Thanks for everyone's help on this. To summarise the discussion, i think there's a strong consensus on the matter. It's pretty clear to me that when it comes to the question of whether or not ot charge for travel time, if it's a significant part of the working day, the vast majority of developers on this list agree....
it depends. It depends on how badly you want the client, how much you want the work, whether it was agreed in advance to charge him for travel time ... in other words it boils down to 'charge him for it if you thnk you can get away with it.' Which is basically what i've been doing in these circumstances up till now. But i think we ought to consider billing for travel time on an hourly rate job if it's going to take a significant part of the working day. I thought about other people we employ on site and thought about what they do. Plumbers and electricians charge travelling time - they call it a call-out fee. Lawyers charge for everything so that doesnt count. Doctors doing house calls (if you can persuade one to do it) will cost you for travel time. In the scenario i painted at the outset of this thread the travel time amounted to 3 hours and the time wasnt going to be split between several clients. The travel was to attend a meeting on site at the client's request. I think we should consider billing for this travel time, since if we weren't going to the meeting, we'd be doing 3 chargeable hours of coding work. Anyway, thanks a lot for your thoughts everyone. I mostly just wanted to check i wasnt giving away something the rest of you were billing for. And we seem to be on the same wavelength. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
