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Originally Posted by AlCapone
Yes, all designers should move to billing per hour instead of per project.
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Why switch? I operate an either/or system - some guys prefer a complete price on for project, in which case, it is all done to their specifications, and any deviations are billed on "
time+half" billing after thatm, or the lot on hourly rate (and each expertise field is different hourly rate)
I would *only* trust anyone external if they could provide a real-time billing/logging feature so I know when they are working (and on what).
*cough* like someone we know *cough*
In short, my work ethic is my clients have to see what I'm doing and when. And it has to be live viewable. I have a logging system that tells them the hours I'm working on their stuff, and my dev server gives them live access in all its glory to the code I'm working on (if it's not on their servers). I do prefer to work on my server, since then I hold the code until final payment, but like I said, all my clients are known to me and I trust them all to do work and bill later.
A *standard* would be some industry escrow chief that takes a 1% cut on bills and acts as an arbitrator. Now there's a point - I sure as shit wouldn't want that job, not even for 2.5%!!!