I'm sure there is probably a thread on this already, but I can't find it. Do you charge a 1 hour minimum on projects. I have multiple clients in one company and have just been dividing the time spent on shared project by number of clients. Sometimes that works out to less than 1 hour for some of them since they don't use my services on other projects. Should I be charging them each one hour minimum?
I have a minimum charge policy of 1/2 hour and I make sure that everyone knows about it up front. Retrofittng this into effect in a situation where you are already established with a customer may require extra care. I'd handle it like any other increase: let them know that you will be establishing a new policy with regard to billing and it will take effect at a certain future point.
It is good to stick with a minimum of 5 hours-especially if they are new clients- so you actually earn. This is also another form of setting boundaries to help filter the good from the bad clients.
I'm planning to require a minimum four hours, but I'm not sure which is fair to the client and yet meaningful for me. If one bills in increments which shouldd be used: 15 minutes or six minutes?
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