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That coffee shop in Austin where I quoted $50 for a logo and ended up redesigning it 8 times before they went with the first version
I sat in my car outside after the fifth revision and promised myself I'd never give a flat rate without a revision limit again, how do you handle clients who keep asking for more changes?
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shane_wilson3d ago
How many revisions did you actually put in the contract before you started?
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sanchez.julia2d agoTop Commenter
Gently push back on that, @shane_wilson, because you might be asking the wrong question. Instead of asking how many revisions, ask how you define what a revision actually is. I learned this the hard way with a logo project where the client said "just move the text over" counted as a revision, and then claimed an entire redesign of the color scheme was also a single revision. You gotta spell out in plain language that a round means a full set of changes to the whole deliverable, not one tiny tweak. And definitely call out that small fixes like fixing a typo or moving an image don't eat up your revision bucket.
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margaretc422d ago
Oh, I learned that one the hard way! I put in 3 rounds of revisions with the caveat that any major changes after that would be billed at an hourly rate. But here's the real trick - I also specified what counted as a "round" (like, a full set of changes on the whole document, not just one tiny fix at a time). And I made sure to say minor tweaks like fixing a typo or adjusting a phone number don't count toward the revision limit. Saved me a lot of headaches on a website project last year where the client kept wanting to "just swap this one paragraph" five different times.
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