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Gone into deep hole with client. What next?

I have been working with a client on an elaborate website for more than 12 months. The project is almost at completion, but there's some technical barriers stopping it from being finished: they have asked for extremely complicated features that, at…
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Starting a joint project with someone

I run my own small business - basically building websites. I am always on the lookout for side projects, where I build and manage a site and the other person brings something equally valueable to the table (marketing or access to information or…
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How to request digital signing of contracts

In cases where a physical meeting isn't possible and all client communication is done through email and phone, how can we request the client signs contracts? Sending physical copies through the post costs money and time, so that isn't ideal. As far…
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Client wants to sue me, but we haven't signed any contracts. Should I be worried?

I've been working on contract jobs for this client for about 3-4 years. He's never given me a W2 and just told me to file my own taxes as a freelancer. I've worked on 3 projects for him, each time he's paid me through Chase QuickPay, with no…
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Struggling to come up with an estimation of the value of my work

I am a 20 year old Computer Science student from the UK who has decided to do some freelance web development for a local company. A description of the system would be an online website and reservation system. The intention is for the user to browse…
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Applied for position A, the employee replied for position B? How to deal with the situtation

I am in a situation: I applied for iOS developer, but then the employer sent me an email says: Thanks for apply for PHP position. Do you have time for an interview...blah. What should I response in this situation? Are they testing me? Thanks
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Beta testing experience in portfolio

I'm an online freelancer that has established a reputation in my niche. Because of this, I have received and participated in Beta testing opportunities. I'm trying to figure out how I can showcase this to my clients. Would it be acceptable to put…
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Contract was fixed fee, now they want to cancel and are asking that I send them an invoice for hourly work completed.

A company asked me to send them a quote for a project, and very specifically asked for a fixed or flat fee. I specified the deliverables, broken down by category and provided a project cost, which they signed. 8 days into the contract, they…
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Can I fire my client without being liable for legal fees down the road?

I am a freelance application developer. I currently have a client who I began working with in January. A contract was signed stating the project was to be completed in March and that mockups and full requirements would be coming. I did not complete…
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Cutting out the middle man and selling to clients directly

I along with my wife run an animation studio for promotional and explain videos, so far we've been selling on Fiverr and Upwork. We want to start selling directly to clients so I built a landing page on Instapages and will run an AdWords campaign…
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Are you responsible for the legality of the code you provide to every client?

I've been really interested in data scraping and headless browsing and was ready to put some samples in my portfolio for future clients ... after doing some research on this topic I found that there's tons of lawsuit against scrappers (the most…
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Should I charge the same amount for reviewing/testing as someone else did for editing

Context I just started in the freelancing industry and decided to go with something rather easy: translation reviews and testing. *EDIT* Q/A and Proofreading My client, an indie video game developer, already went through a publisher to translate its…
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How do I persuade a client to make good on a "late" payment?

I recently wrote an article for a regional magazine which was published towards the end of 2015. I've followed up with the company several times and they keep promising to get the check out as soon as possible. I'd like to continue to work for them…
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Client thinks a certain feature is included in the price, but it isn't

My client hired me to build an iPhone app. The contract states that the app has to work on all iPhones that can run iOS8 or higher. He just sent me an email asking why he cannot install it on his iPad. I think he didn't really understand that iPhone…
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Client non-payment for client's client hosting (UK)

Context: web development for a bigcorp via an intermediary sole proprietor, specifically: I have performed contract work for a Client (A), who was doing the sales & PM, and sold it to bigcorp (B) I've secured & been providing the hosting for the…
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