Template Cost
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- e-wo
Over the weekend, I did some light development for a local web company. They sell to school districts, launching all schools within each district onto minimally-different versions of a district site template. Pretty bare bones, quantity-over-quality approach.
Yesterday, they asked me to design and develop a new template for them.
Do I:
A. Charge [hours] x [rate] for the work done?
B. Charge [hours] x [rate] x [modifier], being that this template may see heavy usage (50x sites)?If B, please explain the reasoning I can use both to feel confident about it myself, and to discuss with the client if they balk at all.
Thankye
- e-wo0
Additionally, they've asked for separate estimates for its design and development. I'm guessing in case they want one of their internal devs to take a run at it.
If B, what's the wisest way to split up that modifier price across design and development?
- freedom0
Maybe charge higher rate for design because they might do the production in-house.
- ideaist0
Royalties yo.
- https://www.youtube.…ideaist
- I like Mike, and I love royalties. These cats aren't that pro.e-wo
- So "Kill It & Bill It" instead. This project never existed...ideaist
- utopian0
Download a template/theme from www.themeforest.net and then charge them out the wazoo....
- vaxorcist0
what's your level of involvement? i.e. will you be just handing this off completely?
NOTE with school districts, they may want to have their own IT department involved, which can make any development estimate kind of dependent on outside things... make this very, very clear, but maybe they're setting things up so the back end is all on the vendor's servers?
Once we bid on a school district website, went to lots of meetings, then at the last minute, somebody said "it all has to run on Sharepoint" and we decided not to bid.... beware of stuff like this...