How I work and contract rates.

Depending on what the potential work is, NDA's might be required, also potentially a signed document saying you have the rights to the data that could potentially be moved, this also may apply to the program being migrated.

For programming work, we need to work out what the requirement is, what I am expected to deliver, what the expected timescales are, I have turned down many projects where the timescales are unrealistic.

For a detailed specification document, I charge for this document, but it means you can take this document to another developer to do the work, I will reduce the final bill by this charge if you instruct me to do the whole development work.

I am happy to do complete projects or just bits of the project, so for instance you may instruct me to do the wireframe for the application, get security setup, build a few screens then take the project off me for you to finish.

I generally work in phases, delivering in each phase getting paid for that phase then moving onto the next phase in the project, you would get a login into the system being developed so you can see progress (this is hosted on my system during development), suggest changes etc, I then move this onto your equipment upon payment.

Contract Rates (all based on remote working), there is a sliding scale depending on the volume of work and days booked.

Rate band 1, Hourly rate £80 per hour (minimum 1 hour work).

Rate band 2, Half day (4 hours) £280 (£70 per hour).

Rate band 3, Full day (8 hours) £440 (£55 per hour).

Rate band 4, Up to 5 days work (40 hours) £2,100 per week (£52.50 per hour).

Rate band 5, 6+ days work £400 per day (£50 per hour).

I produce invoices for all the work and because I live in Gibraltar there is no VAT or other taxes on the invoice, I can be paid via PayPal or bank transfer, all prices quoted are in GBP (£), once I have the funds I hand over the source code to the project, if we are at an appropriate point in the project.

For clarity I retain IP rights but you get copyright rights, this means it's your software, but I am free to use some of the code in other projects (not your data!), we can negotiate on IP rights if needed. Any project I undertake will have code from other projects in it, you the client benefits from me not reinventing the wheel each time a new project is started.

If a contract expands and you move from one rate band to another for the whole project then I will apply that rate across the whole time and not just the time that is over.

On fixed price contracts I will stick to the agreed fees as long as there is not a significant material change in the work required.

Once I deliver a project I give the client the option of a maintenance contract, this is optional, I suggest 30% of the initial design costs per year, this is calculated down to days and it is up to you the client what you want to use those days for, add new features, expand existing ones, that is up to you.

As a general rule I am happy with online meetings, if the project is complex enough I am prepared to travel to do face to face meetings, costs for travel to be negotiated when appropriate.

My expectations from clients

All styling is up to you, what logos, colours, fonts, I need that information from you.

We go through a wireframe phase, this is where we get the basic flow up and running, this is not polished it's purely there to get the client and myself in alignment in terms of the foundations.