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> stop billing hourly Billing daily/weekly/monthly means losing flexibility/freedom - everyone assumes you will work magic 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week

• tptacek 9y ago
  No, it does not; it means nothing of the sort. Your billing increment isn't your working increment. They might be the same, they might not. It is also simply not the case that if you work for 2 hours for a client in a day, you can only charge them for 2 hours of work. This might be the single most damaging myth in all of freelancing.
  • zerr 9y ago
    So you say it is fine to charge daily - e.g. the invoice would mention "1 work day" even if you "show up"/work 2 hours on that day? Or, in case of weekly billing, invoice mentions "1 work week", and you've "showed up"/worked only 1 or 2 days on that week (and even not "full-time"/8h on those days). Or, do you mean to never mention the time in the invoice and just bill for particular completed tasks? in the latter case, you will be in a constant negotiations/agreements regarding the scope and costs of particular tasks. The time-based charging doesn't have this issue - again, I mean when you have an "open-ended" work inflow, so you don't say/negotiate in advance how much time you spend on particular task... So it is work/get_paid as you go.