Bakery website refresh
“Let customers order and pay for cakes online”
- Why it is a change
- Listed under Not included: “Online ordering or payments” (rule R1)
- Estimate
- 12 hours
- Price
- $900.00
Waiting on client
Scope and change orders, on the record
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The sample job, as of October 10
Six requests later, what is the job worth?
A $1,800 website refresh. Every request after the deal went into the log and got a ruling. The tally keeps itself.
- Sep 18 Swap the hero photo for the new storefront picture Inside 0.3 hours absorbed
- Sep 22 Add a page for wedding cakes Change · CO-01 $300.00 approved
- Sep 25 Third round of revisions on the menu page design Change · CO-02 $150.00 approved
- Sep 26 Fix a typo in the catering phone number Inside 0.1 hours absorbed
- Sep 29 Let customers order and pay for cakes online Change · CO-03 $900.00 asked
- Oct 2 Make the contact form also text the owner Unsorted
Four rulings
Every request gets one stamp.
Inside scope
Part of the job you already priced. Logged anyway, so the free hours are counted.
Change
New work. It gets a number (CO-01, CO-02…), an estimate and a price, then waits for a yes or a no.
Outside the job
Not something you do on this job at all. Logged so the answer you gave is on record.
Not sorted
Written down the day it was asked, decided later. The tally reminds you it is waiting.
The Sorter
Four questions. Five rules. One suggestion.
Not sure whether a request is inside the job? Answer four yes-or-no questions and the Sorter suggests a ruling, quoting the scope lines that share words with the request. You make the call; it shows its reason.
Try the Sorter, free- R1 Written under “Not included”? Change.
- R2 Breaks an assumption the price was built on? Change.
- R3 Written under “Included”? Inside scope.
- R4 Not written down, and small? Inside, but logged.
- R5 Not written down, and bigger? Change: price it first.
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