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Questions tagged [billing]

Questions relating to invoices and monetary charge in return for completed freelance work.

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How am I supposed to bill the company?

I am working from home(Turkey) and the company I am working is based in Switzerland. I am not an employee of this company. I think this is called free-lance working, I am not sure. We do not have any kind of official contract and they do not provide…
Koray Tugay
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Billing Hourly - Include Client Specific Research and Communication?

A client hired me to research and recommend workstation setups for a group of employees, each of whom had unique needs. They had already purchased some equipment and needed to make sure everything else was compatible. The client ordered some…
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What are best practices around billing for the initial consultation?

A former colleague contacted me about purchasing and setting up equipment for her company. We agreed to scope and an hourly rate via email. I met with her on location to physically inspect the area and to get specs so I can order the appropriate…
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How do you bill for on-site work? What do clients expect?

I often do on-site software training for my clients. When I do this, I typically bill a daily or half-day rate. My "half-day only" rate is about 65% of my daily rate because even though I'm only working a half-day, it's usually logistically…
Emily
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Should my client contribute towards mandatory equipment

I will soon be starting an iOS application for a long time client. For the past year I have used an iPhone 5 for my testing of APNS, GPS, etc. The iPhone 5 will not support the new iOS 11 operating software, only the iPhone 5s and above will do…
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Hosting management should be on the name of who? Customer's or our?

As a freelancer web designer should handle with the hosting management of a customer's site? When we manage it the hosting plan contract should be on the customer's name or on our one? If the hosting plan contract's on my name I can suffer the risk…
Jorge Luiz
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Pricing as freelance iOS Dev

So I'm about to land my first client as freelance iOS developer. I did my research but didn't believe how much I could actually price, and ended up charging too low. Reasons are because I had no idea what clients budget was, its my first client,…
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Minimum number of hours

Is it common for freelancers to have a minimum number of hours they will bill? If so what is the minimum number of hours? I bill hourly in 1/2 hour increments, but I have not set a minimum number of hours. The issue is I get many small support…
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Helping a client get what they deserve from their ISP

EDIT: Move on, this was a stupid question. Don't let a client's relationship to another client's get in your way: be clear, and direct, as usual especially regarding getting paid. And don't ask stupid questions if you want rep :( So, I was…
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