. We summarize what we saw; we do not copy or link to individual listings. As requests reach us directly, we will add anonymous totals from our own request form.
Skip the Bidding. Three Steps, Fixed Prices.
1. Pick a level or describe the file. If your file fits a fixed-price level, order it directly. If not, describe it on the request form. No upload is needed to get a price.
2. Get one price. We reply within 1 business day. Prices start at $19 for up to 1,000 rows. No hourly billing.
3. Get the file back with a change log. Quick Clean comes back within 24 hours, larger levels within 2 to 3 business days. Every removed row and changed cell is listed, and you can check the log yourself.
Why Come Direct
Fixed price
You see the price before anything starts. Full refund on one-time services any time before delivery.
A log you can check
The change log lists what was removed, changed and flagged. Our verifier confirms the log explains every difference.
Flagged, not guessed
Is 03/04 March or April? Values the rules cannot settle are left as they are and listed for your decision.
Do it yourself, free
The same rules run in the free Data Workspace, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
How files are handled, what is checked and what is out of scope: Service Standards.