From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

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Talking money: Other issues

Talking money: Other issues

From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

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Talking money: Other issues

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Some designers hesitate to charge for revisions, because they feel they may have caused those revisions, and it might be true. An evaluation will reveal the cause of the revision in a design project. If it was poor performance on your part then you should not charge it back to the client, but I think this is a rare occurrence. Sometimes designers do mess up and are in default of their own agreement. Sometimes, try as you might, you just don't nail that creative. If you haven't done it right or maybe you've made an error, you just need to communicate that to your client. If you're wrong, you need to make it right, you need to do some revisions and additional work on your own dollar. You shouldn't pass along any revision costs to the client. Mistakes happen, but they can both have financial and creative implications. By including so much clarity about money, process, and your working relationship in a formal agreement, it helps ensure that many of these tricky things that hang up both…

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