WP maintenance contracts?
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- vaxorcist
I rarely do wordpress, but I've got a project where anything except wordpress would be an odd sell to this client....
Wordpress security seems to be an ongoing responsiblity, with many updates and such.... How do freelancers here handle small but potentially messy things like this?
I am wary of a "perpetual unpaid assumed responsiblity" where "since you installed it, you have to fix it" .... especially as I'm essentially doing this as a side gig related to a larger photo job for this client....
I am considering a quarterly billing,and even possibly outsourcing the maintenance, and/or finding a host that does this automatically...
Any wisdom appreciated... thanks...
- honestly0
time = money
- bigtrick0
why don't you build it in to the price? add $300 to your final bill and say it includes you doing security updates for a year. after that, they pay, or else they have to do it themselves.
- boobs0
Charge them a monthly fee to keep it up to snuff. Like $300. Spend it on booze.
- vaxorcist0
Therein lies the problem.... wordpress = cheap, low-end, BUT it may need more ongoing attention in the future than clients are willing to pay for once they get the wordpress cost mindset...
But, it's probably something a few wordpress wizards can do in their sleep.... hence the outsource idea....
- honestly0
allow me to reiterate
time = moneydo they need your time? charge them money.
do you have an hourly fee? charge them that at a minimum hour of work each timeyour rate x how many hours they need you = invoice to client everytime
what more wisdom do you need?
- +1, don't short-sell yourself, it would be unprofitable and poor business to try and lump something like that into one feed_rek
- vaxorcist0
yes... and sometimes walking away from a possible gig may be the best...i.e. they would be freaking out at an hourly rate I can easily get elsewhere...