Right I mean you said you can't respond immediately but that doesn't mean you can't be relatively responsive as long as it's within a few hours or a day and you

Right I mean you said you can't respond immediately but that doesn't mean you can't be relatively responsive as long as it's within a few hours or a day and you read and reply thoroughly and show evidence that you are making progress. I normally do give people access to the git and also regularly deploy. Also I pre-authorize X days or a week of work and don't continue until I get paid for the last chunk. That way both parties are seeing real things happen routinely -- software delivery and payment. Rather than for example having a two month long project with one payment and the website only really does anything useful at the very end.