[consulting] Billing Increments

[Steve Kessler]

In our contracts we inform our clients that all work is rounded to 15 minute
segments. It is just in a practices section.

Thanks,
Steve
On Jun 2, 2011 9:39 AM, "Fred Jones" <fredthejonester at gmail.com> wrote:
> In response to a discussion we had here last year, I now bill by the
> quarter hour, meaning I time all work on my Hamster timer and then I
> have a script that (at the end of the month) tallies the total time
> for each day and then rounds that up to the nearest quarter hour and
> then adds all the days of the month together.
>
> My question, aside from if anyone has any feedback on the above, is do
> you think I need to explain this clearly to my clients? I used to work
> with a guy whose bill always was rounded daily to the half hour, but I
> never asked him how exactly he got those times.
>
> I have my clients confirm that they understand that all work is being
> billed by the hour for work done, and that estimates are just
> estimates, not guarantees, but I never really discuss with them this
> quarter hour thing.
>
> Turns out I do double bill a bit therefore, but due to the reasons
> provided before, rounding up makes sense I think.
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
> _______________________________________________
> consulting mailing list
> consulting at drupal.org
> http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/attachments/20110602/2fcc08d8/attachment.html