Thanks for all the feedback. The original site was a $20k project in 2002. Now this redesign which is more complex is hitting the $40k range. I went back and looked closer at all the billing we have done in the past ( I was not in charge at that time of billing ) and I feel this new price is legitimate for the amount of labor we have in it.
For these projects in the future I will be doing weekly billing... I have always liked to tell the customer that we wont bill them until the project is complete and they are absolutely happy with the result according to the quote we provide. I kind of got in that mindset and did not want to charge them until the project was done. Thanks! Learned my lesson. > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:49 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: billing > > > It depends on the value you provided. Is the program worth the > $40,000 or so? Will they be making a lot of money off of it? If so, > I wouldn't discount it after the fact. Do what you did on the > previous projects.. that is what they are expecting. If the website > doesn't appear elaborate, they are going to freak out seeing such a > bill, but if it is obvious that it took a lot of work, there > shouldn't be a problem. What I do in cases like this is send in > weekly updates on what has been done, showing them what is > accomplished to get feedback on it, and also tell them how many hours > were put in so far.. So they can see if it starts to get out of > hand.It is probably too late for you, but you could show them what > you have so far and how many hours have been used, and tell them what > needs to be done to finish the project, and offer to cut some > features if they reached thier budget. > > > >Does anyone give price breaks for quantity of hours in a project? > > > >Usually I quote jobs, but this latest one they just said go do it > >and we have racked up 400+ hours and I think they are going to freak > >out when they see the bill. We have worked with the company many > >times in the past so I feel I have to keep my pricing similar to > >what we have billed before. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:322157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
