How to charge for updating a translated web site? Thread poster: brigidm
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brigidm 
Norway
Local time: 04:34
Norwegian to English
I recently translated two web sites (first time for me), and I know one of the clients is going to ask me to continue translating and updating new info on a regular basis. How do I charge? A flat rate? Per word? Would appreciate how others have negotiated similar assignments.
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Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 05:34
Member (2004)
English to Russian
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| Do you use any CAT tool? | Feb 1, 2006 |
Brigid Mccauley wrote:
I recently translated two web sites (first time for me), and I know one of the clients is going to ask me to continue translating and updating new info on a regular basis. How do I charge? A flat rate? Per word? Would appreciate how others have negotiated similar assignments.
If you translated the texts using a CAT tool and created a TM, updating will be really easy, so you may propose your client a discount scheme based on the CAT statistics for each new updated version of the texts.
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| Per word basis | Feb 1, 2006 |
I think you should charge based on source words basis. No matter if you used CAT tools or not.
Best,
Walter
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Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 04:34
Member (2003)
English to Czech
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| Per word + minimum charge | Feb 1, 2006 |
I suggest using a minimum charge, because the updates could be quite small.
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Erika Pavelka (X)
Local time: 22:34
French to English
Anytime I receive a request to update a document, I charge an hourly rate. My clients find this to be a very fair solution, given the sometimes little work involved. If there is considerable next text to be translated, I would charge that text per word.
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OlafK
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:34
English to German
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| Agree with Erika | Feb 1, 2006 |
I actually do this and charge by the hour. Sometimes you have to re-translate large parts of a text just because of a few words but it would be difficult to explain that to the client. I think it's fairer and definitely cheaper for the client than a minimum charge for an ongoing project.
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casey
United States
Local time: 22:34
Member
Japanese to English
| Agree with Walter | Feb 2, 2006 |
Walter Landesman wrote:
I think you should charge based on source words basis. No matter if you used CAT tools or not.
Best,
Walter
I totally agree! CAT tools shouldn't lower a translator's pay!
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brigidm
Norway
Local time: 04:34
Norwegian to English
TOPIC STARTER | Thanks for your feedback | Feb 2, 2006 |
It has been very useful to hear what others would do. Some comments:
- For updating/editing existing texts. If the client wants me to make some fairly minor changes every so often, I honestly cannot see myself counting and recording every single occurance (i.e. per word rate). Neither will he be able to keep track, I imagine. In other words, I think it would be easier to keep tabs on this kind of work by charging an hourly rate, and just clock up how much time I use each time. Then each ti... See more It has been very useful to hear what others would do. Some comments:
- For updating/editing existing texts. If the client wants me to make some fairly minor changes every so often, I honestly cannot see myself counting and recording every single occurance (i.e. per word rate). Neither will he be able to keep track, I imagine. In other words, I think it would be easier to keep tabs on this kind of work by charging an hourly rate, and just clock up how much time I use each time. Then each time I hit an agreed number of hours, or on a monthly basis, send an invoice.
- For translating new texts. Here I see no reason why not to charge by the word. This client already received a slightly lower rate from me at the beginning because of the size of the job. I don't want to start charging full rate, but neither do I want to go any lower, so I think I'll leave that rate unchanged.
Does this sound reasonable for both parties? ▲ Collapse
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